Sunday, 11 July 2010
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The Sunday Best................
I am pronounced "guilty" of "talking down to my betters", real or imagined, ... , by my betters, real or imagined, of the "blogosphere" ...
The Selective Modesty of Barack Obama
Protesters blast Arizona's governor at Boston meeting
If reporters did their jobs
What happened to the guns belonging to Bibi's guards?
Random Acts of Entertainment
So... A Lame Duck Congress...?
Californians bare bottoms for passing trains
London Underground’s “secret” tube station
Ten of the greatest: Aerial engagements
Sssh! You're looking at Britain's £800m supercar secret weapon
Spy swap Russians 'staying in hotel on outskirts of London'
BP oil spill: the Red Adair of relief well drilling says 'no doubt about successful outcome'
Turkey goes cool on joining the European Union as it falls for the lure of the East
Free speech in Barack Obama's America: Whatever you say, say nothing
Keeping sane in Sangin: life and death in Afghanistan's most perilous military posting
British Cannonball Run drivers arrested for speeding during rally in France
Queen's visit to Canada a royal success story
Copying the NHS is the last thing the US should do
Spitfires take to the sky to mark Battle of Britain's 70th anniversary
Amazing.............
In a field near York, this maze was built to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain
H/T Paul A
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More Lego Blogging!
An update to my previous Lego entry. Turn down the volume a bit, but it's something else, other than that:
Cross-posted from American Power.Saturday, 10 July 2010
The Destructive Power of Hate Speech Censorship
Some might remember the complaints against my political science campus bulletin board. I was forced to remove a Chuck DeVore "Bounce Boxer" bumper sticker because posting it apparently violated obscure Ed Code rules for non-political advocacy on public displays, a rule that had never been enforced during my entire ten-year tenure at LBCC. I had the bumper sticker in the upper corner of this picture at top. I've since created a full-blown politically incorrect bulletin board that I hopes pisses off the PC ayatollahs who filed the complaint. Since then as well, I filed an equal protection claim against the college alleging that the administration employs a double standard whereby left-wing advocacy, indoctrination, and political speech is not just defended/supported but actively promoted in the classrooms and in publicly-funded events. The subsequent investigation got so testy that Human Resources hired an outside investigator to prepare a civil rights report for the district's attorneys. While all of this was going on, I received another complaint against the bulletin board --- and to stress the point, this was while the initial complaint against a political bumper sticker had devolved into a full blown investigation of my college's Business and Social Science Division --- alleging that this Bosch Fawstin cartoon below should be taken down from my new board because it was "hate speech":
So folks can probably understand why I'm especially disturbed by reports of campus enforcement of hate speech codes around the country. For example, here's this at Fox News, "University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs." It turns out that Professor Ken Howell has been fired from the university's Department of Religion for including his personal views on the morality of homosexuality as part of his courses on Catholicism. Howell's biographical page is still available at the university's website. It notes there that:
Kenneth J. Howell is Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies. He concentrates in the history, philosophy, and theology of Catholicism. He has taught at universities in Indiana and Mississippi prior to his appointment at UIUC. He is concurrently Director and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Catholic Thought. He has published four books on religion including an extensive study of science and religion in the Scientific Revolution.It's obvious that Professor Howell is eminently qualified to discuss the religious morality of homosexuality, and why in fact should it be surprising that questions of this nature would arise in classes on the Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought? The man was doing his job. The Champaign News-Gazette has a story as well, where Professor Howell is interviewed:
Howell said he disagrees with the idea that a professor must present lessons without even hinting at his own beliefs on a subject.I highlighted that last sentence. I don't know if it's simply the creeping invidiousness of political correctness on campus, or if things have gotten worse during the Obama interregnum, but the heightened intensity of the anti-intellectualism in academe today is certainly a warning sign for conservatives to redouble their efforts.
"It doesn't seem to me to be particularly honest or fair to a student. If you believe something, you can tell the student that," he said. "Where it becomes problematic is if it becomes injurious to a student by penalizing them for their beliefs. I always tried to be fair and honest and upfront with my students, and engage them on questions of human reason."
In his e-mail to students, Howell wrote: "All I ask as your teacher is that you approach these questions as a thinking adult. That implies questioning what you have heard around you. Unless you have done extensive research into homosexuality and are cognizant of the history of moral thought, you are not ready to make judgments about moral truth in this matter. All I encourage is to make informed decisions."
Howell said he's often had students who disagree with him, but "that's always been done with courtesy and respect on both our parts. This semester the students were the most negative and vociferous and critical that I've ever seen."
