BTTT (Barf To The Top)
The first sentence reeks of nauseating elitism. The author has no concept of duty, honor, sacrifice in the defense of freedom. He looks as service academy students as he would the garbageman.
So her brother’s a hero and she’s a tick turd.
That about sum it all up?
“The bottom line here is that your brother is a better man than you any day of the week. It is people like him who keep wimps like you free and able to write the garbage you float out there. Be glad he has rescued your family name from anonymity.”
Not sure if this was just an internet visitor or someone from Columbia (with some sense) reacting to this article. If this did come from a Columbia undergrad or graduate, it takes away my general disgust after reading this opinion piece... Taking the good with the bad. In the meantime: a big salute to the young Midshipman (sp?) and I hope his family’s shame will recede over time.
Of course. Preparing for a law school application, and will likely use the Columbia + law school pedigree to run for office or in some other activist capacity. One of the biggest ironies is that no where else in the world do liberals have more freedom to be liberals than in the US, and that is because of the sacrifices of those in the military who defended that freedom. Universities have become ‘stamping factories’ where students are all cast into the same die molds and replicatively stamped into being uncreative liberals. The concept of universities being the places you go to to learn how to be open-minded and think objectively and creatively is no longer applicable.
“I know why I chose Columbia: the campus is magnificent, the education is top-tier, and my peers are intelligent. I could look at a stranger, tell him or her that I went to Columbia, and hear the predictable, Wow, you must be smart.”
Typical leftie, first they must convince you of their superior intellect.
“The reality of sending my brother to the Naval Academy began to set in: this was not a school; this was the military. While they boast a first class education, the main goal of this institution was to get my brother combat ready. During the first two induction days, the head of the Navy openly admitted that their goal was to transform these boys into men who would willingly die defending our country.”
And this really throws her into a tailspin. The thought there is something more important than self. This poor author’s head must have been ready to explode at this point after realizing her self-absorption had not infected her brother. Clearly the principles of duty and self sacrifice for the good of others are just a bit too abstract for her comprehension.
FYI about Columbia...
[From Horowitz’s book ***The ProFessors; The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America***]
Guess which university has more of these lib-loons than any other?
That is the most shallow statement imaginable. I can't imagine carrying one whit about what a stranger may think about me and where I went to school. Unlike this weakling, I don't need the constant reassurance of those around me to know my intelligence level.
The fact that the name refers to the United States Navy might have given someone with an IQ over room temperature a clue that this was the case. I guess Barnard students don't make that cut.
She begged me to call a naval lieutenant Monday morning to start the out-processing forms for my brother. After leaving countless messages for the lieutenant, he finally called me back, at which point he informed me that my brother would have to go through 13 exit-interviews to be dismissed, including an interview with the head of the Navy. When I asked him whether this might intimidate him out of leaving, the lieutenant reminded me that my brother had signed an oath legally binding him to the Navy. When I reminded the lieutenant that he had signed that oath after he had been yelled at all day and that his hair had just been shaven off during his first day there, he comforted me that John was not at all forced to sign the oath.
Had she really read the catalog as she claims she would know midshipmen can withdraw without incurring a service obligation before they start their junior year. I guess reading comprehension isn't a strong suit at Barnard, either.
Dollars to donuts her brother likes Annapolis, doesn't want to leave and doesn't share sis's leftist aversion to the military.
If I ever owned a large business I would tell human resources department that anyone who has a degree from a service academy would get an interview for whatever job they was applying for.
I would also inform them that any applicants from schools like Columbia may be given an interview in spite of their education if they have other things in their favor.
Tammy Bruce wrote that she was in a Columbia journalism class when Reagan got shot and the teacher and students cheered the news.
Her brother must have been real happy with his idiot sister calling up and trying to get him out of the military bacuase she found out after the fact there were guns there.
Oh, don't worry hon, I read the rest of the article. I know you're not smart...
My posted response at the website:
“I had difficulty finishing this rant as I was laughing so hard the words began to blur with tears. I am 61 now and retired after 28 years in the Navy and Navy Reserve. During that time I was privileged to serve with the best people in the world, including my shipmates in Vietnam. Meanwhile, my alma mater, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst , has descended into a cesspit of third-rate minds majoring in Victims Studies and Racism Studies, “graduating” tens of thousands of surly, unbathed unemployables who settle like sediment into Liberal enclaves like Amherst and Cambridge and San Francisco, free to lead lives of self-indulgent, mindless Liberalism while kept safe and pampered by their betters in the armed services.
One can only hope that the ignorance of this article’s writer will somehow cure with age. “
ABNORMAL PSYCH 481
Final Exam Question:
During your initial interview, a new patient, without significant affect, states:
I know why I chose Columbia: the campus is magnificent, the education is top-tier, and my peers are intelligent. I could look at a stranger, tell him or her that I went to Columbia, and hear the predictable, Wow, you must be smart.
Identify the primary psychopathology demonstrated by this statement, probable courses of therapeutic approach and likelihood of recovery.
EXTRA CREDIT
How would the fact that the patient lied about being a Columbia student, but was actually a Barnard College senior majoring in political science affect your diagnosis or treatment?
Posted by: anonymous (not verified) | September 18th, 2007 @ 2:25pm
Wow, you must be smart!!! < GUFFAW> < SNORT>
This piece of rubbish is contemptible on so many grounds. But I would like to call attention to a really odd aspect of the attitude of the little shrew who wrote it: She seems to think that her brother is her child! She speaks throughout like it is her direct responsibility to either allow or not allow him to make the choice to attend the Naval Academy. And at the end, we see that she herself is a college senior. What an arrogant twit. The young midshipman probably chose this route as the only way te get free of this suffocating family.