Posted on 02/17/2006 4:10:24 PM PST by WaterDragon
I am an independent journalist who just got a good laugh over the latest "courageous stance" adopted by your student senate. Growing up in Oregon, I was always puzzled by why the lovely neighboring state of Washington seemed so heavily influenced by what I thought was a lunatic fringe. On the one hand William Gates and his baby boy Bill had produced two obscene monopolies, Boeing and Microsoft, and on the other your assorted elected officials seemed more at home in 1960s Communist Albania than the Wobblies "One Big Union" of sainted memory in the Northwest.
Now I know what the problem is. I don't know how I could have missed it for so long.
Your action --through something no intelligent student pays any attention to--"student government" --to deny former student, notorious Marine aviation hero, Pappy Boyington a place in "The University of Washington Hall of Fame" says it all. I gather you think he is not a proper role model for today's U of W student. Defending the US in a declared war initiated by a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor seems to be a problem for you. You may well be right. I don't think he has anything in common with you either.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonmag.com ...
The way to handle this is by organizing the Washington State alumni to refuse to contribute any money to the school until not only is this shameful act rectified by the student government issue a apology !
I have often been puzzled by the fact that it was the independent people who valued freedom who first moved to the west, and yet, the far west is one of the hotbeds of Liberalism.
How did that happen? Where did those original values go?
Seems strange to me.
But one of your kids wouldn't do what these kids did.
And whatchawannabet their parents are proud for their children having taken "a courageous stand against authority".
Which, I guess, is a way of saying "the maggots don't crawl far from the egg"...
I have been wondering if the girl who made the remarks in the student senate was an ethnic studies major. I have a friend whose daughter majored in ethnic studies at UW, and I can tell you that it is a complete waste of time.
Perhaps Mr. billbears should gain more familiarity with the story before commenting.
The statue in question was not federally sponsored, nor were any tax dollars involved in the project. Nor does Lipscomb so propose. Instead, the memorial's student sponsor was seeking authority, so that he could then pursue private funding.
Oh. My. God.
Washington and Oregon have been throughly CaliPornicated""
Not all that can be blamed on Kalifornia.
They have their own special home grown brand of liberal creeps. Trying to do business in Portland is a disaster.
I would also like to remind you that as ASUW President I cosponsored this bill to create a memorial, it failed by one vote, and a good majority of those who voted against it wanted more inclusion of other alumni who were combat veterans who earned the Medal of Honor. This week a new resolution to that effect is being drafted and introduced. In the meantime the ASUW supports veterans in other ways, currently we are supporting state legislation that will hopefully pass and guarantee veterans tuition waivers. In the end, the buck stops here, I would appreciate further comments to be made to me. Please do not participate or condone the hate-filled comments and phone calls made toward individuals in our student government. It has been appalling to see what is being said to people. I too am nauseated.HereThank you for you statements.
Sincerely,
Lee Dunbar
I should also note that you may want to read the minutes of the meeting (also linked there) before you post again. From the minutes of the meeting
Andrew Everett said he had drawn up funding proposals for the UWAA, several UW departments, and other private sources of funding.
You were saying....government waste is government waste, no matter how 'patriotic' it appears
Read it again, billbears. The Alumni Association, etc., that is private funding.
Sorry you didn't include Dunbar's email addy... it would be nice to respond to him.
My suggestion to one UW official who was whimpering about lack of space and who would fund it...is that at this point every Marine in the country would fund it... and I would suggest they crash a Corsair nose down in Lake Washington shallows just off shore and have a statue of Pappy climbing out of the cockpit happily waving a whiskey bottle...
It would be the most popular statue on campus...!
And Pappy would LOVE it.
We don't elect folks up here, they fraud themselves into office.
What departments would that be?
Good article.
Go Cougs. :-)
Don't get me wrong. I am not arguing the point that this woman was correct. I just do not see the importance of any statue if funding comes from tax dollars in any form. It may be just one statue in this case. However consider this same push for a statue happening in every state at every university. The thousands upon thousands of dollars add up after awhile.
You are still sneezing at a gnat.
Read my Modest Proposal above.
This is a no brainer.
It doesn't require an amendment to the Land Grant Act
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