Comments on: The Distinguished Professor, or More Comic Relief From the University

By: Steynian 270 « Free Canuckistan!

Steynian 270 « Free Canuckistan! — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:48:24 +0000

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By: mtraven

mtraven — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:38:40 +0000

The Palin’s Alaska Independence Party is a quasi-terrorist group whose founder has said such choice items as:

“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.”

“My government is my worst enemy.”

“I hope we don’t have to take human life, but if they go on tramping our property rights, look out, we’re ready to die.”

Much more here.

By: Tom G.

Tom G. — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:42:56 +0000

Alo: TWO earrings on a male means “he gets it”. Don’t you read Vogue??

By: Alo Kievalar

Alo Kievalar — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:37:57 +0000

When discussing 60s radicals, some of the most important points about them are often left out.

In Ayers’ case, the fact that he is married to the equally infamous Bernardine Dohrn, a former leader of the “Weather Underground”, a malevolent radical 60s group if there ever was one, should be noted.

The fact that they are both involved in one way or another in “childhood education” is as unspeakably infuriating and repulsive as is Krugman getting a Nobel Prize for Economics.

I recently saw Ayers on TV in his university office. Forget all the academic paraphernalia surrounding him. What caught my eye was that he was wearing not just one earring but TWO (one on each ear). I don’t know exactly what that is supposed to mean…but I know what it used to mean way back when.

The story and the connection between the “cultural revolution” of the 60s, it’s aftermath and its continued influence and the events of 9/11 is yet to be told. But an important, even crucial connection between the era and the event is quite evident if you look below the surface.

By: Ilkka Kokkarinen

Ilkka Kokkarinen — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:42:24 +0000

“I fully expect its endorsements to swell far beyond the 3000 plus”

Especially if ACORN is collecting the signatures.

From the petition: “All citizens, but particularly teachers and scholars, are called upon to challenge orthodoxy, dogma, and mindless complacency, to be skeptical of authoritative claims, to interrogate and trouble the given and the taken-for-granted.”

Such as the taken-for-granted idea that to prevent the global temperatures rising one or two degrees Celsius in the next hundred years, we need to implement the whole left-wing package deal of policies that they have been advocating for the past fifty years? Are we allowed to challenge that one?

“They serve as warnings that anyone who voices perspectives and advances questions that challenge orthodoxy and political power may become a target, and this, then, casts a chill over free speech and inquiry and the spirit of democracy.”

Leftists are complaining about chilling free speech in universities. My irony meter just exploded.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:43:44 +0000

Since Roger is well-known to be a fair, balanced, judicious, and non-partisan public intellectual . . .

But certainly not as fair, balanced, judicious, and non-partisan as the Huffington Post and Oliver Willis. Oh Please. Have any more lefty outlets you want to put forward as promulgating self-evident truth? How about DailyKos, Eschaton, MyDD? Now that’s where the reality based community finds out what’s really going on (of course their “reality” is actually an alternate reality, some kind of Star Trek thing).

By: Left, Right and Centered » More On Billy

Left, Right and Centered » More On Billy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:31:39 +0000

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By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:46:08 +0000

mtraven
Comparing McCain’s appearance as a speaker with Liddy is hardly the same thing as Obama’s years of working with Ayers. Also Liddy was prosecuted and repented, Ayers has not. And as others have pointed out, Liddy’s actions were no where near comparable to Ayers. As someone who attended college during the era of the Black Panthers, SDS, and Weather Underground, I had the chance to meet some of the members. Although I never met Ayers, the members I met spoke proudly of him…much the way these academics do in this idiotic petition/letter. And what were these SDS/Weathermen members like? Quite simply they were Marxist terrorists, and the thought of maiming or killing in the name of their cause was justified. The idea that they are teaching our children has always frightened me, and I imagins most of the signers of this petition are, if not former members, at least supporters of these groups.

The Obama supporters and most of the media fail to recognize that the problem with Obama’s relationship with Ayers is, not just Ayers’ past terrorist activites, but his radical socialist educational ideas.

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:19:45 +0000

Right, mtraven, but you forgot to tell us how many murders Liddy and Todd Plain’s erstwhile compatriots performed. Minor detail and I’m sure you meant to address it but we understand you’re busy with that whole moral equivalence thing.

Oh, and since when have Democrats been against secession? Turned away form it after that disastrus experiment in 1860, did you?

Ayers and Dorhn are filth, and they are no less vile for the qulaified supprot they obtain from moral cripples such as yourself.

By: MikeH

MikeH — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:17:04 +0000

…Ooh…ooh…mtraven! And John McCain was behind the World Trade Center bombing!!! and rhe Murray Federal Building!!! And.. and… he was in Dallas in November 1963!!! And…and… he kidnapped Jimmy Hoffa!!!!!
Oh wait, look there’s a squirrel over there….