Posted on 09/25/2004 12:58:21 AM PDT by MegaSilver
A little background: this week, our campus Advocates for Conservative Thought sponsored a "Conservative Awareness Week" (I personally thought we should stick with the original title, "Conservative Coming-Out Week," but since the gay/lesbian club at the University of Miami is extremely well-funded and possibly backed by the president herself, it's not really a good idea to invoke their wrath unless you have no choice"). Each day had a different theme (i.e., pro-life, family, guns, etc.) and a couple of days we had guest speakers on the various topics.
(Tonight, incidently, we had Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute speak on "Free Market Environmentalism." I spoke with him extensively at dinner afterwards, and while we probably wouldn't agree ideologically in all areas [he's a paleolibertarian, I'm more of a paleocon], he's all-around a pretty sharp, interesting fellow.)
We here at Advocates for Regressive Thought are distressed and appalled at the lack of a right wing voice here on campus - not to mention the hard left slant of the entire student body and faculty. In order to remedy this disgusting bias, this week we sponsored Regressive Awareness Week, or as we like to call it, a RAW Deal. Here's a summary.
Monday: Now this was a tricky one. Some liberals try to get this issue off the table simply by saying that it's a question of the government's reach, not of morals. But we know better. On Monday, Pro-Life Day, we held a mock abortion on the Rock to show people the horrors of abortion. Maybe now they'll see it our way, eh?
Tuesday: Promotion of White Americans Day. This isn't racism! All we know is that a disproportionate amount of Negroes commit violent crimes. Some say this is due to an inherent bias in the criminal justice system, but to them we say to turn off the hippity hop music and put on some Toby Keith! Whites are acquitted for a reason: they're not innately bad.
Wednesday: Hump Day! We're halfway through the week, which means it's time to honor the person who has been cleaning our house, washing our clothes, and cooking our dinner; it's Women at Home Day! ART sponsored an "Honor Thy Wife" gift giveaway. We had anything your aspiring housewife will ever need: Nice new aprons, kitchenware, feather dusters, even coupons for discounts on major appliances - after all, you'll be getting married as soon as you graduate, and your girl will need a nice stove.
Thursday: We had a tough time here picking between the Second and 28th Amendment. In the end, we settled on Second Amendment Day, because if those gays ever do decide to forcibly enter into a union in the eyes of the law, we'll need our rifles to stand with at the doors of our City Hall and say "Not in my town!" To celebrate this day, we went to a local elementary school and handed out cap guns and NRA pamphlets to first, second, and third graders. It was a great success!
Friday: The reason we couldn't just do both amendments was this day. It is a High Holiday, after all. In celebration of Yom Kippur, we all sported red armbands with swastikas on them to remember what can be accomplished.
That was our week! Other than a few liberal agitators stopping by our table in the breezeway, it went off without a hitch. Hopefully, the next Regressive Awareness Week will be just as successful.
I should have been insulted by the article above. But it's just too bloody hilarious. (Although I must admit, the first thing on my mind when I read it was, "God, do I have to pray for him?")
I'm glad I go to university on the other side of Florida.
This university just recently formed a College Democrats chapter to challenge the College Republicans, which went to the RNC this year. Maybe I should go and watch their inaugural train wreck.
Childish. Not funny.
This is from the Land of Sha-La-La Boom-Dee-Yay, the Wizened Troll of Madison.
U of M has slightly more libs than conservatives, but being that I have ALOT of Republican friends who are alumni (two of whom are running for local office) and that there was an active College Republican chapter a few years back, its nowhere near as bad as certain other universities in the state.
I wouldn't call it hilarious. I'd just call it sophomoric, and it tells us more about the writer than his subject. The world must be a very scary place for him, in his mind.
i wonder if anyone really didn't get the sarcasm and showed up to protest their protest?
Good old days, sure sounds good though.
"backed by the president herself"
LOL!
My first thought: The satire lacks wit.
The problem is that many Ph.D. faculty members think the same way. To them, conservatives are Nazis who haven't taken power yet, and need to be stopped by any means possible. If they like you personally, they think you are duped, and do not see that conservatism is Nazism.
Seen in that light, none of this is funny. They fear that conservatives will end abortion, and to them making abortion illegal would be a crime like the holocaust. We see that ending abortion would be ending a holocaust. It is hard to reconcile such views of reality.
The article would have been helped with some rimshots after each 'zinger'.
What this self-bemused little @$$wipe doesn't realize is that most of us on the "far right" are pro-Israel (how much cheer-leading for Israel do I see on this board every day?). And, so that we never forget, the word Nazi, for the history and language impaired, is the short form of National SOCIALIST Party. Socialism being, of course, the root ideology of the modern Democratic party. Of course, being a college student, I'm sure the author is aware of none of this.
It doesn't exist on the on-line text of the Constitution I always use. He sounds pretty sophomoric to me.
That question deserves an entire thread of its own.
Is there any work by this "writer" that isn't lame?
I believe they are referring to the not ratified Equal Rights Admendment. It was the last one voted on and passed by Congress but the required number of states did not ratify it even though they extended the ratification time limit.
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