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I reappropriated my post

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 9:37am — Mandos

Lambert de-front-paged my post about the Confluence's response to the whole quoting-Liebowitz-on-the-mortgage-meltdown brouhaha, and I understand why he did it even if I don't at all agree, and it is his site. So I hope he'll leave me the liberty of linking to a version of the post that I've put on my own personal blog, where I used to do this sort of thing on a more regular basis. (But now just post tourism photos from my handheld, mostly.)

Please take your comments there.

Compounding their error; or, I do indeed enjoy shooting fish in a barrel

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 1:48am — Mandos

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00:47:48 hipparchia that's ok, jason stands ready to help smear the actuary quoted in that wapo article [url]
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02:24:14 Jeff W Elizabeth Warren on the economy on PBS's NOW: you can watch it online here: [url] "If [Congress] gets it wrong, the country we knew is gone."
17:52:53 Davidson So, of course they're not going to show the truth about boxing her in from the beginning.
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