I can’t say it any better, so here’s 6 minutes of wonderfully presented, passionate logic.
Wake Up to the Reality of the Stimulus Package
June 22, 2009 By
University of South Florida and the Liberal Agenda
May 13, 2009 By
I got an e-mail from the USF Department of English yesterday that sent me straight through the rook and into orbit. This particular staff person sends out notices of campus functions, the department newsletter submission deadlines, and occassional job opportunities, but is not a professor or dean.
If there is supposed to be a call for the “separation of church and state” (which anyone who understands the intent and CONTEXT of the founding fathers’ design for gov’t doesn’t use that phrase to mean what it is being used for today) then there should be a separation of State-funded educational institutions and politics. Let’s see if anyone can step up to the plate and realize that any staff of a university who sends correspondence to the students is representing the policies and such of the entire governing body of the school. It’s no different than if a music director at a church sends an e-mail encouraging members to join a swingers’ club for his brand of “outreach.” That would be interpreted by the members as an endorsement by the senior pastor and possibly the entire denomination or sect from the very top. If he says it’s cool, someone MUST have approved it and thinks it’s a good idea, right?
That said, here is the e-mail sent “on behalf of” a politically-oriented recruiter.
Progressive Campaign Job Opportunities Nationwide
Sent on behalf of Sxxxx Mxxxx. Please send inquiries to sxxxxx@grassrootscampaigns.com.
We made history last fall. Now that we have Obama in the White House and expanded majorities in Congress, it is time to work for the change America needs. Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. has joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Save the Children, and other progressive organizations to drive forwards a progressive agenda and undo years of Republican damage.
Grassroots Campaigns is currently interviewing top student leaders around the country to join our team as Assistant Canvass Directors. There is no better time or place to get involved and help to create the new generation that will take this country in a more progressive direction.
“We made history!?” Who is we?
“… the change America needs!?” Make your own change without gov’t crutches and taking more of MY money to build a bigger gov’t.
“… undo years of Republican damage!?” Talk about incendiary and alienating to everyone of a differing political view.
This sort of e-mail distribution has no place in the State university system.
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
March 16, 2009 By
I heard a very thought-provoking message recently that really got me thinking about our current global situation. Regardless of who you are or what you personally believe for yourself regarding your eternity, the vast majority of the globe acknowledges the existence of a real man named Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Christ, etc. and can relatively easy confirm scholarly records from ancient Roman time if Jewish records aren’t good enough.
One of the most commonly known tidbits about His life is that he recruited 12 men to live, follow, learn, and ultimately come to an intellectual and spiritual knowledge of his divine identity. What most of us don’t think about is the makeup of his troupe and how diverse they were, which is what blew my mind in a fit of deep thought that prompted this writing. Let’s run down a few of them, as that will be enough to boggle minds worldwide:
- Jude: a farmer, a man of the land.
- Matthew: a tax collector – worse than today’s IRS, these guys pocketed money for themselves and often charged as much as they could regardless of the tax rate.
- Simon Peter: a fisherman, so think Cape Cod fishy dude with rough hands and smelly hair.
- Simon: a zealot – we have those today. They are called terrorists. Zealots in the day would attack and kill Roman soldiers and other gov’t officials. Terrorism isn’t anything new.
Let’s try to put a religious terrorist extremist (Hamas or KKK, take your pick), corrupt IRS agent, the Gorton fisherman, and a redneck farmboy from Iowa in a dormitory setting with someone, anyone, as their mentor and let’s see how long everyone stays together… or alive. That must have been some group that would automatically generate respect and admiration from local authorities in today’s media hungry society looking for a shocking story.
That’s all I have for now, and maybe I’ll have more later, maybe not.
