The Picture Has Nothing To Do With The Post

I apologize for the lack of posting, but I was out of state working and just didn’t have time. To make up for it, here’s a few links I found interesting.

1. Obama versus McCain: Let’s Get It On. Best line is the last line: “If John McCain can’t talk the American people out of re-Carterizing themselves, what has he been preparing for all these years?” Yep, Carter all over again. And I called that one before the election too, just ask all my relatives who voted for him while I backed Ford.

2. I spoke with another Democrat while on travel who told me he would vote for McCain this year. He dislikes Bush, positively hates Reagan (no clue what Reagan did to him but the guy was almost pathological about him), and considered himself a yellow-dog Democrat up until this year. He didn’t give me any real reasons, but he is a working-class, gun-toting, religion-clinging white Kentuckian. Make of that what you will.

3. Dan Rather can’t seem to find work, but the real kick here is he applied to Fox News. They should have hired him in my opinion, can you imagine how fun that would be?

4. My Alma Mater gave out its first ever space law degree. I don’t know if that is something I should be proud of or embarrassed about. I am leaning towards embarrassment but, hey, it gives me an opportunity to post this. Via Ace.

5. It appears that my prediction about Obama’s response to any political attack was true. Of course, it’s not a race card in this instance, but calling McCain’s statement of fact that the terrorist group Hamas wants Obama to be elected a “smear” is going to be a standard practice.

6. “We may now understand why Barack does not wear a flag lapel pin. He’s afraid that Bill Ayers will stomp on him.”

7. “Great tits cope well with warming.” Well, of course they do. Unfortunately, it’s not what you think.

8. The five greatest movie teachers, plus one. They all suck in my opinion, all the more so because they left out the number one movie teacher of all time.

9. Global warming does not exist. That is my official opinion and anyone who doesn’t agree with me is the equivalent of an Holocaust** denier. Hey, don’t get mad at me for saying that, I just stole it from the global warming enviro-nuts.

9. I’m assuming that you only need one search term, that being “gingers.”

10. Speaking of gingers, observe one ginger’s obsession with a Saab.

PLUS ONE:

With some commentary here, here, and here. Great line: “Can He Spell ‘Potato?’”

Correction: New best line:

“This faux pas is beyond weird; I know the guy is tired, but “How many states are there in America?” is the kind of question they ask you at the hospital after you’ve had a seizure to see if your brain is still working.”

Although this one is good too: “Maybe he needs to start wearing a flag pin so he could use the stars on it as a reference.”

** I’m not making fun of the Holocaust. I am using it this way to show how ludicrous it is to compare those two things, which the left does all the time.

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1. What it takes to earn a fine arts degree from Yale. This has to do with this story, in case you missed it.

2. And speaking of higher education - - I’m a big zombie fan, but let me tell you, if I found out my sons were wasting their time, and my money, on crap like this while in college, they’d be flipping burgers for a living in a heartbeat.

3. They are calling for a draft. The left that is. Since the beginning of the Iraq War is has always been the Democrats calling for a draft. The military doesn’t want one. Nor does the GOP. Why you ask? Because you can’t have a anti-war movement of any consequence unless you are forcing people to fight it. We aren’t. Our guys and gals want to defend their country, and that pisses off those who want to retreat.

4. Taking your child to see how mom’s boobs are going to be embiggened. It’s so 2008ish I guess.

5. Awful science fair projects. Some objectional content. Well, more than some really.

6. Baracky: The Movie:

7. It’s so simple, really, why hasn’t anyone made this point before? There have been two wars in Iraq. The first to remove Saddam Hussien which we won handily. And the second, which we are winning, and must continue to fight until we do win.

But I Thought The Burka Took Care Of That

Harvard boots male students out of the gym to keep them from ogling Muslim women.

Harvard University has moved to make Muslim women more comfortable in the gym by instituting women-only access times six hours a week to accommodate religious customs that make it difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men.Men have not been allowed to enter the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center during certain times since Jan. 28, after members of the Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard Women’s Center petitioned the university for a more comfortable environment for women.

Harvard Islamic Society’s Islamic Knowledge Committee officer Ola Aljawhary, a junior, said the women-only hours are being tested on a trial basis. The special gym hours will be analyzed over Spring Break to determine if they will continue, she said. Aljawhary said that she does not believe that the women-only gym hours discriminate against men. “These hours are necessary because there is a segment of the Harvard female population that is not found in gyms not because they don’t want to work out, but because for them working out in a co-ed gym is uncomfortable, awkward or problematic in some way,” she said.

Though the policy was in part initiated by the school’s Islamic group, Aljawhary said women-only hours are not a case of “minority rights trumping majority preference” and said women of different faiths have showed interest in the hours.

