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PEST 2

2004-12-03T17:18:00.000-05:00

When left-winger demagogues play on your emotions, this is the result.

Pathetic.

Florida Kerry supporters meet for group therapy

Voters shout epithets at President Bush during first PEST counseling session

Published Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 6:00 pm
by Sean Salai

Twenty John Kerry supporters met for their first group therapy session in
South Florida Thursday, screaming epithets at President Bush as they shared
their emotions with licensed mental health counselors.
The first of several free noontime therapy sessions at the American Health
Association in Boca Raton was designed to treat what mental health
counselors have dubbed Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST).
“If I had a cardboard cutout of President Bush, and these people wanted to
throw darts at it, I would let them do it,” Robert J. Gordon, AHA executive
director, told the Boca News after the session. “It’s no joke. People with
PEST were traumatized by the election. If you even mention religion, their
faces turn blister-red as they shout at Bush.”
Although the meeting was closed to the press, AHA therapists obtained
permission from participants to provide an anonymous transcript to the Boca
Raton News.
“I’m scared,” said one man. “Democracy is at stake and nobody is rising to
protest this president.”
“I want to be a patriot, but it’s impossible to be a patriot in an immoral
war,” said another participant, a woman. “Bush is breaking up marriages and
dividing families by keeping our troops in Iraq.”
Gordon said the participants also granted reluctant permission to open up
next Thursday’s meeting to the general press. Reporters will be forbidden
from taking photographs or using the real names of patients.
“The media outlets, especially Rush Limbaugh and his ilk on talk radio,
scare our patients to death,” said Gordon, facilitator for the meetings.
“More than anything else, people with PEST tremble physically.”
Gordon said the Kerry supporters in therapy are predominantly Jewish and
older than 50. Most are registered independents and all live in Palm Beach
County.
“We mostly let them vent during the first session,” Gordon said. “By the
third session, we’ll be doing some meditation exercises to aid some of their
symptoms. We may use visualization and some techniques designed for bipolar
disease and other mental disorders. That might help them adjust to reality.”
According to AHA officials, symptoms of PEST are similar to post-traumatic
stress disorder. They include nightmares, sleeplessness, hostility,
listlessness, and emotional outbursts including threats to leave the
country.
“There’s an overall sense of emotional helplessness and abandonment,” said
Sheila Cooperman, a licensed AHA psychotherapist from Delray Beach. “In
psychology, we call it ‘learned helplessness.’ After you zap a caged dog
twice, he stops moving because he knows there is no place to go. That’s what
happened with these Kerry voters. They’ve been zapped so many times that
they’re on the verge of giving up on politics.”
Cooperman, also a practicing psychic, added, “One person today said he
thinks the country is now run by fascists. Another felt personally
threatened by the president’s love for big business. Many believe Bush is
going to draft their grandchildren. The anxiety may not affect them every
day, but it affects their energy level.”
An additional 30 people are signed up for two other AHA election support
groups, which will meet for the remainder of the year and possibly beyond.
Gordon said his patients’ emotional problems typically started with the
“hanging chad” debacle of 2000.
“First, they need to realize they’re not going to overturn the 2004
election,” Gordon said. “They have to live with it. The problem is they have
no faith because they think the religious right has hijacked the political
system. We try to tell them there is still an election in 2008. You can’t
just give up and be apathetic.”
The AHA, using a holistic approach to health that has been mocked as new age
voodoo by some national talk show hosts, has stressed to patients that their
post-election emotions are normal and deserve to be taken seriously.
“These people talk about the 2000 election being stolen,” Gordon said. “They
talk about Theresa LePore and the Ohio recount. They feel it’s the ‘Right
House,’ not the White House. They feel the world is not safe with George W.
Bush as president. They spewed out a lot of anger. They are angry at the
Democratic Party for being aimless and leaderless. They have a right to
these feelings.”
The Boca Raton News first reported on Nov. 9 that depressed Florida Kerry
supporters were seeking trauma therapy in the wake of the Nov. 2
presidential election. One Boca psychologist alone, Douglas Schooler,
eventually treated 20 Kerry voters with intense hypnotherapy — for a sliding
fee.
The trauma specialist, whose bills were covered by clients’ insurance
companies, was later accused by some colleagues of unethically “cashing in”
on the misery of Kerry voters. In interviews with the Boca News, Schooler
said many of the Kerry supporters had visited him for severe mental problems
prior to the election.
Unlike Schooler, the AHA is a registered Florida non-profit and its
therapists do not charge for sessions. Conservative talk show hosts Sean
Hannity and Rush Limbaugh recently offered their own “free therapy,” irking
the AHA counselors.

Sean Salai can be reached at ssalai@bocanews.com or 561-893-6427.

A great article about Higher Education ...

2004-12-01T01:13:00.000-05:00

... by Abraham Miller, political science professor at The University of Cincinnati.

Here's the whole thing:

The Campus, the Election, and the Implications
Written by Abraham Miller
Tuesday, November 30, 2004

       The insular and self-congratulatory world of academe awoke to a shock on the morning of November 3, 2004. Not only did the overwhelming majority of professors not vote for George W. Bush, few of them rubbed shoulders with anyone who had.

       The scenes on many campuses on the morning after the election were reminiscent of literary illuminati Pauline Kael’s oft-quoted remark upon learning that Richard M. Nixon had trounced George McGovern: How could Nixon have won? I don’t know anybody who voted for him!

       Parents who send their children, at obscene costs and financial hardship, to be educated in such an environment certainly should be asking what their children are learning in institutional settings where diversity is a shibboleth, but political homogeneity and conformity are the norms.

       Recent studies funded by the National Association of Scholars reveal the preponderance of Democrats over Republicans on the American campus. At Stanford, for example, there are seven Democrats on the faculty for every one Republican, and at Berkeley the number rises to over nine to one. In fields in the social sciences and humanities the disparity jumps even higher. The American Anthropological Association notes thirty Democrats for every one Republican.

       Roger W. Bowen, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, claims that these numbers are meaningless because the political affiliations of professors have little consequence for what they do in the classroom. If Mr. Bowen truly believes that, he probably also takes at face value the statements of the Ayatollahs in Tehran about the intentions of their uranium enrichment programs.

       As someone who spent nearly four decades in the ranks of the professorate, I can tell you that everything from what goes on in the classroom, to what textbooks are chosen, to who gets on what university committees, to how students are admitted, is a function of ideology. And the enforcement of ideology on a captive audience of students is most poignantly witnessed in what Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate call, ''The Shadow University:'' those changing values programs--imposed in residence halls, orientation sessions, compulsory lectures, and ''sensitivity sessions''-- where students are taught not how to think but how to adopt appropriate ideological norms and ape the political behavior of the faculty.

       Some of my former students captured the essence of one of these sessions by satirically noting, ''I’m a liberal Democrat, card-carrying member of Amnesty International who is against the death penalty—and you damn well better be one too if you want to survive here.''

       Among the tools in the academic inquisitors’ black bags is the speech code. Although federal courts have repeatedly struck down speech codes as unconstitutional, they remain both on the books and enforced in hundreds of universities. Often they are renamed in a strain at implausible denial with such euphemistic titles as “decency codes.” Rarely, if ever, has the draconian and amorphous content of these codes been enforced against someone at the left end of the political spectrum.

       Timothy Garneau, a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire, found out what it is like to run afoul of these codes.   Posting a humorous flyer to express his frustration with a slow moving dorm elevator, Garneau opined that freshmen women should take the stairs and lose those fifteen pounds that tend to plague first-year women students. The University’s kangaroo judicial system came down on Garneau with a vengeance reserved for serious crimes. He was evicted from his residence and ordered into psychological counseling.

       The university’s outrageous reasoning is that only someone who is mentally ill would poke fun at women. But we should be equally outraged knowing that someone with a therapist’s license could easily be found on any campus to take such reasoning seriously. Famed Soviet scientist Zhores A. Medvedev’s depiction of the Soviets’ use of the label of ''mentally illness'' and their mobilization of psychiatry to coerce political acquiescence has parallels in what routinely takes place on American campuses.

        There is a somewhat, only somewhat, just ending to Garneau’s story.   The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education publicized Garneau’s plight and the university, faced with the antiseptic of disclosure and a possible lawsuit, withdrew its unconstitutional charges. Still, Garneau spent three weeks living out of his car, had to be relocated to another dormitory and has been sentenced to extended disciplinary probation. His sentence for using his First Amendment Rights is reminiscent of Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s story of the Soviet citizen who remarkably was found innocent by a political tribunal and was then summarily sentenced to five years in the Gulag. In shock, he asked how it was possible to be found innocent and still be sentenced. Comrade chairwoman, without missing a beat, stated that in her courtroom the penalty for being found innocent was five years.

        One can contrast Timothy Garneau’s experience with that of the Jihadists at San Francisco State University. As Lee Kaplan has reported, when members of the General Union of Palestinian Students verbally and physically attacked College Republicans for exercising their rights to distribute campaign literature in behalf of President George W. Bush’s reelection, SFSU decided to prosecute not just the Jihadists, one of whom threatened to blow herself up, but also the College Republicans who were, according to police reports and witnesses, totally on the receiving end of the attack. Clearly, at SFSU, the immediate penalty for being a Republican and being attacked is to be indicted along with your attackers.

       These outrages are a result of the insular, intellectually-homogenous political mindset that governs our campuses. It is why professors’ political affiliations do matter. It goes a long way toward explaining why Republicans and conservatives find the campus an inhospitable environment and, certainly, not a place to attempt to launch a career.   And it is why the general public should hold public colleges and universities accountable to their own hypocritical cries for diversity--beginning with breaking the left’s ideological stranglehold that grips the campus.

      Are we really expected to believe that disparities in the political affiliations of college faculty are a consequence of Republicans and conservatives being intelligent enough to run governments but simply far and away too stupid to teach a freshman course in political science?

About the Writer: Miller is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Cincinnati and a former Bradley Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. His writings on political correctness have appeared in numerous popular and academic forums here and abroad. .

France is thankful ...

2004-11-24T23:58:00.000-05:00

Grammar ...

2004-11-24T22:29:00.000-05:00

The following is a post by a guy named "RawMaterials" from the message boards of Democratic Underground, a place where the far Left go to rant and rave. I have pasted it here - verbatim, in all it's grammatical glory.

RawMaterials (134 posts)
Glimpse into the mind of a young ohio bush voter.

Yesterday i was out with some old college acquaintance's, the election came up(very easy with me) and i asked whom they voted for here are there response's, age, and vague reasoning. This should help us understand what is needed to get this kind of voter next time. there ages range between 21-23 male, smart, athletic, but not "into" politics or news.

note, this was in a car ride home i didn't have time to relay get into a discussion and set them straight or open up there minds to reality.
but this is still good info to work with.

The first male, said he was undecided all the way up to election day, and went with bush. here were the reasons, first "I knew what bush track record was and what to expect, but not with Kerry." "Kerry could have gotten elected and just removed all the troops from Iraq, and then one week later we would be getting bombed".

The second male, said he didn't watch any debates(thats when i chimed in so you voted for bush, because there would have been no way if you watch the debates you could have voted for him, he laft)his main reason for voting for bush is that he never relay new what Kerry stood for, and didn't want to vote for the "anybody but bush logic".

I started to get into economic things and how bush is running up deficits, and the second male stated that most of the recession was Clinton's fault. i just about died, i quickly chimed in about greenspan and interest rates and how Clinton did his job as a president and that was to create a surplus and control spending that the other market factors were out of his control (mostly). this enlightened him.

so how do the democrats fix this, I think they need to start to get dirty they need to relay attack the Republicans. they also need to make sure they have a candidate that people can understand and identify with.

granted these guys didn't know allot about whats going on but it looks like there the norm. I also feel that they might have been heavily influenced by there parents, and are not quite ready to be informed and make critical decisions on their own. There is hope for voters like this because they are very bright.

You may be surprised that this person went to college and has such poor grammar, but I'm not.

Like I said before, college is not for learning anymore - it's for indoctrination.

As you can see, this this guy gets an "A" in "pompous socialism 101". He probably graduated as a favorite of the professors - an expert in the areas of diversity and gender.

Kidding aside, I think this is sad. This person has no idea how lacking they are in the area of knowledge, and how misled they are in the field of politics. This person probably did everything that his professors told him to do. He probably even excelled in their eyes.

I am currently reading the book Left Illusions by David Horowitz (mentioned before), and Mr. "RawMaterials" reminds me of how Horowitz described himself as a ten year old budding Communist:

"I was just ten years old, but I thought of myself as someone who could lecture the president of the United States on the difference between right and wrong, and thus change the course of history. I was just starting out in life, yet was already suspended so high above everybody else. Was there anything I could do but fail?"
- David Horowitz, from LEFT ILLUSIONS chapter 2 "Idols" (originally from Radical Son: A Generational Oddyssey (1997))

Horowitz went on to become a charter member of "The New Left" in the 1960's. After seeing first hand the corruption and lack of accountability inherent in leftist politics, he then became disillusioned and is now one of the premier Conservative minds of our time.

