Friday, November 26, 2010

Re: Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History

This blithering Idiot lost me at "the founding fathers, in the name of
democracy".

Good luck with the book.

On Nov 26, 9:03 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Why I Got Fired From Teaching American HistoryThaddeus RussellPosted: October 19, 2010 08:00 AM
> Five years ago, I had every reason to believe that my job as a history professor at Barnard College was secure. I had been teaching there for four years, I had published my dissertation with a major publisher, and because I had tripled the sizes of the introductory U.S. history course and the American Studies program, colleagues told me they "would be shocked" if I were not promoted to a tenure-track position.
> But that was before my colleagues knew what I was teaching.
> I had always been a misfit in academia, partly because of my background, partly because of my personality, and increasingly over the years because of my ideas -- ideas that are now a book called "A Renegade History of the United States."
> I was raised by pot-smoking, nudist, socialist revolutionaries as an egghead white boy in black neighborhoods in Berkeley and Oakland. I nearly flunked eighth grade and finished high school with a C average. Then I went to the anarchist, ultra-hippy Antioch College in Ohio, which accepted all their applicants, didn't give grades, and didn't have a history department.
> So even though I managed to pull myself out of that background and into and through Columbia for a PhD, then onto a job at an elite college, I was highly uncomfortable moving from the world of weed to the world of tweed. I hated being "Professor." I cursed in class. I talked about sex. I used politically incorrect terms. My students said they had never heard the things I was teaching them in class. They called me "Bad Thad."
> I showed them that during the American Revolutiondrunkards, laggards, prostitutes, and pirates pioneered many of the freedoms and pleasures we now cherish-- including non-marital sex, interracial socializing, dancing, shopping, divorce, and the weekend -- and that the Founding Fathers, in the name of democracy, opposed them. I argued not only that many white Americans envied slaves but also that they did so for good reason, since slave culture offered many liberating alternatives to the highly repressive, work-obsessed, anti-sex culture of the early United States. I demonstrated that prostitutes, not feminists, won virtually all the freedoms that were denied to women but are now taken for granted. By tracing the path of immigrants from arrival as "primitives" to assimilation as "civilized" citizens, I explained that white people lost their rhythm by becoming good Americans. I presented evidence that without organized crime, we might not have jazz, Hollywood, Las Vegas, legal alcohol, birth control, or gay rights, since only gangsters were willing to support those projects when respectable America shunned them.
> This was not the standard left-liberal perspective my students had heard, and it certainly wasn't a conservative one, either. It was informed by an unlikely mix of influences, including the hippies and other cultural radicals I had encountered in my early life, black and gay cultures that showed me a way out of the self-imposed limitations of being white and straight, and libertarians who caused me to question the commitment to freedom among the left that I had been born into and which employed me as a professor.
> I gave my students a history that was structured around the oldest issue in political philosophy but which professional historians often neglect - the conflict between the individual and community, or what Freud called the eternal struggle between civilization and its discontents. College students are normally taught a history that is the story of struggles between capitalists and workers, whites and blacks, men and women. But history is also driven by clashes between those interested in preserving social order and those more interested in pursuing their own desires -- the "respectable" versus the "degenerate," the moral versus the immoral, "good citizens" versus the "bad." I wanted to show that the more that "bad" people existed, resisted, and won, the greater was what I called "the margin of freedom" for all of us.
> My students were most troubled by the evidence that the "good" enemies of "bad" freedoms were not just traditional icons like presidents and business leaders, but that many of the most revered abolitionists, progressives, and leaders of the feminist, labor, civil rights, and gay rights movements worked to suppress the cultures of working-class women, immigrants, African Americans, and the flamboyant gays who brought homosexuality out of the closet.
> I had developed these ideas largely on my own, in my study and in classrooms, knowing all the while that I was engaged in an Oedipal struggle to overthrow the generation of historians who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s, controlled academic history, and had trained me. They were so eager to make the masses into heroes that they did not see that it was precisely the non-heroic and unseemly characteristics of ordinary folks that changed American culture for the better.
> So I was quite anxious when I was asked to present my work to colleagues in order to get a long-term contract and be moved into line for a shot at tenure. A friend in the history department told me that given my publishing record and popularity among students the talk would be "really just a formality." But I knew it would be trouble.
> Several distinguished professors from Columbia showed up, since the university has final say on all tenure decisions at its sister college, Barnard. During my talk, a Columbia professor who had been named by a national magazine as the most important public intellectual in the United States, stared at me with what I took -- rightly, it turned out -- to be disgust. Another walked out before I finished. One of my graduate school advisors asked a series of hostile questions. Other colleagues told me after the talk that I was "courageous," that I was "wonderfully, relentlessly revisionist," and that I made some famous historians "look like dinosaurs."
> But emails came into the hiring committee from "important places," I was told, calling my ideas "improper," "frightening," and "dangerous." They said my ideas had no place in the academy and insisted that I be terminated. It was simply not okay for me to describe the "oppressed" in the terms used by their oppressors -- "shiftless," "sexually unrestrained," "primitive," "uncivilized" -- even though my argument transformed those epithets into tributes.
> After I was told that I would be leaving Barnard, hundreds of students protested in faculty and deans' offices and the Columbia Spectator devoted an editorial to my case, but to no avail. There did indeed seem to be no place for me in the academy. And so I wrote a book.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thaddeus-russell/fired-teaching-american-history_b_767172.html

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Re: Why Are We Still in Korea?

