Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
If someone were to harass, oh, let’s say, a gay or black activist like that, the person would be expelled.
Not just expelled -they would also be charged with a “hate crime”.
Of course the statement that elicited the most derisive laughter was his stated belief that “these people (the AfPk Jihadists) really want to kill you.” A usual, these suicidally naive utter fools fail to understand that were the jihadists able, they’d be the first put against the wall. But then the jeering Columbia students feel safe in their casual contempt PRECISELY because they are right–it’ll never happen–at least as long as people like the object of their scorn are around. But it seems the left doesn’t do irony very well…
Did you catch the shout by one of the clueless in response to that truth: “That is offensive!”
Columbia has been manufacturing these educated elites for over 40 years.
“Transpeople are part of the Columbia community.”
That’s a quote from a senior at the university.
Obviously real people and real heroes and serious citizens are excluded.
Columbia alums, do us proud. Close your checkbooks.
Trans people are also mentally disturbed.
As are homosexuals. All LGBT are mentally ill.
These are the spoiled children who graduate and go on to infest our government, our media, our legal firms. The so-called Elite.
God help us all.
This has had me steaming since I first heard of it. Hope Alums do the right thing, but more importantly to me, the “people” should do the right thing via their elected representatives. Unless the administration of Columbia crawl on their hands and knees and apologize, make all the right statements, and with due regard to “free speech”, make clear such behavior is not the standard for their students and graduates, then cut them off from all taxpayer funds, federal and state. There are many colleges that apparently produce useful citizens, even in the Ivy league. Give the Columbia money to them if we have to give money to anyone. Higher education is sucking at the taxpayer teat, those who benefit should at least have some manners.
They are entitled to voice their opinions and demonstrate their ignorance and unworthiness to live in a free nation, but there are consequences in all things. They have no right to taxpayer money.
Another school I do not have to worry about sending my kids to.
Screw ‘em. If Columbia disappeared tomorrow, no one would miss it. If men like Anthony Maschek disappear, this country will cease to exist.
If Columbia University is getting any of my taxpayer money I want it shut down.
If they arrived at Columbia as “boorish brats” it’s no doubt due to breeding as there is a long history of such behavior at this and other such ‘fine’ institutions – most of which give credit for coming from the long line of boors that preceded them (see: Kennedy Clan and Harvard).
This is why we still need the draft for mandatory service.
Amen!
Although AW1 Tim disagrees. Those who disagree are entitled to their opinions, but they are dead wrong in this matter.
Mr. Tim is certainly entitled to be in error on the draft.
George Marshall, a man of no small talent or experience, believed very strongly that the citizen soldier (via Universal Service) was the great strength of our Country.
Mr. G-man,
Agreed. Perhaps fine young examples of PC stupidity like this would do well do be drafted into say the Infantry and sent to AfPak. Or perhaps as a Peace Corps member but then needed to sail along the Somali coast to deliver relief supplies and an apology tour to the downtrodden pirates that American foreign policy somehow created.
Or something like that anyway.
“Boorish Brats?” Come now Lex, Are you inclined to be charitable, or just avoiding the rather more earthy, and accurate, discription?
Well silly little twits might be a slightly more accurate euphemism for what these students are. I think it’s telling that the young lady (well I could call her something else, but let’s just use the polite shorthand here) used the phrase, “That’s offensive”.
I’m sorry that what was said may have offended her shell like little ears. But out in the real world, life is going to expose her to a lot of hard truths on occasion. And she will be offended. But then, she might also be dead. You can’t duck the real world forever–although these trust fund kids have done a pretty good job of ducking to this point in their lives.
The link is getting dated.
Scum in the sixties, scum now. Generations of scum.
Just like Lex. Evading the more accurate descriptions. Whodda thunk we would witness such pusillanimous conduct in the face of the enemy. Our leadership has gone to the dawgs!
I hate to admit it now, but I got my baccalaureate degree from Columbia in 1951, when it was not quite so bad as it is today. But I left town [dislike New York] to go back to flyover country right after graduation. So I had no idea how much it had deteriorated until they provided a podium for that poisonous slug Ahmadinijad to spew his hatred. Wrote them then that they would never get another penny from me.
Now, with what the students have done to the Staff Sergeant who is studying there, I’m contemplating taking out an ad in The New York Post about how the students are now sullying their reputation by insulting a brave man who “took the blows” so they could continue to do it “their way,” to quote Sinatra.
