The New Mall Cop December 29, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Homeland Security, Humor.comments closed
A Multiple Choice Test December 28, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Islam, Jihad, Religion of Piece (of Arm, of Leg, of Torso).comments closed
So easy almost anyone can pass this (unless you are Barack Hussein Obama, any member of His administration or most Democrats on Capitol Hill).
It made its way around the Internet in the months following the attacks of September 11,2001 as a rebuttal to the idiotic atmosphere of political correctness that had taken over the process of jihadist identification.
Here it is again:
Reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test. The events are actual cuts from past history. They
actually happened!!!Do you remember?
1. In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry Potter
d . Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 402. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 403. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 404. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 405. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 406. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and 70 year old Leon Klinghoffer, an
American passenger confined to a wheelchair, was murdered and thrown overboard by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 407. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and Robert Stidham, a US Navy diver was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 408. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 409. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 4010. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’ s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 4011. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to
take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed
into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the
passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 4012. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 4013. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
Answers:
1. d 2. d 3. d 4. d 5. d 6. d 7. d 8. d 9. d 10. d 11. d 12. d 13. d
PC Nazis Thwarted At UM December 28, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Colleges & Universities, Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness.comments closed
For now, the imposition of a politically correct litmus test for graduates of the University of Minnesota seeking a teaching license has been turned away.
We first blogged about it here.
At first graduates would have had to succumb to the standards of cultural Marxism in order to obtain a teaching license with the approval of the university:
In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U’s College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of “the American Dream” in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace — and be prepared to teach our state’s kids — the task force’s own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.
Enter the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a civil liberties group which actively fights PC dogma on college and university campi (that’s plural for campus, for those of you who graduated from Racine Unified).
FIRE got UM to back down from their intent to force all candidates seeking recommendation for a teaching license to spew cultural Marxism.
After FIRE wrote University of Minnesota President Robert H. Bruininks to object to these plans, General Counsel Mark B. Rotenberg responded, promising that “[n]o University policy or practice ever will mandate any particular beliefs, or screen out people with ‘wrong beliefs’ from the University.” FIRE will continue to monitor the school’s actions and those of other schools that attempt to force strict ideologies on their students and faculty.
FIRE’s Adam Kissel writes about the resolution in an op-ed in the New York Post.
Score one for the good guys.
Merry Christmas From The City December 28, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone, Property Taxes, Wisconsin.comments closed
Got my annual Christmas present from the city a few days before Christmas.
Yes, the property tax bill. Up about eight percent thanks to the budget adopted by the Democrat-run state Legislature and signed by America’s Worst Governor, Jim Milhous Doyleone.
Well, it could be worse. And will be, thanks to another gift from Diamond Jim.
James Wigderson tells us just how Jim Doyle wants one of his last dethpicable acts as governor to be yet another mammoth increase in property taxes.
With less than one year until we elect his successor, Governor Jim Doyle wants to complete his reputation as a tax-and-spend governor. Doyle announced right before Christmas that he would consider lifting the property tax caps on some school districts.
I think Wisconsinites would have preferred coal in our stockings.
Doyle plans on using $250 million in federal “Race to the Top” federal money to boost school funding in some districts. But when the “Race to the Top” money runs out, Doyle would like to lift the caps on property taxes in those districts.
That’s right. Doyle wants to spend more pork from Washington in some school districts then lift the caps on property taxes in those districts to allow the spending to continue by letting the educrats raise taxes as much as needed.
After all, we never spend as much on education as the proponents of gummint-run skoolz claim we need to. It’s for the children educrats/teachers.
Doyle and the Democrats already hurt us by eliminating the QEO, which capped pay raises to teachers at 3.8 percent. Would be nice to have a job that guaranteed you a 3.8 percent pay raise. Most people working real jobs are taking pay cuts if indeed they still have their jobs.
Wiggy says it best:
Wisconsin taxpayers may soon realize we can’t afford any more “free” money from the federal government.
That’s exactly why Scott Walker refused porkulus money for Milwaukee County earlier this year. There is no such thing as a temporary government program. It exists in perpetuity.
Had Walker taken that money, the County Board and bureaucracy would have been used for start-ups like KRM or light rail that the taxpayer would have been stuck with paying for when the “free” money from Uncle Sam Barack ran out.
There is no such thing as free money from the federal government. It comes with strings attached as well as an obligation for local taxpayers to continue to pay for whatever it wrought once the “free” federal money runs out.
Defining Real Class December 27, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in High School Athletics.comments closed
In the world of amateur athletes, many of whom are told from the day they step onto the field of competition how special and unique they are and how the world revolves around them, this is a refreshing story.
Early in the evening of Dec. 17, Dawn Dahms stopped in at the Piggly Wiggly on Durand Avenue and made a point of bringing her groceries to a particular cashier.
That cashier was Eric Oertel, a first-team All-State running back and All-Racine County Player of the Year in football for Racine Lutheran High School who works about 17 hours a week at the store. After Dahms was checked out by Oertel, she paused to produce a football, a Sharpie pen and a request.
Their dialogue went something like this:
“Eric, I have a big business proposition for you.”
“Oh yeah? What’s that?”
“I have a football for you to sign and there’s $50 in it for you if you would be able to deliver it on Christmas Day to my son.”
“How about if I have a business proposition for you? I’ll autograph your football and I don’t have to work on Christmas, so I’ll be there. But you need to buy an extra present with that $50 for your son.”
Too many young athletes have the attitude of “It’s all about me,” ingrained by parents living vicariously through their sons’ and daughters’ accomplishments in sports. Also, through “win at all costs” approaches taken by coaches.
I have personally dealt with parents who shop their precious kids around, using my program for one year before taking them to the next program down the road looking for the most exposure for their future Hall of Famer.
This kid — and I have read a lot about him, since he’s one of the best high school football players to ever come out of Racine County — seems quite the different breed.
Here’s hoping to see him playing on Sunday afternoon after a successful collegiate career.
A side note: not until he had already signed his national letter of intent with Washington State did Bret Bielema even bother to pay him a visit. That information came from a WSU recruiting site. In other words, apparently he was never even on UW’s radar screen.
Anyone who knows me knows I am not a biggest fan of the Boy Genius (Bielema). Just how did Bielema allow the Gatorade Player of the Year to slip out of state without any attempt to recruit him? I doubt seriously if that would have happened on Barry Alvarez’s watch. Alvarez always prided himself on keeping the best players in-state.
Merry CHRISTmas December 25, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Christmas.comments closed
A very Merry CHRISTmas to all the readers of The UC.
White Christmas December 25, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Christmas, Music.comments closed
Der Bingle and White Christmas.
Interesting note. White Christmas was not the first movie in which Bing Crosby sang his signature song, written by Irving Berlin on one of the hottest days in Los Angeles. The first time Crosby sang White Christmas was in the movie Holiday Inn.
Silent Night December 25, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Christmas, Music.comments closed
Bing Crosby and Silent Night
The Christmas Story December 24, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Christmas.comments closed
Original graphic courtesy of Badger Blogger.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
