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Main / Designer Air Force Training
Aug 25, 2003, 08:51 AM
The Washington Times
August 20, 2003

Designer Air Force Training

By Donald Devine

The Air Force Academy has just announced a new training policy for this year, the Agenda for Change. This summer the old in-your-face yelling and drill instructor harassment was replaced by "positive reinforcement" for the new recruits.

Col. Debra Gray reports, "The main focus is to make sure they are getting counseling." The 1,000-plus incoming freshmen were introduced to new training sessions in human relations, gender roles, alcohol education, sexual assault, lawful and unlawful orders, and military law. Only specially vetted upper classmen will now be allowed to contact with the cadets, ending the ribald rivalry and rough testing by the senior classes over their junior platoons characteristic of a academy training from their founding.

Military training will all be quieter, gentler, more humane and sensitive.
While class spirit and loyalty to unit are still taught, National Public Radio reports the school is "hammering home" the necessity of reporting on fellow classmen. Col. Gray says, "Its tough, because we've always stressed through the ages here your loyalty to your class." The lesion is that reporting sexual misbehavior is more important.

Is it? Somehow these schools managed to produce warriors like Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, George Patton, Curtis LeMay, Chester Nimitz, Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur without positive reinforcement. They even turned out to be gentlemen, if that is not too old-fashioned a term. More importantly, every study of military effectiveness shows that the most important factor in success is unit loyalty and cohesion. While most warriors will not fight for abstract concepts like nation, they will sacrifice their very lives for their comrades-in-arms. Sensitivity training is unlikely to motivate soldiers to run at machine-gun nests.

Perhaps the days of the human fighter pilot are numbered and nonwarriors will be able to direct drones from the back lines. But until that day, warriors even from the Air Force Academy will remain in demand if the nation expects a victory in battle.

The good news is there still are two weeks at eh Academy where "warrior" training is allowed, at the end of basic training, including the shouting and harassment. Two weeks of real training is undoubtedly better than none at all but some may think American airmen should be warriors all the time.

Some cadets still think so. Regarding the charges of sexual assault that were the motivating force behind the new curriculum, academy senior Nicole Nwen told and interviewer: "I guess I question the validity of the accusations. And maybe we can help the girls out, as in if you just keep yourself out of the situation, you won't have to come up with stories to make yourself look better-because a lot of guys, their names are slandered, and I don't think its right."

The liberal NPR reporter attributed "this mind set" to "loyalty to their classmates." The job of the new rules is to change this mindset whether it is "right" or produces effective air officers or not. Ideology is to triumph military effectiveness. Presumably future Ms. Nwens will know better than to rally to their classmates under fire.

But wait. News has just leaked out of the Academy that, despite the new policy, two sexual assaults have taken place already on its campus in the first few days of this new term. Is it possible that placing the two sexes so close in such an intimate environment can override all of these nice positive personnel policies?

Former member of the Pentagon's Committee on Women in the Armed Services, Elaine Donnelly, has a more practical solution: single gender training. She is petitioning the president to stand up for a common-sense personnel policy of appropriately separating the sexes in military instruction, as a means to promote unit loyalty and real warrior training for our wonderful military forces.

Donald Devine, former director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is a columnist, a Washington-based policy consultant, and a Vice-Chairman of the American Conservative Union.
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Main / Dog fight busted in Erie
Aug 22, 2003, 11:06 AM
There is little doubt in my mind if we hadn't accidentally got our pit bull we have now, she would have been in this dog fight or one like it.  :cry:

It is rumored the dog fight below used chickens and puppies as bait for the dogs.

I'm actually of the belief that dog fighting should be legalized.  I believe if it were legal, it would be more humane.  I'm of the general belief that it's ok to fight pit bulls.  The dogs do not feel pain.  I've never once heard ours yelp at anything.  

If it were legalized, some of the more inhumane aspects of it would stop.  Such as using puppies to train the dogs to kill things, or tying tape over one pit bulls mouth, just so other dogs can maul it to death, to gain their confidence in fighting.

Here is a funny story about my pit bull.  We took our pitbull, our beagle/terrier, and a greyhound out to the woods to run around.  On our way out of the woods, the pit bull often gets rambunctious.  So the pit bull started picking on the beagle/terrier to rough-house/play.  The greyhound saw the big dog picking on the little dog and came to the rescue.  For the rest of the trip back, the greyhound was chasing the pit bull around, barking it (and greyhounds hardly ever bark.)  How funny is that.  The greyhound, a rescue dog, was protecting a small dog against arguably the most aggressive breed of dogs on the planet.  Successfully (not that the pit bull would have done anything, the beagle has psychological control over her).  I was amused by it.

This newspaper write up is very biased.  Everyone thinks the dog fighters should be lynched.  I don't believe animal rights should come before human rights.

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Dogfight probe sparks outrage


The Humane Society now has custody of this battered pit bull, suspected of being used in dogfights at a /mcKean Township home. (Erie Times-News photo by Janet B. Campbell)

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By John Guerriero
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Humans who take part in dogfighting are lower on the food chain than the dogs themselves.

Erie County District Attorney Bradley Foulk offered that opinion after a raid on a McKean Township home broke up a dogfight and led to the arrests of 10 people on felony charges of cruelty to animals and conspiracy to commit cruelty to animals.

"Just when you think you've seen it all, you encounter something like this,'' Foulk said Monday, referring to the raid at 7655 Millfair Road late Saturday.

What Foulk and investigators found in the rear of the home were 14 people near an illuminated wood-frame pit just after two pit bulls apparently had fought in the ring, said state police Cpl. Mark Zaleski, public information officer.

State police Sgt. Bill Ramey, criminal investigation section supervisor, said: "It's not the dogs you hear. They're not snarling. ... You hear what would sound like a large party.''

Ramey and about 25 other uniformed and undercover state police officers surprised the participants after authorities were tipped off by a confidential informant.

The location of the fights changed at least once, preventing investigators from breaking up the fights before they started, Zaleski said.

Authorities had the suspects under surveillance, but Ramey declined to say where.

Investigators seized 13 adult dogs, seven puppies and six chickens in the raid, including three adult pit bulls that were severely injured. One of the pit bulls was later euthanized.

All surviving animals are under the care of the Humane Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania, 418 W. 38th St., and must be kept in custody as evidence.

