<p>FF, the same is true for the red staters,who would not send their precious darlings to school in one of those heathen blue states.</p>
<p>well, gosh hereshoping, guess you missed some of the news in the last year or so</p>
<p>ps- hitlist doesn’t always mean death</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/wiener[/url]”>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/wiener</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.imao.us/archives/002665.html[/url]”>http://www.imao.us/archives/002665.html</a> (this guy wants them dead, though)</p>
<p>The difference is that in Iran, the projected purge is on their professors; in the U.S., the projected purge is on THEIR democratically elected government.</p>
<p>The parallelism isn’t the point.</p>
<p>not to mention Horwitz’s book, you can find that for yourself, I ain’t going to advertise it</p>
<p>AM - one thing you fail to realize is that “red staters” have long ago resigned themselves to the fact that no matter where they send their kids they will almost certainly find themselves in a sea of blue. It’s just a given.</p>
<p>FF, but if they keep their kids nearer to home, there is less chance for that corrupting blue influence.</p>
<p>maybe its because that sea of blue wants to teach, while the red, well, not so much</p>
<p>CGM: Yes, undoubtedly the people who have had a lock on higher education in this country for so long would get a little riled up to see it challenged!</p>
<p>CGM, you have no idea what kind of fantasy land that you live in.</p>
<p>oh yes, my fantasy land…</p>
<p>that’s okay, I show hh some links talking about the hitlist, and ff, that perhaps there aren’t enough “convervatives” who want to teach</p>
<p>so they resort to insults…big suprise…</p>
<p>ff- sigh, I expected more from you, but that is okay…you just resort to the typical…call names</p>
<p>CGM: I’m just having a little fun on this dreary, rainy day here. No insult intended to you personally, really. Overall, I respect people who hold strong opinions. Seriously, I don’t read any fringe-type websites; I get all my info from the mainstream media and then try to just make up my own mind (ok-I do watch Fox News sometimes - not sure if that’s mainstream of not). :)</p>
<p>it was fringe, yes, but you wanted to know if someone wanted to kill professors, and volia…found it…I get my news from all sides, but when a list was put out a few months ago, by Bruin Alumni, they called it a hitlist, the Dirty Thirty, well, I did some looking around, and wow, to see that people will publically write about rounding up people to slaughter them, welll, as you can see, I am not making this stuff up</p>
<p>Yeah, fringe sure, but that was just regarding the deaths of innocent people</p>
<p>the gathering of information, tracking, trying to get people fired, yeah, that is all real</p>
<p>CGM: I would not be too fearful of Horowitz and his crew. They will not be able to put a dent in the liberal bias at most schools. Personally, I don’t worry about “leftist” indoctrination in college as much as I do about it k-12. It wouldn’t bother me to send my kid to one of the famously liberal colleges because at least there he could pick and choose his courses. My kid has sense enough to steer clear of the wacko professors and courses like “Queer Theory and Jane Eyre.”</p>
<p>I don’t think he will either, and he has every right to say what he says, but after watching the Intelligent Design debate, with even our Prez, saying yeah, that’s a great idea, one has to be aware</p>
<p>It is the ones with heads buried in the sand, saying jsut ride it out…just riding stuff out without bringing it into the light is not a good plan</p>
<p>but when you realize that the “mainstream” media is basically owned by 4-5 companies…you have to go beyond the mainstream</p>
<p>CGM, please drop the holier-than-though, sanctimonious crap about being “insulted” … after your little snide remark implying that only blue colleges do any teaching. Tell that to my son who, as a student at a very blue college had his engineering professor spend the first few minutes of each class telling her captive audience what a menace George Bush is. As I say, you have no idea what fantasyland that you live in.</p>
<p>FF: I think CGM meant that conservatives tend not to go into teaching as a rule. At first I interpreted her remark as you read it (which would be outrageous), but upon reading her subsequent post, I think she meant the above.</p>
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<p>I’ll bet that’s how they spend the first few minutes of class at West Point, too. You don’t have to be “blue” to think Bush is a menace. If I were “red” – ponder for a moment what a different connotation that has for our kids than it did/does for us – I would be tearing my hair out in frustration that Bush & Co. have been so incompetent as actually to endanger solid Republican control of both houses of Congress.</p>
<p>Yes, I often think how very alike are American and Middle Eastern fundamentalists. Wish we could put them all in a ring . . .</p>
<p>Not every person who voted for Bush is a “fundamentalist”, you know. Btw, what is a “fundamentalist”? Is that like a “dominionist”?</p>
<p>JHS: Ah, well, it’s time for a change. It usually comes around to that in this country, doesn’t it? That’s the great thing about it.</p>