A professor who believes marriage is between a man and a woman responds to a progressive student who called him “the biggest embarrassment to higher education in America.” Worth reading. h/t
Intellectually naive; ridiculously homocentric and prejudiced in favour of our present era. Our particular planet is a piece of detritus in our solar system, which has been accurately described as four planets and dust. At least it has been around a while; the video drastically distorts and exaggerates the length of time which H. sapiens has inhabited the earth. Even then, some of the great cultures of the past lasted much longer and achieved more than we have. In fact our own era is mainly notable for bloodshed, at which we are extraordinarily good. As for past accomplishments, may I point out that almost all plants and animals that we use for food every day were domesticated in prehistoric times. We might add ceramics, woodworking, beer, whatever. Even writing can be said to have been invented in prehistory, though of course its development took place in historical times by definition.
Bah! the video reeks of progressivism, sweetened with some good graphics. But even so, whenever you see a reproduction of “Mona Lisa” someone is trying to put something progressive over on you.
John:
Where does it say all that?? Just thought I`d ask.
Signed,
George.
If you really want to visualize the history of everything, then download and install ChronoZoom from Microsoft Research.
It will give you a look at events from the big bang to today and also present them in the relative time scales.
(I have linked this before)
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
…-
“China economy shows signs of stabilization
The Globe and Mail”
“4 killed as man goes on stabbing spree in bus in China
The Hindu – 6 hours ago
Four persons were killed and 11 others injured when a knife-wielding man went berserk in a bus in China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, sending shock waves across the country.”
…-
*Ex-Liberal leader Rae’s uncle UNaBomber Strong, c/o Red China.
Apropos of weirdness — bravo, Professor Mike Adams — here’s some more. I knew this special interest group was queer, but honestly …
“Consumer boycotts are one of the ways the American LGBT community communicates with itself.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-park/lgbt-stoli-boycott_b_3787803.html
These guys? gals? … whatever … aren’t for anything; they’re just against stuff: Stoli Vodka, Chick-Fil-A, Domino’s Pizza, one-man/one-woman marriage, heteronormativity (that’s a word?), heteronormality, and the list keeps growing.
And, this really makes sense: “By the way, Chick-fil-A? The sales have increased 12 percent since the boycott started. … It doesn’t matter. …”
MORE SIGNS OF “POST-CONSTITUTIONAL” AMERIKA
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently obtained a Department of Defense training manual which lists people who embrace “individual liberties” and honor “states’ rights,” among other characteristics, as potential “extremists” who are likely to be members of “hate groups.” It further states;”extremist founding fathers would not be welcome in today’s military”.
It begins its introduction of a section titled, “Extremist ideologies,” by describing the American colonists who sought independence from British rule as a historical example of extremism. I goes on – ““Nowadays,” the manual explains, “instead of dressing in sheets or publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”
The manual goes on to bar military personnel from “active participation” in such extremist organization activities as “publicly demonstrating,” “rallying,” “fundraising” and “organizing,” basically denying active-duty military from exercising the rights they so ardently fight to defend.
But here’s the kicker – If you wonder how a US military training manual reads like it was written by anti-American Marxists – the Southern Poverty Law Center “is listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced several times throughout the guide,” even though the group itself was directly responsible for a “hate crime” perpetrated on the Family Research Council after it was listed on the SPLC’s “hate map.” Is there any doubt the SPLC is the epicenter of Marxist anti-constitutional propaganda in the US? http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2161-docs.pdf
“Hunter Briggs
Ever wonder what happens when a narcissistic personality, cosseted and indulged his whole life, occupies a position of almost unlimited power?
Voila!!!!” http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/08/26/the-dog-ate-my-homework/#more-31213
…-
“There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.”
“America is on the verge of destruction.”
“Obama will set the clock back decades… America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America ,and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations. It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238703/posts
“The video drastically distorts and exaggerates the length of time which H. sapiens has inhabited the earth.”