Young Horowitz was, at an early age, completely indoctrinated into Communism. But, at the very least, he could still express himself and write with proper grammar. He DID possess a sharp mind and an excellent work ethic. Using these fundamental skills, he was able to recover and reinvent himself.

When the utopian rug gets pulled out from under Mr. "RawMaterials", and the political power of hate and emotions finally fizzles, and when he inevitably discovers that the world is not as it had once seemed ...

... what skills will he have to fall back on?

BTW I originally saw this on the Wall Street Journal's Best of The Web. You should read it daily. (email subscription is free)

Thanks ...

2004-11-24T21:06:00.000-05:00

THANKSGIVING, 1789
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be -- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks -- for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation -- for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the tranquility [sic], union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed -- for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted -- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions -- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually -- to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed -- to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn [sic] kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord -- To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease [sic] of science among them and us -- and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York
the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

George Washington

THANKSGIVING DAY, 1943
By the President of the United States : a Proclamation

God’s help to us has been great in this year of march towards world-wide liberty. In brotherhood with warriors of other United Nations our gallant men have won victories, have freed our homes from fear, have made tyranny tremble, and have laid the foundation for freedom of life in a world which will be free. Our forges and hearths and mills have wrought well; and our weapons have not failed. Our farmers, Victory gardeners, and crop volunteers have gathered and stored a heavy harvest in the barns and bins and cellars. Our total food production for the year is the greatest in the annals of our country... -

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Private Charles Broderich, Reading PA., enjoys his Thanksgiving Dinner in Waurichen, Germany.
November 23, 1944.

PFC William Curtis (L) from San Diego, CA.,and Donald Stratton
(R) from Colville, WA., enjoy their Thanksgiving dinner in the
window of a shell torn building in Waurichen, Germany.
Both men are members of the 406th Regiment 2nd Battalion, H.Q

Tec/5 Albert L. Hyter, Toledo, Ohio, enjoys his turkey
dinner in the remains of a bombed out building in Waurichen.

THANKSGIVING DAY, 1991
By the President of the United States : a Proclamation

...As we continue the Thanksgiving tradition, a tradition cherished by every generation of Americans, we reflect in a special way on the blessings of the past year. When this Nation and its coalition partners took up arms in a last-resort effort to repel aggression in the Persian Gulf, we were spared the terrible consequences of a long and protracted struggle. Indeed, the millions of people who prayed for a quick end to the fighting saw those prayers answered with a swiftness and certainty that exceeded all expectations. During the past year, we have also witnessed the demise of communism and welcomed millions of courageous people into the community of free nations. -

GEORGE BUSH

President Bush's 2003 Thanksgiving Proclamation

Proclamation by the President: Thanksgiving Day, 2003

Each year on Thanksgiving, we gather with family and friends to thank God for the many blessings He has given us, and we ask God to continue to guide and watch over our country.

Almost 400 years ago, after surviving their first winter at Plymouth, the Pilgrims celebrated a harvest feast to give thanks. George Washington proclaimed the first National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, and Abraham Lincoln revived the tradition during the Civil War. Since that time, our citizens have paused to express thanks for the bounty of blessings we enjoy and to spend time with family and friends. In want or in plenty, in times of challenge or times of calm, we always have reasons to be thankful.

America is a land of abundance, prosperity, and hope.

We must never take for granted the things that make our country great: a firm foundation of freedom, justice, and equality; a belief in democracy and the rule of law; and our fundamental rights to gather, speak, and worship freely.

These liberties do not come without cost. Throughout history, many have sacrificed to preserve our freedoms and to defend peace around the world. Today, the brave men and women of our military continue this noble tradition. These heroes and their loved ones have the gratitude of our Nation.

On this day, we also remember those less fortunate among us. They are our neighbors and our fellow citizens, and we are committed to reaching out to them and to all of those in need in our communities.

This Thanksgiving, we again give thanks for all of our blessings and for the freedoms we enjoy every day. Our Founders thanked the Almighty and humbly sought His wisdom and blessing. May we always live by that same trust, and may God continue to watch over and bless the United States of America.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 27, 2003, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage Americans to gather in their homes, places of worship, and community centers to share the spirit of understanding and prayer and to reinforce ties of family and community.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.

GEORGE W. BUSH

more presidential proclamations

Union of Californiat Socialist Republics...

2004-11-24T11:20:00.000-05:00

here's a story from World Net Daily ...

LAW OF THE LAND
Is Declaration of Independence unconstitutional?
School district sued for censoring founding documents, state constitutions

Posted: November 23, 2004
11:38 p.m. Eastern

In a season typified by lawsuits against manger scenes, crosses and even the words "Merry Christmas," a California case is taking the "separation of church and state" one step further – dealing with whether it's unconstitutional to read the Declaration of Independence in public school.

Attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit Monday against the Cupertino Union School District for prohibiting a teacher from providing supplemental handouts to students about American history because the historical documents contain some references to God and religion.

"Throwing aside all common sense, the district has chosen to censor men such as George Washington and documents like the Declaration of Independence," said ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb. "The district's actions conflict with American beliefs and are completely unconstitutional."...

... Just what documents did Williams submit that were deemed unfit for the school's students?

"Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, the diaries of George Washington and John Adams, the writings of William Penn, and various state constitutions," said the public-interest law firm representing Willliams.

Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence are unfit for our students?

The diaries of George Washington and John Adams are unfit for our students?

The writings of William Penn are unfit too? What about naming a school after William Penn?

You may read these stories and wonder what these people are thinking. You may not understand how people could come up with such non-sense.

Until you see the Political Left in this country for what they are, then you will not get it.

Things will not make sense until you accept the fact that the American Left's embrace of socialism has put it in direct opposition with the institutional foundations of our country - Liberty, Freedom, Morals and Values.

William Penn is bad?...

You must realize that there are people teaching at our schools that promote Karl Marx over George Washington; Joseph Stalin over Ronald Reagan.

When you do accept these facts - not as wacky right-wing blogger fodder, but as a real problem - then it will be clear to you that when leftists in California get a chance to stick it to religion AND American history in one stroke, they will not hesitate.

Washington ... shunned in California?...

Just like in the story.

You will then be opened to a new world of clarity and understanding when it comes to the news and current events.

I wonder how this happened ...

2004-11-24T10:32:00.000-05:00

read this story:

Airline Ships Couple's German Shepherds To Germany

Airline Ships Couple's German Shepherds To Germany

POSTED: 8:13 am EST November 23, 2004
UPDATED: 6:11 pm EST November 23, 2004
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It may be ironic, but a couple that just moved to South Florida wasn't amused when an airline mistakenly shipped their two German shepherds to Germany instead of Fort Lauderdale Sunday.

"We got our luggage -- no dogs," said owner Ramiro Daza. "That's the most pathetic mistake that can happen. It's OK when you lose luggage, but life, like a pet, that's beyond comprehension."

The couple said when they examined the claim checks for their dogs, they noticed the wrong destination -- Frankfurt, Germany -- had been entered. Frankfurt is about 5,000 miles from Fort Lauderdale.

"For this to happen to this family is just unheard of," said Cherie Wachter of the Broward County Humane Society. "How they ended up in Germany when they were supposed to be in South Florida is just unimaginable."

The couple flew from San Francisco to Washington D.C. Sunday. They caught a connecting flight to Fort Lauderdale, but the dogs were accidentally put on another plane.

A United Airlines spokesperson said the airline is sorry for the inconvenience and the dogs will be flown back from Germany. The airline had said that the dogs would arrive at Miami International Airport Tuesday, but late in the afternoon, the Dazas found out their pets won't be back in Florida until at least Wednesday...

I'll go out on a limb here and guess that maybe a dumb airline employee didn't know that "German Shepherd" is not a destination, but a type of dog. At least they knew Germany was in Europe.

Whoever made this mistake, I bet they were exposed to a lot of diversity in school, but not a lot of perspective ...

Perspective ...

2004-11-23T23:09:00.000-05:00

Our children are not learning.

Not in Kindergarten, not elementary school, middle school, high school, and college.

There is no learning going on because we do not teach anymore.

We expose.

At every level, educators are always talking about how their purpose is to "expose the student to new ideas", "get the student out of their comfort zone", "out of the box", "to show the student a different view of the world than that which they currently possess".

It's about diversity and gender and race and diversity ...

And diversity ...

It is this mantra that Leftist use as an excuse to indoctrinate our children while keeping them dumb.

This is why our children know more about rain forests than George Washington (personally, as a 3rd grader at Wilmington Manor Elementary School, I remember learning about the endangered California Condor, learning about Greenpeace and The Rainbow Warrior, and seeing a leftist cartoon propaganda movie about baby seals being clubbed, but I don't ever remember studying American history for very long).

This is why, in the world's premier capitalist country, you can not actually learn about capitalism in our schools - however, you do learn about modern applications of Karl Marx.

This is why children who grow up with religious faith are taught that religion is dumb, religious people are dumb, and religion is a corrupt institution that oppresses women and minorities.

This is why children who grow up with a sense of right and wrong and morals and values are repeatedly and enthusiastically encouraged to forget what right and wrong and morals and values are.

This is why you have music students playing traditional African music and Indian music and Japanese Kodo drumming and Latin festival music and Aboriginal music and music by women composers and music by Brazilian composers and music by gay composers and music by African American composers...

...but they can't hear pitch, can't read music, and wouldn't know Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven if you slapped them up side the head with a forte-piano.

PC: Almost Dead, Still Funny
by John Leo | Dec 05 '94
NEWTON THE RAPIST
Sandra Harding of the University of Delaware describes Isaac Newton's Principia Mathemetica as "Newton's rape manual."Susan McClary, who has applied feminist theory to analyze music, writes of "the phallic violence" and "assaultive pelvic pounding" of Western classical music. She sees in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the "throttling murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release."

Now, there is no natural law that states, "in order for the learning process to happen, one must be exposed to all sides and all opposites".

Again, this is just an excuse for teachers and professors to teach your child whatever useless, decadent, anti-American garbage they want and do it in the name of knowledge.

To learn, one must first define what knowledge is - which I have planned for another post.

In this post, however, I do want to talk about teaching.

Teaching IS NOT exposing a student to new things.

Teaching IS giving a student a broader perspective on things that they already know about.

Here's what I mean:

I am now going to teach you something.

Ready?

Kirkwood Highway. Know it?

DE rt. 2

What do you think of when you hear the words Kirkwood Highway?

Traffic?

How about traffic?

Prices Corner? Best Buy?

Traffic congestion?

Do you think of anything warm, anything positive?

Kirkwood Highway is the "something that you already know about". You might even travel on it every day. But what do you really know about the road?

Now here's the "perspective".

Del. 2 Kirkwood Highway is named after Captain Robert Kirkwood, a Revolutionary War Hero born and raised on a farm near Polly Drummond Hill, DE (outside Newark).

Early Life
Robert Kirkwood was born in Newark DE in 1756. He had eight sisters and no brothers. He attended the Newark Academy (fore-runner to the University of Delaware) and worked the family farm on Polly Drummond Hill.

The First Two Years of War: 1776-1778
On January 17, 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Robert Kirkwood (at age twenty) was commissioned a First Lieutenant in Col. John Haslet's Regiment of Continental troops. Kirkwood fought in 32 battles of the Revolutionary War, recording his observations in a Journal and in an Order Book that have survived to this day and have been published.

The State of Delaware has given Kirkwood an official marker, with the comments ...

Born 1756 on farm adjoining this church. Senior captain of Delaware Battalion of Continental Army after Battle of Camden, S.C., 1780. Distinguished throughout Revolution for undaunted bravery and devotion to cause of liberty. Brevetted major 1783. Killed in battle with Indians 1791 near Fort Recovery, Ohio, his thirty-third engagement.

Yes, he was killed in Ohio during a battle with Indians.

On Nov 4, 1791, at Fort Recovery [60 miles NW of Dayton OH, on the Indiana border] 1,000 Indians attacked the 1,000 soldiers (plus about 200 support people) and killed some 700 of them (including Robert Kirkwood). This was Kirkwood's 33rd battle.

One of his companions described the scene as follows:
There, resting beneath a tree, lay old Kirkwood scalped,
his head smoking like a chimney.
Note that "old" Kirkwood was only 35 years of age.

Ohio erected this monument for Kirkwood and the other fallen soldiers ...

The actual road Del. 2 came to be in the 1930's.

You can see it not on this map of Delaware from 1928 ...

click to enlarge

... and see it appear on this map of Delaware from 1938.

click to enlarge

Here is a current map of Delaware roads...

cool maps from HERE

For a complete description of where the road goes, click here.