I agree with Buchanan's argument here, and he is dead on point.
 
Thanks for sharing this Michael, I had missed this article.
 
Keith

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:53 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Why Are We Still in Korea?
by Patrick J. Buchanan

This writer was 11-years-old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ.

Within days, Seoul had fallen. Routed U.S. and Republic of Korea troops were retreating toward an enclave in the southeast corner of the peninsula that came to be known as the Pusan perimeter.

In September came Gen. MacArthur's masterstroke: the Marine landing at Inchon behind enemy lines, the cut-off and collapse of the North Korean Army, recapture of Seoul and the march to the Yalu.

"Home by Christmas!" we were all saying.

Then came the mass intervention of a million "volunteers" of the People's Liberation Army that had, in October 1949, won the civil war against our Nationalist Chinese allies. Suddenly, the U.S. Army and Marines were in headlong retreat south. Seoul fell a second time.

There followed a war of attrition, the firing of MacArthur, the repudiation of Harry Truman and his "no-win war," the election of Ike and, in June 1953, an armistice along the DMZ where the war began.

Fifty-seven years after that armistice, a U.S. carrier task force is steaming toward the Yellow Sea in a show of force after the North fired 80 shells into a South Korean village.

We will stand by our Korean allies, says President Obama. And with our security treaty and 28,000 U.S. troops in South Korea, many on the DMZ, we can do no other. But why, 60 years after the first Korean War, should Americans be the first to die in a second Korean War?

Unlike 1950, South Korea is not an impoverished ex-colony of Japan. She is the largest of all the "Asian tigers," a nation with twice the population and 40 times the economy of the North.

Seoul just hosted the G-20. And there is no Maoist China or Stalinist Soviet Union equipping Pyongyang's armies. The planes, guns, tanks and ships of the South are far superior in quality.

Why, then, are we still in South Korea? Why is this quarrel our quarrel? Why is this war, should it come, America's war?

High among the reasons we fought in Korea was Japan, then a nation rising from the ashes after half its cities had been reduced to rubble. But, for 50 years now, Japan has had the second largest economy and is among the most advanced nations on earth.

Why cannot Japan defend herself? Why does this remain our responsibility, 65 years after MacArthur took the surrender in Tokyo Bay?

The Soviet Empire, against which we defended Japan, no longer exists, nor does the Soviet Union. Russia holds the southern Kurils, taken as spoils from World War II, but represents no threat. Indeed, Tokyo is helping develop Russia's resources in Siberia.

Why, when the Cold War has been over for 20 years, do all these Cold War alliances still exist?

Obama has just returned from a Lisbon summit of NATO, an alliance formed in 1949 to defend Western Europe from Soviet tank armies on the other side of the Iron Curtain that threatened to roll to the Channel. Today, that Red Army no longer exists, the captive nations are free, and Russia's president was in Lisbon as an honored guest of NATO.

Yet we still have tens of thousands of U.S. troops in the same bases they were in when Gen. Eisenhower became supreme allied commander more than 60 years ago.

Across Europe, our NATO allies are slashing defense to maintain social safety nets. But Uncle Sam, he soldiers on.

We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from Japan and China to defend Japan from China. We borrow from the Gulf Arabs to defend the Gulf Arabs.

To broker peace in Palestine, Obama began his presidency with a demand that Israel halt all new construction of settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Today, as his price for a one-time-only 90-day freeze on new construction on the West Bank, but not East Jerusalem, "Bibi" Netanyahu is demanding 20 F-35 strike fighters, a U.S. commitment to a Security Council veto of any Palestinian declaration of independence, and assurances the U.S. will support a permanent Israeli presence on the Jordan river. And the Israelis want it all in writing.

This, from a client state upon which we have lavished a hundred billion dollars in military aid and defended diplomatically for decades.

How to explain why America behaves as she does?

From 1941 to 1989, she played a great heroic role as defender of freedom, sacrificing and serving mankind, a role of which we can be forever proud. But having won that epochal struggle against the evil empire, we found ourselves in a world for which we were unprepared. Now, like an aging athlete, we keep trying to relive the glory days when all the world looked with awe upon us.

We can't let go, because we don't know what else to do. We live in yesterday – and our rivals look to tomorrow.

http://buchanan.org/blog/

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Why Are We Still in Korea?


Why Are We Still in Korea?
by Patrick J. Buchanan

This writer was 11-years-old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ.

Within days, Seoul had fallen. Routed U.S. and Republic of Korea troops were retreating toward an enclave in the southeast corner of the peninsula that came to be known as the Pusan perimeter.

In September came Gen. MacArthur's masterstroke: the Marine landing at Inchon behind enemy lines, the cut-off and collapse of the North Korean Army, recapture of Seoul and the march to the Yalu.

"Home by Christmas!" we were all saying.

Then came the mass intervention of a million "volunteers" of the People's Liberation Army that had, in October 1949, won the civil war against our Nationalist Chinese allies. Suddenly, the U.S. Army and Marines were in headlong retreat south. Seoul fell a second time.

