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Finally, since this is a blog about academia and not journalism, I’ll forgive the commenters for not understanding that it is not my job to read entire dissertations before I write a 500-word piece about them. I read some academic publications (as they relate to other research I do), but there are not enough hours in the day or money in the world to get me to read a dissertation on historical black midwifery. In fact, I’d venture to say that fewer than 20 people in the whole world will read it. And the same holds true for the others that are mentioned in the piece.

Orange Devil posted:

Breaking news: very few people will read your dissertation.

Jack Gladney posted:

How is it that the Chronicle of Higher Education--a publication for professional academics--ends up publishing such garbage and attracting such a vile bunch of comments? Those racists are posting to each other like they know one another already, like there's a community of racists who reinforce one another on a blog from the Chronicle.

What the gently caress?

PostNouveau posted:

Oh good, she's doubling down:

Lee Harvey Oswald posted:

Thirty-nine months of Obama have increased gasoline prices 84 percent, crude oil 135.9 percent, corn 78.1 percent, sugar cane 164.7 percent, black unemployment 25.4 percent, food stamp recipients 35.7 percent, long- term unemployment 136.2 percent, national debt in trillions 32.2 percent, and new businesses are at a 30-year low. Our country's broke. You can't fix stupid, but can vote it out!

Lee Harvey Oswald posted:

Here's a winner from my local paper today.


George Washington didn't want no niggers or fags in his military

PostNouveau posted:

Oh good, she's doubling down:

zeroprime posted:

What is it with certain people not just being ignorant, but actually reveling in it? She freely admits to making criticisms without knowing anything about what she was criticizing, and does so proudly, as though she doesn't have the time to be bothered with things like reading.

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Nets on Jay-Z track

As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new “urban” home — why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment?

Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N------s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B----hes or Hoes. Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be Jay-Z hip? Then go all the way!

“I guess I won’t need my color TV anymore now that the Nets will be wearing black and white,’’ writes reader John Lynch.

Toffile posted:

Not entirely political, but uh, this was written for a major NYC newspaper.

Toffile posted:

Not entirely political, but uh, this was written for a major NYC newspaper.


http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/double_standard_TFPqqilUHif01I9BKkQSkN#ixzz1tvDbCuoR

Kim Jong III posted:

Holy poo poo Phil Muschnick is a massive loving racist.

Is he going to get the axe or is this par for the course at the N.Y. Post?

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Yet, while Stoudemire’s now a fool until further notice, for years we watched Paul O’Neill, after failures at bat, attack anything and everything found in or near dugouts, especially large glass or plastic containers of thirst-quenching liquids.

Perhaps because O’Neill, as far as we know, never injured himself to the extent that he was unable to play a postseason game, he wasn’t classified as a jerk, but rather “a fiery competitor.”

So we can see how the difference between being a jerk and a fiery competitor — “a warrior” — can be as small and as fortunate/unfortunate as the hair in a hairline fracture.

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YO MUSHNICK IMMA LET YOU FINISH BUT MEL GIBSON HAD THE GREATEST AWKWARD RACISM RANT OF ALL TIME.

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Shut down the GSA!
When it comes to government waste and arrogance, folks like us are just not creative enough. It takes true bureaucrats like those at the General Services Administration.

The GSA is supposed to help other government agencies work more efficiently. But, to no American's surprise (except possibly President Obama) the "professionals" at the GSA spent over 800,000 taxpayer dollars on a 4 day Las Vegas conference that included mind readers, poolside clowns, lavish private parties and more. Oh, and of course, there was a rap video competition where our supposed "public servants" mocked taxpayers for funding their parties and excesses.

Emails from the conference organizer reveal he actually planned for the conference to be "over the top."

Was the conference organizer punished? Of course not! This is the federal government. President Obama's appointee heading the GSA actually awarded the organizer a $9,000 bonus – even after knowing about the conference. Finally, after the story broke, the GSA had to put him on leave – with his full federal salary.

Want a window into just how out of touch these Obama bureaucrats are? When asked yesterday why she approved the $9,000 bonus for the conference organizer, former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson replied that he was "entitled" to it. I'm not making that up.
There's so much more. Testimony yesterday in the House of Representatives reveals that the White House knew about these outrages months ago but took no action until the news finally broke.

