CNews 30August10
Finally, some real, live bonafide news about the Neverendingstory (Churchill division): Oral arguments in the appeal in the case of The Perfesser v. Everybody Else are scheduled for Oct., 20, 2010 2:30 p.m. The three empaneled to hear the arguments are Court of Appeals judges Dennis Graham, Gilbert Roman, and Diana Terry. (via Leah, @sspats be upon her)
Also via Leah, Churchill's reply brief, filed back on June 4th, but heretofore unnoticed by us (if we remember correctly).
Leah's Favorite Quote:
The University’s claim that reinstating Professor Churchill would prevent it from holding Professor Churchill or others to accepted academic standards in the future [Answer Brief, p. 53] is similarly unfounded. Contrary to the University’s assertion, Professor Churchill has never expressed an unwillingness to conform to accepted academic standards. Indeed, the bulk of the evidence he provided at trial went to establishing that he did comply with such standards.
CNews 20August10
No news, just lighting a courtesy match to move that photo down from the top of the page. We'd been considering some sort of humane action for the past few days, but pip-pip's pleas were hard to ignore, even though they were mostly muffled by the sock.
Now, for some palate-cleansing carriage returns.
There, that's much better, isn't it.
We can only hope The Perfesser will do something mildly relevant very soon and we can push that pic on through the cloaca—the squeakhole, if you will—of fleeting infamy.
CNews 9August10
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Update (25August10): According to Ann Coulter, all the millionaire part-timers running the City of Bell were Democrats
Excerpt:
The one newspaper to cough up party affiliations, The Orange County Register, admitted that the corrupt officials were all Democrats only in response to reader complaints about the peculiar omission.
From our Big Shoes department: Things may be looking up for
CNews 5August10
'Worse Than Ward Churchill'? We don't think so
What do professors Julio Pino, Peter Kirstein, and Juan Cole have in common (besides philosophical halitosis, that is)? They've all been compared unfavorably (mistakenly, as it happens) to Ward Churchill. Why mistakenly? Because all three professors are obvious and blatant in their loathing of the US and their love of terrorist regimes, lending each a certain air of honesty Churchill himself has yet to breathe. Pino and Kirstein are best known (if they are known at all) for their billets-doux cheering on the deaths of Americans. Cole is more a media whore—a Gloria Allred of the academic world, one might say—whose poisonous message makes him the darling of Olbermann, Maddow, and Cooper.
By comparison, Churchill plays (or used to play) it rather coy. He does (or did) so because it is always foolish to call attention to oneself when one is attempting to burn down a house. While the aforementioned professors take events and spin them to the detriment of the US and to the benefit of their heroes (and—in the case of Cole, at least—for their own aggrandizement), Churchill (until he foolishly waved his arms around while holding matches and standing next to a can of gasoline, that is) systematically turned US history into an Elders of Zion tract.
So who's worse: Those who very publicly cheer on the terrorists, or those who surreptitiously provide the tectonic shifts in the narrative necessary to disarm those who would otherwise deny the terrorists the moral high ground?
We know our answer. What's yours? (ht willibeaux, AoS, DrunkaBlog)
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Very OT: MarathonPundit dares enter the Halls of the Mountain King (aka Rocky Mountains).
CNews 30July10
From our WTF? department: Dissident Voice slaps
Money Quote (emphasis ours):
One way to counter the colonial depiction of history is to “always call things by their right name” as enjoined by Philip Deere, a Muskogee-Creek involved with the American Indian Movement. For instance, Hill places British Columbia within quotation marks, thereby questioning the legitimacy and morality of so-naming unceded First Nations territory. 500 Years of Resistance does this unevenly, though; Hill and Ward Churchill in his introduction use inaccurate designations for Indigenous peoples: “American Indian,” “Mohawk” instead of “Kanienkehaka,” “Huron” instead of “Wyandot.”We guess the review's author, Kim Petersen, figures that now that The Perfesser is down, it's safe to start kicking him in the face. You go, girl!*
* Yeah, we know Petersen's a dude. Or, more properly, "a dude."
CNews 19July10
DrunkaBlimp has a link to video of The Perfesser lout-shouting at a rally to Save Fat, Ugly, Old, Cancerous, Traitorous Lynne Stewart From Everything Except The Fat, Ugly, Old, Cancerous Stuff.
Quick Ward Churchill Defense Scorecard:
| Defended | Outcome | |
| Himself | fired, exposed, disgraced | |
| Leonard Peltier | still in a cage | |
| Mumia Abu-Jamal | ditto | |
| Tookie Williams | extinct |
We're confident we're not going too far out on the proverbial limb here when we offer Lynne Stewart the following advice: Bend over and kiss your fat ass goodbye, Jabba.
CNews 17July10
He's back, and he's...well, he's back: Ward Churchill opines for the camera on judge's decision to re-sentence gal-pal Lynne Stewart to 10 years. Spoiler: He's agin' it. The Perfesser compares Stewart's plight with that of John [Yoo?] who, according to Churchill, is "an international criminal" who "empowered torturers." Churchill is a native of some sovereign country called United Nations.
CNews 14July10
From our Et Tu, Brute? department: Even Westword is kicking The Perfesser while he's down
Excerpt:
Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill's fight against the school may never end, and although the battle has provided plenty of comic relief — like when the chain-smoking Churchill was caught in May 2009 lighting up in the bathroom of the Denver County Courthouse — the man himself has always been very serious.
Which is why he at first felt he was above writing the introduction for a comic book called 500 Years of Resistance, which was released this month. "I may as well admit, first of all, that I received the invitation to write an introduction to Gord Hill's 'comic book' with a considerable degree of skepticism," Churchill confesses. "Knowing his work in other connections, however, it seemed the least I could do was agree to have a look rather than simply dismissing the ideas out of hand."
How magnanimous.
CNews 5July10
According to this article by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Professor Doctor Indian Scholar Ward Churchill will be among the speakers expressing their solidarity with disbarred attorney Lynne Stewart
Excerpt:
On the evening of Thursday, July 8, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South in New York City, friends, admirers and supporters of Lynne Stewart will gather together to express their solidarity with an extraordinary woman, a gifted lawyer and a person convicted for her political ideas and affiliations.Yes. Please. Show your love.
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"Our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"
To our readers, Happy Independence Day!
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
MassachusettsJohn Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode IslandStephen Hopkins, William Ellery
ConnecticutRoger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
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VirginiaGeorge Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
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