Fight-trained pit bulls typically cannot be adopted because their breeding and training make them too dangerous to release into society, said Karen Bukowski, Humane Society executive director.

The dogs could maim or kill people, other dogs and cats, and they probably will be humanely euthanized after the court case, she said.

"It's sad to see a dog so loyal to its owner treated in this fashion,'' Bukowski said.

Merle Wolfgang, the Humane Society's chief investigating officer, said this about the scene that she and police uncovered: "It's very disgusting, to be honest.''

Foulk had even stronger words.

"As far as I'm concerned, the people that raise fighting dogs, fight the dogs and participate in dogfighting are lower in the food chain than the fighting dogs are,'' Foulk said.



One of 20 dogs confiscated, this pit bull sports injuries from suspected dog fights, including swollen legs. (Erie Times-News photo by Janet B. Campbell)

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David Agresti, an assistant prosecutor, said that besides the three severely injured pit bulls, other pit bulls showed signs of past injuries from fighting.

Foulk said that dog handlers train the animals for fights by running them on treadmills. The handlers also tie a rawhide bait to a tree branch, which encourages the animals to leap and snatch the bait in their jaws, he said.

The pit bulls dangle from the tree for long periods, strengthening their jaws for the fights, he said.

Eight of the 10 defendants were still at the Erie County Prison on Monday, with bond set at $10,000 each.

They are Wayne Vanluven, 31, of Erie; Keith Vanluven, 25, of Fairview; Jermaine Hunter, 30, of McKean; and Cleveland residents Eric Gross, 46, Dan Murphy, 43, John Thomas, 38, Robert Hunter, 39, and Eric Hunt, 35.

Jermaine Hunter rented the home where police said the fights occurred.

The other two defendants, Archie James, 38, and James Summers, 40, both of Cleveland, were released from prison after each posted $10,000 bail.

Cruelty to animals is punishable by a maximum of seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine, plus restitution and court costs.

At least one other suspect is expected to be charged.

Foulk said these types of operations are tough to crack because the groups are secretive and "move from place to place'' to avoid detection.

Investigators hope to use this case to gain more information into how prevalent dogfighting might be in this region.

Thousands around the nation attend staged dogfights. American pit bull terriers used in most of these fights have been bred and trained for fighting and are unrelenting in their attempts to overwhelm the other dogs, according to the Web site of The Humane Society of the United States.

"With their extremely powerful jaws, they are able to inflict severe bruising, deep puncture wounds and broken bones,'' the Web site states.

A veterinarian at the scene treated the animals, but two of the pit bulls did not respond to treatment and were taken to the Pet Emergency Center, 429 W. 38th St., Bukowski said.

One is recovering, but the other never responded to treatment and had to be euthanized Monday at another veterinary hospital, Bukowski said. The animal suffered "major bite wounds'' from a fight, including a split tongue, she said.

The pit bulls suffered bite marks to the legs, face, ears, neck and front part of the body, she said.

Among the animals confiscated were a beagle and a mixed husky and her litter of seven puppies, Bukowski said. Only the pit bulls were involved in the fighting.

Foulk would not comment on a report that the dogs were baited with puppies and chickens. He said he doesn't know why puppies and chickens were at the site.



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Main / Picture of the black out from space
Aug 22, 2003, 10:43 AM
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Main / It's Time for a Rebellion
Aug 22, 2003, 10:23 AM
It's Time for a Rebellion

Thomas Jefferson said every 20 years, there should be a rebellion.  Knowing he was an intelligent man who meant what he said, I pondered why every 20 years.  I came to the realization:  twenty years is how long it takes to establish an establishment.

Establishment, as I am using it means "A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization," or "A controlling group in a given field of activity."  Establishments are tyrannical institutions, which demand their way and either silence or punish dissenting views.  

It takes about one generation, or 20 years, to set up an establishment.  Young radicals have a vision, and it takes them about 20 years to infiltrate media positions, university positions, corporate positions, i.e. positions of power, as to establish their establishment.  

There is no worse establishment in existence now than the one on universities.  The establishment there is one of intolerant liberalism.  

I have talked to people who were familiar with the university in the mid 80s and also in the mid 90s.  They tell me there is a world of difference.  Sure, in the 80s the professors may have been liberal, but free thought was still allowed.  Now, conservatives are persecuted with lower grades, accusations of hate speech, and other strong-arm tactics to get them to conform.  

The people who fill up positions of leadership in the university are all the leftovers of the anti-Vietnam protests, which started in the 1970s.  The radicals started in the 1970s with their rebellion, weaseled their way into the university, gave tenure to those that towed the party line, kicked out the ones who didn't, and by the mid 90s they established their establishment.  

It took about 20 years.

It's time to rebel.

Let me describe to you what goes on at the university - to students or organizations who don't tow the establishment's line of thinking.  

Let me start off with something I am personally fond of - the club I started in fall of 2001, the Independent Women's Club.  It was a club that advocated dating, instead of hooking up on campus, and questioned feminist bullshit.  Innocent enough, right?

The most tyrannical thing, although not the only thing, that happened to our  club was, probably, being fined for chalking.  Yes, chalking is illegal at Penn State University.  Now, here is the real ugly part.

We got two fines for two separate events - $110 total at $55 per chalking. We didn't even know about our first fine until they dished out the second fine.  How could we not know?  Shouldn't they have caught us red handed, given us a trial, and notified us?  No, they fined us the first time by merely deciding that since the chalking advertised an event we threw, we must have put it there.  There is no trial, no asking us about it, and they planned on taking the money straight from our account.  Anyone who thinks this is a just method of punishment is a slave to the state.

So, I spoke up about not even being told about the first fine before getting the second fine.  I got told we were told about it!  The woman who told us about the fine insisted she sent a notice after the first fine. (I also asked her who was in charge of issuing fines, so I could talk to them, and she told me no one was - fines just miraculously get issued based on "university policy." That person it turns out was Stan Latta).

After probing every possible place where this email could be found, it was nowhere. So she told me she would put a hard copy of it in our regular mailbox. What she put in there was a saved draft of something not sent - it had no "To" line, as a normal email would. She was a liar, in other words, this email was never sent. I actually ended up getting that second fine removed because Stan Latta, a liberal tyrant here, agreed that this woman did not send this email.