And “their way” stinks.
Marianne
Marianne, it so happens that my housemate has lent me a book of essays by Virginia Gildersleeve, who retired as dean of Barnard shortly after you were graduated. Like my first-grade teacher, she was born in the 19th century, when all people of either sex were expected to use all of their wit, and their grit.
Her housemate, until said housemate died, was one of the founders of the WAVES. It seemed that the “Seven Sisters” Mafia controlled entry for WAVES officers, and snaffled up all of the smartest and most-accomplished wimminz in the country, one of whom married Robert Heinlein, and inspired him, and saved his life more than once.
Marianne, did you ever meet Eisenhower when he was President of Columbia?
I knew a guy who was in Walter Reed at the same time Ike was in there for one of his later heart attacks. He did not get to meet Ike, but did get awakened in the middle of the night by a mean old Army nurse demanding to know if he had any Western novels. It seems that that was all Ike read for amusement, had run out of his own supply, and had the staff scour the entire hospital to feed his jones for the genre.
I had read that about Ike. Loved his Zane Gray, he did.
In grade school I read all of the ZG, Louis L’Amour and other books on the Old West that the library had. Good stuff, and the first genre I can remember reading all that our school library had.
LOL. Come to think about it, reading the westerns for Ike must have been sort of a “busman’s holiday” for him, growing up in Abilene at the time he did..as the REAL “wild west” had only just passed into recent memory.
Yep. One of my joys in being stationed in Denver and Mountain Home was the ability to take my motorcycle, get away from civilization and find remnents of old trails, towns, wagons, and other wonders. No tourist traps for me.
I had on my “Bucket List” taking a combination backpacking/canoeing trip along a portion of the Lewis & Clark Trail that is still the way it was when they were on it. Recent physical setbacks have pushed that probability down the scale, though I am keeping it on the list.
Kind of funny, the two books currently on my podium are “Guinness : An official Celebration of 250 Remarkable Years: (that is how Ireland saved civilization BTW), and “Undaunted Courage” by Mr. Ambrose.
Loved being out west in the backcountry. Mountains in Colorado & Idaho, glacier lakes, incredible rivers and canyons, desert and sand dunes in Idaho, amazing sky -what a beautiful and haunting country.
I often marveled at how in the world the pioneers did it. Many did not survive the trip, but enough did, god bless ‘em.
I’ll amend that…hell, in parts of the West remnants of it it still existed when he was a kid.
Ron Snyder/
Ron, I had the privilege of taking an American Hist. (Aced it, natch–course I’d lie like a dog if I hadn’t
)course under Ambrose in spring, ’65 At LSU when he was a newly-minted PhD fresh out of Wisc. (did you know he was a footballer there?) before he went to U of Kansas, grew a pony-tail and became an anti-war semi-hippy, let alone before he later recanted, turned conservative (yet *again*) and ended up at UNO out on the lake-front. LOL
Virgil, we may have to start a campaign to have you write a book. For such a young lad you have met a lot of interesting people!
It is interesting to see the intellectual/political changes in Ambrose over his career. It was in reading and listening to interviews with Mr. Ambrose that I became aware of the WWII Museum in NO. http://www.nationalww2museum.org/ Originally in honor of the Higgins boat I believe.
A visit to that site is also on my bucket list, as is a Med cruise with VDH. I’ve been to NO a half-dozen times over the past decade, and did not know of the museum until after my last visit to NO.
I do thoroughly enjoy listening to Ambrose speak of the trips he takes on various parts of the Lewis & Clark trail with his students and family.
Ron, if you make the trip to see the Museum (now under a large expansion across the street to include the Pacific war) be sure to visit the Civil War museum just across the street at the other end. (It’s the second largest in the nation outside the one at Richmond.) LOTS of interesting exhibits–especially the letters and uniforms.
Talking about bucket lists, I have regretfully decided to cross riding in the Manx TT off of mine. Chalky old bones which don’t knit well when broken, y’know. Also, it’s been a l o n g time since I was younger than 25, i.e., crazy enough to do that. Now, if an orthopedic surgeon were to sponsor me…
Ha -at this point I would very much prefer not to have to see an Ortopedic Surgeon again. Nothing personal, mind you, it would just be a reminder of pain and mandatory lifestyle changes.