Month: October 2006

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Speak Freely…. unless you’re in college

 

freedom of speech is our right

 

It may sound strange that we have the ability to speak freely everywhere in America…. except on many college campuses. I remember during my college days of the necessity of writing a ‘perfect marxist essay’ in order to pass a class.

Today, universities are not so easily fooled and many have enacted ‘speech codes’ and other restrictions to curtail opinions that they have interpreted to be ‘offensive.’

There is– fortunately– an organization that represents Americans attending or working in our colleges and universities against the intrusions of the ‘thought control police’.

Thanks to thefire.org — ‘defenders of individual rights in education’ — college life is becoming better for those who want to think for themselves. Here are a few of the latest subjects that you can explore on their site:

FIRE Warns Department of Health and Human Services Against Supporting Political Litmus Tests on Campus

FIRE in ‘The New York Times’ on Free Speech at Columbia

Marquette Bans Dave Barry Quote from Office Door

FIRE’s Challenge to Ideological Litmus Tests at Columbia’s Teachers College in the ‘New York Post’ and ‘Sun’

FIRE’s Challenge to Ideological Litmus Tests at Columbia’s Teachers College in the ‘New York Post’ and ‘Sun’

Speech Code of the Month: University of Mississippi

Anyway… step by step, the rights that we value in our great country are being reinstated…. even on college campuses…. check out their site… you can help!

 Roger Freberg

 

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Matt Leinart… have you forgotten anything?

Matt leinartWell, at long last, Matt Leinart has become a father. The baby boy was named Cole and Matt handled the news like a public relations ace…

Matt said he was going to be a ‘good father’ and that the whole thing has been a great experience. He was even there for the birth.. I know he was there for the conception. Opps, here I go being judgemental.

I couldn’t have written better lines myself… the spin was right on … but now that you handled your first P.R. Nightmare well… where are you going from here?

I won’t be presumptuous by saying that you two should marry… because Ms. Brynn Cameron may have other ideas … but, let me say to you both that your child needs and deserves a full time mom and dad. Growing up is sooo hard to do.

Think about it… besides, Matt, hanging around with bimbos like Paris Hilton is so wrong on many levels. Aah, here I go giving unwanted advice and moralizing again.

Links to what others are saying:
Nose Job
AZ Central
NBC Sports
Matt the father … Paris Not the Mother
Matt was a Trojan but didn’t use one
Ladies Love Sports
LA Observed 

 

Roger Freberg

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Student Apathy? … who says?

Gettnig a little help from our friends

 

 When you hear about teachers — college or high school — complain about ‘student apathy’… what they really are saying is,” hey, I can’t get these brats to agree with me or change their minds.’ boo hoo

Ralph Nader — lifetime weenie man — spoke to a virtually empty house at my alma mater recently… and folks trotted out the ‘student apathy’ line. If people wanted to hear him… they would come and no amount of ‘extra credit’ from professors seemed to help the attendance.

Take a trip on GOOGLE and you will find a large number of folks wringing their hands about the problem of student apathy… but what they don’t know is that life today is very different from the times of successful leftist rhetoric.. the late 60’s and early 70’s. The ideology of the left has failed.. and everyone knows it.  I also lived in those times and watched fellow college students travel from campus to campus stirring things up, looking for a party and leaving a mess… all the while sucking on momma and daddy. We paid our own way though college… it wasn’t easy.

Today’s youth is committed to the future… it belongs to them. Many young men have put off college and sought a masculine life denied them throughout school… the world belongs to them too. Let’s remember, the military is composed of ‘volunteers”… yep, ‘volunteerism’ is something the leftists preach, so one would think that joining the military would be cool with them… uh huh… riiight

Nader warned students — the few who attended — that “Politics will be onto you in a very vengeful manner.” Well, it doesn’t look too good for you, Ralph. I know, it isn’t easy benig green anymore.  Students are not quite so gullible… they ask their speakers, ” what are you going to do for me? How is anything you say going to make my life better? and… what’s it gonna cost me?”

Well, the world is changing , dude… get used to it.

Blogging : BOO HOOs

Crying from Ohio Journalist
Boo hoos from Harvard
Definition: Student Apathy — when you won’t do what I say

Roger Freberg

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You’re a Football Widower? …hmmm…

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I found this site of a female football fan… yep, they do exist! I was lucky enough to marry one.

