Eric Florack on November 28th, 2010

Over at OTB, James Joyner looks at the current wave of reports surrounding Tom Delay:

Tom DeLay, the poster boy for everything that was wrong with the last Republican majority in the House, has been found guilty of money laundering.

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davidl on November 24th, 2010

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Obami* stuck on Green, going green is not the same as going smart.  from the Washington Post:

[Laurence] Anton has been out of work since 2008, when his job as a surveyor vanished with Florida’s once-sizzling housing market.

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2010

Bruce McQuain asks the question:
So are Obama and the Democrats focused like a laser on jobs and the economy?

Then, Bruce answers his own question with the rather obvious, “Uh… No.”

The point is taken, Bruce.  That said, consider

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2010

We’ve had a spot of bother with the plug-ins normally used here.  One of them updated, and crashed the entire system , probably on Friday.  While you were able to see everything that we’ve written to that point, some of

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davidl on September 23rd, 2010

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It hard for Dumbo so see with his head stuck up his ass.

Franklin D.Roosevelt did say:

“Yesterday, December Seventh, was a day which will live in infamy.”

President Barack Hussein Obama might have  said if here was president in

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davidl on September 19th, 2010

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More John Holdren’ Climate Bill, from James Delingpole, Telegraph(UK):

President Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren is worried about global warming. Having noticed that there hasn’t actually been any global warming since 1998, he feels it ought to be

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davidl on September 14th, 2010

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Obama administration clueless on jobs, from Fox News Sunday interview by Chris Wallace of Bbama brand spanking new economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, Fox News:

GOOLSBEE: But I don’t think the unemployment rate will be coming down significantly anytime

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davidl on September 12th, 2010

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Fluck tolerance, as usual Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama, is full of a brown smelly liquid, best used for fertilizer, from Erica Werner, Associated Press

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama appealed to an unsettled nation Saturday to honor the memory

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I won’t try to speak for the guy in Florida arranging for the very public burning of the Koran.

Nor, by the same token, will I attempt to speak for the  foreign-funded groups attempting to put a Mosque at or

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Eric Florack on August 22nd, 2010

As regular readers will know, I’ve had a new job for a few months now which has prevented me from doing much blogging.

That’s changing, with the addition of an HP/Compaq NC6000 nI picked up used for $100. Everything’s there,

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Eric Florack on August 21st, 2010

This is all pretty much “inside baseball”, but it’s the quickest way I can think of to get the info to those who need it:

I’ve upgraded everything to WP v 3.01, and upgraded all the relevant plug-ins.
I’ve also

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on August 2nd, 2010

As the BP oil spill unfolds in the Gulf and in our living rooms through our television screens, the coverage has focused on two major problems that it has created.  One is the flat-out brutal images of oil soaked pelicans;

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Eric Florack on August 1st, 2010

Noted today an article in the McClatchy News wire… a service that I seldom scan anymore. Today, they offer up something fairly useful.

The first paras:

BAGHDAD — Shiite Iraqi militants have trained in Iran in preparation for attacks against

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davidl on July 30th, 2010

Or maybe  Vurkey?  From Edward Niedermeyer, New York Times:

GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2010

t was nearly the end of the day, today , when I finally realized that I had not written anything in terms of a comment on the day.

Usually I tend to take the attitude that if I don’t have

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