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Red Stater, down in OK, recently published a blog post about a University of Louisville poli-sci professor that some of you might want to read.
To be fair, my wife and several friends recently had Dr. Payne for classes. I don’t talk about it a whole lot with them, but if I remember correctly they said his classes are pretty hard, but I don’t remember a whole lot about radical leftist politics and indoctrination going on in the classroom. There very well may be, but from what I know, other professors are more serious problems than Payne.
Check it out, though. Pretty much everything outside of engineering, math, biology, and business classes at UofL is staunchly and annoyingly liberal.
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December 31, 2006 |
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Maybe if they keep releasing
this guy from jail, he’ll eventually stop sodomizing twelve year old girls. Way to go, Jefferson County Courts!!
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Most Kentuckians know that Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and lived here for a few years before leaving for Illinois, which would become his true home.
However, did you know that there have been three Kentuckians to serve as Vice-President of the United States? It’s true.
Richard Mentor Johnson was born in Louisville and later became a resident of Scott County, KY. He went to Transylvania Univiersity and served as Vice-President under Martin Van Buren from 1837-1841.
John Cabell Breckinridge was 36 when inaugurated Vice-President, the youngest to date. He served from 1857-1861. He was born and lived primarily in Lexington, KY. He attended Centre College, Princeton, and Transylvania University. Breckinridge contributed an exciting life to history.
Alben William Barkley was the 35th Vice-President of the United States, serving under President Harry Truman. He was born in Graves County, KY, attended Marvin College in KY, Emory College (GA), and University of Virginia Law School. Barkley was also Senate Majority Leader from 1937-1947, and Minority Leader from 1947-1949. Barkley led the Senate during World War II and the postwar era. When Roosevelt vetoed a tax bill because the rates were too low, Barkley resigned his leadership position, led a successful veto override, and was returned to the Majority Leader position by his colleagues. He died while giving a speech at Washington and Lee University moments after saying, “”I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.” He is buried near Paducah, KY.
I got a lot of this information from wikipedia, but the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville has a great display full of information like this and artifacts.
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December 28, 2006 |
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Would anyone like to help start a conference or something to bring Kentuckians together? I don’t mean politicians, either. I mean people.
Apparently, pretty much everyone in Kentucky hates everything about Louisville. At the same time, many Louisvillians seem to think the rest of Kentucky is full of incestuous stone-age people.
I hate this. I live in Louisville and love it here. I love the other parts of the state that I’ve been to as well, though. For a young Louisvillian, I think I have a decent grip on the state’s culture, but I know there’s a lot for me to learn. It seems like we work against each other a lot of the time. It seems to me that more good could be done if the separate KY cultures could come to appreciate each other for what we are, and to value our contributions to the state honestly.
“You wouldn’t understand,” is not good enough. I must understand. We all need to understand what’s going on in each part of the state in order to work towards the best solutions and initiatives.
I don’t feel like I expressed myself very well here, but I just think more needs to be done to reduce regional animosities. What do you think?
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December 28, 2006 |
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This stupid AP story about the great Kentucky success of reducing teen smoking by 3% over 4 years is kind of pointless when there are countless other stories about the rise of OxyContin and other pain pills in Eastern KY and elsewhere.
It’s great that they’re not smoking anymore, but a lot of them are just doing other things instead.
The problem still exists. If the government wants to do something about these problems, they need to recognize that better family life and a vibrant faith community is the best antidote.
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A column in today’s Wall Street Journal by Melvin Laird mentioned a couple of great Gerald Ford quotes:
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
And separately,
“The ultimate test of leadership is not the polls you take, but the risks you take. In the short run, some risks prove overwhelming. Political courage can be self-defeating. But the greatest defeat of all would be to live without courage, for that would hardly be living at all.”
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It is written:
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.
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December 21, 2006 |
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I go through phases where I consume all the news possible and think and write about it, and phases where I try to ignore as much of it as possible. Recently I’ve just been enjoying this time of no job, no school, and only Christmas family sports-watching time. Although, I have been reading the KY Conservative Blogs some, and I found this comment from
Muckraker especially awesome:
The “Miss Universe” concept (nudity for sale!) demeans women, making them appear to be what they insist they’re not – sex objects. The members of the meat market CHOOSE to be just that – sex objects.
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I’m normally all for coal to liquid fuel promotion, but if Earth Biofuels wants to build a refinery here, I’m all for it. More buildings, more jobs.
