Curtis Dahlgren
Back to school, part 2; Armor-up your kid for the "Poison-ivy League"
By Curtis Dahlgren
"Man without God is a beast, and never more beastly than when he is most intelligent about his beastliness." — Whittaker Chambers
EDWARD GIBBON (1737-94) WROTE THE FOLLOWING: "To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life."
I once had a high position in Washington — Illinois — and I went to Harvard once (Harvard, Illinois). I spent 14 mostly unprofitable months at the University of Wisconsin (the Harvard of the west). I also once attended a small Christian college. We used to call it a "college for small Christians." That's what the Ivy League schools originally were. Most of the grads went into the ministry.
Today, the worst nightmares of Edward Gibbon and Whittaker Chambers are coming true in a big way, so I'm re-posting an excerpt from a previous column. http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/dahlgren/041213
Harvard University is cloning human embryos for stem-cell Nazi-style medical "research," and is openly calling it "cloning." The secularism and raw anti-Christian "ethics" of one Princeton professor named Peter Singer — who bears no resemblance to any of the original faculty members — is only one infamous example.
The New England Journal of Medicine said he has had "more success in effecting changes in acceptable behavior" than any philosopher since Bertrand Russell ("change in behavior" being equated with "progress" now). The New Yorker called him the "most influential" philosopher alive. Marvin Olasky interviewed him recently "over lunch" and when asked about such practices as baby farms for spare body parts, infanticide, bestiality, necrophilia, and polyandry (group sex of unlimited size), Singer essentially gave his "blessings" to all of them ("nothing morally wrong with them"). Some lunch!
The intellectually incestuous relationship between the dominant news media and Academia in general, and "professors" such as Peter Singer in particular, are reason #1 why the 2004 election results shouldn't [have left] "retros" (traditionalists) with any sense of overconfidence. By incestuous, I mean: one does not become "teacher's pet" in Journalism 101, for instance, by writing a conservative column for a conservative student newspaper, or by questioning the latest PC theory in the "humanities."
It's "NO WONDER" that Democrats outnumber Republican tenured professors — in ratios ranging from 30-to-1 in anthropology, to 3-to-1in economics. The latter stat shows that Republicans believe more in the relevance of what happened in the last century in business than in the "irrelevance" of what may or may NOT have happened "billions and billions of years ago" (as in biology and anthropology). Nevertheless, as Rodney Dangerfield would put it, the retros just "don't get no respect" from the high-and-mighty "metros."
. . . According to the gospel of the newly redefined "academic freedom," it may be a crime to hand out copies of the Declaration of Independence to middle-school students, but it's just fine for a teacher to hand out "free flavored condoms." To add insult to injury to insult, a 5th grade teacher recently handed out computer print-outs that described us "Retros" as greedy, selfish, mean fundamentalist extremists [you forgot "geezers," "moss-backs," and "overly simplistic," Witch!].
You say you want to see some "respect"? I'll show you some respect — IN THE DICTIONARY! Our highly-paid academicians don't have a clue as to the meaning of the word respect [the "Koran" gets more respect than what used to be our own national Bible].
The "word-for-the-day," boys and girls, is "respect." In The Dictionary of Word Origins, Ayto says that "respect" and "respite" are ultimately the same word. Both go back to respectus ("look back at"). An earlier borrowing of Latin 'respectus' into Old French produced respit or "refuge"'!
There's a lesson in there somewhere: "looking back at" our roots produces a refuge, a respite. And obviously, a cousin to "respectus" is the word RETROSPECT (as in "Retro Americans"). There's a whole lot more to "retro-spect" than mere nostalgia ("blue" America, metro America, thinks that we're just trying to turn back the clock to an impossibility — "Ozzie and Harriet America").
No, we're talking about history and the lessons of history, ala Edward Gibbon. Webster says that the noun, retrospect, is a "survey of past events"; the adjective "retrospective" means: "applicable to past events; of laws and rules having force as if authorized at an earlier day . . . [like the Ten Commandments, say]."
And which part of this is too hard for the academic 'metrosexuals' to understand? The real challenge for Academia is not to persuade the captive audiences in their classrooms, but the American people at large — the whole American culture. [end of excerpt]
CONCLUSION —
The Ivy Leaguers and the rest of the academic "community" are undaunted. They are confident of eventually having their way with us, because for that task they rely on the popular culture and their incestuous "news journalists."
. . . Today's eggheads have egg all over their faces, because their agenda is so transparent. They know, as the Communists knew long ago, that the quickest way to bring down a nation is to corrupt the morals of the young people.
And you know you're really corrupt when corruption is no longer considered "corrupt" but "progressive."
A nightmare for a leftist must be dreaming that there is a God. I'll bet that happens a lot. I had a mini-nightmare recently in which I was driving a car and when I turned the steering wheel to the right the car went left, and vice versa. It's like my columns; the more I write about "right" (versus wrong), the more the nation heads in the wrong direction. Wish I were a better "salesman."