Despite knowing this woman totally lied to a student, this woman was not reprimanded.  In fact, when I went back down to her office to ask her something a year later - I got lectured about chalking on campus!  Our club paid the fine already, who, really, needed a lecturing?  This woman clearly was not reprimanded.  To people setting up an establishment, good lackeys are more important than honest workers.  

Ours was the first group to be fined for chalking all semester. After we were fined, that day and a few days after, four other groups were fined for chalking as well. It looked like an administration who knew they targeted one group specifically, then knew it would look bad if only one group was fined the whole year so they covered their tail and started handing other fines out.

What is the purpose of this? Why fine a conservative organization for advertising an event? (An anti-feminist event). If keeping the campus looking nice is their goal, signs everywhere advocating "Cuntfest" already ruined that.  The purpose, in short is to engrain into out-spoken conservative's psyche that the university has the strong arm tactics to do whatever it wants, without trials or evidence - to terrorize and silence you. Don't move, think, or act before they tell you it is OK. The establishment will tell you when it's ok to talk.  

Dissenting viewpoints are not allowed on campus. In fact, they may become punishable by university policy shortly.  The policies are already in place, it is just a matter of enforcement.

About two years ago, a "Report the Hate" group was formed, to report and punish incidents of "hate." A conservative friend of mine reported an incidence of hate - a homosexual who called him a "homophobe," which is a powerful and threatening tactic to get someone to be silenced or ruin their career in this day and age. This was the response by the administrators of "Report the Hate":

"Colleges and universities pride themselves on providing forums for debate and disagreement over social issues, from sexual orientation to race and governmental policies. During times of debate we ask that people remain open to alternative perspectives and civil in their discourse while also presenting divergent perspectives."

In other words, Report the Hate lectured him on being "open to alternative perspectives" regarding her "perspective" that he was a homophobe. "Hate" could not be reported because the conversation was held in an "open forum" (The Daily Collegian). However, the author goes on to say,

"Ideas, however, do not exist in a vacuum and the power of words can come to the surface, particularly when they relate to social groups that have been historically oppressed or disadvantaged."

For those of you who don't speak lawyer-ese, what this basically says is my friend was not protected as the insult was in an "open forum," but if the insult had been one aimed at someone who was "historically oppressed" then they can have a case. Gays, women, and other "historically oppressed" people are a legally protected class, but anyone who has a "hateful" conservative view against homosexuality or otherwise, can be prosecuted.

If that isn't enough, this same conservative had his own battle with the daily propaganda machine known as the Collegian. As a columnist, he had a total of four columns run all semester. All of the other liberal columnists got five, with some getting six or seven. Instead of running his final article, the editors told him his "services would not be needed," as they want to write their "What I learned at PSU" estrogen-rich nauseating crap.

They also have refused to print his articles for not being "timely" (an anti feminist article he wrote, which, they said, did not "relate to current issues") and also shafted him for a snow day. His column runs every other Tuesday. One week when there was a snow cancellation on a Monday, they conveniently ran Monday's column on Tuesday and left the Tuesday's column, i.e. his, out.

One tiny conservative voice is not even allowed to run one final column.  This is how adamant the thought police are, in the establishment of intolerant liberalism on campus.

Shortly after 9-11, my club put up flyers advocating a more hawkish solution to terrorism than the drowning hysterics of the dovish left.  We also hung up flyers with YAF, who was bringing in David Horowitz to speak.  The next day after we hung them up, every single flyer was torn down.  Every single flyer everywhere on billboards were torn down.  This was not campus activists tearing down flyers, which they have been known to do.  This was a university-mandated order to tear down flyers, which janitors carried out.  They claim it was the end of the month, therefore they could.  All my years there, they never tore down flyers until the end of the semester.  They could have at least had the courtesy to keep up modern ones.  (David Horowitz, a former anti Vietnam protestor turned conservative who regrets what he did in the 1970s, is considered the devil to the university establishment).  

Clubs, non-liberals ones anyway, aren't even allowed to raise their own money anymore. In spring semester of 2003, another anti liberal club, the Penn $tate Objectivist Club, tried to get money for their group the old fashioned way - by raising it themselves.  This is as opposed all other student organizations, who beg to get funded from the student funding committee on campus.  

The P$OC sold bus tickets at cheaper prices than the main bus services for students going home for spring break. After selling all the tickets, and given the run around by the university based on bureaucratic rules about the legality of this, when students tried to catch the buses, which they were relying on to go home for Spring Break, the administration called up the buses and told them they were not allowed to come on campus. Dozens of students were without rides, after paying money already, to go home. Initiative, free thought, and independence are virtual sins on the campus.

But why should a student organization be allowed to raise money on their own? Then they don't have to beg for it from the administration.  And then the administration can't dole out money to those it likes and those it doesn't.

Banning chalking, controlling opinion columns in the newspaper, not allowing a club to raise money on their own, etc., are all methods of controlling thought on campus. They set up these things, and many other things, such as "free speech zones," as to control what views get out and what ones don't.  

What is particularly frustrating is that conservatives like our group and others really don't have much power. For the past two years, all we have been is a student organization. We have no influence over curriculums, we have no influence over who is hired at the newspaper, we have no access to any kind of administrators, we didn't even have access to any mass email lists to advertise events, like the feminists with their massive women's studies programs do (not to mention entire departments set up solely for their causes, such as the Center for Women Students). We are a mere student organization; my friend is a mere Collegian columnist. Yet the university has their barnacles in absolutely all facets of student and university life here at PSU, that they can take the time to actively suppress and send out iron-fisted tactics against us for trying to voice our views.

All of these cases are very meager measures taken by students to fight the Nittany Lion of a beast called Penn State. Yet they are hellbent on stopping us. What is so scary about the tiny squeak of a mouse? Are they that queasy about their views?

These monsters don't even feel the need to cover up their naked selves anymore.  One well-intentioned but liberal Collegian columnist, Jessica Scott, describes in her article "Ignoring Conservatives Weaken Our Liberal Views,"

"The more I talk to students with conservative views, the more I hear complaints that no one listens to them. A good friend told me about a professor who was complaining about conservatives on campus. My friend asked if having an open mind meant listening to conservatives, not insulting them. The teacher responded, "I don't think that anyone who believes that the current system is working deserves to be heard" and changed the subject."

These are the thugs that fill up universities.  It is not a place to mold the best in students.  It is an indoctrination camp.

