August 3, 2004 by s.z.

Carnival of the Female Wingnuts

Oh, oh, it's ladies night, and the feeling's right.  Far right, that is.  So, for your entertainment (or something), allow me present five women who do their best to prove that the female of the species is nuttier than the male. 

1.    Betty Freauf

Betty is making her maiden appearance (not that we're implying that she's young and dewy -- or even an old maid, although that might in fact be the case) in the Carnival, so let's learn a little bit about her:

Betty is a former Oregon Republican Party activist having served as state party secretary, county chairman, 5th congressional vice chairman and then elected chairman, and a precinct worker for many years. Betty is a researcher, freelance journalist and a regular contributor to www.NewsWithViews.com. 

Well, I don't know about the "researcher" or "journalist" part, but she really is a regular contributer to NewsWithViews (or "NewsWitViews" as it says at the top of her piece).  Said column is about how when Betty was young, they used to have crank phones -- and now Betty IS a crank, so it all goes to show you.  Anyway, after railing at spy satellites ("They claim they can spot and identify the brand of a package of cigarettes lying on your driveway" -- a real intrusion on your right to leave cigarettes lying on your driveway without government snooping), school children being asked to "journal" their thoughts,  and the microchipping of pets, she gets to the real target of her ire: "the self-righteous 'do goody' people who want to help Big Brother out" by reporting suspected child abuse and by visiting churches which may be in violation of the IRS statutes. 

But the latest I've heard about is a group based in Kansas for eleven years called "Mainstream Coalition." Their members go into houses of worship to "spy" on what the pastor, priest or rabbi may be saying from the podium that violates the 501(c)3 tax exempt status. Carol McKnight from that organization was recently interviewed on a radio talk show. She claims while they are not monitoring anything as an official government agency and that the word "spy" is odious to her, she does admit their members purposely infiltrate houses of worship to see what is being said. Muslim mosques require a certain attire and then it's bottoms up so I wonder if they "infiltrate" them too?

I don't know exactly what Betty is implying happens in mosques, but it sounds kind of naughty.  I think Betty should infiltrate one and find out for herself. 

Come into my web said the spider to the fly or Judas kissing Jesus as he betrayed him in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matt. 26:36-56) came to my mind as I heard her say she was amazed at how warm, friendly and loving the church people are to these "visitors".

So, the members of Mainstream Coalition are Judas and flies, with the churches being Jesus and the spiderwebs.  Okay . . . . 

She says their ONLY goal is not to be a snitch for the government but rather to raise awareness that the 501(c)3 I.R.S. law is being violated in many houses of worship. Her coalition supports the separation of church and state. Now, when they find some house of worship "stepping over the line" according to their definition, will they simply go home, make a note in their personal journals and leave it at that? Only in your dreams. No, what they'll do is tip off some liberal journalist who will write a story which will end up on the A-P wire service and the I.R.S. will find out about it.

Tipping off liberal journalists to political campaigning in churches? That is indeed shocking!  Somebody should complain to John Ashcroft about this group, and make them stop persecuting churches this way! Oops, that already happened.

2.  Beverly Eakman

Beverly is also new to the Carnival.  She has a very extensive bio, so I'll just focus on the most relevant part:

Beverly Eakman is an Educator. ... Technical piece, "David, the Bubble Baby," picked up by popular press and turned into a movie starring John Travolta.

If you have ever seen the 1976 made-for-TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, then Beverly will always hold a special place in your heart.  But her column today is not the tender story of a boy who has to live in a hamster ball, it's about S-E-X education, and how things were better in the olden days when nobody talked about the birds and the bees, so teens had no choice but to be heterosexual.

While both sexes may be curious to view each others private parts, actual sex is not really something most pre-teens and young teenagers want to engage in. They are still at the giggly stage, and to interrupt it short-circuits an important part of the maturity process. The results are early sexual experimentation, rapes by boys still in grade school - and sexual deviancy, including homosexuality.

The fact is, sex was a lot sexier when we didn't know so much. Surely, it was a lot safer. It was the unusual girl, the misfit, who got pregnant in high school out of wedlock. It was atypical for boys and girls still in high school to even imagine they were homosexual - and rarer still for students to be recruited into a prurient lifestyle by sicko teachers, priests and scout masters.

