Posted on 06/14/2004 5:02:51 PM PDT by ChristianJim
Way to wordy ... although I agree with the content.
"Way to wordy"
These 'professors' don't know any other way.
ChristianJim, great letter. Don't expect anything.
Well met.
Want another liberal commencement speaker story?
My commencement speaker was former NOW president Patricia Ireland. For some background, I attended a private woman's college that did not pay its commencement speakers.
All the hag did was drone on about herself. She never mentioned the graduates, who happened to be the reason everybody, including herself, was present.
She had the poor taste to talk about the first time she attempted to obtain birth control, as if I wanted to know it. Needless to say, the overt pot-shots at conservatives were also made.
Even the crazy butch feminists in the class wanted her to shut up.
You are correct -- you will get the standard Liberal response: Run away run away!
I have a Liberal sister that keeps saying to me "you just have facts -- I have a PHILOSOPHY!"
Keep fighting the good fight. Way to go!
""Learning inflicted on weak minds does not improve them, and frequently is ruinous" (Guicciardini)."
Love it.
Google search on "Nevil-Chamberland" returns two hits. Google search on "Neville-Chamberlain" returns 75,000. I have a sneaky feeling the latter spelling may be more correct than the former.
Actually, Neville Chamberlain (note spelling) is more honorable than our modern day appeasers. He finally learned his lesson when Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and declared war. He then graciously exited the political stage never to be heard from again when the Brits found a real leader in Sir Winston Churchill.
He had far more gumption, common sense and class than any of our modern day appeasers, going to his grave a few short months later as a fully-repentant man.
Hey Jim, you whacked him good, however I suspect it was unnecessary. From your description of your son, this last desperate attempt at indoctrination only confirmed his awareness of the lunacy and danger the lazy socialist left presents.
Well done and well stated from your heart. Good for you. If more of us took the time it might make a small difference. FWIW a friend in Seattle also attended and was telling me a similar story about this guy. Unfortunately, with three girls in college, one at UNC in the Journalism School, I am all too familiar with the liberal influence in our institutions of higher learning these days. Thankfully two of mine chose decent, fairly conservative schools ... USC (South Carolina) and The Collge of Charleston.
Russ
Great e-mail, I doubt if you'll be hearing from him. My only other comment is that Millions of lives would have been saved. I'm think about Cambodia.
Nice letter. It's about what I'd expect out of yoo-dub, though, where the academics tend to be legends in their own minds. There were cloistered nuns in medieval times who knew more of the world than these pampered darlings, and at least they attempted humility, an attitude on campus that is relegated to the "mere" business majors who pay the taxes to keep the kept.
That's a good one LOL!
To Vigalanteman OOOPs I blew the spelling, shame on me. Actually I did that on purpose, I wanted to see if I got a reply from Paul Loeb and whether or not he would focus on that spelling to support a personal attack. Or, if he would address the issues. I don't mean to imply that is what you were doing.
"Closely allied to the intellectual's attitude toward the masses is his incompatibility with America. The Americanization of a country amounts to giving it a classless aspect, a sameness that suggests equality. It is this that the foreign intellectual fears and resents. He feels the loss of an aristocratic climate as a private hurt. It is a drab, uninspiring world where every mother's son thinks himself as good as anyone else, and the capacity for reverence and worship becomes atrophied. This to the intellectual is a truly "godless" world, and this the "vulgarity" and the "debasement" against which he rails."
"When you try to find out what it is in this country that stifles the American Intellectual, you make a surprising discovery. It is not the landscape, though he is poignantly aware of its historical meagerness, and it is not the social system, particularly when it is headed by aristocrats like Roosevelt and Kennedy. What he cannot stomach is the mass of the American people--a mindless monstrosity devoid of spiritual, moral, and intellectual capacities. Like the aging Henry Adams, the contemporary American intellectuals scans the daily newspaper for evidence of the depravity and perversity of American life, and arms himself with a battery of clippings to fortify his loathing and revulsion. When you listen to him or read what he writes about America you begin to suspect that what the American intellectuals know about the American people is actually what they know about each other: that they project upon America the infighting, mistrust, envy, malice, conformity, meagerness, and staleness of their cliques and sects. Imagine an American writing about America and not mentioning the boundless capacity for working together, not mentioning the unprecedented diffusion of social, political, as well as technological skills, not mentioning American's ability to do the world's work with minimum of supervision and leadership, not mentioning the breathtaking potentialities which lurk in the commonest American."
Liberals don't know how to shine shoes. Just look at their shoes!
TRANSLATION: "I feel, therefore I don't need to think"
- the Liberal Credo
When I studied Latin, there were translations of the Latin classics, and they were called the "Loeb Classics."
At that time (back in the day), the scholars referred to them as the "Low Ebb Classics".
Let's call him Paul Low Ebb.
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