There.

How has your perspective changed when it comes to Kirkwood Highway? It might almost be a different road to you now. And that's teaching - taking things that are all around us and digging a little deeper. Offering an intelligent and mature perspective about the things all around us, and gaining a new appreciation (named after a war hero) for things that, if the instinct to gain real knowledge is left alone, might form as a negative perspective in one's mind and would fail to be appreciated (Kirkwood Highway = just traffic).

How many things are there in your life that you know of, but don't really know how they work?

Do you really know how capitalism, a free market, and prices work?

Do you really know the purpose of moral knowledge and what it is used for?

Do you really know the story behind July 4th, 1776?

In our schools, with our children, this is the kind of learning that should be happening, this is the perspective that should be given, and on those topics.

But that's not what the Hippie/Liberal/Socialist/BabyBoomer teachers and professors do. They are always looking for the counter-point, the political angle. The opposite, the anti-perspective. The anti-American perspective.

Here is what a lesson on Kirkwood Highway would sound like if it were to come from your average college Professor:

Kirkwood Highway is named after Robert Kirkwood, a soldiering white male slave owner and religious fanatic. He was born on a farm, where women were confined to house work, near a church that women could not attend. He did however, connect with feminine and gay tendencies while growing up as the only brother of 8 sisters.

Kirkwood stood for the great American principle of dissent during the American Revolutionary War. Dissent is good. How can you be like our Founding Fathers and stand up for dissent today?

Kirkwood was killed by Native Americans in what is now Ohio. White males often killed Native Americans, making every white male born before 1930 an oppressive racist. Did you know that indians lived communally and smoked cannabis? It's ridiculous how the government sends pot smokers to jail.

Kirkwood was scalped and left near a tree. What are the homo-erotic and sexual aspects of scalping?

Del 2/Kirkwood Highway was built during the Jim Crow Years.

George W. Bush is dumb.

Roads are a main contributer to pollution and are a cause of much oppression and poverty in the world. Corporations are secretly behind the formation of roads.

I know the preceding seems ridiculous, but believe me, it's not too much of a stretch.

In their attempts to expose students to "diverse" viewpoints and beloved counter-culture, leftist teachers and professor's leave students confused, and moreover, angry at something. Angry at men, or capitalism, or The United States.

It amounts to indoctrination, not teaching.

So, what perspective (or lack of) is your child getting?

Do you know who's teaching your children?

It just might be this guy -

Philip Goldstein
University of Delaware
Associate Professor
Literary Theory, Novel, Victorian Literature

who also moonlights as the ...

... State Chairperson
Green Party of Delaware...

... and is the same Goldstein that signed a petition for the "Palestinian Right to Return"...

... and also signed this anti-war petition sponsored by this far-left anti-Bush website ...

... and while I have you interested in the guy, pick up his book:

Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians, and Communism

I've never met Goldstein. I also couldn't get into The University of Delaware as a student, let a lone teach there.

He might be a pleasant person. Mild tempered and polite.

But I can guarantee that, unless you want your child to receive a Marxist-Leninist education, you don't want this guy teaching your child.

How many more Goldsteins are out there in our little state?

Is your child getting perspective or indoctrination?

Turn her Red II ...

2004-11-23T18:46:00.000-05:00

Read this article.

GOP Plants Flag on New Voting Frontier

Bush's huge victory in the fast-growing areas beyond the suburbs alters the political map.
By Ronald Brownstein and Richard Rainey, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON — The center of the Republican presidential coalition is moving toward the distant edges of suburbia.

In this month's election, President Bush carried 97 of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties, most of them "exurban" communities that are rapidly transforming farmland into subdivisions and shopping malls on the periphery of major metropolitan areas.

Together, these fast-growing communities provided Bush a punishing 1.72 million vote advantage over Democrat John F. Kerry, according to a Times analysis of election results. That was almost half the president's total margin of victory.

"These exurban counties are the new Republican areas, and they will become increasingly important to Republican candidates," said Terry Nelson, the political director for Bush's reelection campaign. "This is where a lot of our vote is."

These growing areas, filled largely with younger families fleeing urban centers in search of affordable homes, are providing the GOP a foothold in blue Democratic-leaning states and solidifying the party's control over red Republican-leaning states.

How does this apply to Delaware?

We all know of the growth of Middletown and other areas south and west on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Young families are moving into these areas. Families ... people that want to form close communities like those of the days of our grandparents, not politically atomized and polarized environments that we have today.... people that want to live in clean and safe places for their children to play and go to school, not slums and playgrounds for wanna-be ganstas and delinquents ... people that want their neighbors to be fellow proud Americans, not anti-American scum-bags ... people that want government to work for them, one that is not just focused on fixing failed Democratic urban policy in Wilmington.

And so on. There IS a movement. Believe it.

The Democrats can not see it because they only look though the lens of race, gender, and diversity. Class warfare.

They can not comprehend a political movement that is held together, not by skin color or gender, but by the beliefs in morals and values.

Liberty and Freedom.

San Francisco State University ...

2004-11-23T16:48:00.000-05:00

This is a must read, a follow up to stories about College Republicans and Palestinians at San Francisco State University.

Just like I have been writing, here is an example of socialists and terrorist Palestinians joining together to intimidate College Republicans. This is going on right now, in our own country.

Is San Francisco still part of The United States? You decide.

Palestinian Terror On Campus
By Lee Kaplan
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 23, 2004

Anatomy of a socialist ...

2004-11-23T09:36:00.000-05:00

Rooney offers his opinon

Commentator answered questions on politics and journalism

The big quote from this article is Rooney admitting CBS was intentionally trying to smear Bush with the Rathergate scandal.

"I am very critical of some of the people at CBS who make it apparent what their political leanings are," Rooney said. "That's what happened to this thing of Dan Rather's that got out. There's no question they wanted to run it because it was negative towards Bush.

Wow, news flash.

The quotes that stuck out to me were the quotes that really reveled the socialist mind of Mr. Rooney.

For example ...

Rooney thinks Conservatives are rare and most people, especially those in college, are Marxist-Leninists just like him:

Second year Fletcher student Jeremy Harrington asked Rooney to "skewer people outside our borders," to which Rooney deadpanned, "There's bound to be a conservative in every crowd."

Rooney is concerned with what socialist governments of the world think:

Rooney responded by referring to the American failure to win the support of Iraqis and the world community in the Iraq war. He said the United States started the war "for good reasons," but he did not think the rest of the world agreed.

Rooney believes that war is not the answer, and if we just talked to them, they would listen.

"We are in such a leadership position and I just don't feel we are leading as well as we could," he said. "We should try and sell ourselves, and try to convince the Iraqi people - with something other than guns - that we are here to help."

Maybe - other than guns - we should recall our armed forces and just send a bunch of college professors over there to talk to them, because our government is too dumb and if WE WOULD JUST LISTEN TO COLLEGE PROFESSORS ...

Rooney thinks that Iraqis (brown people) are dumb, especially for freedom and democracy:

Rooney said he thought Iraq was "an ignorant society, not to be critical of them," a remark which was questioned later in his speech. Rooney defended the comment, saying that it is difficult to sell democracy in a country where few have access to the media and illiteracy is high, but acknowledged that "my attitude of the Iraqis is typical of the America I am complaining about."

Rooney thinks that religion is dumb and religious people are ignorant:

Rooney also attributed voters' reliance on religion in the recent election to ignorance. "I am an atheist," Rooney said. "I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense."
He said Christian fundamentalism is a result of "a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer."

Note to self: I must get back to college so that I can be exposed to what the World Workers Party, I mean The World, has to offer ...

Rooney likes to talk about "The Workers" and "The People" just like the Communist Manifesto:

Rooney said he also could not understand how "men who work with their hands voted for George Bush," and again attributing the phenomenon to a lack of education. "The labor force is conservative," he said. "How in the world did that happen?"

Rooney is mad that journalist make their political leanings know. I mean, you can't just come out and tell people that we are routing against the United States! Look how well it worked with walter Cronkite during the Vietnam War. We only learned after the fact that he was spinning and lying about the news in order to help the North Vietnamese Communists defeat the United States. We need to be a hidden 5th Column

"I am very critical of some of the people at CBS who make it apparent what their political leanings are," Rooney said. "That's what happened to this thing of Dan Rather's that got out. There's no question they wanted to run it because it was negative towards Bush."

Rooney is worried about Capitalism:

The veteran reporter said the news business "has been taken over" by 'the moneychangers.'"

This quote speaks for itself:

"I feel bad about the news business," Rooney said. "It has the prospects of being stronger than ever. There are good young people in the news business," he said, praising his fellow commentators Jon Stewart and Al Franken

Rooney thinks everything should be free to the people (free meaning, paid for by "donations" by Capitalists):

He said the media would be improved if money was donated for network newscasts so that they could run "an hour every night with real news and no commercials," he said. "I'd like to see free news."

Finally, after Rooney loses in the arena of ideas, he turns to personal insults - just like a true left winger:

Some of Rooney's answers seemed quaint and anachronistic. In an age where The New York Times ran an apology for not being aggressive enough in their reporting leading up to the Iraq war, Rooney said he thought the media was hard enough on politicians. When a student disagreed, he told her she didn't "have a leg to stand on."

Pompous, condescending, and far Left.

Mr. Rooney served our country in WWII. But so did both my grandfathers, and I don't remember them using their war experience to excuse bad behavior after the war.

That is exactly what Mr. Rooney has been doing.

Mr. Rooney, 2 years of combat photography in Europe does not excuse you for 50 years of pro-Communist/anti-American activity.

“Treating soldiers fighting their war as brave heroes is an old civilian trick designed to keep the soldiers at it. But you can be sure our soldiers in Iraq are not all brave heroes gladly risking their lives for us sitting comfortably back here at home.”- CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney

Just A Kid ...

2004-11-22T13:12:00.000-05:00

School orders boy to cover his T-shirt
'The Real Terrorist Is In The White House' is called a distraction by school officials

Some are offended by this kind of behaviour. I feel bad for the kid, but I do wish more socialists and far Left wackos identified themselves in this way. The more radical Leftists are exposed and identified, the better. Remember, just because they don't wear leftist shirts to school does not mean that they are not there.

I don't hold anything against this kid. He may not know it, but he's still young.

THE PARENTS, however, should be shunned. When you take advantage of the innocence of youth to promote your own political beliefs (and that IS what's happening here), it's a form of child abuse. This is a mild case, obviously, but what can it lead to when parents when parents throw their naive children into the political spectrum?...

Just stick teaching your kids morals and values when they are young, and their politics will come in good time.

Here's Hube's Take on the story ...

Jewish Delaware ...

2004-11-22T09:16:00.000-05:00

There are about 13,500 of you out there, or about 1.7% of Delaware's population (2001).

There are about 1,800 (1,600 undergraduate/ 200 Graduate) Jewish students enrolled at The University of Delaware out of about 20,000 total students.

The Jewish vote in the 2004 presidential election looked something like this - 76% for Kerry 24% Bush. The Jewish vote has always leaned heavily for the Democrats (more even voted against Reagan the second time (1984) than the first (1980)).

Since my first observations in politics, I have never totally understood the modern connections between the Democrats and Jews.

Is it the traditional ties to communism and communal living?

Is it a demographic issue, considering that many Jews live in or have ties to elite (and leftist) urban communities in our large cities, trending them towards Liberal policies such as welfare and gun control?

Is it the anti-semitism and isolationism of the pre-William F. Buckley Jr. Republican party?

Or, is the Democratic Party just a good fit with the Jewish faith?

Now, notice that I have not included negative Jewish experience with Right Wing politics such as Fascism and the NAZIs as a reason for Republican alienation.
For those of you that don't know, the "ZI" in "NAZI" comes from the German word for "socialism" - "sozialistische", as in nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP). The NAZI's were socialist comrades with the Communists - the NAZI's were "Left".
You may have been taught by some leftist college proffessor that Hitler's "National Socialism" was actually "state-run Capitalism". Nonsense, that's an oxymoron. That's like saying "water is just wet fire".
This concept was made up after Germany launched operation Barbarossa in 1941 (invasion of The Soviet Union). Before this invasion, Stalin and Hitler were friends.. The subsequent war was not one of Left (USSR) vs. Right (Germany), but Racist Left (USSR) vs. Racist Left (Germany).
What Europeans call "the Right" and what we in America call "The Right" are two different things. Members of the "European Right" are just racist socialists. In America, we call any type of socialists "The Left". The difference lies in the fact that right-wing nationalism in Europe is based on physical and cultural attributes like skin color, eye color, and language. American right-wing nationalism is not about skin color or cultural background - or anything else arbitrarily physical, but love of concepts, such as Liberty and Freedom - morals and values. This is WAY different than in Europe.
You can see the The 25 point Programme of the NSDAP here. Besides the racial-nationalism and anti-Semitism, one can clearly see the language of Karl Marx (a German) and socialism.
Those 25 points sound A LOT like what Dutch Europeans are calling for today - anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant nationalist socialism.