I think that's what Moses was saying to God when he said that he was a stutterer: "I'm the world's worst salesman, and you want me to do WHAT?"
Alas, the intellectual class in journalism, government, and the colleges and universities is trying to change Left into "right," down into up, and defeat into victory.
"What can a man do?" I'm not even a father, and these days one must be silent about parenting concepts unless one is a parent. One is just expected to shut up about the academic Establishment unless one has 2 or 3 degrees from said Establishment (how conveniently convenient for them).
Thankfully, I'm not a lone voice crying in the wilderness; I'm not ALONE, and we will soon find out if America is still a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people — or whether it is just a nation "of the eggheads, by the eggheads, and FOR the eggheads."
Thankfully, even Harvard and Washington, Illinois, and Cambridge, Wisconsin (etc.)have a voice in the matter still! Maybe even us Yoopers, STILL!
GO AND LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD! It's time we got some "respect" [but we don't even have to win every "debate"; simply standing up and speaking out is, in and of itself, a significant, small, victory. And it annoys the pants off the Educrats!].
P.S. Back to the present, in news-of-the-week, we learned that the attackers of the Border Patrol agent in the Yazoo, Mississippi federal prison have not been charged with any wrongdoing for the attack that left Nacho Ramos seriously injured. In fact, he is now in solitary confinement, and his attackers are NOT!
Meanwhile back in El Paso [as in "free passes" for the invaders], U.S. Attorney Sutton and the wounded drug mule come to a plea agreement that allows Sutton to keep sealed valuable evidence that would be relevant to an appeal of the Ramos and Compean convictions (by the way, whatever is happening to that appeal?).
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56992
Back in the Hallowed Halls of Congress, perhaps the biggest issue for the press is the issue of "no confidence" in Attorney General Gonzalez.
Personally, I don't have much confidence in him because I don't think he fired enough U.S. Attorneys. How did the ones in El Paso and the Yazoo, Mississippi district escape? I keep wondering what would happen to ME if I were in a federal prison and attacked a fellow prisoner with intent to possibly kill him.
Somehow I don't think the Feds would let me off the hook so easily.
Is it any wonder that we the People don't trust either major Party these days — no further than we can throw the Educrats, the "experts," the Elites of the poison-ivy league?
PPS: The 60-year-old hippies in Congress are also debating whether the war is being lost or "already" lost (in the attempt to relive their "glory days" of the 60s and 70s). The only thing remaining to bring us full circle is a video of Jane Fonda in northern Iraq firing a shoulder-fired missile at an American helicopter.
MORE TO COME.
© Curtis Dahlgren
"Man without God is a beast, and never more beastly than when he is most intelligent about his beastliness." — Whittaker Chambers
EDWARD GIBBON (1737-94) WROTE THE FOLLOWING: "To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life."
I once had a high position in Washington — Illinois — and I went to Harvard once (Harvard, Illinois). I spent 14 mostly unprofitable months at the University of Wisconsin (the Harvard of the west). I also once attended a small Christian college. We used to call it a "college for small Christians." That's what the Ivy League schools originally were. Most of the grads went into the ministry.
Today, the worst nightmares of Edward Gibbon and Whittaker Chambers are coming true in a big way, so I'm re-posting an excerpt from a previous column. http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/dahlgren/041213
Harvard University is cloning human embryos for stem-cell Nazi-style medical "research," and is openly calling it "cloning." The secularism and raw anti-Christian "ethics" of one Princeton professor named Peter Singer — who bears no resemblance to any of the original faculty members — is only one infamous example.
The New England Journal of Medicine said he has had "more success in effecting changes in acceptable behavior" than any philosopher since Bertrand Russell ("change in behavior" being equated with "progress" now). The New Yorker called him the "most influential" philosopher alive. Marvin Olasky interviewed him recently "over lunch" and when asked about such practices as baby farms for spare body parts, infanticide, bestiality, necrophilia, and polyandry (group sex of unlimited size), Singer essentially gave his "blessings" to all of them ("nothing morally wrong with them"). Some lunch!
The intellectually incestuous relationship between the dominant news media and Academia in general, and "professors" such as Peter Singer in particular, are reason #1 why the 2004 election results shouldn't [have left] "retros" (traditionalists) with any sense of overconfidence. By incestuous, I mean: one does not become "teacher's pet" in Journalism 101, for instance, by writing a conservative column for a conservative student newspaper, or by questioning the latest PC theory in the "humanities."
It's "NO WONDER" that Democrats outnumber Republican tenured professors — in ratios ranging from 30-to-1 in anthropology, to 3-to-1in economics. The latter stat shows that Republicans believe more in the relevance of what happened in the last century in business than in the "irrelevance" of what may or may NOT have happened "billions and billions of years ago" (as in biology and anthropology). Nevertheless, as Rodney Dangerfield would put it, the retros just "don't get no respect" from the high-and-mighty "metros."