Earth Biofuels is the company that introduced BioWillie to the world, named for it’s famous pothead singer namesake - Willie Nelson. Whatever.
They support a sensible program called School Bus America, which advocates switching school buses from petroleum-based diesel to domestically produced biodiesel. I’m all for it. I’m just also for reducing the need for school buses by improving neighborhood schools and letting kids go to school close to home. School Bus America has a famous face promoting it, the not-very-attractive (in my opinion) actress from Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts, who spoke about the program on Oprah in late November ‘06.
I just wish we could cut our corporate tax rates lower to give businesses like this more incentive to relocate their entire business from places like Dallas, where Earth Biofuels is based, to somewhere in Kentucky instead of just building the refinery.
December 11, 2006 |
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It’s not official yet, but it looks like Beshear and Dr. Dan are going to run for Governor. Dr. Dan (D-Hazard) almost beat Bunning in ‘04. I think Beshear’s been mostly out of it for the last decade or so, choosing to practice business litigation instead.
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The U.N. Report which revealed the fact that cow “emissions” are more damaging to the planet than cars, planes, and all other forms of transport combined was strangely honest. Cow emissions account for 18% of the earth’s greenhouse gases, including 1/3 of methane which warms the world 20 times faster than CO2.
Blame the cows.
December 11, 2006 |
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I found this clipmarks.com thing and tried it out. I think I like it for short clips, sports headlines, etc., so I linked it up over on your right. So, you have to check here for updates, because the clips don’t show up in the News Aggregator.
Plus, sometimes I go through phases where I either don’t want to think about stuff and write it down here on blogger, or just don’t have time to. I still want to share thoughts, though, and clipmarks is a great way to share short snippets.
I tried to customize it so that it would open the clips in new windows, but it appears to not be doing that. I would suggest right-clicking and opening in a new window. Better yet, get Firefox and open in a new tab. Firefox is the best PC browser.
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
Apply as you wish.
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The most asinine thing about racial discrimination guidelines imposed by Jefferson County Public Schools and other districts around the country is that if you are not black, you are considered white.
American Hispanics and people with other ethnic backgrounds aren’t really even considered a minority, which they obviously are. Chinese, Koreans, Arabs, and everone else are not accounted for in the bean-counting. I mean, if you’re going to do it, do it right!
The JCPS quota requires (soon to be “required”) a school have no less than 15% black and no more than 50% black enrollment in all but about four schools. Ironically, these schools are “the good schools.” Discrimination isn’t allowed in the good schools. They want the best and most qualified in those schools, regardless of race, I guess to pull up the education stats. Where education is poor, though, they want to discriminate and create “diversity.”
What if a child has one black parent, and one white parent? Well, they’re black. One black great-grandparent? Well, they’re probably black, too. Kind of reminds you of the old Jim Crow era, doesn’t it? Yeah, I know. Liberals won’t allow us to move on. They need victims to protect. Although implementation of the racial quotas in circumstances like these probably would depend just on something as easy as which box the student chooses to check on applications and such. What if a child has one Asian parent and one black parent? What if the people lie on their applications? What about people with a lot of Native American parent/ancestry?
The point is, it’s all so ridiculous and for the JCPS to waste so much money implementing this system and paying the transportation costs to get kids into the appropriately diverse schools is grossly wasteful and disrespectful to the community. Pat Todd, the woman in charge of implementing the quotas, seems to be a very nice woman. I saw her on C-Span last week. I think she genuinely believes the system works and helps. I applaud her great intentions, but the system is very flawed and, unfortunately, unconstitutional.
“You can’t discriminate” doesn’t mean, “You can’t discriminate unless you are a victim of past or systemic discrimination.” It also doesn’t mean, “You can’t discriminate unless you mean well or are trying to achieve diversity.”
Why don’t the environmental people add up all the gallons of fuel the school buses use and all of the carbon emissions and whatnot?
Improve all schools. Allow students to attend school close to home. Give parents the choice. It will be easier for parents to participate in their children’s education if the school is closer to home. People need to be proud of their communities, not constantly seeking something better at the cost of what they have. This goes for everyone, not just people of any certain race.
There are too many races, nationalities, immigrants, etc. in this country to impose a ridiculous system on public schools which 1) discriminates & 2) discriminates based on who is white and who is black. What is this?
Striking down this system will take America a long way down the road of removing racism, systemic or otherwise.
