Posted on 10/13/2003 10:33:02 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
That is disgusting. What woman in her right mind would WANT bulbous-nosed, pale, piggy-eyed, flabby Clintoon but NOT want handsome, muscular, he-man Arnold?
The same nameless, faceless women that the LA Times talked to?
On a related note, last summer’s Phi Theta Kappa’s Campus Honor’s Program held on the SPJC Tarpon Springs Campus did a marvelous job of raising the participants’ consciousness for this year’s honors topic: Our Complex World: Balancing Unity with Diversity. The guest speaker was Mary Jo Melone, a columnist for the St. Petersburg Times. She gave us all valuable insights into the necessity of contrarian journalism and its duty, as she said, to shock a complacent public into seeing that the world really is not as nice a place as people would like to believe.
Her talk was followed by a lively question and answer session. In it she demonstrated just how integrated our society has become by characterizing as two ethnic groups—-white and black--a group comprised of African-Americans, Anglos, Greeks, Hispanics, Indians, Iranians, and Italians. It’s great progress that ethnicity is seen entirely in terms of skin color and that national origin and language are no longer distinguishing characteristics, such as when her Italian grandfather suffered discrimination in the earlier part of the century. Someone asked her if she didn’t think that a change from when “Italian” was considered a distinct race to now when it was just a last name wasn’t an indication of how much things had improved in a so-called racist nation. No, she said. Things are just as bad as they ever were except that now it’s even more insidious because it's not as obvious.
One wondered, though, looking at the gradation of skin tone present just how she was assigning whom to which category or why that was even necessary. One participant rose to his feet and declaimed loud and long on how what we really need is love, you know, like what people were saying in the 60’s; if we only had that, racial hatred and inter-ethnic misunderstanding would then just disappear.
Before breaking for lunch, we formed groups that represented herds of deer. We alternately decimated and populated our herds by rolling dice and selecting fate or fortune cards. The Tau Zeta chapter triumphed as Most Viable Deer Herd by remaining equidistant from both extinction and overpopulation by the time it reached the end of its stack of cards. This taught us that survival depends entirely upon a roll of the dice and whatever happens to be in the cards and that reason, learning, and foresight through experience are completely irrelevant.
During lunch I overheard the all-you-need-is-love advocate discussing his passion for the environment with the afternoon speaker, a biologist for the state of Florida. He told her that if he ever saw anyone kill an endangered _____ fill in the blank (I had not heard the name of the species in peril), he would not hesitate to put that person to death or at least knock him out, lock him in the trunk (whether his own trunk or that of the perpetrator of eco-cide was not clear), and then call the authorities. The biologist nodded her head gravely and agreed that man’s abuse of nature was a serious problem. It’s a good thing to know that there are still issues of life and death whose importance transcends the trivialities involved in inter-ethnic relationships and trans-cultural understanding.
After lunch, the honors topic was further reinforced by the aforementioned state biologist of Florida. Before her slide presentation of Florida’s varied and fragile ecosystems and the effects of human depredation on them, she prefaced her remarks by telling us that “like most biologists” she was "leery of technology." One exciting slide showed state biologists burning off large sections of forest in an attempt to duplicate what they thought nature would have done had humans not been around. The technology used was impressive.
We then took part in a role playing game—-the nutritional struggle of the black bear. Three participants were designated as blind bear, crippled bear, and mother-with-dependents bear. Going outside, we found a section of lawn strewn with cards of colored construction paper bearing letters and numbers.
Our task was to collect these with the following provisos:
1. we couldn’t run or take more than one card at a time,
2. we had to return each one separately to our den before getting another,
3. we couldn’t take cards from some other bear’s den because, according to the state biologist, “bears wouldn’t do that” (but we could shove another bear out of the way), and
4. we had to wait until all of the cards were collected to find out what their coding meant.
The letters stood for types of food and the numbers for pounds of it. We totaled our caloric intake to see whether or not we survived. Of course, the crippled bear, the blind bear, and the single female bear handicapped by dependents failed to survive—thus closely paralleling the Drama of Nature. The exercise was used to underscore the necessity for government programs that would address inquities and preserve diversity.
This role playing taught us that bears
1. are altruistic (though competitive, misogynistic, and insensitive to other bears with disabilities),
2. are incapable of distinguishing one food from another, and
3. always wait till they get home before eating what they have gathered.
Though I was initially a little unsure of just what Phi Theta Kappa would entail, this past summer’s Campus Honors Program has allayed my fears and showed me what a great time still lies ahead.
See how tolerant and compassionate the Nazis are?
I sent her a note as well complimenting her on her brilliance.
This is the Liberal explanation for why Bubba has clean hands???
Orwell's "Animal Farm" informed us that under the revolutionary socialist regime, "...some are more equal than others." The New Liberal Effect is that Liberal Alpha Males may couple at will, with whatever female they desire. They are, after all, the "Master Race".
Liberals aren't only "skum".....they're congenitally damaged humanoids.
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