There followed a war of attrition, the firing of MacArthur, the repudiation of Harry Truman and his "no-win war," the election of Ike and, in June 1953, an armistice along the DMZ where the war began.

Fifty-seven years after that armistice, a U.S. carrier task force is steaming toward the Yellow Sea in a show of force after the North fired 80 shells into a South Korean village.

We will stand by our Korean allies, says President Obama. And with our security treaty and 28,000 U.S. troops in South Korea, many on the DMZ, we can do no other. But why, 60 years after the first Korean War, should Americans be the first to die in a second Korean War?

Unlike 1950, South Korea is not an impoverished ex-colony of Japan. She is the largest of all the "Asian tigers," a nation with twice the population and 40 times the economy of the North.

Seoul just hosted the G-20. And there is no Maoist China or Stalinist Soviet Union equipping Pyongyang's armies. The planes, guns, tanks and ships of the South are far superior in quality.

Why, then, are we still in South Korea? Why is this quarrel our quarrel? Why is this war, should it come, America's war?

High among the reasons we fought in Korea was Japan, then a nation rising from the ashes after half its cities had been reduced to rubble. But, for 50 years now, Japan has had the second largest economy and is among the most advanced nations on earth.

Why cannot Japan defend herself? Why does this remain our responsibility, 65 years after MacArthur took the surrender in Tokyo Bay?

The Soviet Empire, against which we defended Japan, no longer exists, nor does the Soviet Union. Russia holds the southern Kurils, taken as spoils from World War II, but represents no threat. Indeed, Tokyo is helping develop Russia's resources in Siberia.

Why, when the Cold War has been over for 20 years, do all these Cold War alliances still exist?

Obama has just returned from a Lisbon summit of NATO, an alliance formed in 1949 to defend Western Europe from Soviet tank armies on the other side of the Iron Curtain that threatened to roll to the Channel. Today, that Red Army no longer exists, the captive nations are free, and Russia's president was in Lisbon as an honored guest of NATO.

Yet we still have tens of thousands of U.S. troops in the same bases they were in when Gen. Eisenhower became supreme allied commander more than 60 years ago.

Across Europe, our NATO allies are slashing defense to maintain social safety nets. But Uncle Sam, he soldiers on.

We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from Japan and China to defend Japan from China. We borrow from the Gulf Arabs to defend the Gulf Arabs.

To broker peace in Palestine, Obama began his presidency with a demand that Israel halt all new construction of settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Today, as his price for a one-time-only 90-day freeze on new construction on the West Bank, but not East Jerusalem, "Bibi" Netanyahu is demanding 20 F-35 strike fighters, a U.S. commitment to a Security Council veto of any Palestinian declaration of independence, and assurances the U.S. will support a permanent Israeli presence on the Jordan river. And the Israelis want it all in writing.

This, from a client state upon which we have lavished a hundred billion dollars in military aid and defended diplomatically for decades.

How to explain why America behaves as she does?

From 1941 to 1989, she played a great heroic role as defender of freedom, sacrificing and serving mankind, a role of which we can be forever proud. But having won that epochal struggle against the evil empire, we found ourselves in a world for which we were unprepared. Now, like an aging athlete, we keep trying to relive the glory days when all the world looked with awe upon us.

We can't let go, because we don't know what else to do. We live in yesterday – and our rivals look to tomorrow.

http://buchanan.org/blog/

Talk About Life Imitating Art (Unfortunately)


Talk About Life Imitating Art (Unfortunately)
Posted by David Kramer on November 26, 2010 11:42 AM

How prescient the filmmakers of the Airplane! movie comedies were. (I actually recall both of these scenes.)

At :25 into this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyAautx-mVc&feature=player_embedded

Here the filmmakers predicted the porno-scanners. (NB: some nudity)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqEdM-pe_-0&feature=player_embedded

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Re: Senate Republicans' Ban On Earmarks Proves Short-Lived- Three Days

And the libbies play Cricket

On Nov 26, 10:15 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This really is quite ridiculous, and I expect more from WaPo.
>
> When you allocate monies to pay a FEDERAL lawsuit, the state where the
> plaintiff is from is utterly irrelevant.
>
> Is this really that hard?
>
> On Nov 26, 7:50 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Psst, thats not an earmark.  The state of AZ won't see a dime of it,
> > and this is besides the point that these are LAW SUITS
>
> > On Nov 25, 1:56 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > Senate Republicans' Ban On Earmarks Proves Short-Lived - Three Dayshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR201...
> > > --
> > > *"If Americans wish to be free of judicial tyranny, they must at least
> > > develop basic knowledge of the judicial role in our republican
> > > government. The present state of affairs is a direct result of our
> > > collective ignorance."
> > > - Ron Paul*
>
> > > *Our courts will never be fair and just again until we force the courts
> > > to follow their own rules. Do not allow yourself to be ruled by tyrants.
> > > Learn how to control corrupt judges and crooked lawyers
> > > <http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=CG0004> so you can get
> > > Justice! Learn to litigate: Buy and Study JURISDICTIONARY
> > > <http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=CG0004>. The best course
> > > available for Pro Se and Pro Per litigants.*
>
> > > *I Refuse To Comply With The Unconstitutional Demands Of The Federal
> > > Government*http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
>
> > > *"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
> > > are free."
> > > - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*
>
> > > *Government is only as strong as those who allow themselves to be
> > > governed are weak.*
>
> > > *"We have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don't get
> > > caught exercising them."
> > > - Terry Mitchell
>
> > > "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects something that
> > > cannot be."
> > > - Thomas Jefferson***- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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Re: Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home in the Tea Party

Roll back the liberal goo-goo Massachusetts clock.

