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University to students: 'All whites are racist'
Mandatory program 'treats' politically incorrect attitudes
A mandatory http://www.udel.edu/preside... target="_blank">University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group.
"Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of conscience – the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental intrusion. It also protects the right to be free from compelled speech," said a letter from Samantha Harris, director of legal and public advocacy for The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to university President Patrick Harker.
The organization cited excerpts from the university's Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents, including the statement:
"A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. 'The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination….'"
The education program also notes that "reverse racism" is "a term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege." And "a non-racist" is called "a non-term," because, the program explains, "The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift the responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called 'blaming the victim')."
The "education" regarding racism is just one of the subjects that students are required to adopt as part of their University of Delaware experience, too, FIRE noted.
The "shocking program of ideological reeducation," which the school itself defines as a "treatment" for students' incorrect attitudes and beliefs, is nothing less than "Orwellian," FIRE said.
The school requires its approximately 7,000 residence hall students "to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy and environmentalism."
"FIRE is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students' rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech," the organization said.
On a foundation blog, a student noted that one residence assistant told students, "Not to scare anyone or anything, but these are MANDATORY!!" And the training program for those who indoctrinate students includes the order: "A researcher must document that the treatment/intervention was faithfully applied (ex: specific lesson plans were delivered to every student, etc.)."
Further, the school requires "a systemic change" as a result of the program, FIRE noted. As one RA told students: "Like it or not, you all are the future Leaders, and the world is Diverse, so learning to Embrace and Appreciate that diversity is ESSENTIAL."
"The University of Delaware's residence life education program is a grave intrusion into students' private beliefs," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "The university has decided that it is not enough to expose its students to the values it considers important; instead, it must coerce its students into accepting those values as their own. At a public university like Delaware, this is both unconscionable and unconstitutional."
According to university materials, RAs are instructed to ask students during one-on-one sessions questions such as: "When did you discover your sexual identity?" "When were you first made aware of your race?" and "Who taught you a lesson in regard to some sort of diversity awarness? What was the lesson?"
"Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA's 'worst' one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having 'diversity shoved down her throat,'" FIRE said.
This particular student responded to the question, "When did you discover your sexual identity?" with the terse: "That is none of your damn business," FIRE said.
Requirements for students include: "Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society," "Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression," and "Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality," FIRE said.
The foundation said students even are "pressured or even required" to make social statements that meet with the school's approval.
"The fact that the university views its students as patients in need of treatment for some sort of moral sickness betrays a total lack of respect not only for students' basic rights, but for students themselves," Lukianoff said. "The University of Delaware has both a legal and a moral obligation to immediately dismantle this program, and FIRE will not rest until it has."
A spokesman for the school, contacted by WND, said he was not ready to make a statement about the situation right away.
But the foundation's letter to Harker noted, "we have never encountered a more systematic assault upon the individual liberty, dignity, privacy, and autonomy of university students than this program," which "requires students to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues."
"Such utter contempt for the autonomy and free agency of others is the hallmark of totalitarianism and has no place in any free society, let alone at a public university in the state of Delaware," the letter said.
Especially alarming, Harris told WND, is that the school defines learning specifically as "attitudinal or behavioral changes," not acquiring any sort of knowledge and ability.
Such thinking "represents a distorted idea of 'education' that one would more easily associate with a Soviet prison camp than with an American institution of higher education," FIRE said. "As another example, after an investigation showed that males demonstrated 'a higher degree of resistance to educational efforts,' the Rodney complex chose to hire 'strong male RAs.' Each such RA 'combats male residents' concepts of traditional male identity,' in order to 'ensure the delivery of the curriculum at the same level as in the female floors.' This language is disturbingly reminiscent of a pivotal scene from George Orwell's '1984,' in which the protagonist's captors tell him that 'The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.'"
No small danger, FIRE noted, is being presented to the university through such apparent constitutional violations. "Simply put, the residence life education program is a legal minefield," the group said.