It's been 20 years, and now they feel they can do whatever they want.  They are thugs, pushing their twisted view of life unto all students who enter the university.  The old right is the new left.  

It's time for a rebellion.
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Picking the Right Shade of Lipstick (Feminism)
By Kathleen Reeder


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She's still pretty in pink, that Elle Woods. She's a Harvard Law School graduate who's snagged an ambitious-yet-kind fiancée, and she looks fabulous in the latest Manolo Blahnik stilettos.

In Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) returns to prove, yet again, that girls just want to have fun, look great...and change the world. This time, Elle journeys to Washington, D.C. to take on Congress and its standards for testing cosmetics on animals.

"Never underestimate a woman with a French manicure and a Harvard Law School degree!" declares Elle's mentor Representative Rudd (played by Sally Field) in the second installment of a movie about a sorority girl-cum-legal activist. Witherspoon herself has been called a post-feminist icon, according to Ellen Goodman of the Washington Post. And in an interview with celebrity gossip columnist Liz Smith, Witherspoon herself firmly declares: "The film is about female potential in the future, and that's what's really exciting to me."


This new take on feminism, this "potential in the future" is not all that new. But Legally Blonde 2 is, perhaps the first time it's hit the big screen with such ferocity. Elle Woods' feminism says "I can be a feminist, I can be smart, and I can be cute at the same time!"


Athletic but feminine? No problem. Smart plus cute? Mais oui! Women around the country have been keen on this sort of "be-what-you-want-to-be" feminism for quite a while. Nancy Redd, a real Harvard graduate who is vying for the Miss America crown, said, "This is what third-wave feminism is all about. Be a career woman, be a stay-at-home mom, be Miss America.


And Just Down Pennsylvania Avenue...


Elle isn't the first gal to spread the word of third-wave feminism and its great freedom. The popular political drama The West Wing also addresses this new take on feminism. A few seasons back, Rob Lowe's character Sam Seaborn complimented sexy blonde attorney Ainsley Hayes on her attractive eveningwear. When another employee hounded Sam for his comments, he apologized to Ainsley. But Ainsley, a feminine fireball, responded with:


"If I felt demeaned I'd be one of the very first people to know it. If someone says something that offends you, tell them. But all women don't have to think alike. I don't think whatever sexuality I have diminishes my power. I think it enhances it."


"And what kind of feminism do you call that?"


"My kind."


"It's called lipstick feminism. I call it Stiletto Feminism," chimed in another female in the office.


Ainsley concluded with a whopper: "The point is that sexual revolution tends to get in the way of actual revolution. Nonsense issues distract attention away from real ones: pay equity, child care... [and] honest-to-God sexual harassment."


This is exactly the point of Legally Blonde 2, Ainsley Hayes, and lipstick feminism: by focusing too much on what a person's packaging signifies and ridiculous gender-based political correctness, we're losing track of real problems that have to be addressed. We're forgetting that merit and ability are what's important, rather than the peripherals - such as, say, a woman's choice of hot pink sequined shoes. The producers of Legally Blonde 2 may have gone a little overboard with the Barbie-doll styling of Elle Woods. Most of us would want to smack an overdrawn character like Elle rather than hug her. But I'm guessing that a lot of smart women will see a streak of themselves in her perfect pink pedicure.


Legally Blonde 2 leaves us with a nice little bonbon of a lesson: We don't have to take off our heels to play with the boys. Feminism and femininity used to be awkward bedfellows, but now they're two peas in a pod. It's called lipstick feminism, ladies. Style and substance can co-exist! Welcome to the twenty-first century...as Elle Woods would say, "Is this super-fun or what?"
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Main / Scientology's suppression of emotion
Aug 21, 2003, 12:46 PM
I'm trying to do some research on Scientology.  It's a little more difficult than I thought, well not too difficult.  I wonder if this kind of information isn't too widespread, because the left embraces any and all 'religion's that aren't too popular or too insistent on morality, hence cover up negative information about them.

A friend told me once that scientologists put a person in a chair, with a device that monitors emotions.  Then they start spraying all sorts of emotional things at the person, and the person doesn't 'pass' until they successfully sit through the barrage of emotionally provocative things, and remain completely calm.

This is all I could find so far, although I can't do a lot of research right now due to time restraints.  I can't really make sense of what the author is talking about.  They assume that the person reading it already is familiar with scientology practices.  

Question of the day:  Is this practice, if true, good or bad?

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us-a1.html

Scientology Auditing and Its Offshoots
by Robert Kaufman

L. Ron Hubbard raised Scientology from Dianetics' ashes with the aid of a device that tracks electrical resistance on skin surfaces of the "auditee's" hands during sessions. Hubbard claimed that E-meter "reads" confirmed his notions about events, images and words making up a destructive mind he called the "bank." In the auditing procedure, the readings are supposed to signify the presence and dispersal of "charge" present in the events and other "bank" material. The meter not only keeps the processing on course but also verifies the results.

Hubbard framed his theories and method in terms that thwart comparison with the rest of the world. However, we find ready comparison between the E-meter -- a biofeedback device, the tangible element in a wash of intangibility -- and the assortment of biofeedback devices used outside Scientology to monitor physiologic functions such as brainwave frequency, pulse rate and finger temperature. The readings of the non-Scientology instruments are interpreted only to the extent that their signals (dial needle, flashing light or humming tone) are deemed to indicate moment-to-moment change in a favorable or unfavorable direction.

No doubt the auditee gets "passing" and "non-passing" readings. These reflect the rise and fall of tension, and the underlying composite of mental, physical and emotional forces. A person hypothetically "wearing" biofeedback equipment through the day would get a similar variety of readings, including the equivalents of "baseline," "rising needles," "blowdowns," and "free," "floating" and "clean needles." The readings would reflect, in part, his reaction to being on the device, i.e., to situation.

Incentive, a sense of positive purpose, tends to generate the positive type of emotion that produces favorable physiologic change and improved readings. This is precisely the working principle of biofeedback training, where the trainee's object might be to slow brainwave frequency to alpha, or raise finger temperature, for health or meditation purposes. His incentive directs him to the desired result.

Incentive, of course, is also the major part of learning to pass a lie-detector test. The lie-detector is an array of biofeedback devices that supply simultaneous readings. Clearly, the very principle that makes biofeedback training possible, and useful, makes lie-detector test results inadmissible as evidence in court proceedings: One may beat the machine.