. . . According to the gospel of the newly redefined "academic freedom," it may be a crime to hand out copies of the Declaration of Independence to middle-school students, but it's just fine for a teacher to hand out "free flavored condoms." To add insult to injury to insult, a 5th grade teacher recently handed out computer print-outs that described us "Retros" as greedy, selfish, mean fundamentalist extremists [you forgot "geezers," "moss-backs," and "overly simplistic," Witch!].
You say you want to see some "respect"? I'll show you some respect — IN THE DICTIONARY! Our highly-paid academicians don't have a clue as to the meaning of the word respect [the "Koran" gets more respect than what used to be our own national Bible].
The "word-for-the-day," boys and girls, is "respect." In The Dictionary of Word Origins, Ayto says that "respect" and "respite" are ultimately the same word. Both go back to respectus ("look back at"). An earlier borrowing of Latin 'respectus' into Old French produced respit or "refuge"'!
There's a lesson in there somewhere: "looking back at" our roots produces a refuge, a respite. And obviously, a cousin to "respectus" is the word RETROSPECT (as in "Retro Americans"). There's a whole lot more to "retro-spect" than mere nostalgia ("blue" America, metro America, thinks that we're just trying to turn back the clock to an impossibility — "Ozzie and Harriet America").
No, we're talking about history and the lessons of history, ala Edward Gibbon. Webster says that the noun, retrospect, is a "survey of past events"; the adjective "retrospective" means: "applicable to past events; of laws and rules having force as if authorized at an earlier day . . . [like the Ten Commandments, say]."
And which part of this is too hard for the academic 'metrosexuals' to understand? The real challenge for Academia is not to persuade the captive audiences in their classrooms, but the American people at large — the whole American culture. [end of excerpt]
CONCLUSION —
The Ivy Leaguers and the rest of the academic "community" are undaunted. They are confident of eventually having their way with us, because for that task they rely on the popular culture and their incestuous "news journalists."
. . . Today's eggheads have egg all over their faces, because their agenda is so transparent. They know, as the Communists knew long ago, that the quickest way to bring down a nation is to corrupt the morals of the young people.
And you know you're really corrupt when corruption is no longer considered "corrupt" but "progressive."
A nightmare for a leftist must be dreaming that there is a God. I'll bet that happens a lot. I had a mini-nightmare recently in which I was driving a car and when I turned the steering wheel to the right the car went left, and vice versa. It's like my columns; the more I write about "right" (versus wrong), the more the nation heads in the wrong direction. Wish I were a better "salesman."
I think that's what Moses was saying to God when he said that he was a stutterer: "I'm the world's worst salesman, and you want me to do WHAT?"
Alas, the intellectual class in journalism, government, and the colleges and universities is trying to change Left into "right," down into up, and defeat into victory.
"What can a man do?" I'm not even a father, and these days one must be silent about parenting concepts unless one is a parent. One is just expected to shut up about the academic Establishment unless one has 2 or 3 degrees from said Establishment (how conveniently convenient for them).
Thankfully, I'm not a lone voice crying in the wilderness; I'm not ALONE, and we will soon find out if America is still a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people — or whether it is just a nation "of the eggheads, by the eggheads, and FOR the eggheads."
Thankfully, even Harvard and Washington, Illinois, and Cambridge, Wisconsin (etc.)have a voice in the matter still! Maybe even us Yoopers, STILL!
GO AND LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD! It's time we got some "respect" [but we don't even have to win every "debate"; simply standing up and speaking out is, in and of itself, a significant, small, victory. And it annoys the pants off the Educrats!].
P.S. Back to the present, in news-of-the-week, we learned that the attackers of the Border Patrol agent in the Yazoo, Mississippi federal prison have not been charged with any wrongdoing for the attack that left Nacho Ramos seriously injured. In fact, he is now in solitary confinement, and his attackers are NOT!
Meanwhile back in El Paso [as in "free passes" for the invaders], U.S. Attorney Sutton and the wounded drug mule come to a plea agreement that allows Sutton to keep sealed valuable evidence that would be relevant to an appeal of the Ramos and Compean convictions (by the way, whatever is happening to that appeal?).
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56992
Back in the Hallowed Halls of Congress, perhaps the biggest issue for the press is the issue of "no confidence" in Attorney General Gonzalez.
Personally, I don't have much confidence in him because I don't think he fired enough U.S. Attorneys. How did the ones in El Paso and the Yazoo, Mississippi district escape? I keep wondering what would happen to ME if I were in a federal prison and attacked a fellow prisoner with intent to possibly kill him.
Somehow I don't think the Feds would let me off the hook so easily.
Is it any wonder that we the People don't trust either major Party these days — no further than we can throw the Educrats, the "experts," the Elites of the poison-ivy league?
PPS: The 60-year-old hippies in Congress are also debating whether the war is being lost or "already" lost (in the attempt to relive their "glory days" of the 60s and 70s). The only thing remaining to bring us full circle is a video of Jane Fonda in northern Iraq firing a shoulder-fired missile at an American helicopter.
MORE TO COME.
© Curtis Dahlgren
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