One student reacted to the indoctrination with rebellion. On the FIRE blog, he wrote:
"Take the issue of homosexuality, and the rights that should or should not be associated with it. As a Christian, I believe that the Bible says homosexuality is wrong, and is a sin against God. As such, I cannot accept it as a legitimate lifestyle. While I accept homosexuals as people, I do not accept their choice as right, and subsequently I do not think that homosexual couples should be given marital rights. I accept that others do not hold the same views as me. But it is wrong that under the Residence Life curriculum and school mandated curriculum that I should made to feel guilty for my views. … It is not the school's right to try to convince me to embrace the values that Residence Life has chosen. Essentially, if I do not change my views, I will be labeled by my RA as not embracing diversity, and not accepting of certain groups, and thus my RA will try all the harder to change me. This is not the school's job, or right."
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Since I retired from the CIA in late 1995, I have concentrated on studying Islam and terrorism from open sources, or OSINT (Open Source Intelligent). I receive about 1600 emails a day from around the world, containing articles and commentary on politics, war, intelligence and terrorism. As a result of my personal work I would disseminate 50-100 pertinent articles, sometimes with comments, to others who shared my interest in learning about terrorism. Over the years I gradually built up a readership of some 10,000 or so people who would receive my emails. Whenever I met people with an interest in terrorism, or provided training, I would always offer to add anyone to my email list who wished.
While in NY, I continued this practice with New York Police Department officers, including an Egyptian Muslim who asked to receive my emails. Naturally, since we are dealing with Islamic terrorism, most of the articles were critical examinations of Islam and terrorism. Although he requested to be placed on my list, and never asked to be removed, the Muslim officer, whose career was not advancing, decided that my emails (and comments) had created a hostile work environment where he could not be promoted and suffered emotional stress, so he brought a suit against the NY Police Department and myself last December to get my anti-Muslim terror work stopped. So far my legal bills have exceeded $65,000 and we have not yet gotten to trial.
FP: Well, we'll get back to your lawsuit in a minute. Let's talk a bit about the terror war. It appears that the West is in a serious dilemma. It thinks it can wage a war against an enemy without naming the enemy. Your thoughts?
Tefft: The "War on Terror" and the use of the terms "Islamofascism" or "radical Islam"are basic examples of faulty nomenclature. One terrorism is a tactic, used by an enemy. One wages war on the enemy, not the tactic. During WWII we did not wage war on the "blitzkrieg" or "kamikaze pilots" -- we fought a war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japanese. We are fighting a 14-century year old war against Islam and its adherents, Muslims. And it is a war that they have declared on all non-Muslims as part of their religious mandate, their ideology, to make the whole world Islamic, under the Caliphate, and to convert, kill or enslave all non-Muslims.
The two main branches of Islam, Sunni and Shi'ite have both, as the initiation of the Third Jihad (Holy War) of the modern Islamic resurgence, have repeatedly declared war against the U.S. and the West -- the Sunni with bin Laden's 1998 Declaration of War and the Shi'ites when Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah and attacked our Embassy (sovereign U.S. territory under international law) in 1979. Ignoring the fact that we are indeed at war with Muslims, and not simply a tactic of war that they use, leaves us vulnerable to infiltration, subversion and other forms of attack and makes it impossible to defeat the enemy.
I remember that OJ would only give interviews with Greta Von Susteren (now of FoxNews but then of CNN) and no one else. There are, of course, reasons for that. That knowledge sets us up for her latest foray into cutting edge newsdome.
She is the worst "teaser" on the air. Worse than any network and yes libs, I realize she's with FoxNews (no need to reprise the hackneyed "FauxNews" either sf and friends....)
I got started blogging with the Scott Peterson case. I was so taken with this beautiful vibrant young couple and especially Lacy. I researched that case and joined a Bay Area Blog (big mistake for someone with my political leanings BTW) because that was who was talking about it. I was obsessed with it to be honest.
So I distictly remember when good ol' Greta was bringing up "appealable" points back then. The jurors themselves, the jurors looking at the boat and "testing" its stability, jurors kicked off, on and on. She finally quit talkin about it when he was convicted but now she has reprised it all.