(By the way - I do not like to reference the NAZI's too much. To me, there are few comparisons to the NAZI's when it comes to evil (Stailn, Pol Pot). I find it troubling when people loosely throw around the term "NAZI" like one would use the term "moron".)

More on Socialism later...

So the questions continue:

I ask why I keep seeing young Jewish students showing up at War Protests that have been organized by Far Left and Communist groups like the World Workers Party - groups that hate Israel have aligned themselves with Radical Islam, including the Palestinians. They show up and experience anti-Semitic signs and speech, and seemed shocked.

I keep asking why, in the face of Republican support and defense of Jews and Israel, many Jews still do not vote for, and even hate, Republicans.

I keep asking why American Jews support a Democratic platform that wants to pander to, and, model itself after Europe, a continent in the midst of an obvious anti-Semitic revival.

I AM starting to find answers with this man, David Horowitz, and his new book is a must read. In part of the book, you follow the life of a young Horowitz - an intelligent but naive kid who grew up in the Communist/Jewish communities of New York City in the 1950's and 60's. You should give it a look.

More than just getting votes and winning elections, I think it could be time that Jewish Americans (and Jewish Delawareans) abandon dreams of a world socialist utopia and get on board with The Republican Party. It's time to defend freedom against radical Islam and the influence of anti-semitic Europe. Full time.

Here are some more articles on this subject. I think that they speak for themselves.

But before you read them:

1) Do not fall for the excuse that some of these people are "just against Israel, not Jews in general". Believe me, I have seen them - they hate Jews.

2) Do not mistake these stories as isolated incidents. That's what they want, so you won't do anything about it.

E.U. Poll Reflects Excessive Criticism of Israel

Climate of hate rocks Columbia University

The Democratic Party's anti-Semitism problem

BBC reporter cried for Arafat

The Jews

Making Duke Safe for Hate

Speaking Truth to Duke's Academic Terror
By Rabbi Steven Ballaban

The Berkeley Intifada?

Columbia to check anti-Israel bias charge

"Columbia Unbecoming" in the clear light of day

This is what the Dems want here ...

2004-11-20T17:59:00.000-05:00

If you have not been following the story, the Dutch have been having major problems with Muslim fanatics. The story has been getting a lot of attention since the murder of Dutch film maker Theo Van Gogh.

I hate to say it in the wake of Dutch suffering, but this is what they get when they embrace socialism, pacifism, and moral relativism.

When you don't recognize evil in the world and fail to prepare a defense from it, you're in danger. When you make friends with evil because it also hates the United States and capitalism, you're playing with fire. When you're non-judgmental and shun morals and values, you're inviting evil people to your door step. And when you have weak and impotent law enforcement, you're never going to be safe.

AP Interview: Popular Dutch lawmaker urges halt to non-Western immigrants, shutting down radical mosques
- ANTHONY DEUTSCH, Associated Press Writer
Friday, November 19, 2004
(11-19) 11:36 PST THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) --

One of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands said Friday the country's democracy is under threat and called for a five-year halt to non-Western immigration in the wake of the killing of a Dutch filmmaker by a suspected Muslim radical.

"We are a Dutch democratic society. We have our own norms and values," right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders told The Associated Press in an interview. "If you chose radical Islam you can leave, and if you don't leave voluntarily then we will send you away. This is the only message possible."

In his first interview with the foreign media since the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh on Nov. 2, Wilders said his own life has been repeatedly threatened. He said he has begun living under state protection and has even had to stay away from his own home.

Wilders split with the free-market coalition partner Liberal Party two months ago because it backed the candidacy of predominantly Muslim Turkey for the European Union.

He formed his own conservative party, the Wilders Group, which has one seat in the 150-member parliament. But a recent poll suggested his anti-immigrant message was reverberating through the electorate, and he would win 24 seats if elections were held today -- up from 19 seats before Van Gogh's murder.

Wilders said that without swift, bold action, Islamic fundamentalism will topple the country's democratic system.

"The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long," he said. "We should not import a retarded political Islamic society to our country. There is nothing to be ashamed of to say this. It's not Islam. I speak out against the facts."

In Brussels, Belgium, European Union leaders met Friday to discuss immigration, one of Europe's most pressing and sensitive issues. EU justice and interior ministers agreed to demand that new immigrants learn the language of their adopted countries and adhere to "European values" to guide them toward better integration.

Even as the number of immigrants arriving in Europe falls due to tougher policies, led by a sharp drop in the Netherlands, Wilders said closing the borders isn't enough. Newcomers should be forced to integrate.

"If in a mosque there is recruitment for jihad, it's not a house of prayer, it's a house of war. If it's not a house of prayer, it should be closed down," he said.

Wilders, known for his radical positions and peroxide-blond hair, has been a member of parliament since 1998. He was born and educated in the southern city Venlo, near the German border.

"I'm very tough on radical Islam. I have the toughest ideas on beating this problem and I'm proud of it. I say nothing wrong. I'm no racist, no anti-Islamist," he said.

Wilders and the police took the death threats more seriously following the slaying of Van Gogh, who had produced a television drama critical of how women are treated in some Muslim societies. The filmmaker was shot and stabbed to death, allegedly by a 26-year-old suspected Islamic extremist who holds Dutch and Moroccan citizenship.

The most recent threats were disclosed when two terror suspects, arrested Nov. 10 after a standoff in which several policemen were wounded by a hand grenade, were charged with threatening Wilders and other politicians, their lawyer said.

The latest video threat broadcast on the Internet -- in Dutch, with Arabic music in the background -- condemns Wilders for insulting Islam and offers the reward of paradise for his beheading.

Wilders' style and cause are reminiscent of Pim Fortuyn, a flamboyant political outsider who put immigration on the national agenda before the 2002 elections. Fortuyn was shot to death by an animal rights activist days before the vote, but major parties since have largely embraced his ideas.

Wilders said he is not opposed to mainstream Islam but is concerned by studies saying 10 percent of the Dutch Muslim population -- or about 100,000 people -- support radical Islamic views.

He cited a report by Dutch intelligence saying recruitment for jihad, or holy war, is taking place in as many as 20 mosques in the Netherlands, and said they should be closed and their imams, or preachers, arrested and deported.

"If we don't do anything ... we will lose the country that we have known for centuries. People don't want the Netherlands to be lost, and this is something that I get angry about and I am going to fight for, to keep the country Dutch," he said.

Danny Duncan's parents ...

2004-11-20T13:54:00.000-05:00

Let's hear it for the parents who raised a 10 year old Conservative genius.

Little man on campus
By Sheila Ahern Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted 11/15/2004
Rushing to class, Danny Duncan wheels his backpack on a mini-luggage cart behind him.

High school students twice his size lumber around chatting about who's dating who and Friday's football game.

"Hey, hand over your lunch money," a high school boy jokes while patting Danny's head.

"Ha, ha," says a smiling Danny as he quickly smoothes his cowlick back down.

But he keeps moving.

When you're 10 years old and headed to honors physics class, the last thing you want to be is late.

'I was really nervous'

Despite his luggage cart and limited hallway vision, Danny is usually one of the first students to class.

He spends every school morning at Antioch Community High School taking honors physics and honors geometry. After class, about 10 a.m., he takes a school bus by himself to Millburn Elementary School near Wadsworth for social studies, English and some video-game talk with fellow fifth-graders...

...But Danny does have one hobby that probably doesn't come up during recess at Millburn - national politics.

Danny looks forward to voting one day, and from time to time he stops by the Lake County Republican headquarters to help with mailings.

"I'm pro-life, and I like (President) Bush," Danny said.

link to a pdf article about Danny

Low standards ...

2004-11-20T09:33:00.000-05:00

After writing my post this morning on racism and black politics in Delaware, I really dug into the story on the riot at the Pacers/Pistons basketball game last night.

It initially looked like all the players fault. Commentators on ESPN told me to have patience and place blame too early. They showed other views of the action and I watched closer.

After about 2 hours, it looked even MORE like the players fault.

I saw 7 foot athletes running around the Palace at Auburn Hills punching people in the face. Punching first, and with malice.

Of course the fans are to blame too. Their reactions were completely out of line. They did not instigate this mess however, not from what I've been watching for the last 2 hours - even with the ESPN pro-athlete slant. This started with a fight on the court.

Cowardly ESPN commentators are coming on Sportscenter talking about how Ron Artest was "innocently" laying on the scorers table. Huh? Is it innocent to lay on the scorers table after you were just in a fight? That's called taunting the home fans.

Cal Ripken Jr. would not have laid on the scorers table. Julius Erving would not have laid on the scorers table.

Cowardly ESPN commentators are also saying that they would have done the same thing if, let's say, someone were walking down the street and thew a beer at them. Oh yeah? How about if a gang threw a beer on them, would they still throw a punch? Because that is what threw the beer - a gang of about 20,000. This "gang" was the paying Palace crowd at the start of the game, but when 250 pound athletes jumped into the stands and started punching their brothers, fathers, and best friends, that crowd turned into a gang.

I think that it's pathetic how the talking heads on ESPN are trying to save their jobs by blaming only "fans" and sympathizing with the players. They are already missing hockey, they can't lose another sport.

I find it disgraceful that, in a time where so many have so little, arrogant athletes making millions of dollar for playing an insignificant game are held to such low standards of behavior. And, they can't even shoot.

Shame on you, ESPN "Shootaround Crew".

It is certainly easy to blame the fans, but I would follow the money. Whose paying for the tickets, and whose getting paid?

Obviously, these are not the role models we are looking for.

update Michigan was a "blue" state, as well as Oakland County (where the pistons play at, The Palace at Auburn Heights) where Kerry won by 1%. So, at least they can't blame "dumb Bush voters".
Oakland County, MI results

Aunt Jemima Update ...

2004-11-20T05:03:00.000-05:00

In case you just assumed that the radio host who called Condoleezza Rice "Aunt Jemima" was black, here he is:

Meet white Leftist radio host out of Milwaukee John Sylvester, or "Sly".

Strip away all of the politics for a second - this white male called a black woman "Aunt Jemima", and it's not racism? Are we still trying to eradicate racism, or just make sure that it is only directed towards certain people - mainly Conservatives? Did Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech only apply to Liberals?

Of course, these questions are silly. Most of us in the GOP have eradicated racism. We're in the party of Abraham Lincoln for God's sake.

Martin Luther King's call for a color-blind society and unity have been put into action only with the capitalism and morals of The Republican Party, not the socialism and racial preferences of The Democratic Party. It is now only The Left who chooses to call people "nigger", "Aunt Jemima", and at The University of Tennessee, "Rag Heads".

If you didn't understand before, I hope you now know that anti-establishment white liberals can get away with any type of racism - as long as they claim to be for "civil rights". "Civil rights" is your "be a bigot for free" card. Maybe instead of civil rights, I should just say "socialism", because socialists can get away with racism too.

The Republican Party will never succeed with Black Americans until we change this atmosphere of double standards when it comes to talking about race. If we meekly surrendered former Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott for trying to compliment Strom Thurmond but let Liberals get away with calling Condoleezza Rice a nigger, then we deserve to to fail.

Delaware is about 20% black (19.3% of the Delaware population as compared to about 13% nationally). There are about 157,775 Black Delawareans.

President Bush lost Delaware 171,531 votes to Kerry's 199,887 votes, or a difference of 28,356 votes. We can't get 30,000 more Republican votes from 157,775 Black Delawareans?

Judge Bill Lee lost the Governors race 167,115 votes to Minner's 185,687 votes, or a difference of 18,572 votes. We can't get 20,000 more votes from 157,775 Black Delawareans?

I think we can get those votes. I think we, the Republican Party, suit Black Delawareans.

I think Black Delawareans are tired of the "soft bigotry of low expectations" in the form of racial preferences, welfare, and other forms of SOCIALISM that The Democrats have served up to the black community for the last 40 years.

I think Black Delawareans are tired of the Democrat's platform of moral relativism and mocking of religious faith.

I think Black Delawareans are tired of the shattered state of the institution of the Black Family and crumbling communities.

I think Black Delawareans are tired of planned parenthood, which targets the black community because it secretly believes that blacks are not capable of raising their own children. As I stated above, blacks constitute about 13% of the United States population, but Black American Women undergo 34% of all abortions. Again, there have been about 15,000,000 (that's million) aborted Black American pregnancies since Roe vs. Wade. In a Black American population today (about 13.5% of the U.S. pop ) of only about 44,000,000, this means that 1 out of every 4 black Americans that should be here today has been aborted.

