Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

This is rich….

A blog on a site promoting Al Gore’s climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has been hacked by penis pill-promoting spammers.

Links on the blog portion of the climatecrisis.net site point to websites hawking online pharmaceuticals

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

From ABC’s The Blotter:

Wayne DumondA Missouri mother says she will do “whatever it takes” to stop former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from becoming president, because he freed the man who went on to rape and murder her daughter, Carol

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davidl on December 5th, 2007

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Anyone who thinks I’ve spent the last 40 years of my life learning how to properly apply makeup and avoid bad-hair days, only to end up donning that hideous black thing at the command of some foreign guy with a

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

I’m often asked why I railfan. Someone wrote and asked me that today.

It”s really a family activity.  I wrote to this point about 5 years ago… while sitting just west of my office here… in a little burg called

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

WaPo:

Norman Hsu, Democrat fundraiserThe U.S. Attorney in Manhattan formally indicted one-time Hillary Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu today, laying out what prosecutors described as a “massive fraud scheme” that allegedly left investors in Hsu’s fictitious clothing businesses taken to the tune of $20

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davidl on December 4th, 2007

Mrs. William ClintonIs Mrs. Clinton’s campaign merely spinning, or spinning our out control.   Listen to Mrs. Clinton’s  pollster Mark Penn, video.   Penn’s attempted attack on Barack Obama, does not demonstrate Obama’s weaknesses, so much as it highlights Mrs. Clinton’s.  

Mrs. Clinton’s

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davidl on December 4th, 2007

I’m back.   The computer got hit by a nasty virus.  Actually had to watch television and read books. 

 Speaking of returns. he’s back, and blacker than ever, from the Baltimore Sun:

Don ImusDon Imus returned to the airwaves yesterday, eight

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007


WASHINGTON (AP) -(Via KOMO) A former aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., was in federal custody after being arrested on a charge of attempting to sexually exploit a minor.

James Michael McHaney was fired Friday from his job as a

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

Noted at Right Wing News, this morning, a collection of quotes from the Daily Kos, guaranteed to keep you regular.

An example:

8) “I know I’m a Jewish lesbian and (Ahmadinejad would) probably have me killed. But still, the guy

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

I’m not so sure about this one.  Ron Christie says it’s the beginning of the end for Hillary Clinton and her dreams of being president.

To be honest, I never thought in the first few days of December I would

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

Billy;

You had an Uncle that worked for The Rock?

Rock Island power... a now very rare General Electicl U-23B(Sigh) I’d have loved to talk to him at length on that subject.

Yeah, OK, I picked up on just that one aspect of a full life. Then again,

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

The New York Times is reporting:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 —New York Times- A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting judgment two years ago

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

NEW YORK -(AP)- Take the V train _ back to 1937.

New York City Transit put a vintage 1930s-’40s subway train into service for one day on Sunday as a holiday treat for riders.

Called the Nostalgia Train, the subway

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

Jonah wins this one going away:

snark2.jpg  By now you’ve probably heard that CNN made such a laughingstock of itself at the recent YouTube debate in Florida that it could only have been worse if host Anderson Cooper conducted it in

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

Jon Martin at the Politico:

Halperin has the big news: Mitt Romney will take to to the Bush Library in College Station, Texas, on Thursday to give a long-anticipated, much-debated speech about his Mormon faith and the role of

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