I guess the Arubian Nights and lost child in Portugal have lost some of their cache'.
So now she is showing the pinheaded juror Justin Falconer who was kicked off the jury for obvious misconduct, the jurors allowed by the Judge to get in the boat and do their own "tests", and the foreman problem among others....... all things she brought up back then.
Greta's ego is so big she won't care if she helpsn get this murderer off on appeal just to show how "smart" she is!
The ratings won't hurt either!
I remember at the time thinking "this ain't gonna be over when that slimy crooked face squaw (sorry) was harping about appealable errors made in this case.
Well, she's got her wish now I guess, Another ratings and ego bonanza for her!
Kucinich had a UFO encounter in Washington state, according to MacLaine
You know, I kind of like Dennis Kucinich -- his heart is in the right place -- but his nutty friends kind of ruin things for his presidential bid.
Case in point: Kucinich's hometown paper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, reports that his pal Shirley MacLaine (you already know where this is going) wrote in her latest book that ...
Kucinich "had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there," the actress, a close Kucinich friend, wrote. "Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him.
"It hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind."
To me, this is no less nutty than some of the descriptions I've heard of people having a big religious experience or halo-infused spiritual awakening. To middle America, though, a UFO encounter will just be too much. Not that Kucinich ever had a prayer anyway.
Suppose yourself to be Lost on a Deserted Island. Which 5 posters on here would you want stranded alongside you to cover your back (Why?......and WHY would THEY want you on the Team?).........
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Another thing--- 5 Books you could not live without and
This one especially : gear costing no more than $500 retail and weighing no more than 50 pounds that would most enhance your chance of survival (includes those Books of course)......
Driving up around Hwy 65 this morning looking for loose stock and listening to Glenn Beck on radio.
Blew me away!
I watched 60 mins last night and was saying the EXACT same thing I was last night!
The indians knew about controlled burns. I've been saying for years that the Forest Service's prevention program for years has set us up to have horrendously hot fires that will burn the big trees that didn't used to burn when the underbrush wasn't so heavy (controlled burns every now and then cleared it out). Them injuns wuz smart!. But they didn't get all the overtime the Forest Service did over the years. They just really cared about the forests. In the right way (not the algorian way).
Now when we have a fire it is horrendously hot and takes out everything! But, of course, good ol' 60 minutes blames it all on "Global Warming"! Who'd a thunk it?
They even found a "hot shot" guy to parrot their opinion! Hell, I know quite a few Hot Shotters and none of 'em I know are blaming Global Warming on the fires! But a bunch of 'em have been sayng for years (like me) that controlled burns were a good thing!
From now on I guess every bad thing that happens will be due to Global Warming. Guess I better get used to it!
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) caused an uproar today when he conjured up the Iraq War during a floor speech before the Democratic Congress's failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program or SCHIP.
It wasn't the fact that he mentioned Iraq but the way he did it. He told Republicans:
"You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
Its over $800K now and it'll be over a mil and he's goin to match it! Haaaaaaaaaa!
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Beth Duckett
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 27, 2007 06:00 PM
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he is not waiting for new Cave Creek laws to take effect before cracking down on the town's mostly undocumented immigrant day laborers.
Sheriff's deputies arrested nine people near a church sanctuary Thursday, just days after Arpaio heralded new town laws expected to trigger a crackdown on the workers when they take effect next month.
“We're not waiting for the 30 days for these ordinances to be implemented,” Arpaio said. “We have received a lot of calls about Cave Creek having drop houses and illegals in the area.”
Up in arms about the arrests is Father Glenn B. Jenks of Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church, 6502 E. Cave Creek Road, which for more than six years been a safe haven for the laborers to find employment.
“They'll just go to another community not as short sighted as this one,” Jenks said. “This may make the sheriff look tough, but it's not in the best interest of the community.”
Touted as safety measures, the Cave Creek Town Council passed two new laws Monday, one toughening the town's ban on loitering and the other outlawing stopping cars on town streets.
