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It’s now day 450!

Cao’s Blog has more and a nifty photoshop…

I hope so. I went today to have a cold laser treatment for stopping smoking. I haven’t had a cigarette since about 1:45 this afternoon, just before my 2:00 appointment. It is now 8:00 pm, so I’ve gone over 6 hours and I’m doing okay so far.

The treatment was cold laser accupuncture/pressure at various points in both my ears, 3 points on my head, both sides of my nose, several spots on my hands and on my knees.

The stimulations are supposed to jump start the organs so they will start to detoxify. I need to drink a lot of water, which will be good for me and should help the oral fixation part of stopping smoking…

I am still craving cigarettes, but not as often as yesterday (when I was actually following through on the desire to smoke) and the craving seems to be going away rather quickly when the craving is not met.

I’ll keep you posted on my progress.

24 Hours Post Treatment
48 Hours Plus

Hot Air.

Go see the first post.

We all know about the problems with the media reporting an error in a prominent story and then “correcting” it in some small corrections section that is rarely read. The effect is that an error has entered into the mainstream discourse, while the correction is barely noticed.

Now, check out Powerline’s reference to a NY Times “Katrina was Bush’s failure” type story. The “corrections” section noted that the number of evacuee children in the Houston area remained at just over 5,000, not 30,000 as reported, and the federal aid received in the area was 222 million dollars, not 22 million as reported.

Correcting an error that is off by a factor of ten in a story like that is like doing a story on the President being shot then putting in the corrections section that it wasn’t a bullet, but rather a small sliver, and it wasn’t his heart that was penetrated it was his big toe.

When does biased reporting become conspiracy to commit crimes against the state?

Just Wondering.

Update: Ace is on a tear, a must read today. He’s got a few posts up on the subject so just keep scrolling.

Busted. Heh.

Here’s my boys looking out the window, watching the world go by…

to replace Scott McClellan – at Fraters Libertas.

Scrappleface reports that Rush Limbaugh doesn’t want to take a pay cut…

The dems will take credit for [tag]Scott McClellan[/tag]’s resignation. After all they “told” President Bush to shake up the White House Staff and Andy Card’s already been replaced by Josh Bolten.

Fox News is reporting that [tag]Tony Snow[/tag] is on the shortlist along with Dan Senor and Torie Clark.

I think Tony’d make a terrific Press Secretary. The dems probably not. I mean, Tony’s a {gasp!} conservative!

More at :
Ankle Biting Pundits
Blackfive
PoliPundit
NRO’s Media Blog
Michelle Malkin
Newsbusters
Outside the Beltway
Powerline
Gateway Pundit
Wizbang!
Roger L Simon

Update: Here’s the Scott McClellan – David Gregory exchange over Dick Cheney from February 14th.

Welcome Real Clear Politics Readers! Please have a look around.

100 years ago today.

My family had relatives visiting in San Francisco that day. The story in the family is that they were okay, they didn’t even get hurt. They found a napkin from a hotel, wrote a letter on it to the family in Iowa, addressed it and put it in a mail box. The post office delivered the napkin even though it had no postage on it.