1 out of every 4 are gone.
By the way, I can not find the number of Black Americans born since 1972 (Roe vs. Wade and legalized abortion in the United States). This would be an interesting number to have since it would reveal the odds that, as of 2004, all blacks had to beat to be born. These odds would probably approach a 1 in 2 chance, or only 50%.

Black Delawareans do not need liberal activists. They do not need the "I'm the Mommy and you're the Child" style of welfare that the Democrats have offered.

Black Delawareans do not need any help at all - and that's the point. They don't want white social heros swooping down from our colleges and universities to tell them what to do. It is the very politics that assumes Black Americans can not help themselves that has alienated most blacks, yet has attracted a few black fringe freaks to the Democratic Party.

I believe that Black Delawareans want what we all want - the simple respect and dignity that comes with the potential to be at liberty, and the freedom to succeed in capitalism at their own will. If the Republicans can bring THAT in 2006 and provide a leader and/or leaders - both black and white - who can and will communicate it, the sky is the limit.

None of this can happen, however, until we first stand up and talk about race without worrying about being called a racist by liberal activists.

None of this can happen when we let liberals define the word "racist" as, not someone who calls Condoleezza Rice a "nigger", but someone who opposes affirmative action and socialism.

We must defend our own.

Taxes

2004-11-19T18:06:00.000-05:00

From Brain-terminal.com

Good for explaining how taxes work to your socialist/brainwashed friends.

The Mechanics of Tax Cuts

Public School

2004-11-19T17:50:00.000-05:00

Here's another ridiculous story about our schools.

Again, send your kid to a quality school instead.

Zero Tolerance
Michelle Woo
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 18, 2004 12:00 AM

While setting up for a school dance this fall, two students in Gilbert thought they'd get in a few squeaky giggles after inhaling balloons filled with helium.

They didn't think they'd get suspended.

Their principal saw the gag as a violation of district policy on the non-medical use of inhalants. For that, she issued five-day suspensions, which she later reduced to one day...

no cartwheels either...

TheFIRE.org

2004-11-19T17:03:00.000-05:00

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has revamped it's website.

For those of you that don't know, FIRE defends free speech on the campuses of our colleges and universities.

This usually translates into protecting conservative students from ridiculous punishments and law suits by leftist university professors and administrators.

They have a sister website called Speechcodes.org that focuses on academia's attempts to set down rules about what one can say on campus.

An example of a speech code would be a written code of conduct that "bans gender specific language on campus", "prohibits any speech that would offend someone", or "bans inappropriate laughter".

Two Delaware schools have "red light" ratings, see here

See examples of speech codes and TheFire in action here.

Spain has racists, too...

2004-11-19T14:59:00.000-05:00

Socialist Spain - workers paradise, racial utopia ...

1 Armada & no World Cup
From NICK PARKER
Chief Foreign Correspondent in Madrid

DECENT soccer fans fired a broadside at the sick senors of Spain last night over disgraceful racist taunts aimed at black England players.

Stars Ashley Cole, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Jermaine Jenas endured vile monkey chants as England lost 1-0 to Spain in a “friendly” in Madrid on Wednesday...

These are the people that we should be worried about because they "don't like us"?

Race is a big issue in the news these days, and I love it. The more that we can talk about it, the better. Don't clam up! Speak the truth!

One can clearly see the fan in the middle making monkey gestures at the black player from the English National Team, Shaun Wright-Phillips.

(see more soccer stories in my "Lower Delaware/Slower Delaware 1" post. European soccer fans - English too - regularly taunt black players with monkey sounds and racial slurs. It's disgusting.)

More on Rice ...

2004-11-19T14:33:00.000-05:00

Feminist theory from Blogolution

FEMINIST THEORY
by Ken on 11/18/2004 12:10:05 PM EST
Jerry Fulcher, the liberal half of the Rick Jensen Show on WDEL spent the morning arguing that Condaleeza Rice shouldn’t be Secretary of State because she is a woman and therefore “not respected” in the Arab world...

from Hube's Cube

"Can liberals be racist?"
... some commenters have asked. My reply: Of course! No, they aren't typically overt about it like far-rightist Klan-types are. But it's pathetic just the same. For example, Professor James Loewen thinks the following is an "acceptable" SAT test question for black students:

Saturday Ajax got an LD:

a) He had smoked too much grass
b) He tripped out on drugs
c) He brought her to his apartment
d) He showed it off to his fox
e) He became wised up

Get it? Black SAT-takers can only comprehend items about drug use or sexual promiscuity. Anything else is "cultural bias."...

Where are you?

2004-11-19T13:54:00.000-05:00

Condoleezza Rice is being called a "house nigger", "Aunt Jemima", and every other derogatory remark one can make about a black person.

I ask...

Where are you, Jesse Jackson?

Where are you, Al Sharpton?

Where are you, "civil rights leaders"?

Where are you, Congressional Black Caucus?

Where are you, outraged editorial writers?

Where are you, outraged letter to the editor writers?

Where are you, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, TIME, Newsweek, 60 Minutes?

Where are you, Boondocks cartoonist Aaron McGruder?

Where are you, outraged politicians who ganged up on Trent Lott?

Oh, great spirit of political correctness, where have you gone this day?

Radio Host Calls Rice 'Aunt Jemima'
Ted Rall Cartoon
Pat Oliphant
Doonesbury
Jeff Danziger
IF THERE were a monkey in the White House - and many reckon there is - then his trainer would be the world's most powerful person.

Lockman almost gets it right ...

2004-11-17T17:03:00.000-05:00

Did you see this today?

Look, there's an elephant in Big Tent

By NORMAN LOCKMAN

11/17/2004
There is an elephant in the room when it comes time to talk about how Democrats and Republicans deal with minorities.

In broadest terms, Democrats are seen as champions of minorities; Republicans are seen as skeptical of them. Black Americans are so overwhelmingly Democrats that they constitute a special constituency bloc within the party. Black Republicans are still scarce enough within that party to be sneered at as tokens trying to escape racial identity.

At the national level, the most prominent face among black Democrats is the Rev. Al Sharpton, erstwhile presidential candidate and current Spike TV reality show host.

At the same level, the Republican Party is represented by Secretary of State Colin Powell and White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. They help run the country.

On Tuesday, President Bush, who garnered only 11 percent of the black vote on Election Day, nominated Rice, an African- American, to be America's next secretary of state, to replace Powell, Bush's most popular cabinet officer and also African American. Bush had two other black cabinet officers in his first term. He has just named a Hispanic, Alberto Gonzales, to be his new attorney general. Another black man was in the running for the job. With a possible vacancy looming for chief justice, conservative black Justice Clarence Thomas' name is being bruited about as a successor.

Seems to be a reversal of expectations, don't you think? Why do Democrats talk a good game, while Republicans are producing more tangible results on the minority power front?...

Just where did the myth that "Democrats champion blacks and Republicans are racists" come from anyway?

If you remember, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, and he freed the slaves.

The Democratic party was the party of the South, and, after the Civil War (1861-1865), was a home for racial bigotry.

Then, during the 20th century, Republicans went on to lead the way on Civil Rights where it counted - in Congress:

In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.

see for yourself

I bet you didn't know that!!!!!!

(Note to 1960's baby boomer/activist/hippies who take credit for civil rights: Do you actually think that your drug use, orgies, and rock music accomplished anything? How pompous can you be?)
)

The legacy of Blacks and Left-wing politics traces back to the Communist movement of the early 20th century.

Meet Paul Robeson - Communist black man:

Paul Robeson

Robeson was a good looking athlete/actor/singer/ who, with his large muscles and deep singing voice, convinced rich Liberals and minorities of the 1930's-40's to turn off their brains, turn on their emotions (and libido for a sexy black man), and embrace Communism. (some things never change, no?)

Robeson also loved the Soviet Union and hated The United States.

Ever ready to do Stalin's bidding, Robeson attacked the formation of NATO, asserting that Negro's would never fight Stalin's Russia. An outraged Sugar Ray Robinson publicly declared that if he ever met Robeson he would punch him in the mouth. (This incident reminds me of the great Joe Louis who when asked why he was touring the South to urge Negroes to enlist replied: "Whatever's wrong with America, Hitler sure ain't going to fix it." Compare Louis's patriotism and political insight with Robeson’s cringing adoration of the murderous Stalin.)

(some things never change, no?)

see this story also

Robeson was the poster child for a movement to promote socialism as a means to a better world for minorities in America.

In the 1960's, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program and the consequential breakdown of the Black family as a strong institution helped Stalin's/Robeson's minority/socialist dreams come true.

Democrats have since practiced a pseudo-socialism on black urban communities that, due to it's complete failure, has turned our once great American cities into slums, and a once bright future for American minorities into darkness.

So, how do they continue to get votes from the black community?

The only way they can - Marx style class warfare.

Race baiting.

Democrats know that they can not run on their record because that record is a complete failure when it comes to black people.

So, they demagogue instead. They blame policy failure on phantom White Republican Males (who have not had a say in city politics since the 1950's), and play to the emotions of a very real dark legacy.

Like a dog chasing it's tail, election after election, liberal policy failures are combated with even more liberal policy.

Things will change, however. The internet is here. The facts will get out.

Perspective will be given:

Black Delawareans 20% and other minority Delawareans are starting to reject the welfare state that has been pushed on them over the last 40 years by Liberal Elite, and could tip the scales in favor of the Republicans.
There is a national movement for Black Americans to rally around the now ailing institution of the black family. This institution was historically so strong that it persevered through 500 years of slavery, oppression, segregation, and racism - only to succumb to the urban socialism of the 1960's.
Black Americans are also starting to reject the Democratic party's promotion of abortion rights and planned parenthood - promotion that has translated into about 15,000,000 (that's million) aborted Black American pregnancies since Roe vs. Wade. In a Black American population (about 13.5% of the U.S. pop ) of only about 44,000,000, this means that 1 out of every 4 black Americans that should be here today has been aborted.

Just Back From Dallas ...

2004-11-17T15:13:00.000-05:00

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens (81) pulls in a 50 yard touchdown pass in front of Dallas Cowboys defenders Nathan Jones (33) and Tony Dixon (24) during the first quarter in Irving, Texas, Monday, Nov. 15, 2004.
(AP Photo/LM Otero)

I just got back from Dallas where I attended the Eagles/Cowboys Monday Night Football game. Needless to say, I had a great time.

On the way to our hotel, my group passed Texas Stadium. We were all shocked about how much of a dump the home of The Cowboys really is.

The facility looks like an old patched up circus tent siting on top of a pile of large grey heating ducts, all of which is decorated with paint chips and fading blue blotches of graffiti (which are really supposed to be Cowboy logos).

I hope to post a picture of Texas Stadium that a friend took soon, but for now, here is one from the net that gives you an idea of what I'm talking about:

Coincidentally ...

On the Sunday before the game, there was an article in the Dallas Morning News about the condition of Texas Stadium.

Some highlights:

Fading star: Cowboys' aging Texas Stadium has lost its lusterSource: By BRAD TOWNSEND and ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning News
Irving, TX 11/13/2004

...Though at least $450,000 a year is spent annually on Texas Stadium, rust and other blemishes are easy to spot. Fortunately, TV seems to subtract 20 years from a stadium's appearance, camouflaging cracks, chipped paint and other blemishes with fast action, wide-angle views and just the right lighting...

...Fans at the Oct. 17 Cowboys-Steelers game had to walk through puddles of water along the Texas Stadium concourse. Though the stadium is structurally sound, fans say that leaking pipes and other blemishes make the games less enjoyable. Cowboys officials acknowledge that the older Texas Stadium gets, the more rapidly problems arise. But the franchise and the city of Irving spend at least $450,000 annually to sustain upkeep, preserve the stadium's rich history and enhance fans' game-day experience...

...Good riddance, some say, pointing out that the facility is well past its prime and beyond fixing.

Others believe the Cowboys and the city of Irving could do more to improve the Texas Stadium conditions, comfort level and ambience. Some wonder whether Cowboys owner Jerry Jones let things slide a bit to accentuate his case for a new stadium...

..."Jerry Jones is a billionaire," says McKinney resident Bill Hoffmire. "He surely can afford better than this."

Hoffmire, 65, is standing in the entryway into Texas Stadium's Section 7. It's halftime of the Cowboys' most recent home game, against Detroit, on a sunny Halloween afternoon.

Hoffmire says he stopped buying season tickets several years ago because he was disenchanted with the team's succession of coaches after Jimmy Johnson. But with his son visiting from out of town, he's back in Texas Stadium, carrying a $6 beer back to his $79 seat.

Hoffmire has water stains on his shirt. He, like dozens of other fans, walked under a five-foot section of dripping pipes in the concourse outside of Section 7.

One fan steers his nachos around the drips as if he were weaving through rush-hour traffic. Others cover beverage cups with their hands.