Warner Todd Huston writes on this at Right Wing News:
So much for schools that foster intellectual exploration and truth.And just remember, "There Is No Such Thing as ‘Hate Speech’."
But that is the left-wing educational system we've been saddled with since the turn of the last century, isn't it? Only atheism, socialism, leftism, communism, anti-Americanism, feminism, homoerotica and a fascistic quashing of free speech… only these are acceptable doctrines for our schools to disseminate, of course.
That fact makes all of this even more reprehensible.
Also Blogging: Neptunus Lex and Weasel Zippers (via Memeorandum).
Cartoon Credit: Bosch Fawstin.
Cross-posted from American Power.
SUCCESS AT LAST . . . . AND VICTORY
STORMBRINGER survives and prevails . . . a particularly nasty attack
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Just say NO...........from Rico
They never stop. Never relent, those bloody-damned "Chablis Communists!"
We have a chance, simultaneously a 'slim' chance and a BIG chance to "just say NO" to our elected tormenters and "throw the bum's out" (on their bums OR heads I care not, as long as it is OUT)!!!
If you're "in" you're "out"...strikes fear into the hearts of those who continue to accomplish NOTHING, except to "pass the beano" among themselves.
If Gen, McChrystal's "no confidence" vote didn't wake them up, perhaps a national "no confidence" vote will. Failing that, well, there is STILL Amendment II.................
Friday, 9 July 2010
Massive Rioting Follows Oscar Grant Verdict in Oakland
See the full report: "Riots in Oakland After Oscar Grant Verdict: 'Many Bent on Destruction No Matter What'."
And as always, more great breaking news at American Power.
History's top 10 times for appropriate use of the F-word.............
10th - "Scattered f***ing showers, my ass!" - Noah, 4314 BC
9th - "How the f*** did you work that out?" -Pythagoras, 126 BC
8th - "You want WHAT on the f***ing ceiling? Michelangelo 1566
7th - "Where did all those f***ing Indians come from?" - Custer, 1877
6th - "It does so f***ing look like her!" - Picasso, 1926
5th - "Where the f*** are we?" - Amelia Earhart, 1937
4th - "Any f***ing idiot could understand that." - Einstein, 1938
3rd - "What the f*** was that?" - Mayor Of Hiroshima , 1945
2nd - "I need this parade like I need a f***ing hole in the head!" - JFK,1963
And ... drum roll
The number 1 most appropriate time for using the "F" word ...
"Aw c'mon. Who the f*** is going to find out?" - Tiger Woods, 2009
H/T DML
News...........
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, July 8
Gutless Ontario AG Files Charges After Salman Hossain Skips The Country! ... Too Afraid to Offend Islamists
Lawyer Who Defended 'American Taliban' Now Heads DOJ Suit Against Arizona
What Kelo Hath Wraught: SCOTUS rejects Highlands Act appeal and "just compensation"
NORFOLK TOOLS DATE BACK TO 1938
With a Lib Dem shaping military strategy we should fear the worst
CNN fires editor over support for Hizbollah founder
Three al-Qaeda suspects arrested in Norway over bomb plot
US to buy Russian helicopters for Afghan air force
UN Security Council to condemn South Korean warship attack
Obama vs. Arizona: The President is fighting a reckless war that will backfire politically
Russian sub 'could stop oil leak'
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If you thought the 'Greek Thing' was fun...
Does anyone 'remember' the Greek Tragedy that consumed the media and FTV talking heads not that long ago?
- BTW, they WILL default. There is NO WAY they can repay all the debt they've piled-on.
Just compare Japan and the US to Greece in these charts.
- And you thought the 'Greek Thing' was fun, huh?
It is not just Anna Chapman asking "how big is it?" ....but many of us productive taxpayers, too. We're asking just how BIG is the sovereign debt problem. No one seems to be 'talking' about that now.
- It's BIG, if you wondered, and not talking about it will not make it go away for real...only in the vapid minds of politicians and the media will it 'go away' (and even then, only until after the next election).
The proverbial 'fat lady' isn't yet singing, but a Greek Chorus of 'fat ladies' is warming up for the final act.
- It will be a tragedy.
Thursday, 8 July 2010
On Paper: From Glenn Greenwald to Adolf Eichmann
Mike at Cold Fury says Benjamin Kerstein's withering essay on left-wing extremist blogger Gleen Greenwald is "as good a takedown of this malignant swine I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen quite a few."
Actually, I was thinking precisely the same thing. Terrorism on paper. At the full entry: "The Definitive Glenn Greenwald Takedown."
And of course, get all of your neocon hotness at American Power.
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