John, the video (which is titled “Our History in 2 Minutes”, not “The Earth’s History in 2 Minutes”), is an eye-candy amusement and an exercise in editing, and is obviously not intended to present an accurate timeline.
Two minutes of MPEG video contains 3600 frames. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old, give or take, so if the timeline of the video was to be accurate the first homo sapiens would appear at about one-tenth of a second from the end of the video. If the part of the video covering covering human history since the advent of the first primitive agricultural society (about ten thousand years ago) was given one single one-thirtieth-of-a-second frame at the very end – you wouldn’t even be able to see it, it would be too fast for the eye/brain to perceive – it would still be about four times too long to represent an accurate timeline, and if the 20th century was given that last frame it would be about twelve thousand times too long.
RT: “59% of the ‘Tuna’ Americans Eat is Not Tuna.” h/t
Ruth King briefly excerpts a pay-walled WSJ article which quotes from Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset 1929 book “The Revolt of the Masses”:
My thesis, therefore, is this: the very perfection with which the 19th century gave an organization to certain orders of existence has caused the masses benefited thereby to consider it, not as an organized, but as a natural system. Thus is explained and defined the absurd state of mind revealed by these masses; they are only concerned with their own well-being, and at the same time they remain alien to the cause of that well-being. As they do not see, behind the benefits of civilization, marvels of invention and construction which can only be maintained by great effort and foresight, they imagine that their role is limited to demanding these benefits peremptorily, as if they were natural rights.
In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported.
Could have been written this morning instead of in 1929.
Regarding JT’s cannibi$ comment:
The question that remains unasked of JT is this:
“Now that you are LP leader, if you were at a party and offered a puff on a spliff would you do so?”
The (US) Weather Channel had a disaster program on last night — what would happen if a rogue planet knocked the Earth out of its orbit. They mentioned the part about how being closer to the Sun would lead to global warming, which could lead to more clouds and a colder Britain. They did not mention how a more eccentric orbit would lead to a shorter warm season and a longer cold season. I guess they have forgotten how to worry about global cooling…
PET Cemetery Report.
Welcome Mac! to Our Underground. What took you so long?
H/T Ad$cam Jeancula Chretien.
…-
Ex-Liberal “Senator Mac Harb retiring, drops legal action”.
(Our CBC)
‘Funny how Conservative Senators Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy are household names after media outlets have featured their misdemeanors for months, almost on a daily basis, whereas hardly anyone knows who Liberal Senator Mac Harb is.
Why would this be?
Funny how Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is a household name after weeks and weeks of almost hourly coverage of a never-found video, whereas we haven’t heard of Benjamin Levin in the MSM since his arrest at the beginning of July — meaning that most Canadians have no idea who he is.
Levin is a former Deputy Minister of Education in the Ontario government under then Education Minister Kathleen Wynne; Levin and Wynne oversaw the implementation of the s*xually explicit, age-inappropriate s*x-ed curriculum introduced into Ontario schools a couple of years ago; Levin was part of Kathleen Wynne’s recent “transition team”; and Levin is a professor at OISE, University of Toronto, where he teaches future teachers. Among the seven charges, Levin has been charged with seven counts of child exploitation including possessing images of children being se*ually abused, arranging for se*ual offences against a child, making child p*rn, and distributing it to others.
Methinks the libtard MSM have their priorities skewed. Fortunately, Sun Media’s journalists are keeping the story on Levin alive. Like Wallin’s, Duffy’s, and Ford’s names, Levin’s name should be a household word.
Levant: http://ezralevant.com/2013/07/innocence-violated-charges-aga.html
Coren: http://www.theinterim.com/politics/promoting-perversity/#sthash.pSSfnHCr.dpuf
I doubt I’m going to be happy about what they’re about to do to Sask’s high school science education. Homeschooling is looking more and more like the best option. I’m also betting there was zero parental input. :
“I don’t want to be too melodramatic, but this is probably the biggest change in science education in Canada in the past 40 years.”…
“Health, environmental and physical science will replace the traditional physics, chemistry and biology, taking elements of each of the old subjects and applying them in a more practical way.