"You shouldn't have to walk through six inches of water," Hoffmire says. "They're making enough money to maintain this stadium, whoever's fault it is. Jerry, to me, is the big guy with the big money."

Many complaints may seem like minor annoyances, but fans say the irritations add up:

Large water puddles throughout the concourse and smaller ones in the stands. Potholes in the parking lot. Trash apparently left over from Friday and Saturday high school games.

In recent years, inspection reports have cited minor concerns with stadium concession stands. One report said that hot dogs were thawing in a sink meant for hand washing. Other reports cited roach infestations.

Two Texas Stadium employees who asked not to be identified say the complaints they most often hear from fans are overflowing garbage cans, restroom cleanliness and lack of toilet paper and soap by game's end.

Said one employee: "I've always said, 'Jerry Jones' wife should have to use these restrooms.' "

Then there is the infamous "brown stuff" that sporadically floats down from the inside of the roof, requiring a sweep-up before every game.

'It's pretty disgusting' ...

...On game days, according to Texas Stadium Corp. officials, an attendant is stationed at each bathroom and a small army of plumbers is on call...

Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia was NEVER this bad. It had many problems, but not like Texas Stadium. Even in it's last days, The Vet had at the very least a coat of fresh paint and working bathrooms.

Why, then, did The Vet have such a bad reputation while Texas Stadium still enjoys a good one?

Why is the national news media not giving Texas Stadium the same black eyes that The Vet got in it's last years?

Stereotypes and the media.

You see, whatever the news media wants perception to be is what it is going to be. In the media's eye, Philadelphia is a dirty rough town and Dallas is the home of a glorious and storied franchise. It does not matter that neither description is completely accurate or at all illuminating.

After listening to Summerall and Madden all those years, I really thought the Texas Stadium would be an awe inspiring place to see a football game. It was not.

All I really had to do was look for myself.

And, that's the point - if you just take a look past the liberal media's reality, you just might find that some other things are not as they seem. So, look for yourself.

Is Bush really dumb? Really?

Are all Conservatives really just dumb God-fearin' hicks?

If Liberals are really champions of women and minorities, why do they mock a black female genious who speaks Russian and plays the piano and, by the way, was just named Secretary of State?

Ted Rall, liberal cartoonist, refers to Condi Rice a 'house nigger'

That should get you started. Don't stop looking ...

Lower Delaware/Slower Delaware 3

2004-11-13T04:30:00.000-05:00

Charles Krauthammer explains the myths that liberals create about morals and values.

The myth of the bigoted Christian redneck

... In the post-election analyses, the liberal elite, led by the holy trinity of The New York Times -- Krugman, Friedman, and Dowd -- just about lost its mind denouncing the return of medieval primitivism. As usual, Maureen Dowd achieved the highest level of hysteria, cursing the Republicans for pandering to ``isolationism, nativism, chauvinism, puritanism and religious fanaticism'' in their unfailing drive to ``summon our nasty devils.''

Whence comes this fable? With President Bush increasing his share of the vote among Hispanics, Jews, women (especially married women), Catholics, seniors and even African-Americans, on what does this victory-of-the-homophobic-evangelical rest?...

read it...

People's Republic of Cali

2004-11-12T23:44:00.000-05:00

In California, it is safe for your child to be taught by Marxist-Leninists, Communists, and other extreme Left-wing demagogues ...

... but unsafe for them to do cartwheels.

Remember, starry-eyed liberal school administrators in Delaware - public, charter, AND private - look to California as a model.

Send your kids to a good private school instead.

11-Year-Old Girl Suspended For 'Dangerous' Cartwheels At School

POSTED: 7:49 am EST November 12, 2004
UPDATED: 1:06 pm EST November 12, 2004
An 11-year-old girl in West Covina, Calif., was suspended from her school from doing "dangerous" cartwheels and hand stands during lunch time, according to a Local 6 News report.

Deirdre Faegre, who is a Student of the Month at San Jose-Edison Academy in West Covina was dismissed from the school this week after school authorities warned her for the last time to stop doing gymnastic stunts during lunchtime.

Administrators at the school said they were concerned about safety of their students.

They said gymnastics on the playground creates an unsafe situation.

"I thought they were absolutely weird, because I see other kids playing baseball and soccer and I think that's more dangerous than gymnastics," Faegre said.

Deirdre's parents are giving the school's actions a failing grade. The family says they'll continue to stand by their daughter.

"I don't think they care about the children at all," father Leland Faegre said. "What sort of a parent or administrator would ever enforce a rule that would proscribe a child from using her arms and her legs? We have got to fix this mess because we have to let children be children."

Her parents said they will home school Deirdre until they find a more "reasonable" school.

Calls to school administrators went unanswered.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

Copyright 2004 by Internet Broadcasting Systems and Local6.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

UPDATE:
I wonder if there are any TITLE IX issues with this cartwheel ban ...

give the headline writer a raise...

2004-11-12T22:58:00.000-05:00

Morals and Values

2004-11-12T02:16:00.000-05:00

Nuts!

2004-11-12T01:34:00.000-05:00

"To the German Commander, "Nuts!" The American Commander."

General Anthony McAuliffe
taken on December 27th, 1944

Vets

2004-11-12T01:31:00.000-05:00

Another Map

2004-11-11T16:25:00.000-05:00

I think Liberals need to spread out a little bit. Go West, own some property.

again, from liberal wonkette

Lower Delaware/Slower Delaware 2

2004-11-11T13:43:00.000-05:00

One might think that, in the South, Republicans don't have the problem of being looked down upon as dumb hicks by other Southerners.

Especially in South Carolina. I mean, what state is more southern than South Carolina?

But 1st State Pundit has the inside scoop.

Before the election, I traveled to Columbia, SC to film on the campus of The University of South Carolina.

I had the pleasure of meeting with the USC College Republicans, and among other things, they told me about a recent episode where the school paper, the Daily Gamecock did what I just mentioned above - portrayed them as dumb gun-toatin' whiskey drinkin' hicks.

In an Oct. 1st edition of The Daily Gamecock, there was an article covering the first presidential debate.

Along side the article appeared two pictures - one of the College Democrats watching the debates, and one of the College Republicans. You can see the pictures below:

Media Credit: Dalia Ali/The Gamecock
Young Democrats cheer on Kerry at Delaney´s Thursday night.

Media Credit: Jason Steelman/The Gamecock
College Republicans view the debate from co-chairman Randy Dargan´s house in Five Points.

Looking at the first picture, one can see a cute and "fresh" group of College Democrats sitting in a quaint bar watching the debate.

Looking at the second picture, one can see the white male College Republicans all wearing camouflage and sitting around a dirty apartment with liquor bottles all over the place - watching the debate.

Or, a bunch of dumb hicks.

There is, however, no mention anywhere ...

1) ... that the College Democrats rented out a bar as a planned debate event and planned to have their picture taken.

2) ... that the College Republicans (who do not get monetary donations from rich liberal lawyers around Columbia and can not afford to rent out a bar) did not have a planned event to watch the debates, and were just hanging out in their "not straightened-up" house when the school newspaper showed up to take pictures.

3) ... that the College Republicans were going to a "theme party" right after the debate. What was the theme of the party you ask? Camouflage, of course!

So, this is pretty bad. The College Republicans look like hicks, while the College Democrats look sophisticated and sassy.

That's the breaks sometimes. That's what the press does sometimes, and you have to live with it.

But it got worse.

This guy ...

Corey Hutchins
Fifth-year English student

... writes an article in the Daily Gamecock on Oct. 20 about those same pictures from the Oct. 1st issue. It reads:

Commentary: Humor finally finds itself at USC
Student debauchery making triumphant return to campus life

I think USC is finally getting a sense of humor. For a while it looked like every time you went to the dining hall you thought there was a funeral. Kids here just don't laugh, they don't joke around. Everything gets taken too seriously.

I don't know if it's because they can't get beer on Sunday, or if it's the abortion guy out on Gervais Street getting them down. Polo stopped carrying shirts in pink, Five Points looks like Kabul and it's almost getting too chilly for sandals. The past few headlines of the student newspaper this month have given me a little hope, though. Take the front page of The Gamecock the day after the presidential debates. A picture of a bunch of the College Democrats partying it up at Delaney's - beer glasses clinking together, people smiling, dancing and laughing. I thought, "Hey maybe politics and college can work out and survive in the same setting together."

Then I unfolded the paper and underneath it came the punch line. Four guys dressed in camouflage sitting in a bare living room with lawn chairs for furniture watching television below a mantel covered with a hundred-plus Jim Beam bottles on it, stacks of chewing tobacco and a cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush standing next to a gun with his hand stretched out.

I don't really care too much about politics to let it ruin my fun, but if I'm looking at the average Friday night of the College Democrats and the College Republicans' idea of a good time then I think I'm going to have to pull the lever for Kerry in a couple weeks. Something about the way the Dubya cut-out had his hand stuck out there in the apartment of someone my age ready to just pat me on the back and say, "Just do it like your daddy did, boy," then teach me how to pop my collar. No thanks.

Kind of funny, except that, in the pictures, there is no partying, beer glasses clinking together, people smiling, dancing or laughing, and there is no hundred-plus Jim Beam bottles, chewing tobacco, no gun, and no movable arm on the Bush cut-out holding a gun.

Take another look.

If you were a Daily Gamecock reader on Oct. 20th, you would not have been able to take another look, because the pictures were not printed next to Mr. 5th Year English Major's article.

Believe me, the College Republicans at USC are not "hicks". They are just normal, intelligent, college students who happen to talk with a southern accent.

They certainly worked hard to help Bush. Maybe just as important, they helped elect Jim DeMint(R)as the new Jr. Senator from South Carolina (replaced Democrat Fritz Hollings)

The lesson is simple - Liberals WANT you to fit a stereotype. They WANT to demonize you, and they will get the job done, even if they have to make it up. That's the only way that they can win.

Finally, if this is what happens to Southerners at the hands of other Southerners, imagine what a Blue Yankee would do?

Lower Delaware/Slower Delaware 1

2004-11-11T09:31:00.000-05:00

The geography of Delaware is unique in many ways. Delaware is on a peninsula, and, when you consider the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (C & D Canal), the lower half of the state is basically an Island.

Delaware straddles The Mason Dixon Line along the canal, and the actual position of the state as a whole is neither North nor South.

As it happens, however, Delaware is both The North and The South.

Above the canal is the North. Yankee accents, city life, "you guys", men with gel in their hair, Philadelphia sports, martinis, and ... Liberals. Lots of 'em.

Below the canal, just a half mile south, is Dixie. Southern twang, country life, "y'all, Pumpkin' Chunkin', Budweiser, NASCAR, Baltimore Sports, fishin', and ... Conservatives.

The northern country (New Castle) is the smallest in terms of land size (438 square miles compared to Kent County - 594 square miles and Sussex County - 950 square miles), yet has twice the population of the lower counties combined (New Castle has a population of 515,074. Delaware's total population is 817,491 (2003))

It is really quite a remarkable microcosm of our country as a whole, complete with it's own little version of pompous disdain by The North for it's southern neighbors - a thing Delawareans call Lower Delaware ... Slower Delaware.

Yes, even in a small state like Delaware, with an Area of only 1,982 square miles, there exists enough space for the southern stereotypes of hick, redneck, and hayseed to grow and flourish.

Usually just a part of friendly banter, Southern stereotypes take on a new meaning in the middle of heated elections and talk of Blue State secession.

I'll admit, I'm a Yankee. At least, I was born in Wilmington and I say "you guys" with a "northern" accent (no hair gel, however).

Also, I have made fun of southern Delaware, especially in my youth when it came to rooting for William Penn Football against Caesar Rodney or Dover High Schools.

But then I traveled a little bit. I have moved more than 10 times in the last 10 years. I have lived or worked in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, as well as North Carolina, Colorado, Louisiana, Florida, and West Virginia. I also traveled the country 7 times in 7 summers from Maine to California as a member of various drum and bugle corps.

1st State Pundit has been around, and I think I know the people of this country pretty well. That's why when I see all the extended post election southern bashing that is going on, it makes me want to make fun of Europeans.

That's right, Europeans. Europe is the source of all this Southern bashing. They view Americans as dumb gun wielding cowboys and fat yet over-worked hicks. Europeans love to bash America, and they even teach their children how to do so - just look at these drawings of "Americans" by French school children - Fat Americans and Capitalist Pig Americans.

Our American Liberals identify with Europe, and are, even as we speak, trying to turn our beloved Capitalist system into a model European socialist welfare state. And just like "cow manure and stink", with that European socialism comes the obligatory Anti-Americanism.

True Blue-Staters have adopted and mastered that socialist scorn like nobody's business, and it's aimed right at the patriotic South.