2004 - At the prospect of John Kerry becoming President, and a vacant
US Senate seat, the dem legislature (and I mean DEM!) voted to take
the long standing power of the governor to make interim appointments
away, because the governor's name was Mitt Romney (R).

2009 - Upon Ted Kennedy's death, the same dem legislature (and I mean
DEM!), voted to return that power to the governor, because the
governor's name was Deval Patrick (D). The old, "possession is
9/10'ths of the law", routine.

The result? Senator Scott Brown.

Yes, they are that stupid.

On Nov 26, 11:54 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good observation Greg!
>
> The left's extremism, coupled with their hatred of America, and the
> continual playing of the "race card", and the "class warfare" card, are
> prime examples of why the Democratic Party is broken beyond repair.  Lil'
> TommyTomTomForNews is the classic example of "Far Left Extremism", and what
> is wrong with America.
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:54 AM, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Here's a hint.  The left's continual playing of the race card
> > backfired epically on November 2.  Please don't stop!
>
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Re: Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home in the Tea Party

Good observation Greg!
 
The left's extremism, coupled with their hatred of America, and the continual playing of the "race card", and the "class warfare" card, are prime examples of why the Democratic Party is broken beyond repair.  Lil' TommyTomTomForNews is the classic example of "Far Left Extremism", and what is wrong with America.
 


 
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:54 AM, GregfromBoston <greg.vincent@yahoo.com> wrote:
Here's a hint.  The left's continual playing of the race card
backfired epically on November 2.  Please don't stop!

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Judge Napolitano Under Attack


The Judge Under Attack
Posted by Thomas Woods on November 26, 2010 10:16 AM

Lew, the attacks on Judge Andrew Napolitano speak volumes about the enforcer-commissar strain of the Left (which in my own experience is practically the whole Left, with a few anomalies here and there like Glenn Greenwald and my co-editor Murray Polner).  A normal progressive, of whom there are all too few, would say something like this: "I do not agree with much of what the Judge says, but at least he introduces some level of serious thought into the jingoist, anti-intellectual neocon right.  He is a champion of peace and civil liberties against the imperialists and police-staters.  Whatever my differences with the Judge, his support for peace alone redeems him in my mind, for this is the most important moral issue of the day."

Instead, without even acknowledging any of this ­ I mean, isn't it at least slightly interesting that a rising star on the right holds these views?  just slightly? ­ we get the enforcer routine.  "Citizen, this man doesn't believe what the government tells him.  Nevermind that hardly anyone, ourselves excepted, has the kind of naive confidence in the regime that would make him think we've heard the whole truth about 9/11.  This man must be crushed.  No more Question Authority.  The new motto is Shut Your ­­- Mouth."

Scratch a "progressive" and you find a neocon with sandals.  The attacks on the Judge tell you all you need to know: they prefer the neocons to a consistent advocate of liberty.  They attack the neocons now and again, to be sure, but not in the career-destroying mode they reserve for actual dissidents.

Re: Senate Republicans' Ban On Earmarks Proves Short-Lived- Three Days

This really is quite ridiculous, and I expect more from WaPo.

When you allocate monies to pay a FEDERAL lawsuit, the state where the
plaintiff is from is utterly irrelevant.

Is this really that hard?

On Nov 26, 7:50 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Psst, thats not an earmark.  The state of AZ won't see a dime of it,
> and this is besides the point that these are LAW SUITS
>
> On Nov 25, 1:56 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Senate Republicans' Ban On Earmarks Proves Short-Lived - Three Dayshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR201...
> > --
> > *"If Americans wish to be free of judicial tyranny, they must at least
> > develop basic knowledge of the judicial role in our republican
> > government. The present state of affairs is a direct result of our
> > collective ignorance."
> > - Ron Paul*
>
> > *Our courts will never be fair and just again until we force the courts
> > to follow their own rules. Do not allow yourself to be ruled by tyrants.
> > Learn how to control corrupt judges and crooked lawyers
> > <http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=CG0004> so you can get
> > Justice! Learn to litigate: Buy and Study JURISDICTIONARY
> > <http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=CG0004>. The best course
> > available for Pro Se and Pro Per litigants.*
>
> > *I Refuse To Comply With The Unconstitutional Demands Of The Federal
> > Government*http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
>
> > *"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
> > are free."
> > - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*
>
> > *Government is only as strong as those who allow themselves to be
> > governed are weak.*
>
> > *"We have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don't get
> > caught exercising them."
> > - Terry Mitchell
>
> > "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects something that
> > cannot be."
> > - Thomas Jefferson***- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History


Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History
Thaddeus Russell
Posted: October 19, 2010 08:00 AM

Five years ago, I had every reason to believe that my job as a history professor at Barnard College was secure. I had been teaching there for four years, I had published my dissertation with a major publisher, and because I had tripled the sizes of the introductory U.S. history course and the American Studies program, colleagues told me they "would be shocked" if I were not promoted to a tenure-track position.

