O can't C Don Quixote No Mo'
AP/Yahoo reports that the Mission Viejo College District has voted 5-2 to nix a study abroad program in Spain because of the country's pull-out from Iraq. In related news, stupidity at an all time high in board meetings.
I could keep this short and sweet by ending with a quote from the professor running the program ("I cannot believe a community college can put this much politics into academics.") But no, I'm way too pissed off by a few things surrounding this to keep it short.
A. I'm not too thrilled by the Yahoo headline proclaiming California JCs end study abroad programs. These are two junior colleges in the most conservative part of the state. Not really representative of California. While the headline is literally correct, it's implication is not. I take exception.
B. More importantly, what the hell are they thinking down in Mission Viejo? Clearly not what's best for their students. The fact that one of the board members was the chair of the Mission Viejo Republican Party is telling. Pushing party agenda, or at least getting the party message in the media takes precedent over the job he's elected to do. Classy. Can I blame him? Hardly.
With the 2004 election, any semblance of the collective interest left American politics. Using the Mission Viejo approach, I now call on Democrats (or independents) on various college or school boards to make the following changes.
1) Immediately stop all funding for trips and/or programs to Washington D.C. because of (a) the current yellow threat level throughout the US, particularly centers of government, and (b) the needless death of 2,000 soldiers because of the administration's actions.
2) This might sound radical to some, but there should also be a critical reexamination of the terrorist activities of George Washington, John and Sam Adams, et al, as taught in current texts. (Rebellion, insurgency...all liberal fluff talk for cold-hearted disrespect for the rule of law).
I'm fishing quite a bit here because there is really nothing meritorious to the Boards act. It's repugnant to anything American or even conservative when we decide to end interactions with a nation because it has CHOSEN to act according to the will of its people and in its national self-interest. Picture this, if let's say hypothetically the US violates some internaitonal treaty, like the Geneva Convention, for a reason it deems to be in its interest, and let's say some pansy French city councillor decides to propose its exchange program with the US, what kind of a furor would we get from the cons? I can hear Hannity blathering now, "They're free to do whatever they want, but it speaks volumes when the French meddle their nose in US sovereignty. " Or better yet, "Again we see these liberal peaceniks crying foul when the US acts to protect itself."
Ignorance is bliss. Pretending to be ignorant, even blisser.
I could keep this short and sweet by ending with a quote from the professor running the program ("I cannot believe a community college can put this much politics into academics.") But no, I'm way too pissed off by a few things surrounding this to keep it short.
A. I'm not too thrilled by the Yahoo headline proclaiming California JCs end study abroad programs. These are two junior colleges in the most conservative part of the state. Not really representative of California. While the headline is literally correct, it's implication is not. I take exception.
B. More importantly, what the hell are they thinking down in Mission Viejo? Clearly not what's best for their students. The fact that one of the board members was the chair of the Mission Viejo Republican Party is telling. Pushing party agenda, or at least getting the party message in the media takes precedent over the job he's elected to do. Classy. Can I blame him? Hardly.
With the 2004 election, any semblance of the collective interest left American politics. Using the Mission Viejo approach, I now call on Democrats (or independents) on various college or school boards to make the following changes.
1) Immediately stop all funding for trips and/or programs to Washington D.C. because of (a) the current yellow threat level throughout the US, particularly centers of government, and (b) the needless death of 2,000 soldiers because of the administration's actions.
2) This might sound radical to some, but there should also be a critical reexamination of the terrorist activities of George Washington, John and Sam Adams, et al, as taught in current texts. (Rebellion, insurgency...all liberal fluff talk for cold-hearted disrespect for the rule of law).
I'm fishing quite a bit here because there is really nothing meritorious to the Boards act. It's repugnant to anything American or even conservative when we decide to end interactions with a nation because it has CHOSEN to act according to the will of its people and in its national self-interest. Picture this, if let's say hypothetically the US violates some internaitonal treaty, like the Geneva Convention, for a reason it deems to be in its interest, and let's say some pansy French city councillor decides to propose its exchange program with the US, what kind of a furor would we get from the cons? I can hear Hannity blathering now, "They're free to do whatever they want, but it speaks volumes when the French meddle their nose in US sovereignty. " Or better yet, "Again we see these liberal peaceniks crying foul when the US acts to protect itself."
Ignorance is bliss. Pretending to be ignorant, even blisser.
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