The GSA is one of the more useless federal agencies (among many). They're supposed to help other agencies be more efficient. Again, I'm not making that up. Now they are being investigated for criminal bribes and kickbacks according to testimony before Congress yesterday.

We need to make sure Members of Congress know just how disgusted we are by this latest example of government waste and abuse.

The GSA unsuccessfully attempts to replicate private sector efficiency in government. In the real economy, businesses of every size are held accountable by their customers and healthy competition. Bloated government agencies like the GSA are accountable to no one and cause real harm to taxpayers.

Permanently closing the GSA would save the taxpayers at least $200 million each year, and would shrink the overgrown federal government bureaucracy. We must not allow waste, bribery, and inefficiency like this go unchecked.


Tim Phillips
President, Americans for Prosperity

Kim Jong III posted:

Holy poo poo Phil Muschnick is a massive loving racist.

Is he going to get the axe or is this par for the course at the N.Y. Post?

Jay-Z - People's Court posted:

It's like bein on trial for your life with a public defender
Let the jury fill the seats up and start the court calendar off
With docu number 9mm
All rise...

Dr. Tough posted:

There's no punchline in the letter, this guy really does want to shut down the GSA.

Phil Mushnick posted:

Bob - Such obvious, wishful and ignorant mischaracterizations of what I write are common. I don't call black men the N-word; I don't regard young women as bitches and whores; I don't glorify the use of assault weapons and drugs. Jay-Z, on the other hand.....Is he the only NBA owner allowed to call black men N---ers?"

Jay-Z profits from the worst and most sustaining self-enslaving stereotypes of black-American culture and I'M the racist? Some truths, I guess, are just hard to read, let alone think about.

(Same column I provide support for Amar'e Stoudemire at a time when everyone in town is ripping him to shreds. That was my LEAD, too, but what does that matter?)

Terror Sweat posted:

The funny thing is that his views could have been as reprehensibly racist as possible, all he had to do was not say friend of the family.

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The "service" those Secret Service agents paid for in Colombia didn't remain a secret for long.

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Since we have never actually run out of any "non-renewable" resources, how does anyone know we will?

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Pro-choice and pro-life philosophies regarding abortion seem to have little room for compromise. Maybe a live-and-let-live agreement would work.

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Speaking of prostitutes, what's Congress been doing — or rather, not doing — lately?

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What this country needs — besides a good $5 cigar — is fewer wild-eyed Democrats and Republicans and more just plain, simple Americans.

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The 2012 Democratic presidential campaign slogan is "Forward." I think it should be "Forwarned."

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It's too bad Facebook wasn't around when Corp. Klinger of M*A*S*H* was trying to get out of the Army. A simple posting criticizing his commander-in-chief would have had him sent home in no time at all.

Augster posted:

My paper has a Sunday column called "Your 2 Cents." It's almost as entertaining as the comics section.

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It's too bad Facebook wasn't around when Corp. Klinger of M*A*S*H* was trying to get out of the Army. A simple posting criticizing his commander-in-chief would have had him sent home in no time at all.

Bruce Leroy posted:

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Pro-choice and pro-life philosophies regarding abortion seem to have little room for compromise. Maybe a live-and-let-live agreement would work.

Grand Theft Autobot posted:

So Tim Phillips, President of an organization that produces nothing of value, is complaining about waste and inefficiency?

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Well, not too many years ago somebody was trying to figure out how to make cheap textiles with foreign child sweatshop labor, while still putting “Made in the USA” on the tag. They had the ingenious idea of setting up factories in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the North Pacific.

They imported Chinese labor, where, without the protection of any US labor laws, there was forced prostitution for women and children both. Women were given forced abortions.

When somebody in the government saw that what could be considered “atrocities” were going on under the “Made in the USA” label, they introduced legislation to protect the island workers by requiring that they be covered under US labor laws.

This brings us to Tim Phillips, and his group.

They mailed letters to Christians in the districts of key legislators saying that congress was trying to pass a law and that they, as Christians, needed to stop it as part of their duty to the Lord. The mailings claimed the law would prevent the teachings of Christ from being brought to the fine Chinese laborers in the Northern Mariana Islands. If you love the lord, and want to see Christianity brought to these poor Chinese heathens, please contact your congressman and tell them to stop this legislation. Oh, and ignore anything you hear about “labor laws” or “raping children for money.”

