I strongly believe neither would like the comparison. How many of you know Roberts died last spring?? For those here who may have forgotten: 2 or so years ago the chairman of the ORU Humanities Dept (history, poli sci, govt, and general humanities) and 2 instructors sued the university, the board of regents, and the Roberts family for misuse of funds and use of students in a poli sci/govt class to campaign for a particular mayoral candidate in the GOP primary. The faculty council voted no co...

So Ludendorff and Hindenberg started the meme that the army was winning on the battlefield but was being 'stabbed in the back at home.' See, among many others on 'stabbed in the back legend:' (Link) (Dated July 15 2006, the discussion refers to a Harpers' essay.) .... Baker then explains the importance of this myth in Germany following its defeat in WWI. The myth was an important factor in the rise of the Nazi party and its seizure and maintenance of power over two decades in the German st...

Each of these is a link. (Link) Archive 2001–2004 Topic Index Home Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke Site Map Contact Congress (separate page) What You Need to Know The Bush Regime's Political Agenda Do Something! Essays Etc. Keep Your Sense of Humor The Florida Long Count ------ What You Need to Know Bush Lies Aftermath of September 11 Recommended Reading List Dubya in Spite of Himself Praying fo...

An early caller asked if he had any 2008 plans to run. Clark said he was not opposed to running. His contacts with people in the pentagon gives him lots of info about the generals' attitudes. For example, he said that senior officers find it very difficult to work with Rumsfeld b/c in no way can they treat their subordinates in the way R treats them. In addition, a caller asked if there was much difference of opinion between junior and senior officers regarding the situation in Iraq. Clark ...

This article is by Sharlet, who wrote the Harper's article on Haggard, parly reprinted at (Link) The full article is at (Link)/ .... Not that Dobson acknowledges a debt to feminism; indeed, he sees it as a threat to Christianity. The problem, as he outlines it in Straight Talk to Men, a Dobson "classic" originally published as Straight Talk to Men and Their Wives, is that men, in a righteous attempt to resolve the problems of sexism, have ceded too much power to women. As a result, he insist...

(Link) Republican Party in Shambles John LeBoutillier Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006 The results are still coming in, but here is a quick analysis: 1) George W. Bush has been resoundingly rejected by the American people. His arrogance, cockiness, smirk, and condescension have turned off 60 percent of the American people. 2) Iraq has ruined the Republican Party — and the Bush presidency. The people are sick of it and want a change — pronto. 3) The Neoconservatives have infected the R...

have any problems if blacks and women didn't vote. I interpreted this to mean that they were looking for ways to eliminate the right to vote for women and minorities. When I was teaching at the college level from 1989-2004, I was constantly surprised/appalled at the voting apathy of black students. I couldn't believe that they were throwing away rights people fought, suffered, and even died for in the civil rights struggles of the 60s. And then I remembered that I in college and grad school ...

(I found this b/c years ago I read Rosalie Wax's discussion of her work as an anthropologist during WWII at Tule Lake. She did the oral interview of Morimoto.) (Link) WORLD WAR II On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed the naval base at Pearl Harbor, launching the United States into World War II. The ensuing panic caused by the bombing of Pearl Harbor resulted in the establishment of internment camps in the United States. The United States government built ten camps in the uninhabitable ...

There was a big TV ad push in the final weeks. They ran one ad a lot. They picked out scenes from SF gay pride parades that would possibly shock conservative Iowans and ran them with a solemn voice over saying 'do you want THIS in IA???? vote no on ERA.' It was also claimed that the ERA would lead to abortions everywhere; that's what neighbor women told me. It was also claimed that the ERA would lead to uni-sex bathrooms. I always wondered if the opponents had ever traveled by plane or e...

Below is part of an interview with SDrury, whom Locke attacks as the left's hit-(wo)man against Strauss. (Link) The Strong Must Rule the Weak: A Philosopher for an Empire By Jim Lobe | May 12, 2003 Is U.S. foreign policy being run by followers of an obscure German Jewish political philosopher whose views were elitist, amoral, and hostile to democratic government? .... "Perpetual deception of the citizens by those in power is critical (in Strauss's view) because they need to be led, and they...

