The kids at Boulder High are walking out of classes, rather than be subjected to the dreaded ‘G-word' found in the Pledge of Allegience.
They have a new Pledge now:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag and my constitutional rights with which it comes. And to the diversity, in which our nation stands, one nation, part of one planet, with liberty, freedom, choice and justice for all."
These non-aborted youngsters “pledge allegiance to … choice abortion?” What sublime irony.
All in all this Pledge is a supercilious little exercise in secular sanctimony from these young skulls full of mush. Our brave new schools must be made safe from—in the words of Boulder High's Student Worker Club President—the "almost religious oppression" of the traditional Pledge of Allegiance.
Their efforts, however, are inevitably and inescapably amateur. Several deficiencies immediately present themselves.
The first cardinal error occurs in the very first phrase—namely pledging allegiance to the flag. Uncool; very uncool. Pledge allegiance to your Che Guevara T-shirt … but the flag?, Ptooey! The American flag is to be burned, spat upon, trod underfoot, or hung upside down; in no event or circumstance is it to be shown honor or “allegiance.” The students have badly bungled their Pledge right off the bat.
Even worse is their next offense, pledging allegiance to the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Ouch! Oh no; don't pledge to that. The true force of these rights are for progressive jurists to degrade, even while they presume to broaden. Maybe pledge allegiance to the edicts of a liberal Supreme Court jurist citing Zimbabwean law in place of the Constitution, but to the Constitution itself?—Never!
My proposed fix-it for their Pledge:
I pledge derision to the flag, and to the Constitution, at which I thumb my nose, but alliegance to the global community, and to international law, by which it stands. One world, with liberty, freedom, choice, justice, peace-love-joy, and the fuzzy warm glow of feel-good liberalism to all ... as decreed by a duly recognized World Court.
Really, though, the entire construct of their Pledge is altogether timid and limiting. Here is my suggestion for Boulder High’s dream Pledge:
I pledge allegiance not to the flag, or the base republic for which it stands, but to Mother Gaia—All hail!—on whose breasts all nations suck. And to the global community of nations (of which my own is least) with liberty from homophobes, freedom from religion, choice for dilation and curettage, and justice for all people groups deemed especially oppressed.
(h/t: MM)
UPDATE:
Snapshots of America's tomorrow. We're doomed.
OTHER REACTIONS—
[Leaving out "under God" is] never enough for liberals. They ensure that if one person is offended, we all suffer the consequences.
The ability of ACLU-types to be offended by any and all public references to Christian faith is legendary. Such will be their state of constant umbrage until or unless all references to the Christian God are scrubbed from the last vestige of public life. They'll stand for nothing less, so help them ... uh, so help them.
Barack Obama explained his refusal to vote on a Senate amendment which condemned MoveOn.org’s recent hit piece on General Petraeus:
"This amendment was a stunt designed only to score cheap political points while what we should be doing is focusing on the deadly serious challenge we face in Iraq. It's precisely this kind of political game-playing that makes most Americans cynical about Washington's ability to solve America's problems. By not casting a vote, I registered my protest against this empty politics. I registered my views on the ad itself the day it appeared."
I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the notion of a member of Congress bowing out of what amounts to a resolution tally. Resolutions are often more chic than substance.
I'm entirely unsympathetic—however—regarding Obama's sanctimony, as well as his too evident hypocrisy.
We're to believe that Obama would never stoop to any "stunt designed only to score cheap political points?" Obama can shovel scat with the best of them if he can rail against ‘cheap politics’ with a straight face.
(h/t Allahpundit)
Earlier sanctimony from Obama.
Ok, so we all know that the New York Times was 'Cooking the Invoice' for MoveOn.org's 'Cooking the Books' ad.
When you think about it, though, MoveOn was getting gypped at any price.
As one GOP staffer surmised:
"I'm surprised they had to pay anything at all for the ad. They could have just asked the editorial page to run it and it wouldn't have cost them a cent."
Indeed.
One can only imagine the pandemonium that broke out when MoveOn's ad first hit the NYT's office—ecstatic staffers erupting into a mad cacophony of hoots, hollers, and high fives. It's a wonder the Times didn't waive the fees in a glow of generous feeling for their leftist MoveOn soulmates. It's not like the Times wasn't dying to print it anyway. Leftist advocacy is the Time’s raison d'être; in this sense the NYT and MoveOn.org are working partners.
If any money changed hands, it should have been the Times paying MoveOn a tidy sum as heartfelt 'thank you' for the privilege of running such a tour de force of leftist boilerplate.
Ed Morrisey called the MoveOn/Times article:
[...] a nasty hit piece on the honor of a serving commander in a theater of war. [...] surely one of the worst moments in modern American media.
The 'worst moments in modern American media' is just business as usual at the New York Times.
Understanding Chuck Hagel In One Simple Paragraph
Mark Noonan provides perhaps the best synopsis of Chuck Hagel's Senate career ever written:
The only thing I can figure about Hagel is that once upon a time he must have counted up how many Republicans and how many Democrats there are in Nebraska and decided that "Republican" was the way to go for a man with political ambitions in his State. Other than that, there's no way to explain the way he's been nothing but a bother to the GOP - never sticking with us, and always playing up to the most anti-GOP elements in the MSM.
“And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic and on the manufacturing of public opinion is Noam Chomsky…” —Osama bin Laden
That’s a real keeper; much better, even, than a recommendation from the venerable Castro. It amounts—unquestionably—to the absolute zenith in leftist street cred. Truly Chomski has earned the eternal doffing of Kosite and DU tinfoil hats everywhere.
I hope Chomsky doesn’t relegate OBL's ringing endorsement to the back cover of his next book. I hope he proudly displays it on the front cover.
Somewhere—count on it—Michael Moore is in a jealous funk.
"To conclude, I invite you to embrace Islam. ... There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited Zakaat [alms] totaling 2.5 percent.”
So if we surrender now, he'll go easy on us; now that's one heckuva guy.
As Captain Ed retorts:
Isn't that sweet? If we just agree to live as slaves under our new Taliban masters, we can finance our homes at a flat 2.5% fee. Think of how liberating that will be! Well, except for the burqas, the barbers, the end of music, dancing, Judaism, Christianity, voting, the press, the 13th-21st centuries, science ...