Arizona, Cut Off Your Indian Braids

Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill has met his own Little Big Horn

Academic Fraud and pretend Indian Ward Churchill got the ultimate smackdown from Judge Larry Naves. No money, no reinstatement, nada. He even took back the $1 settlement the last jury gave him. You get a big award of doodly-squat, tonto!

Thus ends the Churchill-CU Circus. Naves is a well-respected judge appointed by Democrat Roy Romer, so this will not be overturned. Even the Daily Camera, newspaper of the People's Republic of Boulder, says it's past time to kick this charlatan to the curb.

Native American-Hippie Chic
Here in the West, we still have Native Americans, and since the 60's there's been a certain cachet attached to all things Indian. It started with the hippies and the liberal desire to identify with oppressed minorities without actually having to walk a mile in their moccasins.

Mark Lindsay explains it best in his 1970's song, Arizona:

She must belong to San Francisco
She must've lost her way
Posting a poster of Poncho and Cisco one California day
She says she believes in Robin Hood and brotherhood
And colours of green and grey
And all you can do is laugh at her
Doesn't anybody know how to pray?

Ward Churchill, white man from back east, took the hippie-Indian shtick to the extreme and rode it all the way to a full professorship at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I've had many Native American friends over the years, Mescalero Apaches, Blackfoot, Pueblo, and it always amuses me how the pretend ones try to be more Catholic than the pope. Or should I say more native than the natives?

Reminds me of that Muslim convert in Florida who claimed discrimination when they wouldn't let her take her drivers license photo with a face mask on. She'd been walking around showing her face for over 30 years before she converted, so it's not like she was hiding some kind of forbidden fruit...

And you can believe in Robin Hood and brotherhood
And rolling the ball in the hay
And I will be reading you an Aesop´s fable
Anything to make you stay

Is there a little Eichmann in all of us? Ontological Angst explores the other side of peace and love and brotherhood.

Go Here to see a cool, high-quality video of Mark Lindsay singing his 1970's hit song "Arizona."

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Wisdom for the Weekend: Hippies -vs- History

The hippie generation taught us to laugh at the parents and grandparents who defeated America's enemies, bought us our first car and paid for our college. The hippies brought us social acceptance of drug use which spawned death and wrecked families; sexual freedom that imprisons human dignity; a sneering condescension for the squirrel that hoards his nuts against a hard winter.

The hippie generation has defied the wisdom of the ages by redefining family, gender, and marriage. They even tried killing off God! How stupid is all of mankind that came before them! We are now suffering the rotten fruits of their pot smoking, sex crazed self-indulgence.

G.K. Chesterton was a great thinker of the 19th and early 20th century. He spoke of the thought that kills all thoughts; and that's what these aging hippies, ensconced in their Hollywood studios, ivory towers of academe, and marbled halls of governance are trying to do: Kill our old fashioned thoughts. Kill our thoughts of loving and serving God, self-reliance, patriotism, morality. His words still apply today:

The peril is that the human intellect is free to destroy itself. Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next generation, by all entering a monastery or jumping into the sea, so one set of thinkers can in some degree prevent further thinking by teaching the next generation that there is no validity in any human thought.

It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. If you are merely a skeptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question, "Why should anything go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?"

The young sceptic says, "I have a right to think for myself." But the old sceptic, the complete sceptic, says, "I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all."

There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.

Don't let them stop your thoughts.