Both take effect Oct. 24.
But on Thursday, sheriff's deputies — which act as Cave Creek's police force — arrested workers who were passengers in two vehicles as they exited the church's parking lot. One car was speeding and the other had a broken taillight, Arpaio said.
“The drivers were legal, but the passengers were illegal,” the Sheriff said. “We've been doing this all over the Valley.” Deputies gave the drivers warnings. No citations were issued.
What was once only a climate of fear has flared into panic for workers at the town's day-labor center.
“I can't believe this is happening,” Jenks said. “The attitude is, ‘Let's just sweep the rats into Phoenix and get them out of our town.' ”
Jenks, who called the arrests “counter-productive,” said he expects the dozens of remaining workers to gather somewhere else.
Cave Creek Mayor Vincent Francia, a supporter of the church's efforts, dismissed the sheriff's arrests as “doing what they do everyday,” pulling over people suspected of breaking the law.
“It just has to do with the normal activities they do for us,” Francia said.
Arpaio said Thursday's arrests are just the beginning.
“We're not done yet, and I'm not just talking about Cave Creek,” the sheriff said. “Stay tuned.”
At the beginning of 2007, The United States Marine Corps opened a recruitment office in downtown Berkeley, California. At first the office went unnoticed by Bay Area anti-war groups, but starting in September the local chapter of Code Pink discovered the existence of the recruitment office and decided to initiate a series of "direct actions" against the Marines, with the intent of driving them from the city.
The weekly protests didn't much register in the media until Code Pink (and yes, I know that officially it's spelled "CODEPINK," but in this report I'll use the more commonly seen spelling) defaced the office window, altering the words "U.S. Marine Corps Officer Selection Office" to "U.S. Marine Corps Officer Assasination[sic] Office."
Publicity over this incident inspired conservative talk-show host Melanie Morgan to call for a counter-protest to coincide with Code Pink's weekly scheduled protest at noon on Wednesday, October 17.
Since I will be unable to attend that rally, the report you see on this page is not about the October 17 event (which has not yet happened at the time of this writing), but rather of a surprise protest by Code Pink at the Marine Corps office on Sunday, October 7, in the aftermath of their appearance at that day's Beach Impeach IV rally elsewhere in Berkeley.
Despite the fact that Sunday's surprise protest was not part of Code Pink's regularly scheduled Wednesday protests, the Berkeley Police got wind of it anyway, and had officers stationed in front of the office ahead of time, to forestall any vandalism. (Since the office was closed on Sunday, there was little likelihood of a physical confrontation.)
(Photo by Robert Livingston)
I attended the Beach Impeach IV rally with Code Pink, but did not accompany them on their subsequent 3-mile march from the Berkeley Marina up to Shattuck Avenue (the site of Marine Corps office). Photographer Robert Livingston did accompany them, however, and snapped this shot of Code Pink marching along with their banner calling for "No Military Predators in Our Town."
Meanwhile, back up at the office, other Code Pink members had already strategically stationed their official truck in an adjacent parking spot.
The back of the truck advertised yet another protest a few days afterward.
The first "scouts" from the Code Pink march arrived at the nearby intersection of Shattuck and University, and quickly sketched out a new banner for the occasion.
Simultaneously, the "San Francisco Values" bus (which had been ferrying Code Pink protesters to the Beach Impeach rally earlier in the day) circled the block, looking for a conspicuous place to park in support of the day's event.
It was covered in slogans.
Unable to find a spot on the crowded streets of downtown Berkeley, the bus driver eventually just double-parked in front of the office.
Just then, the first Code Pink protesters finally arrived at their destination.
They rapidly took up positions.
They spread out along the sidewalk, under the watchful eyes of the police, who made sure there was no hanky-panky, or damage to the office window.
(Photo by Robert Livingston)
Robert Livingston was also on hand and captured this shot of the inaugural unveiling of the banner we saw being made earlier, its paint still wet.