But that was before my colleagues knew what I was teaching.

I had always been a misfit in academia, partly because of my background, partly because of my personality, and increasingly over the years because of my ideas -- ideas that are now a book called "A Renegade History of the United States."

I was raised by pot-smoking, nudist, socialist revolutionaries as an egghead white boy in black neighborhoods in Berkeley and Oakland. I nearly flunked eighth grade and finished high school with a C average. Then I went to the anarchist, ultra-hippy Antioch College in Ohio, which accepted all their applicants, didn't give grades, and didn't have a history department.

So even though I managed to pull myself out of that background and into and through Columbia for a PhD, then onto a job at an elite college, I was highly uncomfortable moving from the world of weed to the world of tweed. I hated being "Professor." I cursed in class. I talked about sex. I used politically incorrect terms. My students said they had never heard the things I was teaching them in class. They called me "Bad Thad."

I showed them that during the American Revolution drunkards, laggards, prostitutes, and pirates pioneered many of the freedoms and pleasures we now cherish -- including non-marital sex, interracial socializing, dancing, shopping, divorce, and the weekend -- and that the Founding Fathers, in the name of democracy, opposed them. I argued not only that many white Americans envied slaves but also that they did so for good reason, since slave culture offered many liberating alternatives to the highly repressive, work-obsessed, anti-sex culture of the early United States. I demonstrated that prostitutes, not feminists, won virtually all the freedoms that were denied to women but are now taken for granted. By tracing the path of immigrants from arrival as "primitives" to assimilation as "civilized" citizens, I explained that white people lost their rhythm by becoming good Americans. I presented evidence that without organized crime, we might not have jazz, Hollywood, Las Vegas, legal alcohol, birth control, or gay rights, since only gangsters were willing to support those projects when respectable America shunned them.

This was not the standard left-liberal perspective my students had heard, and it certainly wasn't a conservative one, either. It was informed by an unlikely mix of influences, including the hippies and other cultural radicals I had encountered in my early life, black and gay cultures that showed me a way out of the self-imposed limitations of being white and straight, and libertarians who caused me to question the commitment to freedom among the left that I had been born into and which employed me as a professor.

I gave my students a history that was structured around the oldest issue in political philosophy but which professional historians often neglect - the conflict between the individual and community, or what Freud called the eternal struggle between civilization and its discontents. College students are normally taught a history that is the story of struggles between capitalists and workers, whites and blacks, men and women. But history is also driven by clashes between those interested in preserving social order and those more interested in pursuing their own desires -- the "respectable" versus the "degenerate," the moral versus the immoral, "good citizens" versus the "bad." I wanted to show that the more that "bad" people existed, resisted, and won, the greater was what I called "the margin of freedom" for all of us.

My students were most troubled by the evidence that the "good" enemies of "bad" freedoms were not just traditional icons like presidents and business leaders, but that many of the most revered abolitionists, progressives, and leaders of the feminist, labor, civil rights, and gay rights movements worked to suppress the cultures of working-class women, immigrants, African Americans, and the flamboyant gays who brought homosexuality out of the closet.

I had developed these ideas largely on my own, in my study and in classrooms, knowing all the while that I was engaged in an Oedipal struggle to overthrow the generation of historians who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s, controlled academic history, and had trained me. They were so eager to make the masses into heroes that they did not see that it was precisely the non-heroic and unseemly characteristics of ordinary folks that changed American culture for the better.

So I was quite anxious when I was asked to present my work to colleagues in order to get a long-term contract and be moved into line for a shot at tenure. A friend in the history department told me that given my publishing record and popularity among students the talk would be "really just a formality." But I knew it would be trouble.

Several distinguished professors from Columbia showed up, since the university has final say on all tenure decisions at its sister college, Barnard. During my talk, a Columbia professor who had been named by a national magazine as the most important public intellectual in the United States, stared at me with what I took -- rightly, it turned out -- to be disgust. Another walked out before I finished. One of my graduate school advisors asked a series of hostile questions. Other colleagues told me after the talk that I was "courageous," that I was "wonderfully, relentlessly revisionist," and that I made some famous historians "look like dinosaurs."

But emails came into the hiring committee from "important places," I was told, calling my ideas "improper," "frightening," and "dangerous." They said my ideas had no place in the academy and insisted that I be terminated. It was simply not okay for me to describe the "oppressed" in the terms used by their oppressors -- "shiftless," "sexually unrestrained," "primitive," "uncivilized" -- even though my argument transformed those epithets into tributes.

