Posted on 04/03/2002 7:52:52 AM PST by jalisco555
for those of us who want to but can't.
ROFLMAO!!! I'm going to nominate you for quote of the day!
With a cast like that, it should be called the "Rolling Chunder" tour.
A few reasons why “Ithaca is the City of Evil”:
Ithaca is home to two colleges, Cornell University (aptly nick-named “the Big Red”) and Ithaca College (which flies the gay flag over its campus), the two major employers in the area. They insure that a disproportionate amount of ”ivory tower liberals” dominate the city.
Locating copies of National Review, The Weekly Standard and the American Spectator require a trip to Elmira or Syracuse, while Ithaca magazine racks remain well-stocked with copies of The Progressive, The Nation, and The New Republic.Readers interested in exposing themselves to a full range of national opinion are simply out of luck.
As a result of the dominiance, politics in Ithaca runs the gamet from “liberal” to “communist.” For years, the town had an openly socialist mayor, Ben Nichols. They later elected him to the school board.
Even today, the City and County governments are dominated by democrats and Green party members. Ithaca is so “Green” that Ralph Nader got more votes in Ithaca than George W. Bush, and the NYS Green Party is holding its 2002 nominating convention there. The current Chair of the County Legislature is a radical former anti-war protester, self-described hippie, who says "My values haven't changed, just my tactics." Even law enforcement is subject to political correctness. The outgoing police chief’s major concern was “pushing for departmental diversity.” The acting chief was chosen because they wanted a woman.
To make matters worse, the liberals who dominate Ithaca work overtime to impose their ultra liberal agenda on the children. The Ithaca City School District has mandated that elementary school students in the first and second grades receive an actual grade on how well they "respect others of varying cultures, genders, experiences, and abilities." It’s even listed on the schools’ report card. Despite this alleged tolerance, a student who was found reading the bible on her lunch hour was chatised for doing so. Another was directed not to bring a book about Christmas to school.
There’s even a taxpayer funded “alternative” (ie, hippie) school that let’s students graduate in majors like basket weaving and political activism.
Need more proof? Do a search for “Ithaca” here at Free Republic, you’ll see a near daily dose of institutionalized liberal idiocy.
As a result of its unfettered liberalism, Ithaca was voted most enlightened (ie, liberal) City in America by the ultra left Utne Reader. Being a good, conservative Freeper, I’m sure you’ll agree that, contrary to what Utne says, “liberal” is not “enlightened.” Unfettered liberalism is, well, evil.
As the most liberal city in America, “Ithaca is the City of Evil.”
We won't win the debate by being juvenile.
No! Ironically enough, no one has given him a taste of his own medicine by showing up on his doorstep with a video camera in order to tape the "hilarious" results.
(I sure wish someone would, though.)
A song we Cornellians would sing at the Chapter House on a Saturday night after a few pitchers. We's song other songs but if I posted them I'd be banned!
There's something about a Cornell man!
You got that right. The democrats I know don't talk like that. When you boil it down, DU is primarily an anti-God, anti-religion site. Nothing more.
If you think I'm eloquent now, wait until I've had a few pitchers in me!
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
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