And, well, that was about it for the protest. We stood around for a while, trying to catch the attention of passing cars. Since there were no counter-protesters, and not many passersby, there wasn't much to do. After a while, the protest dissipated and everyone went home.
While the police had made sure that no damage was done to the office itself, Code Pink had ascertained that writing with chalk on the sidewalk is legal at protests, and the police can't stop them. So they left a variety of messages to greet the Marine recruiter when he arrived at the office the next morning. I returned after everyone had left to get some clear shots of the sidewalk messages. This one summed up the best-known 21st-century anti-war canards.
A variant on the "baby-killers" meme.
As a counterpoint, the Marine in charge of the office had placed this quote from John Stuart Mill in the window.
The silent battle of words continued back and forth across the sidewalk.
Code Pink warned any potential recruits to "Stay away."
In response to the earlier protests, Captain Richard Lund (the Marine in charge of the office) wrote this "Open Letter to Code Pink," which was printed in the Berkeley Daily Planet and which has already become well-known, being widely linked on conservative Web sites. Lund posted the letter in the office window as his answer to his critics.
Will there be future conflicts at the Berkeley Marine Corps recruitment office? Signs point to "Yes."
It was announced on Air America Radio, Jon Elliot's show tonight, that Randi Rhodes was attacked in a park in NYC walking her dog.
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Reports are there has been NO attack.
UPDATE: Air America's Website is reporting the following:
October 16-NEW YORK-On Sunday evening, October 14, Air America host Randi Rhodes experienced an unfortunate incident hindering her from hosting her show. The reports of a presumed hate crime are unfounded. Ms. Rhodes looks forward to being back on the air on Thursday.
Get well soon, Randi Rhodes. I don't usually have time to listen to her show but I tend to leave AAR on when I'm in front of my computer - but when I heard Lionel sitting in for her, I just turned it off. Sorry, I just can't listen to him. But right now I'm listening to John Elliot and he says Randi was attacked last night while she was walking her dog. She wasn't carrying a bag and was just in sweats, and she was beaten up pretty badly and had some teeth knocked out. Elliot is saying it sounds like it was neither a sexual assault nor a robbery and he suspects it was political. The way things are going, he could be right.
I saw an old feller on TV last night that said the City was going to make them pay for the traffic officer's time to put on the Veteran's Parade in the future and they didn't know how they were going to pay it.
He said it would be approximately 40 hours of their time at time and a half and that was verified by a BPD Lt.
I was wondering why the coppers can't donate their time to the Vets to do this?
Falling numbers of state dentists in England has led to some people taking extreme measures, including extracting their own teeth, according to a new study released Monday. Others have used superglue to stick crowns back on, rather than stumping up for private treatment, said the study. One person spoke of carrying out 14 separate extractions on himself with pliers. More typically, a lack of publicly-funded dentists means that growing numbers go private: 78 percent of private patients said they were there because they could not find a National Health Service (NHS) dentist, and only 15 percent because of better treatment.
Almost half of all dentists -- 45 percent -- said they no longer take NHS patients, while 41 percent said they had an "excessive" workload. Twenty-nine percent said their clinic had problems recruiting or retaining dentists. "These findings indicate that the NHS dental system is letting many patients down very badly," said Grant. "It appears many are being forced to go private because they don't want to lose their current trusted and respected dentist or because they just can't find a local NHS dentist."
Better keep your pliars and come along handy for when Hillary ous puts in an NHS here!!!.
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Saturday signed 97 bills and vetoed another 58, creating new laws on everything from the sale of kangaroo skin to protecting endangered condors while halting lawmakers efforts on dozens of other fronts, including giving college aid to illegal immigrants and requiring warning labels on cloned food.
Arguably his most controversial decision, Schwarzenegger signed a bill requiring semiautomatic handguns made and sold in the state to have technology to microstamp each bullet fired from the gun.
Supporters said the micro-stamping requirement, the first in the nation, will help police track down criminals.
Opponents, including the National Rifle Association, argued the technology is unreliable and could be used to implicate innocent people if criminals leave behind stamped cartridges from other guns at crime scenes.