After I was told that I would be leaving Barnard, hundreds of students protested in faculty and deans' offices and the Columbia Spectator devoted an editorial to my case, but to no avail. There did indeed seem to be no place for me in the academy. And so I wrote a book.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thaddeus-russell/fired-teaching-american-history_b_767172.html

Judge Napolitano Under Attack


Judge Napolitano Under Attack
Posted by Lew Rockwell on November 26, 2010 07:45 AM

Andrew Napolitano is an unusual man–an important legal thinker, a scholar, an influential public intellectual, a tv star, a real advocate of freedom among the phonies in the vast wasteland. See his books, for example. Under the Bush regime, he argued against the patriot act, the torture, the camps, the police state. He still does under Obama, adding his assassination policy, his TSA violations of the 4th amendment, his oppressive "health care." The Judge's Freedom Watch TV show, where I am an occasional guest, has gone from once a week on the internet to a daily show on Fox Business. With a growing audience, surely the main channel is next. So, of course, the usual suspects on the corporatist left have gone after him, most recently George Soros's Media Matters and GE's Keith Olbermann. Olbermann has even called for the Judge to be fired. (Sure, Keith.) Why? The Judge discussed a forbidden topic–the downing of Building 7 on 9/11/01, on a forbidden radio show, Alex Jones's. Under the soft totalitarianism of the US, there is vast State-corporate pressure not to discuss a whole list of topics, though free speech is not yet directly outlawed in most cases. When such a significant figure as the Judge brings up a subject or a point of view that is never supposed to be mentioned, he strikes a blow for liberty and the first amendment, and empowers millions of other people to resist. But for the Judge, such courage is simply the path of his life.

Re: 10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked

Here's another:

Democrats own Don't Ask Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act,
and not only haven't done a thing in 4 years to get rid of them, but
are currently fighting court rulings that would get rid of BOTH them
in court.

Yes, there's the real democrat's championing of gay rights. Bullshit!

Next time put a bow on it. Maybe a card that says, "this one is gonna
be fucking easy."

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**JP** DID THEY DONE THE RIGHT THING

MY BROTHER IN LAW DIGONICES MAHLOMA HE IS 69 YEARS OLD WE TOOK HIM TO SUKATH KHANUM HOSPITAL AFTER EXMINATION THEY REFUSED TO NOT ONLY TO ADMIT HIM BUT ALSO NOT READY TO GIVE TREATMENT  WE WERE NOT ASKING FOR FREE TREATMENT .
THEY DONOT ACCEPT THE PATIENT ABOVE 60
THEY DONOT ACCEPT THE PATIENT IF IT IS 3RD STAGE OF CANCER
THEY PREFER YOUNG PATIENT
          MY QUESTION IF THEY ARE GOD TO KNOW WHO WILL SURVIVE OR WHO WILL DIE.I THINK EVEN IF Y CAN SAVE A DOG/FISH/ANY ANIMAL ONE SHOULD TRY TO SAVE THE LIFE
NOW MY BROTHER IS HAVING HIS TREATMENT IN KARACHI AND DOCTOR ARE HOPEFULL AS THIS TYPE OF CANCER IS CUREABLE .
PLS PREY FOR HIM.AND SOME BODY SHOULD TOLD IMRAN KHAN TO RE CONSIDER OF HIS POLICY
SHARIF

Re: Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home in the Tea Party

Here's a hint. The left's continual playing of the race card
backfired epically on November 2. Please don't stop!

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Re: Senate Republicans' Ban On Earmarks Proves Short-Lived- Three Days

Psst, thats not an earmark. The state of AZ won't see a dime of it,
and this is besides the point that these are LAW SUITS

On Nov 25, 1:56 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
wrote:
> Senate Republicans' Ban On Earmarks Proves Short-Lived - Three Dayshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR201...
> --
> *"If Americans wish to be free of judicial tyranny, they must at least
> develop basic knowledge of the judicial role in our republican
> government. The present state of affairs is a direct result of our
> collective ignorance."
> - Ron Paul*
>
> *Our courts will never be fair and just again until we force the courts
> to follow their own rules. Do not allow yourself to be ruled by tyrants.
> Learn how to control corrupt judges and crooked lawyers
> <http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=CG0004> so you can get
> Justice! Learn to litigate: Buy and Study JURISDICTIONARY
> <http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=CG0004>. The best course
> available for Pro Se and Pro Per litigants.*
>
> *I Refuse To Comply With The Unconstitutional Demands Of The Federal
> Government*http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
>
> *"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
> are free."
> - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*
>
> *Government is only as strong as those who allow themselves to be
> governed are weak.*
>
> *"We have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don't get
> caught exercising them."
> - Terry Mitchell
>
> "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects something that
> cannot be."
> - Thomas Jefferson***

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Podcast interview w/ Sanford Levinson re a new American Constitution

Posted this morning at Electric Politics, a podcast interview with
Sanford Levinson, teaching this year at Harvard Law School, on the
need for a brand new American Constitution.

The Constitution we've got is a profoundly undemocratic, impossible
mess, and must be completely reworked. And this probably must be
accomplished through some sort of extra-constitutional process: if you
will, a color revolution. A tall order, but it can be done.