No special magic makes Scientology biofeedback different from "wog" (non-Scientology) biofeedback. Human emotion doesn't take a holiday during an auditing session. The auditee brings his hopes and dreams to the session. His prime incentive, to succeed at auditing, is channeled through the inculcation of "stable data," "R-factor," and his own auditing experience. The regimen instills how auditing is supposed to go, what should happen, and what is expected of him. He is deluged with suggestion, and may even glean the nature of his forthcoming insights from descriptions in Hubbard's writings and the "Bridge" chart, or simply from the name of the process.

The auditee begins to associate his success with the indoctrination; following the program becomes his prime incentive. When he does as Hubbard tells him he feels positive. Compliance is then reward in itself.

The auditee's motivation to get favorable readings is tremendous. With each floating needle he is closer to his shining goal. He is probably unaware that he can control the meter. In any case he wouldn't want to, for that would defeat the assumed purpose of auditing. Here emerges one of Scientology's strange contradictions: The auditee, following his natural instincts once he's on the machine, controls it anyway -- and neither he nor the auditor knows he's doing it.

To begin with, the auditee has access to the running supply of machine-generated information that constitutes biofeedback -- directly, if he is self-auditing, otherwise in the form of cues given him by his auditor. His intellect may not register this information, but his body does. He soon learns to identify a certain special feeling with end of "cycle" or process. His inner sense learns what produces a floating needle. Also what doesn't -- as when the auditor merely acknowledges and repeats the question or instruction. At some point he experiences a subtle sense of prediction about floating needles. Again, this is not his wish to influence or control the needle, but out of a feeling of accomplishment (Certainty On The Data) wedded to compliance, as well as what body-mind physiology has learned about biofeedback.


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Just wondering.

I personally don't think it's possible.  But I was wondering if any strong women have actually come out of that victim dwelling, dependency creating, whiny leftist/feminist culture.
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Main / The 21st Century Joan of Arc
Aug 16, 2003, 02:49 AM
A rough draft

The 21st Century Joan of Arc.

Feminism became popular beginning in 1963 by appealing to the best within Americans.  It appealed to women's desire for independence and achievement, and men's desire to see them succeed.  Americans naively, like a baby with a lollipop, allowed it to enter their lives.

But the real motive behind second wave feminism was corrupt in nature.  And feminists continue to lose their pretty packaging, revealing themselves for the beasts they are, and in fact, always were.

Let us look at feminist behavior, and see if we can determine their motives and goals.  

If promoting strong females were your goal, as feminist's claim is their goal, would you not look for popular examples of successful females, so girls could look up to and strive to emulate them?  Condoleeza Rice comes to mind as a perfect role model for young girls.  

Miss Rice entered college at 15, graduated cum laude at 19, and then went on to earn Master's and PhD degrees.  She is a concert pianist.  She knows several different languages.  She served as a provost at Stanford University, and currently serves as the National Security Advisor in the most powerful country in the world, during one of its most trying times.  

She personifies excellence.  Watching her speak has always been awe-inspiring.  She can command an audience and speak with authority.  The fact that she is a black woman is insignificant, but if adds to her glory, then so be it.  

In fact, out of the absolute circus made after the 9-11 attacks, with Colin Powell begging for peaceful resolutions (after terrorists attacked American civilian land), it was Condoleeza who provided the enduring, but lonely voice in favor of America.  Being in that thicket, no doubt, was grating.  Imagine being the only person willing to defend doing the right, but dangerous thing, and to be the only female surrounded by men, doing so.  Condoleeza Rice can be considered the 21st century's Joan of Arc - a true individualist and a true hero.  

So, here we have a black, successful woman.  Double whammied, you would think she would be the feminist poster girl.  Do they support her?  No. It is no mystery that feminists do not support the Republican Rice.  In fact, despite their alleged goal of seeing a female President of the United States, they will tell you, in united thuggish solidarity that despite Rice's phenomenal credentials, they would never vote for her if she ran.  

Why?  Some may say its because she is a Republican.  But it's much more than that - it's because Condoleeza is a strong woman.  She defies all their complaints of a racist, sexist America.  She doesn't buy into their victim mentalities.  Condoleeza Rice, a woman who embraces justice, ambition independence, is to feminists what sunlight is to Dracula.  

Does this sound like a group who supports the success of women?

Who do feminists support?  Andrea Yates.

Allegedly consumed with confusion, unable to differentiate between perception and reality, in June of 2001, Andrea Yates methodically murdered all 5 of her children. She drowned them, one by one, in her bathtub.  

Arguably one of the worst crimes any individual can commit, the feminist organization NOW came to Andrea Yates's defense.  Arguing post partum depression led her to kill all five of her children, feminists begged for mercy and a punishment of life in rehabilitation, not prison.

The argument of post partum depression in the Yate's case is a shady one at best.  With one in one thousand mothers suffering post partum depression, and of the millions of mothers who give birth to children each year, almost completely all of them, except arguably (very arguably) a handful in the past 75 years, have managed not to kill their children, rather than in a slow, methodical way (and all 5 of them!).  

Feminist's support of Yates, and the reason for supporting her, reveal their souls.  The feminist organization NOW did not do any activist work for post partum sufferers before, or after, the Yates case.  They are not genuinely interested in this medical condition, which is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a condition which presupposes a woman to killing her children.  

No, Yates's murder set off little bells in them.  Bells of which are sympathetic to women who cannot differentiate between perception and reality; who are consumed with mental illness; who cannot make moral decisions; who cannot live their lives like rational adults - because it reminds them of them.  

Feminists are not interested in watching women shine to the greatness of Condoleeza Rice; they are interested, literally, in allowing women to get away with murder.

Feminism is protectionism.  Feminism is based upon the concept of giving women complete impunity - to be allowed to do whatever they want, with no punishments and all the benefits.

The political battle is not between left and right, but between tribalism and individualism, which translates politically into statism versus freedom.  It is a battle between people who want protection, based on what group they are in versus those willing to live their lives as independent, rational adults.  Whether they stand by minorities, women, or American workers, protectionists seek not to live their lives and receive value based on their talent and ambition, but rather to attain value automatically, i.e. to stifle the competition underhandedly and protect oneself.  The only way to protect oneself is to use the government.  Feminists protected class just happens to be women.  

