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Palin goes too far, again
CNN ^ | May 1, 2014 | Professor David M. Perry, Dominican University

Posted on 05/01/2014 1:56:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Last Sunday, Sarah Palin stood before the huge crowd at the 2014 National Rifle Association annual meeting and condemned liberals for coddling terrorists. She loaded her speech with religious metaphors, claiming that true leaders would put "the fear of God in our enemies." She said, "They obviously have information on plots to carry out jihad. Oh, but you can't offend them, can't make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists."

Palin's invocation of forced baptism shocked both conservatives and liberals, inspiring few defenders. Christian commentators, in particular, focused on her link between torture and baptism.

On Wednesday, the National Religious Campaign against Torture released a powerful condemnation of the speech. To Palin, the organization's executive director wrote, "Your statements play into a false narrative conveying that somehow, the conflict between the United States and the terrorist cells is a conflict between Christianity and Islam, or Islam and 'the West.'"(continued)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; islam; muslims; nra; palin; sarahpalin; terrorism; waterboarding; wot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

David M. Perry @Lollardfish · 44m
I don’t mind if my critics call me a lazy tenured socialist academic. But criticizing my earring is GOING TOO FAR!

https://twitter.com/Lollardfish

David M. Perry @Lollardfish · 9h
With luck, I will shortly have an essay on CNN published right next to Elizabeth Warren’s. I’m gonna bask in that reflected wisdom.


41 posted on 05/01/2014 2:59:30 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: RginTN

I think he looks ‘smarmy’, which might be worse.


42 posted on 05/01/2014 3:02:05 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Notice how in full context it flows and the punch line has punch. Notice how in the Slimey media it sounds flat and dull. Great editing on the part of the libturds in the media. F’ em.


43 posted on 05/01/2014 3:04:38 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: kcvl

Is he also a fake Indian, like Senator Warren and Ward Churchill?


44 posted on 05/01/2014 3:04:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Talk about taking things to far....

Sharecroppers. Migrant Workers. Adjuncts?

David Perry

Associate Professor at Dominican University

“Do you think adjunct rights are a civil-rights issue?” This question came to me from a young scholar about to defend his Ph.D. He’s just finishing a great one-year position but does not have employment yet for next year.

Trying to answer his question led me into an interesting group of writings that link the conditions of adjuncts to historically oppressed and exploited peoples such as slaves, sharecroppers, and migrant workers. This language may be misguided. But its apparent utility reveals one of the big obstacles to improving the condition of adjuncts in higher education today.

Clearly, the conditions of adjuncts are deplorable. From the homeless adjunct protesting in New York to the countless stories of inequity, struggle, hunger, and ostracism, the human toll of adjunctification should appall anyone who pays attention.

Over the past few years, an increasing number of voices have argued that adjunctification is best understood as something especially terrible rather than an all-too-typical example of the rise of contingency across the North American workforce. Why do advocates need to go to such rhetorical lengths to gain our sympathy?

More...

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/461-sharecroppers-migrant-workers-adjuncts#sthash.0aW3KSf3.dpuf


45 posted on 05/01/2014 3:05:36 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Dilbert San Diego

McVeigh claimed, in an interview, to believe in God, but declined to be any more specific, saying it would only serve as an excuse for people to alienate themselves from him. Most likely he was something of a follower of the white supremacist “Christian Identity” movement, given his apparent devotion to “The Turner Diaries” and its author.


46 posted on 05/01/2014 3:11:39 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels"-- Tom Waits)
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To: kcvl
This Perry goon also has blog, which shows just how worthless he really is called How Did We Get Into This Mess? Not only does he maliciously attack Governor Sarah Palin but he reveals his real sense of "values" by defending the racket of unionism.
47 posted on 05/01/2014 3:14:08 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: rjsimmon

When I was a kid, we use to “water board” each other with a water hose (until my mother caught us at it). I don’t know where my cousin learned all that.


48 posted on 05/01/2014 3:40:38 PM PDT by odawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
CNN the most busted news source exposes Sarah Palin..

Palin advocates forced baptism. How evil and repugnant.

Next thing she'll reject Oprah Winfrey's efforts to end racism (live white people).

"There are still generations of older people who were born and breed and marinated in that prejudice and racism and they just have to die." [She's not talking about the victims of racism!]

49 posted on 05/01/2014 4:24:01 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Jane Long

“You managed to get the “she went too far”, “talk show host meme” AND the screechy voice slams all in one post. I am so impressed...not.”

It’s a gift. And a curse.


50 posted on 05/01/2014 4:50:38 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another hand wringing bed wetter got his panties in a wad over Sarah. She sure stirred them up (The hand wringing bed wetters) at the NRA convention!


51 posted on 05/01/2014 4:56:41 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: kcvl

Is he talking about Cherokee Liz, the fake indian? I am sure there is a lot of wisdom glowing from there.


52 posted on 05/01/2014 5:06:49 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: Moorings

lol...


53 posted on 05/01/2014 5:14:59 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I remember reading that the only reason that our pet cats don't eat us is that we are too big.

I certainly believe that the only reason the jihadists don't kill every westerner is that we are too big.

If the time ever comes that we are not dominant, I believe that these people would torture and kill us all and drag our mutilated bodies through the streets.

54 posted on 05/01/2014 5:27:33 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Needs a “wet panties” alert.


55 posted on 05/01/2014 8:47:13 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
said, "Whoopi Goldberg call Timothy McVeigh a Christian terrorist"

McVeigh said, "Science is my religion" which means he was an atheists.

56 posted on 05/02/2014 10:26:57 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As Ferris Bueller said, “You can never go too far. If I’m gonna get busted, it is *not* gonna be by a guy like *that*.”


57 posted on 05/02/2014 10:31:17 AM PDT by dfwgator
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