Nick_326 posted:

This is kind of off topic, but I realized that not everyone is aware of the fact that Phillips is an absolutely evil bastard.

I'll let David Wong explain:


So yeah, gently caress Tim Phillips. Just wanted to point that out.

colonelslime posted:

This one isn't terrible, but I really wish it didn't pop up so often. Do people think Planned Parenthood are going out, demanding women have unwanted abortions?

Darwin Was Wrong: Why We Need to Update Our Model of Evolution by Ellen Grace Jones posted:

This week the University of Sheffield announced results of experiments which promulgate Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' theory. Scientists claim we humans continue to be subject to the forces and whims of natural selection like other species.

"We have shown advances have not challenged the fact that our species is still evolving just like all the other species 'in the wild,'" posited Dr Virpi Lummaa, from the University of Sheffield's department of animal and plant sciences. "It is a common misunderstanding that evolution took place a long time ago, and that to understand ourselves we must look back to the hunter-gatherer days of humans."

The study, however, was nebulous in terms of expressing precisely what 'evolutionary changes' they found from the church records of almost 6,000 Finns born between 1760 and 1849.

An interesting experiment and indeed correct in that we are still evolving, however to attribute it to the Victorian, matter-based, Darwinian model of evolution is backward-thinking and flawed given the recent leaps and bounds in metaphysical sciences and physical historical evidence disproving linear evolution. The ideology we randomly mutated from ocean slime to our knuckle-dragging neanderthal long-long lost cousins to our current incarnation is one that's been dogmatically accepted into mainstream evolutionary hegemony without challenge until recent years.

"If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principal out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany" states the pioneering Dr Bruce Lipton, author of Spontaneous Evolution. Lipton believes it's 'cooperation not competition' which are the hallmarks of most natural orders.

Speaking in context of the current human-related environmental destruction of the planet, "Much of this is related to the concept of us having arrived here as accident, when in fact it's the opposite, there was purpose and design in the process. The relevance is that when we bought into the Darwinian theory we bought into a way of life that's based on survival of the fittest, but the actual theory of evolution is survival of those that cooperate."

But if Darwin was wrong, that beardy fella on a cloud must have made us, right? Well, no.

The latest science suggests we are intelligently designed - not by some sentient humanistic being from on high - moreover a higher, energetic, source intelligence. Einstein's Unified Field theory equation was completed in 2007. The breakthrough proves everything: matter (which derives from energy, which is what we're made from) all natural laws and processes link to one underlying, unifying consciousness - aka, God, Source, Allah, Yaweh - pick your favourite.

According to John Hagelin [<-----Link to another science retard], leading particle and quantum physicist, "Everything that's been discovered about the universe in modern science for the last 3 centuries can be systematically derived from the Unified Field's compact expression. The self interacting dynamics of unity at the basis of life's' diversity."

"The space between things isn't empty, it's full" claims maverick physicist Nassim Haramein whose groundbreaking expansion of the Unified Field theory is changing the face of physics as we know it. "We're bathing in energy which is the fundamental source of all creation. This was known by ancient civilisations but was lost due to the advancements of physics. My theories are starting to show the source of everything, all the material world, is mostly space. It's the medium that connects all things."

Quantum physicist Amit Goswami PhD supports the existence of a God consciousness, "The evidence for God is within us, but to see it we have to be subtle. To live it, we have to grow. Mystics, contrary to religionists, are always saying that reality is not two things - God and the world - but one thing, consciousness. The problem with science has always been that most scientists believe that science must be done within a different monastic framework, one based on the primacy of matter. Quantum physics showed us that we must change that myopic prejudice of scientists, otherwise we cannot comprehend quantum physics."

The problem with the Darwinian vs Creationist altercation is because it's so polarised. Atheists feel obliged to cling onto the Darwinian model because until now the only answer was a religious, faith-based one which they negate. Trouble is, in our logical, left-brain thinking society we view religious and ancient texts as literal rather than metaphorically encoded, hence their denunciation. For the sake of its remembrance, truth was often encrypted in fables, myths and legends. The highly-charged, energised space between things Haramein speaks of is what the ancients - and religious - call spirit.

