So, We Have a Conflict About Child-Raising Philosophies.

by Little Miss Attila on July 13, 2009

Which turns into sexism.

Which then turns into anti-higher-education sentiment.

Which then turns into anti-intellectualism, because there aren’t any intellectuals out there without advanced degrees. By definition!

The whole phenomenon then becomes Sarah Palin’s fault, because some people defend her despite her lack of Ivy League experiences.

So those who defend Palin are intrinsically putting down “uppity women.”

And black is white, and up is down, and chicks with degrees are beyond any criticism that lay in the house that Jack built.

Un-freakin’-believable.

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GS July 13, 2009 at 10:27 pm

Obama and crew are getting real old real fast. You own the fucking exec. You own the fucking legislature. You own the god damned courts. EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING IS ON YOU. I type in all caps here, so that hopefully I can avoid Napolitano’s hitlist. I’m still trying to get my Marine billet, yo. Can’t be labeled a right wing extremist.

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Ozzy July 14, 2009 at 6:05 am

Excuse me, but why is it, that people who pay exorbitant amounts of money and spend the best years of their lives in old buildings sucking up to older versions of themselves answering questions, the way they are told to answer them, expect higher status? When, all they are being taught is a purpose built past and an expected future.

Drones & clones; clones & drones. The lost souls of the 21st century are the “well educated”.

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I R A Darth Aggie July 14, 2009 at 7:24 am

As I remarked on a different blog & subject:

Those that can’t do, teach.

Now to the moron professor: what the F where you thinking?

Of course, I work in an academic setting, and there’s no one so short on common sense as the ones with a PhD, or the ones attempting to get the PhD.

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Levi July 14, 2009 at 9:24 am

Certainly, there are intellectuals without advanced degrees. Just as certain? Sarah Palin is not one of those intellectuals. I get why conservatives are trying to weave Palin into the narrative about those mean, condescending liberal colleges, but it’s a square peg in a round hole. They have nothing to do with one another. The woman earned her bad reputation all on her. You can think someone is swell but still recognize that they’re not cut out for certain things. I don’t understand why a conservative would think Palin was swell, of course, especially now that she’s seemingly decided to retire from politics and thus be useless to the movement, but that’s your own problem. What is everyone’s problem is conservative bleating about higher education like it’s a bad thing. There are going to be a few crackpot professors out there, but their impact is negligible and they serve education in their own way. Not like big business, the purview of elite conservatives, whose reckless greed siphons trillions of dollars out of the global and domestic economies to the great detriment of everyone else. Which is worse? Some humanities professor leaving their kids at a mall, or a Wall Street firm leeching hundreds of billions of dollars out of the treasury?

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Ozzy July 14, 2009 at 10:07 am

What is worse? How about the “educated” elite, while wearing heavy parkas and standing in the middle of an April snowstorm preaching anthropogenic global warming as a reason for stealing rights and property from formerly free people.

Palin says, drill, be prosperous, and enjoy your God given freedom.

Sarah’s right, of course.

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Watcher July 14, 2009 at 10:08 am

Levi, call her what you will, but Sarah Palin was smarter than all the so-called intellectuals who somehow couldn’t predict that Barack Obama would try to take the country so far to the left. Despite all the warnings that his voting record, radical associations, and his own rhetoric gave us about his intentions, they just couldn’t see it for some reason… yet she could, and was excoriated for it. What does that say about them?

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Levi July 14, 2009 at 11:49 am

Levi, call her what you will, but Sarah Palin was smarter than all the so-called intellectuals who somehow couldn’t predict that Barack Obama would try to take the country so far to the left. Despite all the warnings that his voting record, radical associations, and his own rhetoric gave us about his intentions, they just couldn’t see it for some reason… yet she could, and was excoriated for it. What does that say about them?

You’re getting it wrong. Obama hasn’t taken the country to the left, not even slightly. The political spectrum in this country is a lot narrower than harpies like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck say it is. Democrats don’t represent liberals or advocate a progressive agenda, they’re establishment-serving buffoons that care only about winning re-election, know anyone else like that? How about the entire Republican party? Sarah Palin has hardly been vindicated by Obama’s performance, she’s been proven wrong.

You want to know what ‘moving to the left’ would look like with a truly liberal President and a filibuster-proof majority? It would look like a closed Guantanamo, troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, a universal health care system, a coherent stimulus package centered around greening our economy, a ton of new regulation and redoubled oversight of the financial industry, the closing of individual and corporate tax loopholes domestically and abroad, investigations into the previous administrations’ numerous Constitutional and international law violations, and Dick Cheney and George Bush getting dragged out of their mansions in handcuffs, to start. If any one of those things happened, I’d say we were moving to the left. Until then, we’re still pretty much doing things the Republican way; all stupid, all the time.

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Ozzy July 14, 2009 at 11:56 am

“You want to know what ‘moving to the left’ would look like with a truly liberal President and a filibuster-proof majority?”

Give them time. it’s only been 6 months.

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Peter July 14, 2009 at 2:34 pm

I wish I were smart enough to be an intellectual. Then I might have some slight glimmer of what Governor Palin, of Alaska, has to do with a cow college professor being arrested in Montana.

Whether or not this great intellectual should have been arrested is another question buthow is the Governor of a totally different state have to do with it? Now some fifty-five years ago my parents would leave me in the book section of a department store while they shopped and no one thought much about it. Maybe it’s because the past is a whole ‘nother country or maybe it’s because my Mama wasn’t an intellectual, just a pretty smart woman doing the best she could.

I would be somewhat interested in the bahavior of those children, and how it is that the whole thing attracted the eyes of the local law enforcement people. It’s my experience, speaking as a retired LEO, that well behave people seldom attract the attention of law enforcement. Now I now it’s no longer the early 1950s but my Mama was sure I would behave, she had a backhand quicker than a striking snake.

There are unanswered questions that have nothing to do with city folks screeching PALIN! PALIN! the same way they screeched BUSH! a year ago.

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Peter July 14, 2009 at 3:15 pm

Please excuse the grammar errors, I’m trying to cook supper. Teaching myself to cook is not easy, trying to cook and comment at the same time is even harder.

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Watcher July 14, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Levi, you truly are a member of the community-based reality… you didn’t just take the blue pill, you took the whole damn bottle.

Peter, you are teaching yourself how to cook?? How dare you attempt to cook (or teach!) without the proper credentials! For shame!

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Peter July 14, 2009 at 7:56 pm

Watcher, it’s okay, I don’t try to cook intellectual meals. But my first attempt at a Shepherd or Cottage Pie was a success, even if I do say so myself. Tasted good and, to make things even better there was leftover beef broth to mix into the dogs’ kibble.

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Little Miss Attila July 15, 2009 at 1:15 am

Hi, Peter. I have to say that when I’m in the groove (or “in the tunnel,” as the surfers say), playing with the leftovers from one meal to make the next is one of the funnest parts. (“Funnest” = irony, for those who are beach-bum-impaired, via doctorates or master’s degrees.)

After I roast a turkey, I’ll often simmer broth for 24+ hours to leach the protein out of the bones for some high-intensity broth that makes for amazing soup later on. At that point, you’re getting, the way I hear the story, some of the marrow out of the bones. Amazing.

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