Thanks for listening and, if you like the show, please don't hesitate
to forward the link.

http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2010/11/a_once_and_future_country.html

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**JP** Gulf Jobs

Dear All

Please follow the links to view the details

Multiple Job Positions for a Hypermarket - Qatar
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/multiple-job-positions-for-hypermarket.html


Mathematics Teacher for Al Ain English Speaking School - UAE
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/mathematics-teacher-for-al-ain-english.html


Marketing Manager required for a Global Bank - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/marketing-manager-required-for-global.html


Accountant Required - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/accountant-required-bahrain_25.html


Quality Assurance Engineer - UAE
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/quality-assurance-engineer-uae.html


Personal Assistant - Qatar
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/personal-assistant-qatar.html


Chief Financial Officer for an Insurance Organization - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/chief-financial-officer-for-insurance.html


Accountant / Secretary Required for a Contracting Company - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/accountant-secretary-required-for.html


Multiple Job Positions for a Group of Companies - Qatar
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/multiple-job-positions-for-group-of.html


.Net programmer - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/net-programmer-bahrain.html


Female Accountants - Saudi Arabia
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/female-accountants-saudi-arabia.html


Multiple Job Positions for Green Apple Systems - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/multiple-job-positions-for-green-apple.html


Electrical Technician - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/electrical-technician-bahrain.html


Qualified Male Teachers for Al Falah International School
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/qualified-male-teachers-for-al-falah.html


Integrity Compliance Specialist - UAE
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/integrity-compliance-specialist-uae.html


Steel Fabricators for Spare Parts and Engineers - Saudi Arabia
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/steel-fabricators-for-spare-parts-and.html


Marketing Manger - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/marketing-manger-bahrain.html


Financial Analyst and Accountant - Saudi Arabia
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/financial-analyst-and-accountant-saudi.html


Administration Manager - Bahrain
>>Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/administration-manager-bahrain.html


Mechanical Supervisor/Engineer - UAE
>>Wednesday, November 24, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/mechanical-supervisorengineer-uae.html


Design Estimation Engineers / Maintenance Engineers / HVAC Technicians - Bahrain
>>Wednesday, November 24, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/design-estimation-engineers-maintenance.html


AC Technician - Saudi Arabia
>>Wednesday, November 24, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/ac-technician-saudi-arabia.html


Gas Turbine Mechanic / Power Plant Operator - UAE
>>Wednesday, November 24, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/gas-turbine-mechanic-power-plant.html


Multiple Job Positions for a Landscaping and Irrigation Company - Bahrain
>>Wednesday, November 24, 2010
http://www.jobshob.org/2010/11/multiple-job-positions-for-landscaping.html


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RE: **JP** Poem by a Hindu Poet - An eye opener !!!

Jazbatii taqreer karnay say kuch nahi hota.. baat hindu ki poem say mutasir honay ki nahi hai. baat ya hai k us may jo likha hai kya wo galat hai???? agar galat likha hai tu baat khatam ho jatii.. zaida gussa app logo ko tu ese baat ka hai us nay sach likhaaa hai kyun k aisa he ho raha hai

 
 
 





From: info@lhr.sapphire.com.pk
To: joinpakistan@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: **JP** Poem by a Hindu Poet - An eye opener !!!
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:26:02 +0500

Tanqeed karna in ka vateera ban chuka hai, yeh kisi surat baaz nahi a'ain gay aur ghair muslimon ka sahara la kar musalmanon ko degrade karna aur un ma fasaad phelana in ki purani aadat ho chuki hai...
 
In kay ilm o aqqal ka yahin se andazah ho jata hai k yeh aik hindu ki poetry se mutasir hain jesay Nauzubillah woh Qurah ho...
 
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From: joinpakistan@googlegroups.com [mailto:joinpakistan@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Aasi-O-Gunahgaar, Talib-E-Madina
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 2:25 PM
To: joinpakistan@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: **JP** Poem by a Hindu Poet - An eye opener !!!

Dear All


Agar ek hindu poet kuch likhey or aap log itna serious ley kar, usey haq maantey ho tho, Aap musalmaan or Mushrik k beech faraq saabit karney k liye kisi hindu poet ka sahara leingey?

Kya aapney sahi Aalim-e-deen sey is baarey mein ruju (tazkira) kiye ho?

Aaj siraf or siraf ek he religion apni sahi haalat mein zinda hai, tho woh siraf or siraf Muslim religion hai, Deen-e-Rasool Allah (SAW). is baat ko saari duniya maanti hai, per kuch Musalmaan he hain jin ko shak hai, woh bhi kisi Hindu poet ki waja sey.

Woh hindu poet jisey khud uska religion ka sahi naam tak nahi pata, woh Musalmaano per poem likhey tho kuch padhey likhey log usey sahi samajh kar fatwey dena shuru kar detey hain. 

Kya aap log Sahi ho? or yeh kis Hindu ney likhi hai? kon hain woh? kaha rehta hai? kuch pata hai aapko? 

Jab nai maalum tho kyon apni zubaan islam k liye kholtey ho?

Yeh Deen-e-Islam hai, Allah ka deen, kisi ki soch ya falsafa nai k jo chaho kehlo.

Hope you guys understand it.

Aasi-O-Gunahgaar, Talib-E-Madina


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Zeeshan Siddiqui <zshansiddiqui@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

I can't able to understand that why we wish to close our eyes and why non-muslims has become derider upon us. Why we left teachings of Nabi (Sallalaho Alaihe Wa Aalehi Wasallam) when Allah's apostle (Sallalaho Alaihe Wa Aalehi Wasallam) taught us that we should worship of saints and build their tombs. Aren't we going on the track of Hindus & Christians. Yes indeed we are doing same thing more or less. We all should do our betterment according to Quran & Sunnah.

We should go on the narrow way by Allah's mercy.