One explicit way in which mankind is evolving for sure is in terms of our consciousness. From the Arab Spring, to #Occupy, to other measured dissent, there is a huge global shift and awakening to the corrupt, control system matrix we've been locked into for so long.

The Maya, who were acute astronomers, mathematicians and scientists knew this and their precise Long Count calendar not just tracked time, but evolution of consciousness. The much discussed end of it being December 21st 2012. Contrary to Hollywood fear-mongering, it doesn't connote the 'end of the world', moreover the transition into a more enlightened, evolved age.

Engineer and scientist Maurice Cotterell studied the Mayan cycles of human evolution and discovered they corresponded remarkably with his sunspot cycles of magnetic emissions. "Research was carried out confirming modulating magnetic fields caused genetic mutations in developing cells in test tubes." Begins Cotterell. "Here we have the mechanism whereby the sun's radiation affects the magnetic field of the earth then the magnetic field of the earth shuttles up the genes."

Everything is energy - including us. Life is the interaction of magnetic vibrational fields and our evolution is subject to the cosmos, not random selection. There have been peak sunspot emissions and coronal mass ejections in 2012 so it's little surprise humankind is awakening.

Unlike Darwin, the Maya, ancient Hindus and Hopi Indians recognised evolution/time as cyclical. There is overwhelming global, physical evidence that vast, advanced civilisations preceded us: the technology in which to create, many of today's engineers assert we do not possess.

Off the coast of Yonaguni Japan, India and Cuba there are giant sunken megalithic sites and pyramidal structures. In Bosnia Europe's first pyramid was discovered and dated to 10,000 years plus. Geologist Dr Robert Schoch has accurately dated the Sphinx to be 7-9,000BC - throwing our mainstream historical timeline into chaos and in need of serious re-writing.

Despite our spiritually-impotent, techno-worshipping race's arrogance that we're the height of all that's ever been, we are not actually the apex of human evolution, as Darwin's linear theory would have us believe. Primordial soup was never our ancestor. Dr Lummaa's archaic suggestion we should, "look back to the hunter-gatherer days of humans" to understand ourselves is dangerously reductionist. Yes the past can inform us, but by limiting our evolutionary learning using an old-world paradigm will only hinder progress. We can waste time searching for Darwin's 'missing link', but it will never be found.

Misty Perry posted:

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Obama leading U.S. to a socialist state

I hate to say we told you so, but we told you so.

Socialized medicine has become a reality. Can anyone be so naive as to believe that we can add 30 million to the health-care rolls without rationing or bankrupting or country?

Obama has made radical appointments without Congress' approval. Auto companies have been bailed out.

We are beginning to see things happen just as they did in Russia, China, etc.

Will America ignore the evidence again? Obama has been laying the foundation of a socialist state. Will the United Socialist States of America become a reality?

Some will repeat their mistakes of 2008. Let's pray that they will be few.

JACK WILLIAMS

Mo Tzu posted:

There are in fact people who think that Planned Parenthood is somehow pushing women to have abortions in order to make a profit. These are people who have been lied to, but who want to believe the lie anyway. It's pretty awful and part of why the "pro-life" movement is hosed up.

a foolish pianist posted:

From the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm Blog, by Naomi Schaefer Riley:


EDIT: forgot the URL - http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-most-persuasive-case-for-eliminating-black-studies-just-read-the-dissertations/46346

joepinetree posted:

She has been let go:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/a-note-to-readers/46608

colonelslime posted:

Cue angry conservatives calling petition-signers fascists and lamenting the fact that the Chronicle caved into "liberal peer-pressure" in the comments.

colonelslime posted:

Cue angry conservatives calling petition-signers fascists and lamenting the fact that the Chronicle caved into "liberal peer-pressure" in the comments.

a racist dickbag posted:

Such obvious, wishful and ignorant mischaracterizations of what I write are common. I don't call black men the N-word; I don't regard young women as bitches and whores; I don't glorify the use of assault weapons and drugs. Jay-Z, on the other hand.....Is he the only NBA owner allowed to call black men N---ers?"

Jay-Z profits from the worst and most sustaining self-enslaving stereotypes of black-American culture and I'M the racist? Some truths, I guess, are just hard to read, let alone think about.