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I would never ever try to snarf…

Posted: June 15, 2010 by datechguy in oddities, opinion/news, tea parties
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…Stacy’s attempt to snarf Perez Hilton’s “Naked Miley Cyrus Upskirt Photo” googlebomb or even latch onto his attempt to get traffic from the “Britney Spears naked upskirt” post either, but there is an actual legitimate point to be made here to wit:

Would any girl wearing a short skirt get out of a car that way? Especially a very famous girl who knows that every move she makes in public is being photographed by 50 paparazzi? And especially if she was only 17 and not wearing panties?

Take a look at that phrase, lets apply that to something else.

Explain to me again how (assuming that the photo is not a fake) how it is possible that we have this (or the Britney Spears photo) but we don’t have any video of the supposed Tea Party/Black Caucus Nancy Pelosi “incident”? Oh I forgot, according to Jon Meacham the lack of evidence doesn’t matter

I wonder how much interest Andrew Breitbart has earned on that 100k since March?

Roxeanne De Luca expresses a reality about some feminists

Posted: June 14, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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that conservatives are familiar with:

Sane women understand that feminism is good for all women, and that all women, regardless of their political affiliation, should be comfortable in the movement. Marcotte & Co – the same people who demand absolute deference to a woman’s decision to partially deliver her unborn child before having a doctor stab it in the head with a pair of scissors – think that a woman who decides to run as a conservative is worthy of contempt and ridicule. This is either because they see feminism as a tool of the progressive movement, or they have so many psychological issues that they simply cannot think rationally about politics.

If Marcotte & Co want to push progressive that is their prerogative and they are welcome to do so, but when you decide that only woman with a specific set of opinions are worthy of support then perhaps they should call themselves something other than “feminist”.

A great lesson on how reality actually works

Posted: June 14, 2010 by datechguy in employment, opinion/news
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Don Surber reveals a lesson about college degrees:

First up is Jackie Mroz, 22, of Oregon City: “She put everything she had into her studies at the University of Oregon, graduating in 2009 with degrees in international studies and sociology and a double minor in nonprofit administration and African studies. She studied abroad in Senegal, took challenging courses, earned a 3.8 grade point average and raced through college in three years.”

I am no expert, but I cannot see much of a market for sociology or knowing how to run a business that doesn’t make money.

While on the other end of the scale:

Next up is “John Yeier, 24, who graduated from the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls on Saturday. He’s the sole member of his class with a degree in embedded engineering, which integrates computer software and hardware in cell phones, cars and other machines. He will work on small plane navigation system software for Garmin AT in Salem.”

Take a look at his conclusions which make a lot of sense. I think that our society’s attempts to insulate our children from the realities of life is counterproductive. We may be able to delay those realities, but they can’t be repealed. If we don’t teach them this, then life will do it for us, without favoritism or mercy.

Jim Hoff finds another story…

Posted: June 14, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…that fits the “If you start from the idea…” meme to a T:

Students are directed to chant “I am an Obama scholar.”

do the people who run the school system over there have any memory of history? A commentator there nails it perfectly:

Quick quiz: name five countries, past or present, where the youths were required to chant praises to their omnipotent ruler? Any five. Then add together the number of innocent people those regimes slaughtered for political expediency.

Repeat after me: “If you start with the idea…”

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