(Link) Sara's Sunday Rant: Adult Supervision Sara Robinson .... ...I mean, just take a look at what's going on out on the playground these days. We've got: -- People in the White House who spend their days waiting for Big Daddy In The Sky to get home. (He's promised to come back any minute now. Really.) -- People who think their Big Daddy is bigger and smarter than the Muslims' Big Daddy, and can beat him up. -- A White House with a First Lady -- and several Office Mommies whose job i...

(Link) Steeped in Stupid by Bernestine Singley October 28, 2006 .... Not even three months into their first year of study, these aspiring lawyers, perhaps so stressed by the rigors of their studies, went looking for a way to chill. And what did the cream of Texas' intellectual crop come up with? A party mocking the black and brown urban poor -- complete with 40-ounce cans of malt liquor, fake guns, "ethnic" names, do-rags, jeweled grills on their front teeth, and loud jewelry. Fully tr...

(Link) Man with brick enters Monroe Middle School By: Ray Kisonas story updated October 26. 2006 11:58AM A man waving a brick barged into Monroe Middle School and ranted about the teachings of evolution before being arrested by police Tuesday morning. Middle school principal Ryan McLeod said while employees in the school's main office felt threatened by the man's bizarre behavior, he never confronted any students or entered a classroom. .... Police rushed to the school at 503 Washi...

(This was linked in DU thread about letters to Stars and Stripes.) (Link) Opinion: My respect for ‘quiet clay’ is loud and clear By Dr. (Col.) W. Thomas Frank European edition, Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Editor’s Note: This column appeared Sept. 26 on the Opinion page in the Mideast, European and Pacific editions. It’s Sunday in Afghanistan. I was sitting — completing some clerical task or other — when the patient administration clerk stood at the...

(Link)/ .... It's a 2005 article by Dr. Salman Akhtar, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Delhi ... "Sanity," says Akhtar, "has its own burdens, and fundamentalism is the treatment for those burdens." His argument spins on six specific burdens of sanity: -- Factual uncertainty: the need to carry on even when we don't know all the facts -- Conceptual complexity: Our ability to interpret the world, and choose our path among many -- Moral ambiguity: There are almost no one-size-fit...

(Link)/ .... Something is not right with the boys. Something in the way Americans look at males and manhood has gone sour, curdling into to a rank, toxic, and nasty brew that is changing the entire flavor of our culture. Men everywhere seem to be furious. Some turn it outward against women, against society, against the institutions that no longer seem to nurture them. Some turn it inward against themselves, putting their energies into bizarre self-destructive fantasy lives centered around mone...

(Link) The terrorists who aren't in the news Anti-abortion fanatics spread fear by bombings, murders and assaults, but the media take little notice BY JENNIFER L. POZNER Jennifer L. Pozner is founder and executive director of Women In Media & News, a national media analysis, education and advocacy group. October 8, 2006 On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and ...

I was at a friend's house. A woman came in, and she and my friend's mother started crying. I went home and told my mother 'something' had happened. And then the kids' radio programs were all preempted. --My dad was a major news junky and listened to radio news every evening. I remember being very surprised when Truman won in 48 b/c I got the impression from listening to the radio that everyone hated him. --Nixon spoke at Skelly stadium in Tulsa in 52; my dad took me to hear him. --When I...

(Link) Michele Bachmann Speech at Church Could Cause Tax Troubles Oct 15, 2006 -- 12:28 AM CDT Andy Birkey An event last night at Living Word Christian Center, a large suburban chuch in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, featuring Republican Congressional Candidate Michele Bachmann could cost the church its nonprofit tax status as the event appeared to endorse Bachmann for office. A personal endorsement from the pastor of the church, as well as Bachmann's own statements in her speech, appear to have v...

(Link) Jesus Rode A Donkey, Not An Elephant By Paul Rosenberg Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:53:25 PM EST .... Jesus did not speak about abortion, homosexuality, or the Rapture. He did speak about separation of church and state ("render unto Ceaser that which is Ceaser's..."), and about treating the most lowly and despised with dignity and respect ("Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me"), and about a dire fate for those who failed to sho...