I can't tell you how many times I have had to sit through a lecture where some pompous Northern elitist college professor has told me how he visited his European friends over the summer and was embarrassed to be an American.

Now, we are never going to get these Europeans and American-Europeans to like America. I have always said that "I'll start to worry about other people's perception of me when socialists START liking me".

What we can do is dispel the myths of Patriotic Americans and Southerners as "dumb hicks".

Because, folks, Europeans are the "hicks".

Europeans do not shower regularly. They wear the same clothes for a week. There is enough B.O. and arm-pit smell in Europe to melt the sun.

They have bad teeth. They live in small apartments with no air conditioning. They are very racist and do a poor job of trying to hide it - see here and here and here.

(You think I forgot the "dumb" part in "dumb hicks"? I haven't. Anyone who embraces socialism is dumb in my book. It's just a given that I don't have to explain.)

The American South has it's moments. In my southern experience, I've seen some things eaten that shocked me and a lot of red necks. But in no way is it any worse than in the North and/or Europe.

As for Delaware...

The point is that we both could learn things from each other. Southern Delaware could use some tips from The North on how to spice up it's night life a little bit.

Northern Delaware could use a few lessons from the South on providing clean, mid-level family restaurants with hot food and good friendly service that are not meeting places for prostitutes and "Johns" or hang-outs for teen-age wanna-be thugz and gang members.

Be careful, Blue States (and Blue County), of who you model your self after, who you pit yourself against, and who you "mis-underestimate".

Let's leave the stereotypes on the football field and argue politics in "the arena of ideas".

More Delaware GOP recap ...

2004-11-11T06:34:00.000-05:00

I have posted some links on the right side of this blog. There are General Political links and there are Delaware Politics links.

One of the better places for Delaware political news is Delaware Grapevine.

Here is a snippet from an article wrapping up the 2004 Delaware elections.

DELAWARE GOES DECIDEDLY DEMOCRATIC
By Celia Cohen
Grapevine Political Writer

...The election was especially painful for the Republicans because of the defeat of an exceptional class of next-generation recruits including James P. Ursomarso for lieutenant governor, Christopher J. Castagno for New Castle County executive, Ernesto B. Lopez for New Castle County Council president and Paul J. Pomeroy for a Newark legislative seat.

Those Republican losses are all but certain to accelerate Delaware's increasingly Democratic tendencies, particularly because the future appears there for the taking for a corps of up-and-coming Democrats, including Carney, Coons, Denn, state Treasurer Jack A. Markell and Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III, the senator's son who would surprise no one if he were on the ballot in 2006.

"I am just very proud that Delaware has again decided that the Democratic ticket is a ticket of their future," U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. said....

Read the whole article.

Smokin'

2004-11-11T04:18:00.000-05:00

Election Maps for Hippies

2004-11-11T04:08:00.000-05:00

I saw this on Liberal Wonkette.

Click the image for an explanation.

No matter how you bend the country, Delaware still remains small.

BBC Knowingly Spreads Arab Propaganda

2004-11-11T03:45:00.000-05:00

The BBC lies from Little Green Footballs

A see-saw

2004-11-11T03:04:00.000-05:00

Pick your poison:

The Cooling World - 1975

The Globe is Warming - 1998

Arctic sea ice not melting: new research
- 2001

Report: Arctic sea ice, glaciers melting rapidly - 2004

Color her RED ...

2004-11-10T23:06:00.000-05:00

PEST

2004-11-10T22:47:00.000-05:00

To succeed in Capitalism (and life), one must not give up along the way when failure strikes - and it WILL strike. Multiple times.

... and then there are these people:

Dozens more Kerry supporters flock to Florida therapists

American Health Association reacts with free ‘post-election selection trauma’ counseling

Published Wednesday, November 10, 2004
by Sean Salai

More shocked John Kerry supporters on Wednesday sought psychological help with “post-election selection trauma” in South Florida, prompting the American Health Association to officially release symptoms of the disorder and open its doors for free counseling.

“When someone commits suicide in New York and Kerry’s loss is even slightly connected, it’s serious,” Rob Gordon, executive director of the AHA, told the Boca Raton News. “There’s a lot of older Democrats here and they outnumber Republicans and you don’t want an epidemic of suicides with the elderly. So our counseling center is now open free to those with post-election selection depression, PEST, who need to exorcise their demons.”

According to Gordon, the Boca-based AHA has formally defined the symptoms of PEST and will offer the free sessions through the end of the year. He said approximately 30 people had contacted AHA for psychological counseling since Kerry conceded the presidential race to President Bush on Nov. 3.

Gordon said symptoms of the trauma are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder and include loss of appetite, sleeplessness, nightmares and pervasive moodiness.

At the bottom of the article are the symptoms of "Post-Election Selection Syndrome (PEST)", which I have posted here as a public service:

Symptoms of Post-Election Selection Syndrome (PEST)

According to Florida mental health professionals, the following symptoms have been identified in John Kerry voters since Nov. 3 and are signs that one should seek help from a licensed mental health clinician. Although therapists report that patients so far have uniformly identified themselves as Kerry supporters upset over their candidate’s concession, they urge that the trauma is not necessarily unique to Democrats.

Feelings of withdrawal

Feelings of isolation

Emotional anger and bitterness

Loss of appetite

Sleeplessness

Nightmares

Pervasive moodiness, including endless sulking

Excessively worried about the direction of the country.

Source: American Health Association exclusive to Boca News.

A Man's Man...

2004-11-10T20:50:00.000-05:00

This is Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845). Andrew Jackson helped found the modern Democratic party when he won the presidency vs. Massachusetts' own John Quincy Adams in 1828.

Jackson was born in the backwoods of the Carolinas, and was a Major General in command of the forces that defeated The British near New Orleans in the war of 1812.

Jackson was a man's man - one could think of him as a combination of Dale Earnhardt, George Washington, and Zell Miller rolled up in one.

It would be hard for Jackson to recognize his party today. Once a party in touch with the common man, the Democratic Party it is now a home for hippies, socialists, metrosexuals, race-baiters, anti-Semites, anti-Christians, and the pompous rich elite.

There was a great article in the Washington Times today by Tony Blankley that covered the new phenom of Blue State secession and it's relationship to that election of 1828.

Here's some of it:

...I couldn't help thinking of the founding election of the modern Democratic Party — the election of 1828, when Gen. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee defeated John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts by 139,000 votes out of 1.1 million cast.
     That election, which defined the Democratic Party that we have known for almost two centuries, has been called the first triumph of the common man in American politics. It pitted the moneyed interests of the Northeast against the farmers and working free laborers of the South and West. It was the first election in which almost all of the states (22 of 24) used direct popular election rather than state legislatures to elect the presidential electors.
     It was capped with a raucous inaugural celebration during which "rustic" common people shocked Washington society as they wandered through the White House celebrating, drinking and shaking President Andy Jackson's hand. And so started a bond between the Democratic Party and the typical working American that lasted 176 years — until last Tuesday.
     It's not that the Democrats lost an election, obviously both parties have lost numerous elections. But never before in my memory — which goes back faintly to 1956 — has either party in its loss reacted with such venomous contempt for the American people.

The Democrats lost touch when they embraced SOCIALISM. What started innocently here in America in the 1930's with Roosevelt's "New Deal" has grown into full socialist promotion and implementation by the Democratic Party. For all of it's talk of the "worker" and the "common man", socialism has always been a tool of spoiled young rich kids too lazy to get a real job and too guilty about it to sit around and do nothing.

Socialism is the exact opposite of freedom and liberty. Socialism takes control out of the hands of the citizens and gives it to the government. Socialism takes away individual liberty in the name of The Common Good. To embrace socialism, then, is to make enemies with freedom and liberty, and consequentially, the American way of life.

When one understands this, it is then easy to see why the Blue State liberals have so much hate for our country and are constantly rooting for it's defeat.

Zell Miller saw the same thing ...

A clip from Zell Miller's speech at the RNC last September:

But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution.

They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy.

It is not their patriotism — it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking. They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace.

They were wrong.

They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war.

They were wrong.

And, no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.

Together, Kennedy/Kerry have opposed the very weapons system that won the Cold War and that is now winning the War on Terror.

Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security but Americans need to know the facts.

The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq.

The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadifi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.

The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11.

I could go on and on and on: against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile; against, against, against.

This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?

U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric.

Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations.

Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending.

I want Bush to decide.

Thomas Sowell

2004-11-10T13:22:00.000-05:00

One of my favorite Conservative writers is Thomas Sowell. Here is a link to an archive of his articles on Townhall dot com.

You will find deep and complex writing that is clear and easy for the reader to digest.

Particularly good are his "Random Thoughts on a Passing Scene" series of articles.

Judge for yourself.

Thomas Sowell Townhall.com archive

"We are all orange together..."

2004-11-10T11:05:00.000-05:00

When the pursuit of knowledge is pushed aside for the pursuit of multiculturalism and diversity, this is the result:

Lil' Kim to talk to Syracuse University class

Lil' Kim to talk to Syracuse University class

Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Posted: 12:57 PM EST (1757 GMT)

SYRACUSE, New York (AP) -- Syracuse University students taking "Hip-Hop Eshu: Queen B@#$H101 -- The Life and Times of Lil' Kim" will have a guest speaker Wednesday -- the multiplatinum recording artist herself.

Kim accepted an invitation to speak to the class, which is an accredited course being taught by English professor Greg Thomas. She'll also meet with faculty and about 100 other invited students during her visit to discuss her role in the hip-hop culture and her experiences as one of its leading female stars.

"I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community," the 29-year-old rapper said in a statement.

The class is one of a growing number of courses being offered by colleges and universities around the country that look at the growth of hip-hop as a cultural movement.

The Syracuse course requires students to read Kim's song lyrics as literary texts and analyze her iconography in videos and performances, according to the course description....

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Race is a touchy subject, but I don't mind talking about it. You see, as a White Conservative Republican Male, Liberals brand me as an evil sexist racist bigot no matter what I say. So, I really have nothing to lose.

The great thing about achieving diversity is that it's easy. It doesn't take any real work.

You see, skin color and gender are not accomplishments. One's skin color and/or gender are not things that we work towards or are things that require any effort to achieve. We are born a certain race and a certain gender.

Diversity is just a collection of race and gender. Although it is fair to say that diversity can be collectively achieved, since it's components are, again, just race and gender, it does not require any real effort (just a ratio and some racism.)

I know this sounds obvious, but google search the word DIVERSITY and you will see the industry and attention that the quest for diversity has created.

Colleges and universities are the most interested in diversity. They DO see race as an accomplishment. And that's how we get to Lil' Kim and other absurd classes. You see, our intellectual elite believe that there needs to be a perfect mixture of race and gender in a student body before the absorption of knowledge can begin. All culture - no matter how absurd - must be included and given equal coverage.

The problem is that so much time is spent on promoting and "achieving" diversity that no one ever actually gets around to the "learning of knowledge" part of the process. Colleges and universities now seem to stop at the diversity phase and declare victory. This has happened so frequently in so many schools that diversity has now replaced the role that knowledge once held. Diversity is now the goal to be accomplished.

Why has this happened? Did schools just get so wrapped up in diversity that they forgot about the teaching part? Maybe it's just easier for them this way - remember, teaching is hard. Teaching DOES require effort.

Also, you can accept a lot more students when success in college takes no effort. More students means more money.

By the way, there is also the issue of Diversity of Thought on campus, but that is a subject for another day.

P.S.

Syracuse University's mascot was, for many years, "The Orangemen", but the "men" part was too "gender specific". Now they are just The Orange

from their athletic site:

...“To clarify one of things that is part of this process. We are going to refer to ourselves as “The Orange.” That does not preclude us being represented in print as Orange men or Orange women. It is no longer Orangemen or Orangewomen. I also want to make sure that everyone knows that we are all orange together. We will encourage more orange in the Carrier Dome, so that we can in fact be orange together.”...

- Athletics Director Jake Crouthamel

Just trying to fit in...

2004-11-10T08:58:00.000-05:00

get this ...

American student charged with aiding terror group

Official: Youth 'was looking for some attention'

From Jeanne Meserve
Tuesday, November 9, 2004 Posted: 7:32 PM EST (0032 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An American college student has been arrested and charged with providing material support to a Somali group that has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

U.S. authorities allege that Mark Robert Walker, 18, told a federal law enforcement agent that he wanted to travel to Somalia to fight for an Islamic government, and that he was planning to buy and send night-vision goggles and bulletproof vests to fighters for the group Ittihad Al Islamiya.

One U.S. government official described Walker, whose home address is in Rochester, New York, as a "kid that was kind of lost and was looking for some attention." The official added, "there is no indication that he is affiliated with any terrorist group," but that he wanted to join the cause....