In his signing message, Schwarzenegger said he understands the technology is not perfect, but hopes it would give police a new tool in solving violent crimes.
Under the gun bill, every semiautomatic handgun sold in California will have to "microstamp" each bullet cartridge in two locations whenever it is fired.
The stamp would identify the gun's make, model and serial number. The law will take effect in 2010.
It does not affect revolvers, rifles or shotguns. It targets only semiautomatics, which the bill's author, Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, said are used in the majority of homicides committed with firearms.
Schwarzenegger's most high-profile veto blocked the so-called Dream Act, a bill that would have made illegal immigrant students who graduate from California high schools eligible for college aid. (This was a good one, though)
The governor had vetoed similar legislation last year, but this year Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama drew attention to it, saying Schwarzenegger would compound the immigration problem if he vetoed it. Student groups also had rallied repeatedly on the steps of the Capitol and elsewhere around the state in recent weeks.
The measure was authored by state Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles. Under current law, California already allows illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition if they've attended a California high school for at least three years and apply for legal status.
The governor's actions leave 153 bills remaining on his desk. He has until today at midnight to sign or veto the remaining legislation. If he takes no action, the bills become law.
Truth be told, I was hoping "Fox News Sunday" would totally ignore Friday's announcement that the Global Warmingist-in-Chief won the Nobel Peace Prize.
After all, mainstream news outlets regularly boycott events they deem un-newsworthy, like people receiving the Medal of Honor, for example.
As such, in the grand scheme of things, what really was the significance of a charlatan winning an award -- one that had previously been given to that marvelous humanitarian Yasser Arafat, no less! -- exactly one day after a real American hero was posthumously bestowed one of the finest honors in our land to a deafening media silence?
Despite my skepticism, as the panel discussion began Sunday, and Bill Kristol enunciated likely the exact sentiments shared by people still capable of thinking for themselves, I realized just how fortuitous it was for this to be the first topic on the docket (video available here):
Friday, I felt a warm glow thinking that this man got the Nobel Peace Prize for bloviating about global warming. I mean, it's a prize given by bloviators to a bloviator for nothing. What did he - he was Vice President of the United States for eight years. I missed the Clinton administration's bold initiatives on global warming and carbon caps. Did they enforce the Kyoto Treaty? I don't think so. You know, so he gets the Nobel Peace Prize for talking, when brave people in Burma, and in Iraq, and journalists in Russia are being killed by dictators. And the Nobel committed of course has no interest in any of them.
Exactly. Next, after NPR's Mara Liasson said her piece, Charles Krauthammer put an exclamation point on Kristol's view:
Look, let's remember what the Prize is about. Al Gore now joins the ranks of Yasser Arafat, the father of modern terrorism, Le Doc Tho, who signed a treaty on behalf of a government that two years later invaded and extinguished the country it signed that treaty with, and the most disgraceful ex-president of the United States Jimmy Carter, who, forget about Iraq -- I'll remind you in the Gulf War, actively lobbied other countries to oppose his country in helping it in going to war. So, look, this is a treaty that is, has nothing to do with peace, it's about politics. It's the...I'm sorry, the award.
The Nobel Peace Prize is about politics. It's the Kentucky Derby of the world left, and it gives it to people whose politics are either anti-American or anti-Bush, and that's why he won it.
Exactly. Next, after NPR's Juan Williams predictably gushed over the Nobel announcement like a teeny-bopper around a rock star, Kristol offered another salient point:
I think there's something about this wonderfully moving narrative about Al Gore that Juan likes to compare to Mother Teresa. I haven't noticed Al Gore taking a vow of poverty recently. You know, there's something sick really about taking the whole thing seriously. The day before the Nobel Peace Prize was announced, President Bush signed off on the third Medal, Congressional Medal of Honor in the current global war on terror. The first for anyone who served in Afghanistan, for Navy seal Lt. Michael Murphy.