(Link)/ Colorado Group: God, Moses Oppose State Minimum Wage Increase This November, Coloradoans will vote on Amendment 42, a ballot initiative to raise the state minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.85. If the initiative passes, the minimum wage would be “adjusted annually for inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index used for Colorado.” Stop 42, the group opposed to the initiative, is taking a “biblical” approach in their campaign against a minimum wage increase. Th...

(I missed this when it happened.) Check out the discussions and the blogs of those discussing. (Link) From the issue dated July 28, 2006 Can Blogging Derail Your Career? 7 Bloggers Discuss the Case of Juan Cole With the debut of his Web log, Informed Comment, four years ago, Juan R.I. Cole became arguably the most visible commentator writing on the Middle East today. A professor of modern Middle East and South Asian history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and president of the ...

I can remember this happening over and over in social groups with my ex-husband's colleagues (this occurred in the 70s and 80s). They were all very nice guys, some helped me a lot professionally ....BUT We'd be talking, and pretty soon it was only the men talking....they'd talk over us and around us. Part of it was their voices were louder, part of it was (maybe) like my husband they'd been on debate teams. Part of it was what seems/seemed often to happen in academic groups: the one who can/...

The following is just one of many-- PERSONAL EFFECTS Name: A CPT in Ft. Hood Posting Date: 10/12/2006 Stationed in: Texas Hometown: Texas A few days ago, Vice President Cheney came to Ft. Hood and addressed members of the community and the post, on the eve of the 1st Cavalry Division's return to Iraq. The Vice President was surrounded by purple heart winners and those who had earned bronze stars with valor or higher medals. That was, at least, the initial qualification given to be able to stan...

(Link) Vietnam checklist VIETNAM 2 PREFLIGHT CHECK 1. Cabal of oldsters who won't listen to outside advice? Check. 2. No understanding of ethnicities of the many locals? Check. 3. Imposing country boundaries drawn in Europe, not by the locals? Check. 4. Unshakeable faith in our superior technology? Check. 5. France secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check. 6. Russia secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check. 7. China secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check. 8. SecDef pushing a confl...

(Link) (review of FIVE GERMANYS I HAVE KNOWN By Fritz Stern. Illustrated. 546 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30.) Can It Happen Here? By TOM REISS Published: October 8, 2006 In November 2005, Fritz Stern received an award for his life’s work on Germans, Jews and the roots of National Socialism, presented to him by Joschka Fischer, then the German foreign minister. With a frankness that startled some in the audience, Stern, an emeritus professor of European history at Columbia Unive...

(This has apparently been passing around for a while, but I just found it. The reasons are clearly mirror images of the reasons given why women should not be ordained.) (Link) Top Ten Reasons Why Men Should Not Be Ordained 10. A man's place is in the army. 9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent. 8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks such as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It ...

From internet infidels discussion board, an interesting site I just discovered: (Link) Spam Guide: Debunking CSS myths This post, which will be updated as needed, contains links to threads on the Internet Infidels Discussion Board which focus on crafting replies to email spam containing church-state separation myths and legends. Some of this email spam has been going around the internet for years. This is a handy "godspam guide" to help you reply to such messages. The "14% shut up and si...

(Link) How Biblical is the Christian Right? By Carlos Wed Jul 19, 2006 at 06:20:24 PM EST ...This article is written by Margaret Mitchell, a professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago. It is nothing new to say that the Christian Right is really more interested in its political agenda than in paying attention to the Bible, but Professor Mitchell fleshes this idea out with much care and in rich detail. .... Some excerpts from Mitchell's article...

She started smoking in the 1930s, I guess, when smoking (especially for women) was very in and sophisticated. Both she and my dad smoked all the years we three kids were growing up (none of us ever even wanted to smoke). She was fascinated by space travel and loved to read science fiction stories. When the 'space race' started, she followed everything and bought all the books about it, posters from the government, etc. My son, her first grand-child, was born in June 1969; the first man on t...