Posted by Deuce Geary on March 31st, 2009
The Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, with a population of 186,000, just voted to become a “fully-fledged part of France,” which will require it to abandon some of its local legal customs. With a 61% voter turnout, the vote wax more than 95% in favor of the change in status.
Why should we care?
95% of the [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 28th, 2009
Oh, good grief.
Voice to text conversion using your in-car hands-free system so that you can both post to Twitter, and hear what is going on with your friends. Kind of crazy when you first think about it, but after a few minutes, you can start to imagine some cool uses. You can voice-tweet something like [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 26th, 2009
Two articles in two days from two different sources on the Quiverfull Movement caught my eye. Quiverfull is a movement within the Christian church that advocates no “family planning” — you get the children God decides to give, and that’s that. Some would say that means automatic advocacy for large families, and to a large [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 25th, 2009
Michelle Malkin has video of Geraldo Rivera addressing some group, complaining that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is wasting manpower on workplace raids when it should be going after gangs. He poses the issue as a matter of priorities, but I think that’s dishonest.
Let’s assume that we had rounded up all the gangbanger and violent [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 25th, 2009
If you’ve ever used the word “Euro-weenie” or a similar derogatory appellation for a pampered Euro peacenik, but you’ve never been able to put your finger on exactly what makes America and Americans different from our European counterparts, then you must read Charles Murray’s piece at The American magazine: The Europe Syndrome and the Challenge to [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 23rd, 2009
Nothing snarky here. Nothing funny. No politics. Just an observation on a sad story.
I’m no literary connoisseur. My taste in fiction (though its hard for me to remember the last time I read any) runs toward horror or spy novels. In other words, I don’t read any “deep” fiction.
But even I recognized the name of [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 22nd, 2009
Someone please track down Uncle Jimbo and the guy in the Blackfive video and slap them back to reality. They seem to think that the young Code Pinko’s Blackfive interviewed are “cute.” Let’s get this straight: for a conservative, there should be no such thing as a “Code Pink Cutie.”
Let’s start with the girls in [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 18th, 2009
It never ceases to amaze me how lefties project their own faults onto conservatives. So, Michelle Obama doing so doesn’t surprise me all that much (as reported by the Wall Street Journal):
By choosing Fort Bragg for her first official trip outside the capital last Thursday, Michelle Obama signaled that she will use her position as [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 18th, 2009
At least, according to Ace:
Barack Obama isn’t merely destroying his own unearned reputation for smarts; he’s adding to Sarah Palin’s day by day. The public is beginning to wonder if Obama really was as prepared and brilliant as he press swore; and if they’re wondering about that, they must also be wondering about other claims [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 18th, 2009
Disgusting. Every time I see Frank’s fat face on TV, I want to punch it in.
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Posted by Deuce Geary on March 18th, 2009
Well, it’s not really this post that’s fast. It was the writing.
On the advice of The Other McCain.
Based on this result, I’d say my methodology still needs tweaking.
But I have a lot to overcome.
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Posted by Deuce Geary on March 13th, 2009
It’s a bogus charge that’s been made before (which I guess can be said for most high-profile conservatives), but look for cries of “Rich Lowry is a racist” to resume because of his apt summary of a large part of President Obama’s young presidency in his piece, “The Obama Three-Step”:
Barack Obama has perfected a three-step maneuver that [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 12th, 2009
When I read this post a American Glob about lefty groups coordinating with each other to investigate Obama critics, I was prepared to be pissed off. The post’s title said the groups were “digging for dirt” on Obama’s critics, and the quotes from the referenced Politico piece seemed to imply a rather nefarious scheme to expose [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 9th, 2009
Wait a minute. ”One certifiable whack job”? In retrospect, that seems a little silly. The average for legislatures overall has to be that 30-40% of their memebrship are whack jobs. But I digress.
So anyway, Gateway Pundit has a post up saying that a bill proposed in the Connecticut legislature that would “put local laymen leadership [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 8th, 2009
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Patterico has a poll of sorts up, asking people to answer this question in the comments to his post (yes, with bullets AND numbers!):
However, when [Rush Limbaugh] says “I want Obama to fail,” what did he mean? His line could have meant one of two things:
1. Rush opposes President Obama’s [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 7th, 2009
Ed Morrissey apparently finds it dishonest for Democrats to lambaste Rush Limbaugh over his comment that a health care bill would be named after Ted Kennedy, since they themselves suggested it less than two months ago. But what did Rush actually say? Here it is, with my emphasis:
Before it’s all over, it’ll be called the [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 7th, 2009
Sometimes, no other word will do. The smiles on the people dropping the F-bomb in the linked video almost make the word sound friendly . . . like it doesn’t really belong on George Carlin’s list of the “seven words you can’t say on television.” Indeed, it reminded me of when Carlin made the case [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 6th, 2009
. . . to see what it sounds like to us when they apologize after the fact.
Congressman Offers Preemptive Apology For Extramarital Affair
Then again, I’m afraid most of those idiots would view it as a training video.
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Posted by Deuce Geary on March 3rd, 2009
There is a lot posted on righty blogs already (like at Ace, Michelle, and HotAir) about NYT columnist David Brooks’s all-too-predictable lament that he was hoodwinked by Obama the moderate during the campaign only to find the country run by Obama the extremist:
Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — [...]
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