Posted by Deuce Geary on November 30th, 2008
Ron Radosh at Pajamas Media has a piece asking if Bush-bashing will ever end, and commenter Gina succinctly described one aspect of the bashing and its consequences:
Most of what happened to Bush had to do with the constant villifying [sic], bashing and ridiculing done to this president by the press and twisted views of pundits [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 29th, 2008
Might be worth it, based on the reactions of some Bollywood stars to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. We might be able to make it worth India’s while by throwing in some future acting draft picks and a director to be named later.
UPDATE: Forget about it. Looks like a wash.
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Posted by Deuce Geary on November 28th, 2008
A mob of “Black Friday” shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death this morning in New York.
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to hold back the unruly [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 27th, 2008
That appears to be the advice of Kevin D. Willamson at NRO’s Media Blog:
Every time I hear a Republican candidate or office-holder talking about media bias in the fall, I assume that the election is over and the Republican has lost. It’s not that the complaints don’t have merit—do they ever—it’s just that the media-bias [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 27th, 2008
So, was Obama the campaigner a liar, or simply naive? I’m having a hard time thinking of a third possibility for Obama’s backtracking on closing Quantanamo (and his supporters’ sudden appreciation for the nuances of security versus liberty), which Michelle Malkin covers in her column this week.
Funny, when President Bush and his homeland security [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 23rd, 2008
I just saw a story in ABC News on TV (can’t find video of same on the web yet) claiming that hate crimes and Ku Klux Klan recruitment have “surged” since Barack Obama was elected. The teaser before the break really caught my ear, so I listened very carefully to the story, eager to [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 14th, 2008
There’s a horrible fire burning many home in the hills above Montecito, California.
Believe I or not, politic intrudes on my thoughts even as I pray for the firefighters and the people whose property is threatened or has already been destroyed. Why, you ask?
Because it reminds me of another fire almost twenty years ago, when [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 13th, 2008
“You’re all crazy,” they said, when we accused the media f being in the tank for Obama. They insisted that they did not report on allegations of close ties between Obama and Jeremiah Wright [in this instance, but take your pick] because the ties were simply too distant or tenuous.
What utter crap. CNS reports:
“One [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 7th, 2008
With everyone’s post-election pontificating on what the Republican Party has to do to improve its brand, I hope some people are paying attention to this (emphasis mine):
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin, including 65% who say their view is Very Favorable. Only eight percent (8%) have an unfavorable view of her, [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 7th, 2008
There were lots of things that made me tear my hair out over the McCain campaign. His refusal to make an issue of Jeremiah Wright, and even criticizing others for doing so, was the biggest. Second was not looking closely enough at the Ayers issue to put the lie to Obama’s claim that their relationship [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 6th, 2008
This is especially funny satire to me because I love zombie flicks. The Onion on the fate of the Obama-obsessed voters now that he’s won it:
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Thank God there are people with a sense of humor today. With Obamageddon just weeks from now, I really [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 5th, 2008
Over at Ace’s and at his own site, Slublog recommended Steven den Beste’s commentary on the coming Obama presidency, which den Beste titles, “It’s not the end of the world.” Sure hope not. But there’s plenty of bad news in it, and I didn’t think anybody could be more pessimistic than me.
Here’s one overview, which [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 5th, 2008
I know there are already thousands of posts up by conservatives expressing their frustration with the election results. So I knew I could find one that summed up my feelings pretty well, saving me the problem of struggling to come up with the words. My election night soul mate is John Derbyshire at The Corner:
I’m [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 5th, 2008
“There’s no such thing as a former Marine.” That’s something every Marine is taught, and it symbolizes the common bond of all United States Marines, past, present, and future.
Long after I left the Corps, I met a young Marine who, upon learning of my service, reminded me that there’s no such thing as a [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 4th, 2008
Yes, I know he was only making the point that the government has a right regulate public airwaves. But do you think for a minute that he wasn’t trying to take a dig at conservative talk radio with the comparison?
Let’s assume Schumer’s general point is correct. What is undeniably true is that the First Amendment’s [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 4th, 2008
Make that an awful lot of predictions of (or wishes for) a squeaker, over at NRO. Rob Long’s is the most concise: “To be succinct, I would say this about the election: Build an ark.”
One of the more pessimistic in the bunch says that the video below is a pretty good “cinematic depiction of [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 4th, 2008
HotAir’s Ed Morrisey has an optimistic election prediction:
McCain/Palin 273 electoral votes
Obama/Biden 265 electoral votes
He predicts both Ohio and Pennsylvania going for McCain, and I think that may be likely after the release of Obama’s comments on coal from last January’s San Francisco Chronicle interview. He also gives [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 4th, 2008
Rush says it (or at least, he used to say it — haven’t listened to him in a long time), Sean Hannity says it, yesterday I caught a few minutes of Mike Gallagher, and he said it: “The American people are too smart to fall for [insert liberal tripe here].” Hogwash.
Yesterday, Gallagher claimed the American [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 3rd, 2008
About a month ago, I wrote about whether an economic depression might actually be good for us in the log run. I don’t think that was too wacky a thought to have, because I made clear I was not rooting for a depression, only considering what benefit might be gleaned from such a hardship if [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 2nd, 2008
Really!
According to the person that posted this at YouTube, this vide is from December 6, 2004. You think Obama “did anything” between then and when he actually started campaigning for president? What was it, two years?
Jonah Goldberg at The Corner wants to know why this wasn’t in a McCain campaign ad. I [...]
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