08.18.06

“The Moon is Made of Cheese(heads)”

Posted in Politics, Unhinged, Crazy Academia at 11:54 pm by JEG

I warned everyone that I’d be watching this issue.

“The faculty member who devotes part of his course on physics to the proposition that the moon is made of cheese could rightly be accused of professional behavior that amounts to incompetence. But short of that, colleges and universities are places where ideas of the most unusual sort ought to be tested before students and peers.”

So says the “big cheese” from the American Association of University Professors.

If my father - a former academic - is a member of this organization, I’ll beat his big butt.

Paul Wellstone’s plane crash was no accident. The US government planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks. The World Trade Center imploded due to explosives set up ahead of time. According to the Christian Science Monitor, these are the viewpoints of Kevin Barrett at UW-Madison. Call me crazy, but these ridiculous notions are right up there with the moon being made of cheese. I’m ready to enroll for the spring semester at U-Dub to hear this madness for myself. And with all due respect to the AAUP, if there was ever a case for “professional behavior that amounts to incompetence,” this one wins 1st prize. Notice, in addition, the concept that these “ideas of the most unusual sort” are somehow to be “TESTED BEFORE STUDENTS AND PEERS.” That’s what worries me. Students being “tested” on these “unusual” ideas is precisely what we don’t want from academia.

Oh, and if the moon is indeed made of cheese, sign me up for the next space mission. I’ll bring my fork, some chips, and salsa. Nachos for everyone!

Judges matter

Posted in Politics, Judiciary, National Security at 4:31 am by JB

And the President that picks them does too. Thank you again, Jimmy Carter, for f-ing up the country.

A judge ordered the Bush administration on Thursday to stop a domestic wiretap program it says protects Americans from terrorism but which the judge said violated their civil rights.

The administration, buoyed by polls showing Americans back its handling of security and terrorism, appealed against the federal court ruling, saying: “We couldn’t disagree more.”

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said the wiretaps under a five-year-old “Terrorist Surveillance Program” violated freedom of speech, protections against unreasonable searches and a constitutional check on the power of the presidency.

“There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,” Taylor said in a 44-page ruling.

This lady was made a federal district judge in 1979. Just another way Jimmy Carter is still harming the security of this country.

“I see doped people….”

Posted in Pop Culture at 4:26 am by JB

I didn’t much care for the Jeff Foxworthy Show either, but not sure if I’d drown my memories in booze and pot:

Prosecutors on Thursday charged Oscar-nominated actor Haley Joel Osment, who famously saw dead people in 1999 hit movie “The Sixth Sense,” with drunken driving and marijuana possession.

Maybe watching himself on the reruns gave him glaucoma ?!

A sort of cool JROTC-type program

Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, War on Terrorism at 4:13 am by JB

News from Israel:

Adam Sandler is doing his part to help Israel following its 34-day war with Lebanon. The 50 First Dates star announced earlier this week he would donate 400 Sony Playstations to Israelis whose homes were damaged in the fighting.

Teach those kids eye-hand coordination early. Preparing the future fighter pilots of the IDF. I like it.

Plus, it’s kinda fun. Now if someone will just donate 1200 first-person-shooter games to play, maybe Israel will be a safer place in the future.

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