Yes, ignorance is both bliss AND morality. 

3.  Jen Shroder

Old friend Jen's latest piece is about how hard it is to get a college degree without having to take classes which include ideas that she doesn't like.

In the article, Bush Bashing Disguised as Philosophy Class [written by our own Jen], a student explained how her philosophy teacher began class with, "If you like Bush or Rush Limbaugh, LEAVE NOW!" The student's anti-Bush claims were confirmed as the class website contained Dean campaign pictures and slogans along with required reading of Bush bashing like MoveOn.org.

The article created an uproar. Administrators asked the teacher, J. Marcus, to remove Cuesta's [Jen's local community college] logo from her website. Marcus wrote in a local liberal paper the administrators were in fact very supportive of her, and the logo is back. As of August 1, her website lists "recommended reading" of TruthOut.org (which has Kerry campaigns and donations) and "The Onion" which contains President Bush's campaign costs next to a cartoon of a woman with spinning disks over her breasts. Another title at The Onion reads, "What the f___..." with the word written out. Is this where taxpayers or parents want college instructors to refer their children?

Do you want YOUR college-aged children reading pornographic material like The Onion?  If not, then you'd better keep them away from Ms. Marcus's Intro to Philosophy class, where they might learn of this perverted online publication!  And do you want them hearing the f--- world?  If not, you'd best keep them away from our Vice President.

And what's worse, Ms. Marcus's website indicates that her philosophy class will cover the ideas of PHILOSOPHERS, and you know what they're like!

This class is on the "Degree Requirement" list to choose from. So if I want a degree at Cuesta College, I need to choose from classes exploring the beliefs of Nietzsche, who claimed there is no God or moral compass. A man who at age 44, witnessed a horse being whipped, threw his arms around the horse's neck and had a mental breakdown, never to return to full sanity or be able to take care of himself again.

For a degree, I should analyze Kant, famous for his criticism of religion and favoring agnosticism.

Or how about J.S. Mill, said to be the chief founder of secular humanism.

Tolstoy? He believed that all Christian churches were corrupt institutions that had thoroughly falsified true Christianity and wrote his own religions.

Plato: "All these women shall be wives in common to all the men...the children too should be held in common so that no parent shall know which is his own, and no child shall know his parent" (Plato 119) ...lovely

Augustine is named, but textbooks have twisted his words out of context so that he appears New Age.

Kafka: a self declared atheist that referred to Judaism as "insufficient scrap...a mere nothing, a joke — not even a joke."

It's a shame that we cannot brush off the liberal attacks on religion at college campuses as "a mere joke."

Things were so much better in the Dark Ages, when nobody was forcing students to learn about stuff which might not be in accordance with church doctrine!

4.   Kerry Marsala

Seb's second best girl (now that Pete let Amber out of the Sadly, No! closet) writes this week about the liberal media's attempt to censor Ann Coulter by trying to get her to make sense and be funny.

Frankly speaking, I think Coulter's sarcasm is a gas, but evidently the editors of USA Today don’t get it. This is a prime example of censorship -disagreeing with someone's opinions and not offering anything constructive in editing requests that make sense, so we just insist on "going our own ways" to take care of it.  

Yes, all editing is censorship, and should be illegal in a free country like America.  Also, that Ann bailed on the USA Today gig instead of making the requested changes shows that the newspaper engaged in the most blatant form of discrimination against a hateful, shrill, unfunny, untalented conservative "writer".  She should probably sue them for violating her civil rights that way.

I read the edit requests [Well, what ANN said were the edit requests]; the editors need a class in sarcasm 101. Several times in the edit requests made by the editors of USA Today it states, "Not funny," "I don't get it," "You sure lost me," and "Is that last sentence sarcastic?" That was the jest of the requests for editing changes. How is that editing or working with a writer to create clarity of thought?

Did Kerry really mean "that was the GIST of the requests for editing changes"?  No, I'm sure she meant "jest," and it was a joke I just don't get.

5.  Paula Devlin

How is Paula's slide into paranoia proceeding?  Let's check:

Mother tried to warn you about those rich men with fancy cars, nice clothes, gifts, flattery and meals at expensive restaurants. She told you they have only one thing in mind and it was not your personal well-being.

