September 08, 2008

RNC Anarchy Organized by U of M Employees?
— Russ from Winterset

According to a tip I received on our new Red Acephone (h/t to Mr. Brian C. Ledbetter from Snapped Shot), low-level employees at the University of Minnesota were actively involved in the anarchist protests for the 2008 RNC in St. Paul. The tip comes from an article in the Chicago Examiner, which I am unfamiliar with, but since they have a website and a cool page design I am going to assume that they are the Midwest equivalent of the Wall Street Journal for the purposes of this post.

Am I surprised that University Employees are involved in anarchist political groups? About as surprised as I would be to find out that Madonna is whoring around on her husband Guy again, or as surprised as I would be to find out that Kristie Alley gained back all her weight PLUS 20 pounds.

In hindsight, it figures that the protests had a Minnesota Gopher planning them. They were spectacularly uninspiring, and they folded in the fourth quarter on Thursday, just like their football team seems to do on Saturdays.

I sent the link over to Brian's site instead of going directly to the Examiner's site. Brian's got it linked, and I like to reward tips with traffic, ifyouknowwhatImeanandIthinkyoudo.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at 04:53 AM | Comments (21)
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1 Haha, why the formality, Mr. Russ the Third, of the Shire of Winterset? (Thanks mucho for the linko!!) Regards, Brian

Posted by: Brian L. at September 08, 2008 04:55 AM (z62e3)

2

Your tax dollars at work!

Posted by: David Ross at September 08, 2008 04:57 AM (GwV+j)

3 FWIW, The Examiner is based in DC, though its satellite cities may appear in the web page header depending on how it is pulled up.  Bill Sammon went there from the Wash Times. Mary Katherine Ham went there from TownHall to run webby things.

Posted by: Karl at September 08, 2008 05:01 AM (acC/M)

4 Well I'm just shocked to find out that wacademia has been revealed to be a member of the Axis of Douche.  Maybe some of the tenured commie cocksuckers should pull out their Bob Dylan 8-tracks and listen to Ballad of a Thin Man and reflect on just who the fuck he's talking about.

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 08, 2008 05:05 AM (EbR5o)

5

they folded in the fourth quarter on Thursday, just like their football team seems to do on Saturdays...... and their candidate does in the fall.

(How could you miss that one?)

 

Posted by: Andrew X at September 08, 2008 05:12 AM (nNZtS)

6

Speaking of University employees, I was in a common area yesterday at my complex where a University of Houston professor was spouting off for everyone to hear how bad Palin was for her anti choice views and wanting to teach creationism in schools.  I politely reminded her that those views were infinitely better than the view that its okay to leave babies in a linen closet to die. 

After studdering for a few seconds she tried to bring up some retarded straw man argument which I laughed at which caused her to start studdering again. Life is good.  

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2008 05:16 AM (m2CN7)

7 Union goon violence, FARC commie/jihadi sympathizers.  Got quite a cross section of the Obama base there.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 08, 2008 05:17 AM (6L459)

8 A university employing political radicals and extremists?! Quelle horreur!! What would William Ayers, Leonard Jeffries or Ward Churchill say???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2008 05:17 AM (zpaDL)

9

and wanting to teach creationism in schools. 

I don't even think that's actually her position anyways.  Your response to it was great though.  To me her view seems to be that it shouldn't be on the cirriculum but if the question is asked teachers shouldn't go "we can't discuss that so shut up about it," and be able  to at least engage in a discussion of it.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2008 05:29 AM (Lrsi6)

10 There is only one "U of M," and it's not in MN.  The real U of M is the home of a coach-thieving and mediocre football (of late).  Just so we have that straight.

Posted by: Jazz at September 08, 2008 05:51 AM (sUWlR)

11

buzzion at September 08, 2008 10:29 AM (Lrsi6)

Admittedly at the time I did not know her position on creationism. I knew though that it was likely something different than what the professor had indicated.  I have since found that her position similar to what you said but maybe a little more expansive.  Her response in 2006

“Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both. And you know, I say this too as the daughter of a science teacher. Growing up with being so privileged and blessed to be given a lot of information on, on both sides of the subject -- creationism and evolution. It's been a healthy foundation for me. But don't be afraid of information and let kids debate both sides.”

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2008 05:52 AM (m2CN7)

12 here lies an opportunity for the MSM to repair their tattered reputation as leftist shills. let's get crackin', all you Woodward wannabe's!

Posted by: mark c at September 08, 2008 05:55 AM (EVmYn)

13 Academia has a long illustrious tradition of tolerating behavior that would get a person instantly fired where it in any other industry............

Posted by: Techie at September 08, 2008 06:14 AM (c7g2P)

14

U of M = University of Mooks. What else did ya expect from the Peoples Republic of Minnesota? That place is a craphole of leftist indoctrination. The law school even admits their Marxist ideology. The entire Minneapolis gestalt is based on being the Manhatten of the Midwest and the U is directly on the East side of town. The joke though, is that New York City has suburbs bigger than Minnecrapolis.

(signed)
Chuck holdingacandletothedarkness@Ft Apache, st paul

Posted by: chuck in st paul at September 08, 2008 06:16 AM (jDpso)

15 None of us should be surprised. After all, it was proven a few years back that the hack of the Protest Warrior site (during which every bit of personal contact information was published on Indy Media) occurred at a Washington State university. They breed anarchists and "revolutionaries" at these institutions, you know. Somewhere in the dark recesses of science labs, I think.

Posted by: Da Goddess at September 08, 2008 06:18 AM (njkk7)

16 Russ I drove through Winterset this weekend and all I could think was damn this is where Russ lives (further proof of the incidious effects of this moron blog).

Posted by: ntac at September 08, 2008 07:12 AM (jYyFD)

17 ntac, did you drive through on Highway 169 or Highway 92?  'Cuz if you came through on 169, you probably missed seeing "Russ from Here Park" out on the West side of town.  It's got a big statue & a playground for the kiddies.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at September 08, 2008 07:58 AM (dyz/7)

18

polynikes

I have since found that her position similar to what you said but maybe a little more expansive.  Her response in 2006

I think that's her response at a debate.  Ace had a link concerning it in one of the massive Palin posts that linked to LGF.  After the debate her answer touched off some questions she wasn't expecting, giving the explanation I mentioned above, as well as saying she won't have a religious(or evolution, I forget which) test as part of picking people for the board of education.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2008 08:32 AM (Lrsi6)

19

From the Examiner story:

Sundin's personal web page hosted by a U o M server under the heading “My Stuff” links to communist websites. Under “My anti-war stuff” she links to a declaration from the “Islamic Jihad Army” in Iraq which was killing US troops at the time. It's clear that she has posted these links in solidarity with the Islamic terrorist group.

Remember-not "anti-war", but on the other side.

We really ought not to let treason prosper, and frankly I don't know what else you'd call this.

Posted by: CavMedic at September 08, 2008 08:33 AM (70md/)

20

Russ,

Just think - if we eveah held a GOP convention in Des Moines ( I know - not going to happen) can you imagine the intermural squabble between ISU and that other school to see who's liberals got the week off to pratice their rioting skills.

Once Sarah gets in office maybe she'll authorize a hunting season on liberal college professors - no bag limit and since sex is difficult to determine visually no discrimination there either.

Perhaps we can feed the scraps to some hobos.

Posted by: Murph at September 08, 2008 05:04 PM (Dw2sU)

21 Union goon violence, FARC commie/jihadi sympathizers.  Got quite a cross section of the Obama base there.

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