Health Science 20, for example, will include medical knowledge, ethics and anatomy, while Environmental Science 20 will look at climate change and terrestrial and aquatic environments…” http://www.thestarphoenix.com/technology/Science+curriculum+overhauled/8832761/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UniversityAffairsMediaScan+%28Media+Scan+|+University+Affairs%29
Leftist Grauniad & readers fling O’narcissist under the bus.
“It is this hypocrisy that has disenchanted me and fellow activists.”
“Judging from the comments on Jeff Jarvis’ commentary “As a Democrat, I am disgusted with President Obama” last week, there appears to be dwindling support for the US president among Guardian readers. From the overreach of the NSA to a sputtering economy to foreign policy, some believe that President Obama isn’t living up to the values he preached on the campaign trail and as a US senator. Disappointment in the president is reflected in his approval ratings, which have been ticking down all year long and currently stand at only 46% approval.”
“But I have been let down Mr President. The final straw came when after years of dictatorship had ended, a democratically elected president, much like yourself, was ruthlessly ousted in a military coup. And the silence that followed by the champion of democracy was deafening. It is this hypocrisy that has disenchanted me and fellow activists.” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/26/what-would-you-say-to-president-obama
…-
O’narcissist’s sole legacy.
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
“The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.” http://voices.yahoo.com/barack-obama-narcissist-merely-narcissistic-1875284.html?cat=72
A professor who believes marriage is between a man and a woman responds to a progressive student who called him “the biggest embarrassment to higher education in America.” Worth reading.
h/t
20 Historic Black and White Photos Colorized
Nicely juried, and more interesting/effective than it sounds. Oddly compelling.
h/t
Intellectually naive; ridiculously homocentric and prejudiced in favour of our present era. Our particular planet is a piece of detritus in our solar system, which has been accurately described as four planets and dust. At least it has been around a while; the video drastically distorts and exaggerates the length of time which H. sapiens has inhabited the earth. Even then, some of the great cultures of the past lasted much longer and achieved more than we have. In fact our own era is mainly notable for bloodshed, at which we are extraordinarily good. As for past accomplishments, may I point out that almost all plants and animals that we use for food every day were domesticated in prehistoric times. We might add ceramics, woodworking, beer, whatever. Even writing can be said to have been invented in prehistory, though of course its development took place in historical times by definition.
Bah! the video reeks of progressivism, sweetened with some good graphics. But even so, whenever you see a reproduction of “Mona Lisa” someone is trying to put something progressive over on you.
This girl knows what she is talking about:
The hazards of raising backyard chickens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll187f27Pxg
Rapid transit – 20 hitchhikers in your car story. Mid island mike
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401876/Man-shoots-wounds-passengers-train—enraged-woman-says-fall-asleep-shoulder.html
John:
Where does it say all that?? Just thought I`d ask.
Signed,
George.
If you really want to visualize the history of everything, then download and install ChronoZoom from Microsoft Research.
It will give you a look at events from the big bang to today and also present them in the relative time scales.
(I have linked this before)
Long story short………Obama is clueless.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_FOREIGN_POLICY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-25-11-43-32?NewsWatchCanada.ca
The religion of peace.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/religion-of-bigotry/
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
…-
“China economy shows signs of stabilization
The Globe and Mail”
“4 killed as man goes on stabbing spree in bus in China
The Hindu – 6 hours ago
Four persons were killed and 11 others injured when a knife-wielding man went berserk in a bus in China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, sending shock waves across the country.”
…-
*Ex-Liberal leader Rae’s uncle UNaBomber Strong, c/o Red China.
Apropos of weirdness — bravo, Professor Mike Adams — here’s some more. I knew this special interest group was queer, but honestly …
“Consumer boycotts are one of the ways the American LGBT community communicates with itself.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-park/lgbt-stoli-boycott_b_3787803.html
These guys? gals? … whatever … aren’t for anything; they’re just against stuff: Stoli Vodka, Chick-Fil-A, Domino’s Pizza, one-man/one-woman marriage, heteronormativity (that’s a word?), heteronormality, and the list keeps growing.