The very concept of "women's rights" is anathema to individualism.  What exactly are "women's rights"  and why are they any more or less than "individual rights" What right do they want?  To be able to kill their children?

To claim an entire class of women has inherent "rights" is in and of itself class warfare rhetoric.  It necessarily means women's rights at the expense of men's rights.

Notice what they've fought for.  Women can choose to have an abortion, while men have no say in the matter, but must pay child support if she decides to keep the baby.  Women's right to have a job, at the expense the more qualified man, i.e. affirmative action.  Women's right to have education catered to them, at the expense of boys, who are suffering in feminized learning environments in which they cannot succeed.  

Double standards permeate feminist thought too.  When I was an undergrad at Penn State, a feminist group threw an event called Cuntfest, in which a lesbian stripper exposed her breasts on stage.  That same year, Penn State got a Hooters restaurant.  Feminists fought to get Hooters banned from coming on campus.  They shouted quite loudly that they had a free speech right to hold Cuntfest.  Hooters apparently did not deserve the same right.  Pornography is not Ok, unless it's for women.  

Feminists are quick to argue that women can be just as physically strong as men.  They want to see women as firefighters and combat soldiers.  Yet, when it comes to domestic violence, realizing they can gain compassion by being the weaker sex, all of a sudden, feminists are quick to admit that men are indeed stronger and that a man will inflict more damage unto a woman.

One thing feminists fought in the early 70s was the idea that a woman was too emotional and consumed with hormones to become President of the United States.  But hormones seem to be a valid excuse to murder your 5 children.  

This is what political protectionism is.  Everything is always in favor of the protected class, in this case - women.  

You might say "but I am a feminist and I do not support those things" Ah, the cleverness of feminists.  They never explicitly define what "feminist" stands for, as to keep popularity.  Anyone, from libertarians to Marxists thus can be 'feminists' since it has no definition.  Meanwhile, these under-handed things have been the only practical effects of feminism.  Those who cling to the label 'feminist' have only served as enablers.  

This protectionism effectively renders women unsuccessful.  It stops them from being great.  How can a woman pursue excellence, when she is told by virtue of her femaleness, she is automatically right and good?

The characteristics needed for success are universal.  It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman - a commitment to excellence, reason, discipline, enterprise etc. are necessary to do great things.  

In the debate between statism and freedom; it is the people who believe in freedom who will aspire to greatness.  Not desiring protectionism, they thus develop talent and value.  Feminists, who don't believe in being great, stifle a woman's intellectual, moral, and economic development.

Can you name any great woman who was produced from feminist culture?  By great, I mean a woman who painted a great painting; invented a great invention; led a great nation.  I don't mean women who are nothing but political mouthpieces or got where they are at through their husbands.  

Feminist culture is not producing great women.  In fact, the below is about the only thing you will hear from them about successful women.  In Christine Stolba's Lying in a Room of One's Own, she examined 5 women's studies textbooks.  This is what one of the textbooks said:  

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“The movement suffers when successful women disavow women’s struggles, fail to encourage and admire other women, and are not proud of our female heritage.  We have all seen women of great accomplishments disavow women’s causes, as though they themselves were not women.  Florence Nightingale, Helene Deutsch, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher are all examples of women who turned from other women.”  


A female heritage?  Women have a common bond throughout all other women?    I suppose someone forgot to initiate me.  

How can a woman succeed under this kind of suffocation?  She can't.  This is the reason, I propose, why most great women are found on the right side of the political spectrum, which is the only place which has a vestige of people who still support freedom, although it is a very small vestige.  (And if feminists want to see a female President, they had better get used to the idea that she will be a Republican, because if she is to go through with it, she is going to have to be tough, of which Democrat women are not.)  

Successful women have existed and prospered, despite feminist's enthusiastic desire to dismiss them in history books or scoff at them for not supporting their 'sisters'  Malvina Hoffman, Maria Montessori, and Ayn Rand are some I personally look up to.  These women contributed major and valuable things to society, and all were around well before the malicious feminist movement.  (But you will never hear that from feminists, as they are quick to create dependency in girls, by telling them without the feminist movement, they would never be able to succeed).

In fact, all three of my examples were around during, or were heavily influenced by the Second Renaissance.  The Second Renaissance, a time when reason, excellence and achievement were celebrated - thus produced excellent, achieved people, of either gender.  
Our feminist culture, a time which says women are invincible, is producing needy, dependent, chaotic women, incapable of making the most simple of decisions, like choosing not to kill their children.  Feminism has only worked to take women backwards.  

Many argue that the feminist movement did not start out as socialist.  They believe the original feminists of the 70s had good intentions, only desiring equality, nothing more.

I'm not sure what re-written history books they are reading or what drugs they are taking, because the feminist movement was started by well established communists.  Betty Friedan, who wrote the book The Feminist Mystique, published in 1963, and is credited with starting the women's liberation movement, was a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America.  

Feminism rode in on the boat of strong women, but on that boat were infested rates - communist rats.  They may have won the public over by presenting the image of the strong woman, but from the very beginning they had the intent of ushering socialism into America on the back of chivalry and 'women's rights' They had no interest in watching women succeed; they were interested, primarily, in removing women from the wife/mother role.  

More recent feminist activism, from the Cuntfest at Penn State to supporting Andrea Yates are not a product of radicals who stole feminism, but a product of a movement that cannot cover its true nature as well anymore.  

All rational people should reject such irrational notions as 'women's rights, or rather - feminism.  Collectivism and individualism cannot exist in the same place.  

And if someone ever asks you if you are a feminist, tell them no, and tell them it is because you support successful women.
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Main / Playboy's cultural influence
Aug 14, 2003, 11:13 PM
I've been reading some interesting stuff about Hugh Hefner and Playboy lately.  Apparently, Hefner was heavily influenced by The Kinsey Report, a provoactive book written in 1948.  The entire point of the Kinsey Report, was to show that what was sexually 'deviant' was actually very normal.  Kinsey sought to show that perversion was actually widespread, but it was just swept under the carpet.  Hefner says he was inspired by this book, and started Playboy.

But, of course, it turns out the Kinsey Report had research methods much like typical leftists.  Kinsey focused heavily in prisons and on interviewing known sex offendors.  It seems he went to the most perverse, took that data, then claimed the world is perverse.  :roll:

I used to argue that Playboy was AOK.  I would have said anyone who comlpained about Playboy would just be jealous of the centerfolds.  Ayn Rand gave lavish praise to Playboy's first centerfold, Marilyn Monroe.  In fact, Playboy gave an interview to Rand because so many playmates were identifying Rand as their favorite author.  

