And the word “wrong” doesn’t have to be objective. My old anthropology prof told the class, on the first day, that she didn’t ask anyone to believe in evolution, only to learn about it well enough to give the answers on the tests that she wanted.
She said, “Out there, in the wide world, it may not be true, but inside this classroom, for this hour, evolution is true.”
Students have to learn lots of things they don’t agree with.
I can’t even get some of my students to put the damn page numbers on their essays or spell my name correctly.
My colleague C. commented that it’s pretty obvious from some of the work they’re turning in that her students are not listening to a single word she says.
We’re not doing a very good job of indoctrinating them, are we?
Now, give me the chance to chain them to their desks, each student in a separate room so as to keep them isolated; let me fill them full of drugs and give them non-stop propaganda blaring through the loudspeakers all day and night; let me feed them if and when I feel like it; and let this all go on for about a year. Then I’ll be able to produce a bunch of collegiate Manchurian Candidates who will actually do what I would like them to do…because, you see, by that point I will have brainwashed them.
In the plus side, a conservative religious higher education can be completed in seconds rather than years. The answer to all questions is “because that’s how God wants it”.
with the dumb shit he says…its a wonder that the Jesuits haven’t sent a crack team of bishops to assassinate him. I mean seriously, the Catholic church has gotten enough bad press in the past decade, they really don’t need Ricky.
Also, the US has become enough of a laughingstock in the international community, we don’t need a president who’s name is a euphemism for the residue of anal sex.
All the Vatican Warlock Assassins are off harvesting tiger blood.
I don’t even think we need him to be a candidate. I know some liberals want him to win the primary because Romney has a greater chance of winning the general, but Romney is at least least embarrassing than many European leaders.
It’s an interesting question why God wants Santorum’s name to be associated with purportedly the most vile of sexual acts. Also an interesting question is why God designed people so anal sex is so… convenient.
Flood waters destroying homes in New Orleans? Tell that to a fish, the dangers of water!
Mr Santorum, do you realize that the same Science! that belies the “hoax” of global warming is also the source of your beloved fact that plants need carbon dioxide to live?
Back in the day, it was Zeus Himself who did the raping. Can’t imagine how Zeus would have felt had Leda gotten an abortion or made an omelette for Tyndareus. :eek:
There are, I suppose, good arguments one might make against statehood for a non-English-speaking-majority territory – if nothing else, it would break all precedent, from the beginning of the Republic; and it would require re-examination and redefinition of what the U.S. is, what it is to be American, what is our national culture and what are its outer limits, and whether a territory/people can ever be part of it that does not have a Britain-derived culture and never will, that, as a whole, will never assimilate to the larger American culture as individual immigrants to the mainland eventually do.
But, Santorum cannot seem to think of any relevant arguments, he has to go all RW-constitutionalist and appeal to the authority of the “federal law” (which, after all, can usually/often/sometimes (depending on Congressional party strengths) be changed if a POTUS wants it, so, for a presidential candidate, just citing the federal law doesn’t end the discussion).