And, this really makes sense: “By the way, Chick-fil-A? The sales have increased 12 percent since the boycott started. … It doesn’t matter. …”
MORE SIGNS OF “POST-CONSTITUTIONAL” AMERIKA
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently obtained a Department of Defense training manual which lists people who embrace “individual liberties” and honor “states’ rights,” among other characteristics, as potential “extremists” who are likely to be members of “hate groups.” It further states;”extremist founding fathers would not be welcome in today’s military”.
It begins its introduction of a section titled, “Extremist ideologies,” by describing the American colonists who sought independence from British rule as a historical example of extremism. I goes on – ““Nowadays,” the manual explains, “instead of dressing in sheets or publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”
The manual goes on to bar military personnel from “active participation” in such extremist organization activities as “publicly demonstrating,” “rallying,” “fundraising” and “organizing,” basically denying active-duty military from exercising the rights they so ardently fight to defend.
But here’s the kicker – If you wonder how a US military training manual reads like it was written by anti-American Marxists – the Southern Poverty Law Center “is listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced several times throughout the guide,” even though the group itself was directly responsible for a “hate crime” perpetrated on the Family Research Council after it was listed on the SPLC’s “hate map.” Is there any doubt the SPLC is the epicenter of Marxist anti-constitutional propaganda in the US?
http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2161-docs.pdf
“Hunter Briggs
Ever wonder what happens when a narcissistic personality, cosseted and indulged his whole life, occupies a position of almost unlimited power?
Voila!!!!”
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/08/26/the-dog-ate-my-homework/#more-31213
…-
“There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.”
“America is on the verge of destruction.”
“Obama will set the clock back decades… America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America ,and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations. It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238703/posts
“The video drastically distorts and exaggerates the length of time which H. sapiens has inhabited the earth.”
John, the video (which is titled “Our History in 2 Minutes”, not “The Earth’s History in 2 Minutes”), is an eye-candy amusement and an exercise in editing, and is obviously not intended to present an accurate timeline.
Two minutes of MPEG video contains 3600 frames. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old, give or take, so if the timeline of the video was to be accurate the first homo sapiens would appear at about one-tenth of a second from the end of the video. If the part of the video covering covering human history since the advent of the first primitive agricultural society (about ten thousand years ago) was given one single one-thirtieth-of-a-second frame at the very end – you wouldn’t even be able to see it, it would be too fast for the eye/brain to perceive – it would still be about four times too long to represent an accurate timeline, and if the 20th century was given that last frame it would be about twelve thousand times too long.
RT: “59% of the ‘Tuna’ Americans Eat is Not Tuna.”
h/t
Ruth King briefly excerpts a pay-walled WSJ article which quotes from Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset 1929 book “The Revolt of the Masses”:
Could have been written this morning instead of in 1929.
Recommended: The Dishonest Gun-Control Debate by Kevin D. Williamson at NRO.
Regarding JT’s cannibi$ comment:
The question that remains unasked of JT is this:
“Now that you are LP leader, if you were at a party and offered a puff on a spliff would you do so?”
Still voodoo science but they have a much better track record than Gore, Suzuki and the IPCC.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57600023/farmers-almanac-predicts-a-bitterly-cold-winter/
The (US) Weather Channel had a disaster program on last night — what would happen if a rogue planet knocked the Earth out of its orbit. They mentioned the part about how being closer to the Sun would lead to global warming, which could lead to more clouds and a colder Britain. They did not mention how a more eccentric orbit would lead to a shorter warm season and a longer cold season. I guess they have forgotten how to worry about global cooling…
This makes so much sense that most politicians have a hard time understanding it.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2013/08/23/armed-with-regulations
PET Cemetery Report.
