davidl on April 3rd, 2008

Mike Morris, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, reports on the Mouth of the South’s Foot-in-Mouth disease:

Ted TurnerFailure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century.

So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media

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Eric Florack on April 2nd, 2008

Since CBL (740AM in Toronto) went dark, and CBC radio one went to FM at CBLA/99.1FM*** and about a zillion low power FM repeaters, I can no longer get CBC1, so I didn’t hear this one.

Many Americans are

Continue reading about That Racial Identity Thing, From the Other Side

John Venlet notes that the FBI is reportedly conducting investigations into 1300 mortgage fraud investigations, more or less. Says John:

While the FBI may find a few prosecutable mortgage lending fraud cases, what will mostly be brought to light by

Continue reading about Fraud, Ethics, Or Government, Acting in the Name of ‘equal Opportunity’?

  • I wasn’t exactly goig through withdrawal symptoms over the weekend, while the site servers got moved physically… but damned near that. At least a dozen times I saw something that screamed out to be written up for the blog, and

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: the Fallout From the Move, Spring Duty,Mugabe, Ubuntu, WalMart, More

  • John Venlet showed up to play, yesterday. Nice to see you, John. Missed ya. He says he’s going to be posting quite a bit in the next several weeks, apparently focusing on the mortgage industry.
  • Me at Q&O today, about

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: The Prodigal Clinch, Look Up in the Sky; It’s Super Delegate Snowjob, Moving the Server, Sniper, Bozo

Eric Florack on March 27th, 2008

A note from Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal gives us some indication of those numbers I mentioned yesterdayl, about hom many Democrats would vote McCain, if their boy didn’t win. (Yes, I mean Hillary, too)

Some Context on the Democratic Defectors

Brian

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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2008

Raw Story is reporting:

A federal appeals court approved the release of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on bond Thursday while he appeals his convictions in a corruption case.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the former governor

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Eric Florack on March 25th, 2008

BtsBlog is hosted by IX Web Hosting, as I think I’ve mentioned in the past.

Got this in the mail today.

We’ve been very diligent in planning the move of our data center and we’re on schedule with all preparations.

Continue reading about Urgent: BitsBlog Changing Server Sites This Weekend

Eric Florack on March 21st, 2008
  • Billy, I have to tell you, I’m not convinced we were weakened to the point of not being able to deal with the Soviets out of hand. I think it far more likely we hadn’t the will, because after so

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Rejudging WWII, the Passport Nonsense.

Eric Florack on March 18th, 2008

I’ve not turned out a single issue ramble in some months, now, Tonight seems the time.

I’ll say this at the outset; I have been predisposed to not trust what Obama has to say on much of anything in general,

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Obama’s Desperation

davidl on March 17th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

The Luck of the Irish, Democrat and Chronicle:

Some attendees at Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade have come for years; for others, it was a first experience. But all said braving the cold and wind to see leprechauns, Irish

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Eric Florack on March 17th, 2008

Mike Allen over to The Politico reports:

CHICAGO – The church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) fought back Sunday against mounting criticism of its pastor, accusing the media of character assassination and “crucifixion.”

See, that’s how it works with

Continue reading about Character Assassination? Oh, Please.

Eric Florack on March 17th, 2008

Interesting note from Baton Rouge by way of NOLA.COM

BATON ROUGE — The state Legislature on Friday wrapped up its second special session during the 2-month-old administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal by completing a full sweep of the governor’s proposed

Continue reading about Coming Soon to a White House Near You: Bobby Jindal

Eric Florack on March 16th, 2008

Ed Morrissey:

John McCain took some time off of the campaign trail and hit the ground in Iraq this morning.  The media calls it a “surprise visit”, but he had given indications that he would visit Iraq after he clinched

Continue reading about McCain Goes to Iraq. Where’s the Press?

Eric Florack on March 15th, 2008

Barrack Obama, and a lot of the leftards like to lay the claim that

“There was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. … They took their eye off the

Continue reading about Reality Intrudes on the Fantasy Life of Barrack Obama Again