The funniest part of the posting was a curious ‘complaint’ from the husband (pictured above) of being a “football widower! Briefly, the guy goes to his doctor to see what  can be done about this ‘malady’… and finally the doctor asks,”does she have a sister?” Read it for yourself…

Anyway, I’ve blogged on this before.. “Sports… it’s a guy thing” . I pointed out how Eharmony.com seems to have tapped into the need for men to find women who love football… and not the ones who love to drag you to the mall and make their men watch the Oscars.

I had thought of posting blogs of ‘football widows’… but after reading a bunch of these bitter latte sucking mall rats… I thought I’d just pass. However… let’s look at a couple of blogs of real women who love football…

Girly Girl
BostonBrat
She can throw Chairs
Carolina Panthers Fan

Football keeps us together

 

 

And allow me to recognize a few of my family members who love football!

As you can see, we have a few ‘superfans’ her… they were at the game hours before it started!

So whether they are liberal or conservative… if they love football, they can’t be all bad.

 

Roger Freberg

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Can women and men EVER be just ‘friends’?

the orignal debate.... can men and women be friends?Ranking up there as one of the top topics on the internet… behind sex, dating and marriage is the simple question:

“Can Men and Women just be friends?”

“when Harry met Sally” the underlying theme is exactly that… “Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?”.

The movie provides their own sort of answer… but people tend to respond to this question based on what they bring into the situation.

Here’s a few ‘answers’ to the question I found on the internet… but search the net for yourself… some of the solutions are very amusing:

1) I told him/her that I just ‘wanted to be friends’ because I definitely don’t want  to go farther with this person.

2) I told him/her that I wanted to be ‘friends’… because then I would have more access to them … and could bump the relationship up in the future.

3) I told him/her I wanted to be friends because that’s like saying,”let’s do lunch’, then I would never call.

I think the following is the best lines of the ‘When Harry met Sally”:

Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Sally Albright: Why not?
Harry Burns: What I’m saying is – and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form – is that men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally Albright: That’s not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry Burns: No you don’t.
Sally Albright: Yes I do.
Harry Burns: No you don’t.
Sally Albright: Yes I do.
Harry Burns: You only think you do.
Sally Albright: You say I’m having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry Burns: No, what I’m saying is they all WANT to have sex with you.
Sally Albright: They do not.
Harry Burns: Do too.
Sally Albright: They do not.
Harry Burns: Do too.
Sally Albright: How do you know?
Harry Burns: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally Albright: So, you’re saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?
Harry Burns: No. You pretty much want to nail ’em too.
Sally Albright: What if THEY don’t want to have sex with YOU?
Harry Burns: Doesn’t matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Sally Albright: Well, I guess we’re not going to be friends then.
Harry Burns: I guess not.
Sally Albright: That’s too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York.

Well, this all is a bit over the top, but for those of you who BELIEVE that men and women COULD BE friends… think of it this way, scientists have shown that men think about sex every 51 seconds… so some of the spare time could be used to think about making friends…

However, all is not lost, there are some environments where men and women work together and it appears that a good working relationship or ‘friendship’ evolves… such as in the army. However, it is important to remember that the penalties for crossing the friendship line in the military are severe… you can get kicked out for adultery alone.

So it really depends on what efforts are in place to support workplace discipline. To make this point clear my wife (and friend) Laura in her psychology class will say that almost any behavior can be modified or changed with the right reward and punishment scheme. Imagine — she says — that it is determined that illegal parking warrants capital punishment… students will respond saying,’well …. it’s only 25 miles…. and it’s a good day for a walk!’

‘Platonic friendships’ can also work bnetween men and women… but it requires more effort than most realize…. and usually the right environment.

Here’s what other folks are saying on this very popular issue:

MedicineNet.com
Psychology Today
from a Christian Perspective
Confused
from Cosmo

There’s literally a ton of stuff on the net… Google showed over 36 million entries… I don’t have quite enough time to view them all… but from my observation, it could be summarized that a woman would be fortunate to have the following real male friends in her life… 1) her husband 2) her father 3) her brothers and possibly 4) other related men. Outside of this small universe, I haven’t seen it happen.

So, for now, let’s just be friends.

 

Roger Freberg