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The military haters on campus aren't going to like this!
"Roth said he also remained concerned about a provision of the grant agreement which provides for summer math and science programs for students from middle school to the undergraduate level."
Is this guy for real?? This sounds like an awesome program for young people.
I am dumbfounded to learn that there is a policy at Stanford which prevents military research from being kept secret. Even a five year old child knows that it is important to keep military matters secret from your enemy. It has been said by some very wise people that going to college or being on the faculty of a University makes people dumber. This would seem to be a perfect example of this with "Professor" Roth a poster boy for this observation. Actually, though, there is another explanation for this--that these left-wingers really do not want to defend our country even during a time of war. I suggest we put them on a plane and deposit them in the areas of Pakistan or Afghanistan where Al Qaeda resides. Perhaps then the importance of self-defense and an appreciation for why this country is worth defending will make it through their thick skulls and reach their feeble minds. Their views illustrate the difference between academic achievement and wisdom. One can be a professor at a prominent university and completely lack any wisdom with regard to matters outside of the ivory tower.
According to Roth:“This is not to teach these people math skills,” he said. “It’s to begin getting them tuned into this kind of work so they’ll choose that as part of their careers.”
Hey "Professor" Roth, it would be great if these students would consider a job in the defense industry. These jobs have good salaries and excellent benefits which can help raise and support a family. Unfortunately they do not have tenure, so lifetime employment is not guaranteed as it is for fools like you. And for your information Roth, the defense industry does wonderful, wonderful work--producing the planes, ships and weapons we need to defend ourselves against the evil in the world. Yes Roth, evil does exist and we need to protect ourselves and our families from terrorists and others that want to destroy us. Our freedoms are protected by the American military and they need weapons to fight for us you moron. FYI, It was Lockheed and the other defense companies that helped produce the weapons, planes and ships that enabled America to defeat the Nazis and win WW II. The defense companies are unsung heroes that deserve much more acclaim then they get. Yes Roth, the work of the defense industry is much more important than what most of the liberal professors at Stanford are doing. If your job did not exist few would care or notice, but without the defense industry the Japanese or the Nazis would be in charge. Roth, a strong military is necessary for our country to endure. Apparently you have not learned that lesson yet. I am giving you an F- which means you have to repeat the class. The class I am talking about is world history because you need to learn the lessons of history and what happens to militarily weak countries and people--tyrants destroy them. And tyrants do not suffer fools like you.
The hair-trigged anti-military bias of modern academia rides again. Kicking up dirt over a summer program?
All we have to know about the civil benefit of military research is that DARPA invented the Internet. So much military research flops in the military context and becomes a smashing success on the civilian front.
The irony of all this is that military research (Vannevar Bush, etc etc) _made_ the modern academic engineering research environment - in the guise of the left's hatred of smoking, let's call it Big Research. Big Research made it a national motivation to pump public money into (private) universities for supposed national benefit. So the chimney effect of defense research created opportunities for all sorts of other fields, from semiconductor processing to
to biomedical science. (And ironically, we're still not producing enough good engineers and have to import tons of them from the rest of the world.)
Roth's shock over supposed career recruitment at a summer camp fits with today's leftist idea that no one would ever enlist or work in a military-related field if only they were as smart as the intelligent professors and knew what an evil thing it was. Give me a break - many people left and right can and have served the country with distinction in the armed forces, most of them never firing a shot in battle, and have taken those lessons to civil society for the benefit of all.
Having followed Stuart Baimel's column for some time, I come to the sudden realization that Ron Paul [the rooster]is the American proxy for the Jesus Christ government of Israel. The chicken with the Jesus balls took over the Jesus farm of America, while the military [pigs], the President [the horse], the Congressmen [the ducks] all helped the Rooster out by doing their part to run the farm until the Master of the Farm returned.
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This is all fine and good, but if the master doesn't return in the next 24 hours, we are going to kill the pigs, the horse, the ducks, and all the rest of the psychotics on the animal farm for not running the farm according to the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.