Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2008

Well, let’s see.

Mike Huckabee spent his day fighting back against Rush Limbaugh, who says Huck isn’t a conservative. He then went on to detail several new government welfare programs.

John McCain battled the age issue, saying at Age

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Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2008

OK, with the holidays, I freely admit being horribly behind in my reading..

Sister Toldjah, just before Christmas:

I read this blogpost by Michelle Malkin this morning about a fanatical black woman shouting down white people during an angry

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davidl on January 1st, 2008

Speaker Pelosi

Mrs. Pelosi:

“The war in Iraq is the biggest disappointment for us,” … “I mean the inability to stop the war in Iraq.”
 

Don Suber, honorary Swamp Stomper:

Never bet against the American soldier. King George III did. He lost.

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davidl on December 30th, 2007

Recently the Puffington Post published this item:

Wiliam KristolThe Huffington Post has learned that, in a move bound to create controversy, the New York Times is set to announce that Bill Kristol will become a weekly columnist in 2008. Kristol, a

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Eric Florack on December 24th, 2007

I wanted to pass along a couple of pictures that were passed along to me by readers last year. I never got the chance to use them last season because I didn’t see them until well after new year’s. But

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Eric Florack on December 18th, 2007

Word from Scott Fybush that the weather system that brought us all the snow David spoke of yesterday, brought down a bunch of TV and radio stations in the Scranton area.

Just before 7:00 Sunday morning, the 823-foot tower of

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Eric Florack on December 17th, 2007

OK, here’s Anna Kornikova.

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I have no idea who this is.

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Didn’t these girls used to sell beer?

OK, OK, I know… what the beep is Bit doing?

I’m about getting banned in Iran, of course.  Banning us in

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Eric Florack on December 17th, 2007

The Wall Street Journal:

Hillary Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls has diminished, and with Oprah Winfrey stumping for Barack Obama, she’s called increasingly on the “star power” of husband Bill. But the ubiquitous presence of the former president

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Eric Florack on December 15th, 2007

Mike Pethar over at Jawa:

This week, a battle in the gender war was won by the women. The heraldic lion on the coat of arms of the Nordic Battlegroup has been castrated.

Ouch!

The armed forces agreed to

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davidl on December 14th, 2007

Mrs. William ClintonDue credit to the late Rod Sterling.  Zombietime has done a major public service by collecting the scariest set of pictures yet found on the Web.  Like, dislike, the picture of Mrs. Clinton, well there are plenty more from

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davidl on December 14th, 2007

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It seems that folks who aren’t even a little hesitant to rally the crowds round the “choice” to kill a baby in the womb, get downright riled when the bloodstained pictures of the act itself make it into the public

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

Pear Harbor, Battleship Row, the USS Arizona, December 7th, 1941

The comparisons between the event that happened in Pearl Harbor 66 years ago today, and the events at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and in that Pennsylvania field, are unavoidable.  As are, unfortunately, the comparison of our reactions

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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 3rd, 2007

As a railfan, I can’t pass this one up. The Pere Marquette, (AMTK 371) a couple days ago hit the back end of an NS freight in the Chicago area the other morning.  It took a bit for the details

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2007

I note Gauis at Blue Crab Blvd, noting a story on the AP wire…

The Associated Press is quick to clear Paul Bunyan of the dirty deed, but Babe the Blue Ox has been decapitated.

KLAMATH, Calif. – Babe

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