But is the Hef empire something to look up to?  The big life.  The girls.  The parties.  He is 77 yrs old, he picks his girls solely based on their appearance.  If they don't already have it, he makes them dye their hair blonde and grow it long.  All 7 girls that he dates at any particular time have a certain 'place' in his hierarchy of girls.  I hear he has the ability to grope random playmates at his party .. because he's Hef.

I was never around pre-Playboy so I don't know what it was like.  But, of course, I hear a lot of conservatives complain that it corrupted an entire generation of men, exploited their fears about married life, and kept them as kind of free wheeling adolescents, never wanting to become family men, instead living it up.

I need more proof that Hefner is the influential evil monster that conservatives make him out to be.  In the meantime, I'm content exposing the invalid data from the Kinsey report.  Although, I have to admit, the men addicted to pornography have a very thwarted view of what womanhood is about, and I STRONGLY ADVISE women to stay away from guys who tell you they rent one pornography a week (which means they really rent at least two per week).
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Main / Anti Amber Article
Aug 13, 2003, 08:47 PM
I think you know you are doing something right when there are entire articles dedicated to proving you wrong.

http://www.quorumcall.com/content/contributors/catherine_corey/081403.html

"Amber's claims disgust me. And with everything I've experienced, she had better believe I don't throw that word around lightly."

The girl mostly "deconstructs" my argument, i.e. tries to prove where I am "logically" wrong, while never really providing an argument or ideal of her own to bring to the table.  

The whole thing greatly amuses me.  8)
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Main / Easy Justice
Aug 12, 2003, 06:06 AM
Easy justice
Thomas Sowell (archive)


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Justice Anthony Kennedy won an outburst of applause at a recent meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco when he criticized mandatory sentencing laws.


"Every day in prison is much longer than any day you've ever spent," Justice Kennedy said. "A country which is secure in its institutions and confident in its laws should not be ashamed of the concept of mercy."

Two centuries ago, Adam Smith had something to say about mercy as well: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

Innocent victims of crime seem to disappear from the lofty vision and ringing rhetoric of those who worry that the punishment of criminals is "too severe," as Justice Kennedy put it. If a day in prison can be pretty long, so can every day living in a high-crime neighborhood, where you have to wonder what is going to happen to your son or daughter on the way to or from school.

The nights can get pretty long too, when you are afraid to go out on the streets and have to worry about how safe you are, even inside your apartment behind doors with multiple locks. Locks can't stop stray bullets from warring drug gangs.

Justice Kennedy may feel "secure" where he lives and works. But the "equal protection of the laws" under the 14th Amendment applies also to those who live in less elite circumstances.

Even in high-crime neighborhoods, most people are not criminals. But the minority of thugs and hoodlums in their midst can make life a living hell for the majority of decent people.

Even those people in such neighborhoods who do not become direct victims of crime nevertheless suffer economically. Prices are higher in stores that have to have costly security devices and pay higher insurance rates because of crime and vandalism.

There is also a large hidden price in the absence of as many stores, banks, and other institutions in high-crime neighborhoods.

Low-income people often have to go outside their neighborhoods for shopping. For those who don't have cars, that means paying more bus fares or taxi fares out of their low incomes.

How about a little "mercy" for these people? The sentences of innocent people in high-crime neighborhoods can last a lifetime.

You wouldn't have to lock up 5 percent of the people in high-crime neighborhoods to bring the crime rate down dramatically. Some years ago, when little East Palo Alto, California, had the highest murder rate in the nation, a law enforcement crackdown drove that murder rate way down in just one year by taking a relative handful of career criminals off the streets.

Justice Kennedy pointed out that a higher percentage of our population is imprisoned than the percentage of the population in some other countries. But it has been precisely since we started locking up more criminals in the 1980s that our crime rates finally began to turn downward.

"Our sentences are too long," Justice Kennedy also told the American Bar Association. Compared to what? Compared to sentences in Europe? Justice Kennedy has apparently become a citizen of the world, even citing foreign legal precedents in a recent Supreme Court opinion.

Our laws were not made to deal with conditions in Europe. Our judges are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States -- not the European Union. If Justice Kennedy finds all this too parochial and confining, he is free to resign from the Supreme Court of the United States and go join the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

Justice Anthony Kennedy is a classic example of someone appointed to the Supreme Court by a conservative Republican, who arrives bearing the "conservative" label, but who then goes native in Washington -- or, as the liberals say, "grows."

Backbone is infinitely more important than ideological labels because all the influences and incentives are to move leftward. That is how you get the applause of the American Bar Association, good ink in the liberal press, acclaim in the elite law schools and invitations to tony Georgetown parties.

We can only hope that the Bush administration does not succumb to the Senate Democrats' filibuster threat by appointing more Anthony Kennedys to the federal courts. These appointments last a lifetime -- which is too long a sentence for crime victims.
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Main / Next Generation Feminism
Aug 12, 2003, 05:53 AM
Next Generation Feminism

Marie Hamer
Summer 2003 Intern

(Originally published in The Washington Times on August 10, 2003)


As a college student, one thing you quickly learn is that if you want a balanced education, a majority of your learning will happen outside the classroom.  

On July 5, 2003 I attended the National Organization for Women’s Annual Convention in Arlington, Virginia.  This radical feminist organization is “the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States,” according to NOW’s website.  They also claim to have a goal “to take action to bring about equality for all women.”  I went to the conference expecting to hear the predictable feminist voices I hear at my college. Women are oppressed.  Our evil, patriarchal, homophobic president of the United States will ruin all that feminists have worked for.  I heard all that, but also much more.

Conference speakers included a panel of presidential candidates.  The ones in attendance included Carol Moseley Braun, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton.  House of Representative Barbara Lee was honored with NOW’s Woman of Courage Award.  NOW President, Kim Gandy was also there to speak and entertain the crowd in sporadic moments, such as when Representatives Loretta Sanchez and Jan Schakowsky failed to show up for their speaking engagements.  Gandy informed audience members that NOW was very happy these members had gone home to their districts for the day.