This got about one-one thousandth the coverage of the Nobel Peace Prize which as Charles says is an entirely political gesture. There are fewer Congressional Medals of Honor awarded than Nobel Peace Prizes. The New York Times, this is, Mike Murphy, the 29-year-old who died in 2005, from Long Island. The New York Times, the local newspaper for this genuine American hero, hasn't mentioned it. Huge stories, Al Gore, what a narrative, what sacrifices he's made to produce this movie and to become a multi-zillionaire as he makes himself so famous touting the cause of global warming.
Michael Murphy gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, and the New York Times, our leading newspaper and the local newspaper in this case, can't notice it. There's something sick about, about our culture when we don't acknowledge genuine heroes, and, as I say, give a prize, make such a big deal about some guy who's made a movie.
In fact, according to LexisNexis, outside of New York's local papers such as Newsday, the Daily News, and the New York Post, no major daily bothered reporting Lt. Murphy receiving the Medal of Honor.
And, other than Fox News, which did six reports about Murphy, not one television news organization mentioned it. Not one.
By contrast, since Friday morning, there have been 1,378 reports about Al Gore, including fourteen by the New York Times, 29 by CNN, fourteen by CBS, and eight by the Washington Post.
It's good to know these organizations have their priorities right, wouldn't you agree?
—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
Did Bush IGNORE the fact that Saddam had WMD <-- going for NUCLEAR?
Did Bush IGNORE the fact that Saddam had TERRORISTS openly using Baghdad?
As claimed by the Democrats...
OR
Did Bush LIE and say Saddam had WMD and was going for nuclear
Did Bush LIE and say Saddam had terrorists in Iraq
As claimed by the Democrats...
People, you jist CANNOT have it both ways.
Well, you can, because you control the media, and the minds of some odd people RIGHT HERE who, in perfect Orwellian lockstep, are able to read TODAY'S "history" -- which is the direct opposite of YESTERDAY'S "history"... and believe it.
WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE Chinese ownership of defense technology to be reviewed
'They take into consideration any possible national security concerns'
There is a process in place to review international corporate mergers and buyouts and White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said she'd like to let that move forward before commenting on a planned purchase of the U.S. company 3Com.
That company, which develops defense-network computer technology for the Pentagon, is being allowed, as WND reported, to consider a buyout by a Chinese company.
"Given China's persistent attacks on Pentagon computers, we have got to quit hoping for the best and realize that communist China is our enemy," said McCotter, who warned colleagues in Congress about the deal in a letter this week.
Perino was responding to a question from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, about the situation.
"Congressman McCotter says that he's concerned about a Chinese company that is purchasing 3Com, which develops defense network computer technology. And my question: Given the hacking attempts reported in the defense computer systems in the United States, does the president share McCotter's concerns?"
"There's a process in place that is run out of the (U.S.) Treasury Department, and I'll let that – they take into consideration any possible national security concerns on those big mergers, and I'll let that process play out before commenting," she said.
As WND reported recently, Huawei Technologies, a Chinese company with close ties to the military, is buying a 16.5 percent share in 3Com Corp.
"America does not wish to face the reality that communist China is not a friendly nation to the United States," McCotter told WND.
"It's the immediate rush of what people believe to be prosperity resulting from trade with China," he continued. "But many of us in the Midwest have found out this so-called 'free trade' with China is nothing more than an attempt by China to destroy our manufacturing base."
"The rest of the nation has to be made aware of what communist China is up to," McCotter said, "so they can then begin the hard work of planning to ensure that the United States sovereignty, liberty, and national security is perpetuated.
"This blindness to China is not just President Bush," McCotter argued. "I like to remind my Democratic friends that the guy who condemned Tiananmen Square as a candidate and signed the permanent normalization of trade relations with China was Bill Clinton.
"We now have a plurality of members of Congress on both sides of the aisle who either are willfully ignorant of the threat communist China poses, or have allowed themselves to believe trade with China is a wonderful thing," he explained, "despite our huge trade deficits and the massive amount of our debt China holds in their hands.
