Eric Florack on March 12th, 2008

Ya know, I’ve seen an awful lot of people labeling the Spitzer crime a ‘tragedy’. I found one such idiot last night, just a few hundred miles down the road from me here. .  and another, here. And , no,

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  • Well, over the weekend we got up to two feet of snow in places, mostly west of here. cam160011.jpgThere’s a foot and a half in my front yard, and in my driveway.  We shovel it out, but since the yard

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davidl on March 10th, 2008

Eliot SpitzerEliot Spitzer, a.k.a. the Sheriff  of Wall Street,  has reportedly been linked, AP, video. New York Times,  to  involvement in a prostitution ring.

Hat tip:  Michelle Malkin.

Bye-bye Eliot.

Addendum I: (Bit)

And there it is,

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davidl on March 9th, 2008

Olivia Ward, Toronto Star(CA) reports on “Ten worst countries for women:”

The image of the 21st century woman is confident, prosperous, glowing with health and beauty.

But for many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our

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  • Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.

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When pols power is under threat, all that crap goes away to be replaced by sleeze and attack. I note a story this morning at MSNBC, which reports on the comments from Barrack Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe, who

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  • fromparcol20002imagefile.jpgThey’re waking up, sorta. Drum, today:
  • VITRIOL….Atrios:

    The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of

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Eric Florack on March 5th, 2008

OK< I should make mention that John McCain has clinched the nomination.

Huck has quit,  and  President Bush will endorse McCain.

Oh… and the sun came up today, too.

But I guess this is still good news by comparison. AsI

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  • Billy notes a comment at Wonkette, complaining about smoke stacks:

    “We should start bombing North Carolina.”

    … and notes:

    That’s exactly what all the false equivocations of the thing add up to.

    Exactly so. And I think I can

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush said Thursday the country is not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts. “We acted robustly,” he said.

“We’ll see the effects of this pro-growth package,”

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davidl on February 28th, 2008

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“60 Minutes” disdain for the Republican Party brought you embarrassment when you ran a bogus and fraudulent story in the fall of 2004 about President Bush and his National Guard record, and your organization ultimately admitted to not having followed

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Eric Florack on February 28th, 2008

Why do I get the feeling that there’s desperation where McCain is concerned? The New York Times, this monring:

WASHINGTON – The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare

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Eric Florack on February 26th, 2008

Dan Drezner, who occasionally has been known to make a good point, makes one here:

Why does a man who received 0.38% of the vote in the last election merit valuable minutes on Meet The Press, not to mention hours

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Eric Florack on February 25th, 2008
  • No, Billy, she’s not done, yet, nor will she be. You of all people will understand that the woman is all about power, and the obtaining of it. As such, she’s not going to back off, even come next

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Eric Florack on February 24th, 2008

Andrew the Incontinent is back on his mountain, and expounds thus:

It was extremely pleasant not to have to respond in real time to the McCain story. Reading the blogosphere as a simple observer, it was, however, a little depressing

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