Gandy said the mission of this conference was clear: “With two branches of government aligned against us, and the Supreme Court precariously balanced, women’s rights are in greater peril than they’ve been in over a decade.  And at this conference we’re fighting back by launching a new campaign to preserve women’s rights through a massive grassroots mobilization of feminist voters- aptly titled ‘The Drive for Equality.’”

But as I sat in the audience listening to an interactive panel focused on intergenerational issues, I got a different impression of the willingness of this organization’s grassroots effort to mobilize.  Young feminists stood up to proclaim the feminist movement was not helping them on their college campuses.   They complained that NOW’s leaders were out of touch with the issues they were facing.  These young feminists were angry.

Angry because they said the feminist movement was not giving them the respect and responsibility they felt was deserved.  They had been told by aging, gray haired feminists that they do not have to settle for jobs they are overqualified for.  But now, as the feminist movement is calling to its next generation to spearhead the grassroots efforts of the organization, the young feminists believe they are above making photocopies or stuffing envelopes, as most young women and men alike start out doing.

I wondered if this was the sentiment of all young women who grew up in this generation with mothers who marched to pass the Equal Rights Amendment?

I decided to compare what young women who did not consider themselves feminists were saying.   I attended a mentoring luncheon hosted by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, where I had interned this summer.  The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute has a mission of preparing young women for effective leadership.  This luncheon was designed for high school and college women to participate in a discussion with Luce Policy Institute President, Michelle Easton, and American Cause President and former United States Treasurer, Angela ‘Bay’ Buchanan.  

Immediately I could sense a different attitude in this group of young women.  They were positive, happy and grateful to have the opportunity to sit down and ask questions of their movement’s leaders.  Questions were not focused around how the movement leaders were failing the students, as the NOW Conference questions were.  The questions at this event were focused more on how young women could present themselves in a professional manner and achieve their goals for their career and family life.  

When asked if she benefited from the luncheon, one girl replied, “Extremely!  I have never had the opportunity to discuss such issues seriously with so many other women.”  When asked about the leaders, she said, “I like the energy and passion the leaders express.”

This luncheon was refreshingly upbeat – a huge difference from NOW’s apocalyptic gathering.  You could tell by the smiles on the young women’s faces and the way they stayed around to ask more questions of their mentors they had benefited greatly from this experience.

Following the NOW panels and workshops, students left promptly after their conclusion.  At one point, a frustrated young woman stood up and announced that they had planned an under 25 beer run for later that evening and anyone under 25 was allowed to attend.  They just had to meet in the lobby after the evening’s sessions had concluded.

When the leaders of the feminist movement asked what they could do to help the young feminists, the feminists realized their worst nightmare was coming true.  Their next generation acknowledged that they needed to take a cue from the conservatives because what conservatives were doing on college campuses was working.

This must be disaster for an organization that has spent incredible time and energy telling its young that the conservative movement is filled with nothing but old, white men.  Conservatives have broken away from this stereotype.  Students are seeing a whole new generation of young, DIVERSE conservative leaders and they are identifying with them.  Liberals’ worst fears are being confirmed: it’s cool to be a conservative.

The generations of children born to feminist mothers are the ones who are suffering at the hands of their mother’s quest for equality. Feminists shortchange young women when they become wrapped up in their “drive for equality.”  Many of these young women are so consumed with the victim mindset that they never develop a work ethic. Fortunately, these young feminists are not in the majority.   My generation is more conservative, professional and hard working.  Most importantly, we know that not everything you learn in the world is within the walls of a classroom. My generation is determined to always find the other side of the story.
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Main / University hatred of the military
Aug 11, 2003, 10:57 AM
So everyone knows I graduated last Saturday.  Something interesting happened at the ceremony.  My whole family was there.  My dad said to me after the ceremony that he sensed a "negative attitude" when our President of Penn State, Graham Spanier, introduced the commissioned military officers from ROTC at the ceremony.  I did not notice it, perhaps because I am so used to what goes on at the university.  My father said Spanier used the word "obligated" when introducing the former cadets now offiers.  He was "obligated" to acknowledge them at the ceremony, as opposed to "honored."

My father is a blue collar independent who votes democrat.  He is not political in the least.  

He said that to me, and I told him that Spanier has said in speeches on other campuses that if it were up to him, ROTC and the military would be banned from Penn State.  Congress apparently had to step in to stop him from abolishing ROTC from PSU, which has the largest ROTC program in the nation.

After I told my father that, he decided to write a letter to the Board of Trustees.  I am giggling now at what Spanier will think when he hears the last name of the person who wrote the letter, knowing I graduated on Sat.

So then my dad wanted to know why Spanier had such a negative attitude about the military.  Why would anyone not support the troops?  It's one thing not to support the war, but why the attitude over the recent college grads in the military?

How to explain to dad the ways of the radical socialist anti American professors and administration?

At first I just said "they hate the military."  But he still wanted to know why.  I can't just say "because they hate america and capitalism and want to start a new socialist world order."  

So, I told him about what Spanier did after 9-11.  The compassionate and patriotic thing to do would have been to give students the day off on 9-12-01.  But, Spanier had us go to class and told professors to "talk about the tragedy."  Sounds good from the outside, but keep in mind all professors hate America.  The first thing students heard the next day on Sept 12 was, "What did America do wrong to deserve that?"

My father, who recently went back to school and graduated last May, said he had a professor like that, who hated America and our involvements overseas.  So, I was able to explain it a little bit.

Also, at the ceremony, a girl in a wheelchair graduated.  Spanier, at first, failed to go over and shake her hand.  A member of the board of trustees had to come up and make him go over to shake her hand.  They say they are for the oppressed, but they aren't.  They are elitist as hell.

My mother said she was going to write a letter over that, hahahaha.

Spanier is the same guy who told his daughter not to talk to the hired help at a banquet in his home, hired help of who was mostly his students.

Parents don't really understand that professors and administration are hellbent on destroying America, our troops, our national defense etc. ... but they do understand when these unapologetic assholes demean military people to their face, ignore people in wheelchairs, insult waitstaff etc.

I'm debating whether or not to write an article on this.  I'm sure it could get published places.  I worry about bringing my family into it.  I guess I could ask them if they mind.  I think it is quite telling that my apolitical father picked up on that.
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Main / Pit bulls and feminists
Aug 10, 2003, 06:11 PM
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Main / Graduation
Aug 08, 2003, 11:32 AM
I get my official degree tomorrow.  




Maybe I'll do this