“We live together in one community, it only makes sense for everyone to compromise slightly in order for everyone to live happily,” she said. “This matter is simple: Can’t we just display basic decency and show tolerance and inclusion for people not a part of the mainstream majority?”

If this were a Christian group asking for special rights feminists and the rest of the left would be all over this. In fact, Harvard would never had even listened to the group much less institute such a discriminatory policy.

But, hey, this is the Religion of Peace so all bets are off.

Seriously, if Harvard men let this stand they have bigger vaginas than any woman alive.

Maps As They Could Have Been And Still Could Be

I found this map over at Strange Maps, which as you can guess from the title is all about strange and unusual maps.

The map is a depiction of a “Balkanized North America” in which “. . . the westward expansion of the Anglo-American people proceeded pretty much as it did in our reality . . .  but the United States government just couldn’t keep up. Every national identity crisis resolved itself in favor of the separatists instead.”

It’s interesting to see how our nation would have formed, or not formed as the case may be, had historical multiculturalism had its way.  Frightening too, in my opinion, because there are many living in our nation who wouldn’t mind seeing some form of this map as a reality now. 

It reminded me of this excellent book, Prayers for the Assassin (and described fairly accurately here and here), that pictures an America of 2040 split into four distinct pieces, an Islamic Republic, a Christian bible-belt, a Nevada “sin-state” and a small Mormon nation.

You can see a bigger version of this map here, by the way.

I highly recommend the book for its great storytelling - it’s a great read, full of political intrigue and interesting characters - but also because it provides a hard look into a future that is possible if we do not continue to deal with Islamic fantacism in a strong way.

Maybe The Dingo Wooped Your Baby

Perhaps this child needed wooping. Frankly, if there was a little more wooping in schools today we probably wouldn’t have so many kids with serious behavioral problems.  I know that time Coach Morgan broke out his paddle and wooped my sorry ass I sure learned not to misbehave.

Now when kids misbehave the teachers and administrators are so afraid they will be sued by parents that they automatically refer the incidents to law enforcement.  A total overreaction that criminalizes behavior that a good trip to the woodshed would probably cure.  But instead of supporting teachers, most parents take the side of their little darlings who can do no wrong.  This has resulted in moronic “zero-tolerance” policies that tie the hands of school officials even when they want to solve the problem in-house.  Automatic suspensions and alternative school no matter what the specific circumstances of the incident.  A kindergartner drawing a Army soldier shooting his gun is the same thing as a 17 year old bringing a gun to school.  Ridiculous.

Of course school officials are to blame as well when they don’t let kids settle things themselves sometimes.  As a dad of three sons I can’t tell you the number of times I believe issues between my boys and other boys could have been solved with a good fist fight.  But, nooo, school policy is that if you are hit then you can’t defend yourself.  You report it like some pussy and then nothing is done because the teachers didn’t see it.  And if you do defend yourself you get in trouble too.

Such bullshit.

So this mother is recording her kid’s teacher to prove she wooped him instead of maybe finding out why the teacher had to woop him.  Maybe he didn’t need wooping.  Maybe he did.  But if parents spent half as much time teaching their kids respect as they do pretending they are perfect then they might not have to spend time worrying about woopings from teachers.

History In Schools

It’s heartening that common sense won in this vote, but the fact that it was even debated speaks poorly on the way our schools are going these days.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Trustees of the largest high school district in the country voted 4-1 Monday night to mandate displays bearing the nation’s motto — “In God We Trust” — and other historical documents in over 2,300 district classrooms and offices. The display of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights will be included in the posters approved by district trustees in Bakersfield, Calif. Monday night. Kern County High School District trustee Chad Vegas initially proposed the measure as a way of promoting patriotism. But the idea sparked a contentious debate. “I’m exteremely pleased the measure passed and was in fact expanded beyond what I had originally proposed,” said Vegas. In addition to placing the displays in over 2,300 classrooms, the posters will also be hung in district boardrooms, libraries, administrative offices and other rooms.

Of course, there is always that minority who wants to push their agenda on the majority.

Board President Bob Hampton, a former teacher in the district, told The L.A. Times he would vote against the posters because they reflect a “spiritual agenda.” “The spiritual side of students belongs at home and at church, not in the educational system,” Hampton said.

I hate to break it to you Bob, but this is not about a spiritual agenda, although from the sorry state of our schools they couldn’t do worse by having one. No, this is about our history as a nation and the sad fact that our children are growing up without any sense of it whatsoever. Much of our history is not even taught in schools now and what is taught is a water-down, politically correct, selective version of events that is more fiction than fact.  If you doubt me quiz your kids on some of the stuff  you learned in school.  They probably haven’t heard about much of what you ask and what they have heard will probably be wrong.  I did it and I ended up buying A Patriot’s History of the United States to give my kids the education they need and deserve. 

It’s a great read so pick one up.  You’ll enjoy it, too.