Mallard Fillmore: Ithaca resident complains about attacks on French

Mallard Fillmore/Jewish World Review ^ | 5/6/03 | Bruce Tinsley

[Soaring Feather]

"City of Evil" bump

[Billthedrill]

Yet another City of Evil BTT...

[Centurion2000]

There were several thousand French troops with us at the Battle of Yorktown.

After WWI we and the French were even. Since 1920, they've been nothing but IN OUR DEBT ...

Why these people are even considered a global power is beyond me.

[djf]

Why are there always so many posts about Ithica? I grew up in upstate New York, been there quite a few times, we're talking a podunk backwater, not some major metropolitan area, like Syracuse...
(Even though my favorite lady of all times came from Ithica!)

[djf]

It's so podunk, I can't even spell it right!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Why are there always so many posts about Ithica?

Because Ithaca is THE City of Evil.

Ithaca's politics are largely determined by the two biggest employers in the town, Cornell University (aptly nick-named "the Big Red") and Ithaca College (which flies the gay flag over its campus).

The September 2002 issue of American Enterprise had an article about how the nation's colleges are not merely overrun by liberals, but that there are so many liberals on campus that conservatives are virtually non-existent.

And one of the worst offenders? You guessed it: Cornell University (no wonder they call it "the Big Red"), of which only approximately three percent of its professors are "republican" or "conservative." (Ithaca college only had approximately six percent).

How bad is three percent compared to other colleges of note? Let's put it this way: not only is it lower than Harvard (recently in the news for ITS skewed faculty population), but is even lower than Berkeley!

As a result of its unfettered liberalism, Ithaca was voted most enlightened (ie, liberal) city in America by the ultra left Utne Reader. As a good, conservative Freeper, I'm sure you'll agree that, contrary to what Utne says, "liberal" is not "enlightened." Unfettered liberalism is, well, evil.

As the most liberal city in America,"Ithaca is the City of Evil".

[djf]

You're gonna suffer anytime you are in a town where the major employer is collegiate. I'm sure Plattsburg, Alfred, etc all have the same nature. College students are always liberal, till they get a job and become taxpayers and homeowners. I went to SUNYA and Albany suffers a double whammy, lots of colleges and lots of liberal polis. Good parties, though!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

You're gonna suffer anytime you are in a town where the major employer is collegiate.

Maybe, but Ithaca takes it to the extreme.

For years, the town had an openly socialist mayor. They later elected him to the school board.

Even today, the City and County governments are dominated by democrats and Green party members. Ithaca is so "Green" that Ralph Nader got more votes in Ithaca than George W. Bush, and the NYS Green Party held its 2002 nominating convention there. The current Chair of the County Legislature is a radical former anti-war protester, self-described hippie, who says "My values haven't changed, just my tactics."

Another local political figure, commenting on September 11, said >"I think the U.S. is starting to pay for the fact that it's been a rogue state for years."

As a result, we get lunacy like spending $500,000 to install solar panels on the new library (in cold, dark, upstate NY).

To make matters worse, the liberals who dominate Ithaca work overtime to impose their ultra liberal agenda on the area children. As the local newspaper recently put it, “In most places, youngsters spend their summers camping, or at the mountains or the beach. In Ithaca, they learn how to become social activists.”

The School District has mandated that elementary school students in the first and second grades be graded on how well they "respect others of varying cultures, genders, experiences, and abilities." It's even listed on the schools' report card. Despite this alleged tolerance, a student who was found reading the bible on her lunch hour was chatised for doing so. Another was directed not to bring a book about Christmas to school.

There's even a taxpayer funded "alternative" (ie, hippie) school that let's students graduate in majors like basket weaving and political activism, and invited convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to be its graduation speaker .

These schools churn out "educated idiots," who are so liberal, they write editorials that argue "Bin Laden is Human too."

Besides, don't argue with me, argue with Utne Reader. They're the ones who, in an indirect way, declared that Ithaca is the City of Evil.

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[Kenny Bunk]

Faulty History, dude.

Rochambeau had a hell of a lot more men on the ground than Washington. The French Fleet under de Grasse intercepted the British Fleet and whipped them on the way to relieve Yorktown.

A typical revolutionary soldier in the later years of the war carried a French Musket, Shot, and Powder. Wore a uniform made in France, including boots and a newfangled invention called socks, ate French rations, carried his French overcoat and blanket in a French knapsack, and was backed up by French artillery. If he got wounded, he was treated with a French medical kit (no thanks!) and French medicines.

The trouble we were giving Britain was definitely worth the money to our Froggie Friends. Von Steuben was definitely a help too, in that he made us ready to accept professional help from the French. But that doesn't mean we should sell the French connection short. We woulda lost big time without their help, regardless of their motives.

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I wish to buy a music cd from a seller in Ithaca. Somewhat rare so an alternative is not easily located. Should I place doing business with this seller along the lines of buying something French? Your thoughts are appreciated.

[FreePaul]

What have they done for us since?

During WWI they introduced American Soldiers to the "French Letter."

[Ichneumon]

After WWI we and the French were even. Since 1920, they've been nothing but IN OUR DEBT ...

Precisely.

[El Gato]

Then the French went and used our same words and phrases, and totally misunderstood their meaning.

Well, I wouldn't hold that against them too much. Our own politicians do the same thing. For a few decades they did so only infrequently, now they do it routinely.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I wish to buy a music cd from a seller in Ithaca. Somewhat rare so an alternative is not easily located. Should I place doing business with this seller along the lines of buying something French? Your thoughts are appreciated.

No, go ahead. We need the tax revenue to fund our solar panels and mandatory diversity programs. ;-)

Seriously, I would only suggest you not purchase from Autumn Leaves or its owner, Joe Wetmore. He's the one who called September 11 "paying the price for being a rogue state."

[xp38]

Ok thanks. It's not Autumn Leaves but an outfit called EQS.

[MARETHLINE]

Yes the French might have helped you yanks during the Revolutionary War but to be honest you could have won it without their helpwe wanted to break away from the colonies anyway as it was to expensive. Besides not long after after Yorktown, we gave the French a massive whooping of the ass, in the Battle of the Saintes one of the greatest British naval victories of all time! The French were quite simply useless in war!
What did the French do in the Cuban missile crisis? Nothing they just sat there while US and British bombers were ready to drop nuclear bombs on Russia!

[Cacophonous]

LOL...leave it to the Brits to fight a whole war just to break away...

My history lesson was not intended to defend the French (never cared for them, never will) but to ensure that the history is rightly remembered.

[Publicus]

L-O-L ! !

Grear cartoon! Thanks for posting it!

[Zavien Doombringer]

Faulty History, dude.

Actually, my knowledge of American History is really good, yesterday was a bad day for me and I couldn't think strait. I use FR to clam me down (in most cases) I admited to being incorrect in my statement. Considering I am a Revolutionary Reenactor. I reenact Militia, but that isn't any excuse.

http://www.geocities.com/va_hstry/IsleofWightMilitia.html

AND, I live in Portsmouth, VA and go to Yorktown to help with the 7th Virginia.

http://set.pdsinfo.com/livinghistory/seventhvareg.nsf

I feel so ashamed...

I have a french musket too, the Charleville AN IX Corrige' 1777 .69cal, A beautiful piece. I had to polish it up last night.