Just as naïve girls have been seduced for centuries by the same old ploys, nations have succumbed to the same fate.

Yes, this week Paula addresses the security problems at Los Alamos Labs, and lectures us on how men (and foreigners) only want one thing: sex and our nuclear secrets.  To illustrate her premise, Paula discusses the Cambridge spy ring's "Fifth Man."

There were certain parties who were determined to give the "British" scientists access to the meaningful secrets of bomb making. A very important Lord, well-connect in MI5, had access to almost everyone in the upper echelons in England and the U.S. He never hesitated to buy them dinner and drinks where he offered a sympathetic ear to listen to the shop talk of scientists and spymasters alike. He was an excellent scientist and the penultimate "good old boy". 

Yes, the Cambridge Ring's "Fifth Man" was the next-to-the-last "good old boy" (Bill Clinton presumably being the ultimate one, and probably also a spy).  But he wasn't just a Soviet spy and a traitor -- even worse, he was a Zionist!

It was later revealed that the same information was provided to Israel, as the man was a committed Zionist.

As you may recall from last week, Paula is opposed to Zionism, since it's part of the New World Order plan to force everybody (except the Jews) to belong to the New World church.  Paula, who believes in a 19th-century form of Catholicism, is opposed to the New World Order, Zionism, and Jews in general. 

So, just who was this suave and sinister penultimate good old boy who was providing atomic secrets to Israel?

The Third Lord Rothschild

I should have known!  Well, actually I shouldn't have, since few people besides author Roland Perry, and Paula, who read his book, believe that Rothschild was a spy  (the general opinion seems to be that John Cairncross was the Fifth Man).  But since none of the proven spies, such as Philby or Blunt were Jewish, I guess they wouldn't work to illustrate Paula's point about ... whatever her point was.  Anyway, since Rothschild is dead, it's probably better she focus her conspiracy theories on him instead of worrying about the evil prairie dog plot to control her mind via microwave ovens, or something like that.

But back to Los Alamos, and Paula's plan to reform it:

In the forties people had a clear concept of morality (except for the aforementioned and their cohorts). Today, as was the case in the Soviet Union, people are guided by "political correctness".

Everybody was moral in the '40s, except for spies and the politically correct Soviets.  Got it. 

Trying to organize some of those scientists and engineers in Los Alamos around a moral standard upon which to base a consistent and cogent security system is like trying to herd cats. Most are as independent as a hog on ice. 

You know, I'd always assumed that the National Labs would base their security system primarily on U.S. law (especially the parts dealing with the protection of classified informaton and atomic energy information).  That would seem easier that trying to make scientists and engineers (or cats and ice-skating hogs) rally round one particular moral standard.

However much the mantra of "intellectual freedom" gets chanted and ranted, it is not only possible but necessary to have a highly disciplined environment in order to be productive. If self-discipline is a prerequisite for effective research, additional discipline should help as long as it doesn’t get carried away by regiments of lawyers who do nothing but make up nutty regulations. I would like to see the military take back control of the program, particularly security, and put a stop to all the international visiting so the scientists can "chat". Requiring the entire LANL staff to be native-born citizens would not only enhance security but might just improve the quality of life in the community.  

Yup, instill more "discipline" on the scientists, impose martial law on the labs, and let only native-born researchers work there -- not only to improve security, but to make the town of Los Alamos nicer, by eliminating many of those horrible "ethnic" people.  Works for me!

Security at LANL is feasible, but it must be based on the premise that the work there is done for the United States and the United States alone, not for the advancement of the leftist New World Order. That would be asking those employees to work to enslave others under an evil tyranny, not protecting the sovereignty and principles of our Constitution.

I knew that the New World Order was somehow involved in this!  But hey, if the National Labs are working to advance the New World Order, I guess it's a good thing that their security is so sloppy -- otherwise, they'd have taken over the country long ago, and people like Paula, who are aware of their conspiracy, would have already been sent to those Alaskan gulags.

And that's this week's Carnival of the Wingnuts.   I'll be back later with Townhall Review, after I lie down for a while.  Oh, and thanks, everyone, for the kind wishes about my health and the nice thoughts about being being glad that I wasn't being held in Pete's dungeon.  More about this later.

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