CNews 18November08
For our Cornhusker readers who need cheering up in these dismal times, tomorrow UNO journalism professor Bruce Johansen will debate chemistry professor Robert Smith on the subject of Global Warming. Also on the bill: Fred Flintstone will challenge Ludwig von Mises' assertions on free market economics, and Ward Churchill will debate anybody about anything.
Update: the D-a-B His Own Bad Self reminds us that there still may exist a handful of people scattered in the hinterlands (map) who aren't aware of PB's history with professor Johansen. So, for those benighted few:
- At First Glance
- je t'accuse
- I'm rubber and you're glue!
- Nobody's stooge
- interregnum
- Wherein Our Hero reveals how the pernicious PB singlehandedly undermined the spotless reputation of the Denver media, destroyed the career of Mr. Chips, strangled kittens, and brought shame and disgrace to the international anti-Churchill blogging cartel, a cou de gras* Nancy Pelosi blames for triggering the global recession, and from which the world may never recover.
* Yes, we're aware that cou de gras means fat neck. What's it to ya?
CNews 17November08
According to The Daily Gleaner, beloved impressionist Ward Churchill will be among the entertainers on hand during St. Thomas University's Native Awareness Days November 17-21 (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canuckistan). This year's theme, steeped in thick, creamy irony just like Mom used to make: "Combating Convenient Untruths." And according to this site, The Perfesser's chosen topic for his blahbification November 18 is "Eugenics by Any Other Name: The Scientific Foundations of the Social Sciences."
Update: Of interest is the continuing truncation (or, for the oxymoronically inclined, increasing abbreviation) of Churchill's "about me" blurbs; the ones in the two articles linked above do not even include the words professor, scholar, tenured, or Indian, leading us to suspect that the blurb will eventually consist of "this dude a guy we know turned us on to." The circle of life, Simba.
Update II: More (but still not enough) derision over at the D-a-B.
CNews 11November08
Random Thoughts
"[I]gnorance of Ph.D.s is still ignorance and high-IQ groupthink is still groupthink, which is the antithesis of real thinking." Thomas Sowell
Weak, cowardly predators tend to hunt in a pack. When the pack gets large enough, we call it a People's Republic.
We should immediately go back to our original American religious roots, and by that, of course, we're referring to the Aztec religion. After all, who hasn't fantasized at least once about standing atop a stone pyramid and showing Nancy Pelosi her still-beating heart? On second thought, she probably doesn't meet the virgo intacta requirement, so maybe we should call ourselves the Reformed Aztecs.
Tearing everything down and rebuilding civilization from the ground up sounds like such a good idea until you realize you have to use the same imperfect building materials. Not to mention the truism that nothing is ever built according to plan or within budget. Besides which, what makes you think you'll be around for the rebuilding?
One of the overlooked benefits of an Obama Administration is that finding the circumference of a circle will be much easier when pi equals 3.0. That'll give us all much more time to enjoy the unicorns and rainbows.
Here's a very good idea: StupidFilter, even though we doubt it'll catch on without a Terminate With Extreme Prejudice module.
Despite popular belief, there is not an endless supply of Enemies of the State. Once the initial group is consumed, another is selected for predation, then another, until at last, the few remaining survivors expire chewing on one another's entrails. This is the fatal flaw of all carrion eaters.
Public education sounds far less appetizing when mentioned in conjunction with other government enterprises such as public parks, public housing, and public toilets. [we stole this from someone, but we don't recall who it was]
Bailing out a failure is wrong, whether the failure is a human being, or a corporation.
Victory In Europe required the deaths of Europeans. Victory Over Japan required the deaths of Japanese. Perhaps now would be a good time to consider the requirements for Victory Over Collectivism.
When someone speaks of "different truths" you can be confident that his is a lie.
Of course, yours might be, as well, so always double-check.
PB Welcomes Our New Marxist Overlords
Checklist For Change*:
- Find a public school teacher and thank her in a sincere and vigorous manner for the next four years.
- While you're in a grateful mood, don't forget your state's Republican Congressman; his contribution to the outcome of this election was by no means picayune.
- Begin work today on your personal list of Crimes Against The People; work diligently on delivering them aloud with as much authentic self-loathing and repentance as you can muster.
- Start hoarding essentials now; however expensive they may seem today, they're still cheaper than they'll be once hoarding is criminalized.
- If you enjoy standing in lines, prepare for Paradise On Earth.
- Never forget which hand gets full faster.
- Resist the temptation to keep old history books; new and perfectly serviceable ones are already being written, and studying these new texts will help make your re-education process relatively pleasant.
- Precious gems and anything else with a high-value to portability ratio is a good investment. Gold is not a good idea, unless you're one of those fortunate few whose colon can accommodate several ingots.
- Start exercising. This has the benefit of warming you during the mandated "heatless" months, and will prepare you for your daily commute.
- Get that amusement at the mindlessness of the "Yes We Can" chant out of your system right now. Confine yourself to silent appreciation of the irony during your turn to lead the Group Encouragement Session. Under no circumstances should you add "tragically underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" to the end of The Chant.
- Speaking of which, resist the urge to strangle the hopeydopes you encounter. Those that don't suicide after experiencing a grim epiphany will more than likely starve to death.
- Appropriation of wealth through the exercise of political pull and grievance-mongering has replaced acquisition of wealth through the exercise of prudent judgment and hard work; ignore this new maxim at your peril. The peculiarly American concept of "making money" is now a semantic null.
- If you don't know what "thought-crime" means, learn the definition. You can't defend yourself if you don't understand the charges. Not that it'll do you any good.