AMEEN






From: info@lhr.sapphire.com.pk
To: joinpakistan@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: **JP** Poem by a Hindu Poet - An eye opener !!!
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:11:39 +0500


Yes, its nothing except wrong presumptions and creating hatred in the name of ISLAM...
 
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From: joinpakistan@googlegroups.com [mailto:joinpakistan@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Usmani Associates
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 10:47 AM
To: joinpakistan@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: **JP** Poem by a Hindu Poet - An eye opener !!!

I agree with Syed Irfan Ashraf, Peshawar. There are so many problems which we are facing. It is time to be positive and trained our mind according to according to Islamic form. Islam does not believe in cast system. This poem lead us to wrong direction.

Muhammed Hussain Vegelpoory
New Karachi


--- On Wed, 11/24/10, Irfan Ashraf <syedirfanashraf@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Irfan Ashraf <syedirfanashraf@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: **JP** Poem by a Hindu Poet - An eye opener !!!
To: joinpakistan@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 9:30 PM

Dear friend this poem is not even worth reading. I am surprised as to
why you have given it so importance to import it impatiently from
across the border and present it before us. Please don't deal in
trading hatred. We already have tons of it. Do something more
constructive.

Regards
Syed Irfan Ashraf,
Peshawar

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**JP** PHP/MySQL Software Developer

Find the job details below, this job is for Lahore, Pakistan

PHP/MySQL Software Developer

Job Description:
Work within Software development team and perform a full range of
analysis and complex programming tasks to achieve business goals.
Maintain code and application libraries, instructions, and technical
documentation.
Design, develop, and maintain business and data tiers.
Analyse, design, develop, and maintain Web applications using PHP and
MySql.

Required Skills and Experience:
1. Minimum Four Months of professional PHP Development experience.
2. Experience with N-tier applications
3. Good Programming and OOP Concepts
4. Worked SQL Server/MySQL Database
5. SQL and Procedural Language skills

Qualifications:
1. Minimum Computer Science Graduate
2. Experience with OsCommerce, Joomla, PHP BB or WordPress would be
preferred.

Qualified Applicants should submit resume to: jobs@leadconcept.com

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**JP** ASP .NET Software Developer

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ASP .NET Software Developer

Job Description:
Work within Software development team and perform a full range of
analysis and complex programming tasks to achieve business goals.
Maintain code and application libraries, instructions, and technical
documentation.
Design, develop, and maintain business and data tiers.
Analyse, design, develop, and maintain Web applications using ASP.Net
and SQL Server.

Required Skills and Experience:
1. Minimum Four Months of professional .NET Development experience in
ASP.Net (Fresh Graduate with outstanding skills related to job will be
considered).
2. Experience with N-tier applications
3. Good Programming and OOP Concepts
4. Worked SQL Server/MySQL Database
5. SQL and Procedural Language skills

Qualifications:
1. Minimum Computer Science Graduate
2. Any related certification will be an added advantage
Qualified Applicants should submit resume in Word format to:
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WIKILEAKS RELEASE TO FEATURE CORRUPTION AMONG WORLD LEADERS, GOVERNMENTS - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?* [1 Attachment]


Wikileaks
 
(above): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
 
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Hi Team!

*? 2 ALL:

WIKILEAKS RELEASE

TO FEATURE CORRUPTION AMONG

WORLD LEADERS, GOVERNMENTS -

wikileakslogo WikiLeaks release to feature corruption  among world leaders, governments

Daniel Tencer reports:

"The Obama administration on Wednesday warned that the next release of documents from whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks could damage relations between the US and foreign governments. Now, a report from Reuters offers an explanation as to why that may be.

"According to 'sources familiar with the State Department cables held by WikiLeaks,' the imminent document dump will include reports from US diplomats on corruption within foreign governments and among world leaders.

"Reuters reports that governments in Europe and Asia feature prominently in the document release, with Russia and Afghanistan being mentioned by name. However, there were no specifics reported as to the nature of the corruption allegations or which governments are involved.

'Three sources familiar with the State Department cables held by WikiLeaks say the corruption allegations in them are major enough to cause serious embarrassment for foreign governments and politicians named in them.

'They said the release was expected next week, but could come earlier. The U.S. government has strongly objected to past WikiLeaks revelations, which it said compromise national security and can put some people at risk.'"

http://www.transparency.org/design/portal/images/cpi2010/TI_blog_quote.jpg

WikiLeaks release to feature corruption among world leaders - what are your comments?

Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST
Voice of the People

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WikiLeaks release to feature corruption among world leaders, governments

By Daniel Tencer
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 -- 8:07 pm

The US government, for its part, seems to be aware of the general nature of the material WikiLeaks will be releasing. AP reported Wednesday:

The Obama administration said Wednesday it has alerted Congress and begun notifying foreign governments that the WikiLeaks website is preparing to release sensitive U.S. diplomatic files that could damage U.S. relations with friends and allies across the globe.

"These revelations are harmful to the United States and our interests," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. "They are going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world."

Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last week, several months after the country launched, then dropped, then launched again an investigation into claims by two women that Assange sexually assaulted them.

Assange has maintained his innocence, and says all contact between him and the two women was consensual. He says the allegations are a ruse to discredit WikiLeaks, speculating that the Pentagon may have motivated the rape claims

WikiLeaks release to feature corruption among world leaders - what are your comments?

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