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Being "lost and looking for some attention" does not usually involve fighting for Islamic governments and shipments of weapons and night vision goggles to Islamic terrorists.

Am I wrong there?

Just whose attention was Mr. Walker trying to get? What kind of crowd was he trying to fit in with? And where did he learn about "the cause"?

Maybe he should transfer to San Francisco Sate University ...

Entrenched Ferocious Capitalism

2004-11-10T07:27:00.000-05:00

The story below is a perfect example of extreme left-wing fanatics supporting America's enemies.

Lawyer Facing Terror Charge Cites Need for Violence

By Michelle Garcia
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, November 9, 2004; Page A08

A New York lawyer facing charges of supporting terrorism told a federal jury that she viewed violence as essential to dismantling institutions that perpetuate "sexism and racism."

As a federal prosecutor questioned her statements and support for a "people's revolution," Lynne Stewart, 65, testified that her lifelong philosophy included fighting "entrenched ferocious capitalism that is in this country today."

"I believe that entrenched institutions will not be changed except by violence," Stewart said. "I believe in the politics that lead to violence being exerted by people on their own behalf to effectuate change."

Stewart cited the American Revolution and the struggle to end slavery as such examples but emphasized that she did not support terrorism, saying, "I do not believe in civilian deaths or wanton massacres."...

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As you can see, the enemy is "entrenched ferocious capitalism".

With a quick google search, one can also find out that Ms. Stewart was offered a visiting mentorship position at Stanford University in California as "the David W. Mills Public Interest Mentor", but that offer was rescinded after complaints.

...On Nov. 8, Sullivan released a statement saying that she made the decision to revoke Stewart’s title after it had “come to [her] attention that Ms. Stewart has expressed sympathy for and tacit endorsement of the use of directed violence to achieve social change.” In the statement, Sullivan said she had decided it was “not appropriate” to make Stewart a David W. Mills Public Interest Mentor.

Students supportive of Sullivan’s decision have argued that it is unfitting for a law school to confer an official position upon any attorney who has advocated circumventing the rule of law to achieve societal change, or in Stewart’s case, endorsing violence instead of democratic legal processes. Student opposition to Stewart has drawn upon a 1995 New York Times article that quoted her as saying, “I don’t believe in anarchist violence but in directed violence. That would be violence directed at the institutions which perpetuate capitalism, racism and sexism, and at the people who are the appointed guardians of those institutions, and accompanied by popular support.”...

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Of course, many did complain about the decision:

...However, those angered by the decision have claimed that Stewart’s political views are separate from her record as a lawyer and that denying her the right to formally mentor at Stanford is victimizing her for exercising her right to free speech and borders on censorship.

“I don’t agree with her views on political violence — I haven’t met a student who does,” said Shahid Buttar, a third-year law student. “But this is about her right to speak. Her views about violence had nothing to do with her invitation. She was not invited to speak about her views; she was invited to speak about her job.”...

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1st State Pundit's question: if "it is unfitting for a law school to confer an official position upon any attorney who has advocated circumventing the rule of law to achieve societal change, or in Stewart’s case, endorsing violence instead of democratic legal processes", then why would anyone still argue in favor of this woman? What use is an advocate of breaking the law to a law school?

The answer is clear:
Some Stanford students and faculty see Stanford Law School not as a place to teach law, but as a place to rally and produce advocates of extreme left-wing causes.

Anti-American revolutions and the destruction of capitalism - sounds paranoid and McCarthyesque coming from me, but it sounds pretty real coming out of Ms. Stewart's mouth.

Now ask yourself, what do you think this woman would have taught to fresh young minds attending Stanford?

Politics via Emotion

2004-11-09T23:56:00.001-05:00

The problem of "politics by emotion" is that you really crash and burn if you lose.

Traumatized Kerry supporters in Florida seek therapy: report

Tue Nov 9,10:50 AM ET

MIAMI (AFP) - Shocked supporters of defeated US presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) are seeking help from psychologists, who refer to their condition as "post-election selection trauma," it was reported.

The Boca Raton News said Palm Beach, Florida trauma specialist Douglas Schooler alone has already treated 15 clients and friends with intense hypnotherapy since the Democratic candidate conceded on November 3.

"I had one friend tell me he's never been so depressed and angry in his life," Schooler said. "I observed patients threatening to leave the country or staring listlessly into space. They were emotionally paralyzed, shocked and devastated," he told the daily.

"We're calling it 'post-election selection trauma' and we're working to develop a counseling program for it," said Rob Gordon, the Boca Raton-based executive director of the American Health Association.

"It's like post-traumatic stress syndrome, but it's a short-term shock rather than a childhood trauma," he told the daily...

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"I'm secular, but, uh, I support Hamas..."

2004-11-09T22:35:00.000-05:00

Here is a chunk of a great article by liberal Chris Hitchens from the very liberal Slate.com called Bush's Secularist Triumph emphasis mine

...So here is what I want to say on the absolutely crucial matter of secularism. Only one faction in American politics has found itself able to make excuses for the kind of religious fanaticism that immediately menaces us in the here and now. And that faction, I am sorry and furious to say, is the left. From the first day of the immolation of the World Trade Center, right down to the present moment, a gallery of pseudointellectuals has been willing to represent the worst face of Islam as the voice of the oppressed. How can these people bear to reread their own propaganda? Suicide murderers in Palestine—disowned and denounced by the new leader of the PLO—described as the victims of "despair." The forces of al-Qaida and the Taliban represented as misguided spokespeople for antiglobalization. The blood-maddened thugs in Iraq, who would rather bring down the roof on a suffering people than allow them to vote, pictured prettily as "insurgents" or even, by Michael Moore, as the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers. If this is liberal secularism, I'll take a modest, God-fearing, deer-hunting Baptist from Kentucky every time, as long as he didn't want to impose his principles on me (which our Constitution forbids him to do)...

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There are many young adults in our country who have problems with religion (many learn it in College). This has been highlighted in the wake of the election.

Why, though, as a reaction to this doubt or hatred of religion do they become socialists and anarchists? Why is it that these same socialists and anarchists - who mock and shun religion here in the United States - support Hamas, the PLO, and all other terrorist organizations?
The answer is obvious - the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Anti-American groups have preyed upon the strong emotions of our youth's doubts and misgivings about religion to convert them to their cause - their far Left cause. That's what demagogues do - they fuel one's strong emotions with the hope that this will drown out one's logic and reasoning.

How else do you explain ardent secularists supporting the most religiously fanatical organizations ever to exist?

You can only explain it if you don't call them secularists anymore.

Wake up rebellious youth of this country, you are being used by socialists and communists.

Health Care! Jobs!

2004-11-09T07:49:00.000-05:00

If you have not heard, there is a growing interest in Canadian Immigration after the election. 1st State Pundit does not think this interest will bring about any serious exodus of Liberals to Canada, but it does give me the chance to discuss why liberals would be interested in Canada at all.

Canada is a socialist country, and there are two things that socialists have been clamoring for since the conception of The Revolution - Jobs and Health Care (sound familiar?).

Let's talk about health care.

From the way U.S. health care is presented in the left-wing media, it may seem to many liberals that our health care system is oppressive and cold hearted, and Canada's socialized system is caring and comprehensive. This is what is commonly referred to as dem·a·go·ging.
Any new liberal immigrants to Canada would soon find out, however, that while they do have free health coverage, they do not actually have the health care.

Take this article from last May:

Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Back
The Halifax Herald Limited

Medical mistakes Disturbing

Report links thousands of deaths to errors; chronic underfunding blamed

By BARRY DOREY / Staff Reporter

A study that found one in every 13 Canadians admitted to hospital experienced an "adverse event" during treatment is "disturbing," says a Nova Scotia health-care advocate.

But Ian Johnson said the numbers - an estimated 9,250 to 23,750 deaths in Canada a year linked to medical errors - are not completely surprising, given "years of chronic underfunding or understaffing."

The two-year survey looked at 3,745 randomly selected patient records from 20 hospitals in five provinces, including Nova Scotia.

It found one in 13, or 7.5 per cent, of patients who received care in hospitals suffered an adverse event in 2000 - and 37 per cent of those were preventable.

Adverse events ranged from an abdominal aneurysm that was diagnosed as kidney stones (the patient died) to a missed but obvious case of uterine cancer. Smaller mistakes that led to no injury or extended hospital stay were also logged.

Authors Ross Baker, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Peter Norton, a patient safety expert at the University of Calgary, cautioned that a causal link can't always be drawn between the adverse events and the deaths.

"We're saying the adverse events were preventable, and in some cases, they led to death," Mr. Baker said at a news conference last week.

"We're not trying to avoid the issue that a number of people - probably larger than most people think - die in Canadian hospitals and that they also experience adverse events."

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note: this link has been taken down, I'm glad I saved the story

A 1 in 13 chance of an adverse event?!?!?!?!?!?

Here are more links to stories about socialized medicine. Arm yourself with knowledge and defeat your liberal friends and family on this topic.

Swedish PM to wait in line for hip operation

Dear America…
by Klaus Rohrich

If Canada's never sounded so good, this one's for you. Unpack the bag: Country is not all it's cracked up to be
By ALEX BEAM

Brainwashing 101

2004-11-09T04:05:00.000-05:00

Some of you know that I have been working on a documentary project with Evan Coyne Maloney of Brain-Terminal.com

You can find information on the project as well as a 45 minute version of the film here

Liberal or Conservative, I think you will find the film compelling.

Turn Delaware Red

2004-11-08T23:11:00.000-05:00

Welcome to Red Hen Blog.

If you have not seen them yet, here are the county by county results for the 2004 presidential race:

USA TODAY county by county map electorial map

Republicans have certainly painted the country red, but Delaware remained as Blue as it's Hens:

Presidential Results - By County DELAWARE

County / Total Precincts / Bush / Kerry / Nader

New Castle / 305 / 92,973 / 145,935 / 1,335

Kent / 66 / 31,555 / 23,854 / 362

Sussex / 64 / 47,003 / 30,098 / 454

Bush won Kent and Sussex Counties, and did better overall in Delaware this time than in 2000 (vs. Gore): a gain of +2.6 points, but still not a win

Here are this year's local election results for Delaware http://www.state.de.us/election/results/election.html

All I'll say here is not too strong for Republicans.

Conclusion - Delaware is a Democratic state right now.

I was born in Delaware, and I believe that this state is filled with good people. It is hard for me to believe that Delaware is filled with Socialists and far-out Left Wing disciples. And believe me, that is who the Democratic party represents in 2004. It's not my Grandfather's Democratic Party; it is now the party of Karl Marx.

Delaware is ripe for change.

It is small enough for quick progress but "big" enough to leave it's mark on the country.

There is a demographic shift to the lower more conservative counties where the support of a conservative community can build Republican confidence and momentum.

President Bush's 2nd term agenda for reform of social security, employee health care, and the federal tax code could help release the death grip that The Democratic Party has had on the union vote (I have always found it bizarre that good union family men and women vote with Marxist-Leninists, hippies, drug addicts, and anti-American socialists).

There are many growing movements against left-wing indoctrination and demagoguing in our schools, both at the primary, secondary, and collegiate levels. Anti-American socialists no longer have free reign to teach our children to hate their own country. The 1960's mantra of "The Bible is evil, read The Communist Manifesto instead" is no longer accepted. And where the problems of teacher promoted left-wing indoctrination can not be solved, Delawareans are instead choosing to send their children to alternate schools where moral knowledge is again taught along side intellectual knowledge.

Black Delawareans 20% and other minority Delawareans are starting to reject the welfare state that has been pushed on them over the last 40 years by Liberal Elite, and could tip the scales in favor of the Republicans.
There is a national movement for Black Americans to rally around the now ailing institution of the black family. This institution was historically so strong that it persevered through 500 years of slavery, oppression, segregation, and racism - only to succumb to the urban socialism of the 1960's.
Black Americans are also starting to reject the Democratic party's promotion of abortion rights and planned parenthood - promotion that has translated into about 15,000,000 (that's million) aborted Black American pregnancies since Roe vs. Wade. In a Black American population (about 13.5% of the U.S. pop ) of only about 44,000,000, this means that 1 out of every 4 black Americans that should be here today has been aborted.

Finally, there is a new generation coming of age that is up to the task laid before us in these important times. It is my generation - Generation X - that is choosing to reject the moral and social destruction of the Baby Boomer Generation. There is a new population of 20 and 30 somethings in Delaware and across the land that desires not to break down the traditions and institutions of our great country, but to pick up where our grandparents - The Greatest Generation - left off. It is a feeling of optimism, responsibility, and destiny. It is a powerful spirit and well rooted in our hearts and minds, for it found it's way to us in spite of, and instead of, our unfortunate liberal academic indoctrination. We are Young Conservatives that have traveled long and rocky roads to get where we are today.

So, join me, read the blog, and let's turn Delaware red!