Welcome Mac! to Our Underground. What took you so long?
H/T Ad$cam Jeancula Chretien.
…-
Ex-Liberal “Senator Mac Harb retiring, drops legal action”.
(Our CBC)
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
“Preventive fire, at first.”
…-
“Greenpeace ship leaves Russian waters after being threatened with gunfire”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/26/greenpeace-ship-leaves-russian-waters-after-being-threatened-with-gunfire/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mac-harb-resigns-from-senate-pays-back-231000-in-expenses/article13951706/
Liberal Senator Mahmoud (Mac) Harb resigns from the Senate,pays back over $200,000,drops his Court action against the Senate.
I guess it got too hot and Mac could see prison in his future if he continued his crap.
‘Funny how Conservative Senators Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy are household names after media outlets have featured their misdemeanors for months, almost on a daily basis, whereas hardly anyone knows who Liberal Senator Mac Harb is.
Why would this be?
Funny how Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is a household name after weeks and weeks of almost hourly coverage of a never-found video, whereas we haven’t heard of Benjamin Levin in the MSM since his arrest at the beginning of July — meaning that most Canadians have no idea who he is.
Levin is a former Deputy Minister of Education in the Ontario government under then Education Minister Kathleen Wynne; Levin and Wynne oversaw the implementation of the s*xually explicit, age-inappropriate s*x-ed curriculum introduced into Ontario schools a couple of years ago; Levin was part of Kathleen Wynne’s recent “transition team”; and Levin is a professor at OISE, University of Toronto, where he teaches future teachers. Among the seven charges, Levin has been charged with seven counts of child exploitation including possessing images of children being se*ually abused, arranging for se*ual offences against a child, making child p*rn, and distributing it to others.
Methinks the libtard MSM have their priorities skewed. Fortunately, Sun Media’s journalists are keeping the story on Levin alive. Like Wallin’s, Duffy’s, and Ford’s names, Levin’s name should be a household word.
Levant: http://ezralevant.com/2013/07/innocence-violated-charges-aga.html
Coren: http://www.theinterim.com/politics/promoting-perversity/#sthash.pSSfnHCr.dpuf
I doubt I’m going to be happy about what they’re about to do to Sask’s high school science education. Homeschooling is looking more and more like the best option. I’m also betting there was zero parental input. :
“I don’t want to be too melodramatic, but this is probably the biggest change in science education in Canada in the past 40 years.”…
“Health, environmental and physical science will replace the traditional physics, chemistry and biology, taking elements of each of the old subjects and applying them in a more practical way.
Health Science 20, for example, will include medical knowledge, ethics and anatomy, while Environmental Science 20 will look at climate change and terrestrial and aquatic environments…”
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/technology/Science+curriculum+overhauled/8832761/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UniversityAffairsMediaScan+%28Media+Scan+|+University+Affairs%29
Hope those who voted for Redford are proud. gee what a coup for Alberta
http://joealbertan.blogspot.ca/
Leftist Grauniad & readers fling O’narcissist under the bus.
“It is this hypocrisy that has disenchanted me and fellow activists.”
“Judging from the comments on Jeff Jarvis’ commentary “As a Democrat, I am disgusted with President Obama” last week, there appears to be dwindling support for the US president among Guardian readers. From the overreach of the NSA to a sputtering economy to foreign policy, some believe that President Obama isn’t living up to the values he preached on the campaign trail and as a US senator. Disappointment in the president is reflected in his approval ratings, which have been ticking down all year long and currently stand at only 46% approval.”
“But I have been let down Mr President. The final straw came when after years of dictatorship had ended, a democratically elected president, much like yourself, was ruthlessly ousted in a military coup. And the silence that followed by the champion of democracy was deafening. It is this hypocrisy that has disenchanted me and fellow activists.”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/26/what-would-you-say-to-president-obama
…-
O’narcissist’s sole legacy.
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
“The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://voices.yahoo.com/barack-obama-narcissist-merely-narcissistic-1875284.html?cat=72