Chupajohnbra
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.
Since conservatives opposed the ERA it wouldn't fit. My thought was either an insinuation that conservatives are so stupid that they don't know how many amendment there are or a poor reference to the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, or maybe flag burning, or maybe he can't read roman numerals and was referring to the 18th amendment. Who knows.
After rereading Thursday I would agree with you on the referance to the Protection of Marriage. Or he's trying to equate the 2nd to nothing.
Chupajohnbra
Ping.
Right now, I'm wishing it was:
The twenty-sixth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America is hereby repealed.
That's precisely what MAKES it so funny.
How do you caricature a university student? The answer is simple: establish a student newspaper and let him do it himself. (And I write this as an undergrad myself.)
Not really. The rag has been scraping the bottoms of the University's talent pool, to be honest. I'd like to write for the paper, but I'm not sure if they'd publish some of the things I'd say.
(You should hear what someone wrote in response to my letter to the editor in which I insinuated that speaking English in an Anglophonic country was a common courtesy.)
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