Posted on 10/22/2006 2:30:56 AM PDT by Tom D.
The Wellstone quote made me laugh. If Paul Wellstone had been a hypocrite, he'd be alive now. But he wanted his flight crew to look like the Democratic Party's ideal of identity politics.
So he picked one pilot who was an ex-con and phonied up his logbook a la John Kerry's war record; and one who was a black guy who didn't have the native ability to fly, but between dogged persistence and the lowered bar of affirmative action had won his ratings despite flunking every checkride at least once.
Wellstone wound up where identity politics always lead.
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Criminal Number 18F
Many--probably most--immigrants from Latin America and East Asia and even sub-Saharan Africa actually want to assimilate into American culture. Legal or illegal, these immigrants--and especially their children and grandchildren--see this country as their future and embrace our founding ideals, our capitalist economy, our language, our Christian religion, our military struggle against the Islamofascist enemy, and our common future. In this era of liberalism, tolerance, and diversity, however, assimilation can prove difficult, particularly for immigrants who live in ethnic enclaves, especially in border towns where immigrants from a particular country comprise a majority of the population.
In some respects, ethnic enclaves differ little from those of the heyday of immigration in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Large Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish, German, and other ethnic neighborhoods dotted New York City. These neighborhoods today have yielded to Dominican, Korean, Chinese, Mexican, Colombian, Ethiopian, and other new ethnic enclaves. They offer new immigrants a place where they can converse with others who share their former nationality, its culture, and its language. Learning English in a non-Anglophone foreign land can prove almost impossible; therefore, most immigrants begin understanding the language only after they arrive in America, and fluency can require years of practice.
Of course in the "more civilizationally confident era" of a century ago (as Mark Steyn would say), various societies attempted to enroll immigrants in programs designed to assimilate them into American society. These programs went beyond an occasional simple literacy class for those lucky enough to find an open seat at an acceptable time. They went so far as to include cooking classes that taught housewives the art of serving American foods according to American custom. Others taught immigrants in our ways of fashion, in imitating our peculiar accents, other proper housekeeping techniques, and various other aspects of American culture that we often overlook. And America was as divided and provincial a land then as it is now, between the agricultural homesteads of the prairie states to the Solid South to the industrial Midwest to the booming ports of the Eastern Seaboard to the Mormon Mountain states and the Pacific coast.
PS: "Civics instruction" should occur in the public schools, including economics, American history, world history, and quite possibly religion/theology (if it's still Constitutional to portray Christians as morally superior to crazy Muslims).
Yeah but they're spending their time indoctrinating our kids.
No wonder they support the terrorists who want us dead. Somehow in their naive way, they think terrorist bombs will only hit people who aren't liberals.
Now, that is a great story!
I'd love to read the full story on those two guys!
I felt this way when we hit 200 million. For that extra 100 million souls we pay in a thousand small ways, with the loss of things which can hardly be explained to those who missed them.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
That is so obvious knowing what we know today about conception and birth, that anyone denying that truth is either a liar or a complete imbecile.
Better Indian doctors than fat white tavern habitues.
2. I hope your daughter marries your Mexican gardner.
Perhaps people ought to use widely available birth control rather than murder their unborn children.
No overpopulation at all. In fact, many countries do not have enough people to work.
I made five little resource gobblers, and we drive them around in a Ford Excursion.
They're not aborting "themselves". They're murdering innocent children.
Below I offer two citations of two remarkable essays by Commander Atkinson United States Navy (retired)
> Dr. Atkinson's post military service crusade is breathtaking in its hypothesis: The cultural war being waged by the left is not a series of skirmishes spontaneous and diffuse in origin but the calculated campaign of a core conspiracy.
The core conspiracy was originally founded in 1923 by a Soros-like multimillionaire who funded a group of Jewish Communist intellectuals by creating the School for Social Research. Cultural Marxism metastasized to Spain, Great Britain, and the United States as these Jews were disbursed in a kind of Communist diaspora. Able, even gifted, these intellectuals insinuated themselves into America's important institutions including academia, journalism, and the OSS where they gained astonishing influence as they waged their war on the institutions of America. The original charter of the Frankfurt School was to undermine those institutions which in their view had succeeded in preventing the expected communist revolution from spreading to Germany from Russia. These institutions included, first, the family, which constitutes the nuclear building block of society. If one can destroy the family one has nearly succeeded in undermining the whole of traditional society. Hence the scorn heaped on the "leave it to beaver" family of the 1950s. Such a structure is anathema to the left.
The next institution which they seek to destroy is the church, both Catholic and evangelical, for this is the institution which consecrates the family and justifies it. Hence the relentless war waged by Hollywood against figures of these churches like preachers and priests.
Their eschatology is as breathtaking as the scope of the conspiracy, that is, they have sent out to change the way man sees his world. This is the "deconstructive" aspect of the conspiracy. It undertakes, first, to tear down and tear apart every value and every tradition upon which we rely. As both a tool and an end goal Freudianism has been wielded like a battle ax to bludgeon the modern psyche. It's evil twin, relativism, makes the seduction of the modern mind complete. With one foot in Freudianism and the other stuck in the relativism, modern man, without faith in God, is sinking in quicksand and is virtually defenseless to every new siren.
When one reads Atkinson's series of essays on this subject is clear that he believes that this state of affairs is the product of nothing less than a conspiracy. It is this part of his thesis which I find fascinating. Is there such a conspiracy? How big is it? Who are the generals and who are the foot soldiers, who share the conspiracy and who are merely willing dupes, the useful idiots of the Frankfurt School ?
I am quite aware that when one utters the "C" Word one practically begs at best to be blackguarded as a McCarthyite, or, at worst, crowned with a tinfoil hat. Nevertheless, I believe as a conservative that it is imperative that we understand the nature of the opposition. Are we fighting a virus whose DNA lurks somewhere deep in the spinal column, or are all the battles in the cultural war unrelated "whack a mole" eruptions which can be resisted ad hoc?
Whether conspiracy or not, it is clear that every tactic in the cultural war waged by the left at least coincidentally advances the strategy of Marxism and that point should be made plain to every American citizen who exercises his franchise.
What is the Frankfurt School? ©
by
Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson CDR USN (Ret.)
Copyright 1 August 1999
http://www.newtotalitarians.com/FrankfurtSchool.html
WHO PLACED AMERICAN MEN IN A PSYCHIC "IRON CAGE"
The Thread of culture Marxism
By Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson
http://lesbianstudies.com/oldsite/frankfurt.htm
WHen Steyn pinted out that Vermont has many empty school houses, he hit my panic button.
Without Vermonters, WHO's Gonna Make Maple Syrup ? ? ??
This is gettin downright series!
Does anyone know how old a Mexican has to be to successfully tap a maple tree?
"ts liberals who are not breeding and having kids. Demographics is also having an impact on our domestic politics."
You just made my day. Imagine a world without Liberals ;-)
These Hispanics are not from SPAIN (Europe), that is the point !
What we are getting dumped on us from Mexico
is their riff-raff, their low-life !
For every Hindu(Indian) computer scientist, we also get a dozen widget-turners !
Programmers or menials, they are both brought here for one reason: to cause wage depression for us Real Americans .
This has been going on for many many years now !
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