"There is a lot of money involved in this 3Com deal," McCotter emphasized, "and it shows you that money drives Republicans and Democrats alike when it comes to our trade relations with China. This is becoming a very dangerous situation for all Americans."
McCotter has circulated a letter to members of Congress objecting to the sale.
"In light of communist China's continued cyber warfare attacks, the acquisition of 3Com by communist China's Huawei Technologies is a direct threat to we free people," McCotter wrote.
"This is a sanity check for the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States," McCotter told his House colleagues. "I call upon this body of sovereign Americans to do their duty and deny Huawei Technologies from purchasing any part of 3Com or any other company responsible for defending America."
The Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 was passed to strengthen the examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, a highly secretive bureaucratic panel constituted by the Treasury Department to pass verdict on the national security implications of foreign investments in the U.S.
"We must tell the communist Chinese that America's security is not for sale," McCotter wrote fellow House members.
The founder of Huawei Technologies, Ren Zhengfei, is a former officer in China's People's Liberation Army, as WND noted in 2002. He owns 1 percent of Huawei and the rest belongs to an unidentified "union," according to Forbes. Most of Huawei's customers are state-run businesses in China.
WND also reported nuclear arms-control expert http://www.wisconsinproject... target="_blank">Professor Gary Milhollin's 2001 testimony before a House international security subcommittee in which he singled out Huawei for using technology received from the U.S. to threaten the U.S. military.
According to the Associated Press, the deal involves a buyout by Bain Capital, a private equity firm proposing to take 3Com private for a 44 percent premium to the stock's Thursday of $3.68 per share.
In the deal, 3Com shareholders will receive $5.30 in cash for each share of 3Com they own.
In a second question, Kinsolving asked: "The Baltimore Sun, among other media, reported that when Republican presidential candidates appeared at Maryland's Morgan State University, that university refused to display the United States flag, despite a protest from Congressman Duncan Hunter.
And my question: Since the president is head of the Republican Party, what was his reaction to this Morgan State U.S. flag banning, which was nationally televised by PBS?"
"I don't know, I haven't talked to him about it. But, obviously, he would have liked to see more participation at the debate from the Republicans," Perino said.
"Well, he believes that they should have the United States flag above that presidential debate, doesn't he?" Kinsolving said.
"I think that a university or a college can make their own decisions about that," Perino said.
"But doesn't the president believe the flag should…"
"The president loves the flag," she said.
"He loves the flag. I want to know does he believe the flag should have been displayed there, or not, as Congressman Duncan Hunter…"
"I think it's a decision that's up to the college," she said.
I saw the corn dog being eaten by the guy on our board's resident photog's blog swatch and it reminded me of when I was in college.
I went to a good sized pacific northwest college and was dumb and naive enough to try and play frosh football. About the only good that came of it (other than some payms for books, etc.) was that I got to live in both dorms and a frat house. I moved out of frat house (due to "geekiness of greeks" at the time [some sort of anglo saxon schoolboy animal house ROTC lord it over you mentality] --I'd had enough of that in Army) and into a "jock" dorm.
I was short on funds (linemen didn't get much $$ help anyway and what I did get even got cut) so I had "little dinero but mucho hungaro" syndromo.
I came upon a deal on a huge bunch of corn dogs from some carny closing up shop in this little college town and I knew a guy who worked in dorm cafeteria who had access to the freezer (at least my miniscule marble was able to ascertain the need for these things to remain frozen - otherwise I woulda just put 'em all in fourth floor fridge (FFF) and suffered the consequences). As it was I "ferried" them up a box at a time to FFF.
I got an incredible deal! I bought packs of 16 and bought a whole tray of them outa this guy's refer truck. I got Leon (fellow lineman of Tucson, AZ fame who had a general disdain for "white peeps" but liked me for some unknown reason - he never pledged a frat BTW) Fellows to "hep me wi
Kucinich had a UFO encounter in Washington state, according to MacLaine
Driving up around Hwy 65 this morning looking for loose stock and listening to Glenn Beck on radio.
I just love this! 