- Learn to identify and beware of what PB commenter Wm T Sherman adroitly calls "The Scowl of The Incompetent Supervisor." Popularized by the First Lady-elect, it will be on the face of every official you are required to encounter. And you'll be encountering a lot more of them as time goes by.
- Get a horse. Long journeys on foot through blighted areas can be dangerous, and a horse can make the trip merely challenging. Plus, they're tasty.
* This list is for non-Obama voters only. If you voted for Obama, your admirable talent for self-delusion makes you already ideally suited for the coming TPE**.
** This Perfect Era.
Election Day
Every Presidential election is the most important election in our lifetimes, but truly, this one affords the American people the unprecedented opportunity to select King Stork over King Log. So vote. As though your life depended on it.
CNews 29October08
Churchill debates actual intellectual, inevitable smack-down occurs (ht Leah)
Excerpt:
[Author and Reagan policy advisor Dinesh] D’Souza discussed how the world has progressed and benefited from the influences of Western civilization. According to D’Souza, Western civilization has humanized the world. He noted that while Western civilization participated in slavery, abolitionism is a uniquely Western concept.
“The Chinese had slaves, the Indians had slaves, even the American Indians had slaves before Columbus ever step [sic] foot on this continent. It is not slavery that is Western, it is abolition.”
D’Souza also noted that the idea of human rights and democracy are rooted in the Christian idea that everyone is created equal in God’s eyes and that the West became superior because it advanced science, democracy and capitalism. Buttressing his claim of Western superiority, D’Souza observed that it was the Europeans who sailed to America and not the American Indians who sailed to Europe.“Not all cultures are equal,” D’Souza said.
[...]
[ProfessorWard] Churchill responded by attacking D’Souza as arrogant and saying that D’Souza’s mind needed to be decolonized. He condemned the West for popularizing the slave trade and the US for breaching its treaties with indigenous nations. He claimed that the West waged a genocidal war against American Indians with weapons and small pox.
Gee, hasn't someone thoroughly debunked that intentional small pox infliction thing? We heard somebody even got fired over it. The name will come to us in a minute or so.
CNews 27October08
Well, at least he's off the streets: Churchill campaigning with McKinney
Our favorite quote: "'She's got integrity,' Churchill says." ...Well, if there's one thing "star"
CNews 23October08
From our Jesus, I Can't Get Arrested In This Town department:
Update: We find an odd channel 7 (Denver) article that asserts "[Churchill] was eventually fired from his job in Boulder for research misconduct and work with the Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars." Also odd that we can find no reference to the "Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars" on the internet that is not associated with Churchill's own PR (there are 63 of those). There are, however, many mentions of the Martin Luther King Colloquium of Scholars, including one on The Perfesser's own c.v., but he appears to have gotten that from Morehouse University, not Morehouse College.
CNews 22October08
Our erstwhile collaborator, zombie (see here), has uncovered one of Bill Ayers' earlier works, dedicated to, among others, Sirhan Sirhan, and written back around the time Ward Churchill claims he was teaching Ayers, et alia, how to build bombs and "which end the bullets go" (coincidentally about the same time Ayers' girlfriend and a couple of others turned themselves into hamburger helper in a Greenwich Village brownstone while building bombs). Quelle surprise, turns out the fine distinguished professor Ayers—Billy, as he liked to call himself then—was a communist. Wonder which party he belongs to now.... (ht lgf)
[see Update III below]
Excerpt [sic passim]:
This past weekend I took part in an important strategy session with Senator Obama and his aides. It has become clear that the white man who use every dirty trick possible to prevent Senator Obama from becoming the next U.S. President. What is needed now, more than ever, is a resolute and firm commitment to the truth which will lead to Senator Obama's victory.
Obama is too important to be mislead and defeated by the likes of John McCain or his attack dog bitch, Palin. It is a gross insult to all African men that she is even allowed to mention the name Obama.
Like an impotent and false God, Bush tries to scare Africans with his hurricanes and threats of war. We all look forward to the day when Obama sentences him to justice.
Justice and the TRUTH requires that Obama wins this November.
BTW: this alleged history professor [see Update III below] has also submitted Star Trek to his critical thimking. Unintentional hilarity ensues.
Update: We just noticed the second sentence in the excerpt above seems to be missing a verb.
Update II: Closer to home (and not a moment too soon), Mike Adams discovers an upper division university class that will help us all interact with, among others, the author of the excerpt above.
Update III: We're calling bullshit on the above-excerpted blog. We believe the writer to be someone in the U.S. rather than the Central African Republic, and we suspect the blog is either a honeypot for white supremacists or a false front for white supremacists. To what end? Who knows? Could be to de-legitimize "Black history" (which needs little help in that regard, quite frankly) or to provide legitimacy to white bigotry in the same manner the phony Protocols of the Elders of Zion is used to provide legitimacy to the hatred of Jews. Or perhaps the blog exists entirely to de-legitimize the candidacy of Barack Obama (again, something that, at this late date, needs little help in that regard). Yes, there's still a possibility that the utter lunacy is the product of a CAR university history professor, but we're guessing Not.
* Yes, we know. We had to go to another continent to find an academic (in this case, a history professor) more irrational than some among our homegrown crop. So what.
CNews 5October08
OT: From our Orwell Was An Optimist department: Intellectuals rush to support Bill Ayers (ht Julius Martov, who points out that one of the signatories to the support Ayers statement is H. Bruce Franklin, editor of the 1972 The Essential Stalin)
