Liberty and the Democrats

There is an amusing story out from yesterday...concerning Liberty University...the private and highly Christian university up in Lynchburg which the Rev Jerry Falwell created. Like most colleges, they allow clubs on the "installation" (pardon my military jargon). This week, they decided that allowing the College Democrats club to exist...was a bad thing. They even came out and suggested that the club's primary function stood up against the Christian school's moral principles.

This club has barely existed eight months...and really only popped up during the Obama campaign. They admit they only have about thirty people and the club says its in the "growing" stage right now.

Right now, they can't meet on campus or use the Liberty name in anything they do. I'm guessing that some local Democrat will arrange for a meeting place and the club will continue on.

I realize it may be shocking in this case...but I'm taking the side of the Democrat club. There are Democrats who are active members in the Baptist church, the Methodist church, and various denominations. To stand here and deny the club existence on campus means very little. They will continue to exist and likely grow in the future.

To be kinda honest....if we killed off every Democrat in America tomorrow...then what? You'd merely have half of the Republican party split off as liberal Republicans and the other half as conservative Republicans. We would eventually recreate the entire Democrat party within a decade. You need a two-sided argument to some degree...to exist as a republic, otherwise...it starts to turn into something that we really don't need.

So Liberty had their moment of glory...and in the weeks to come...they probably will notice that the club still exists and now has stronger membership because of the disapproval they stuck upon them. I'm thinking Liberty needs to do something drastic now...like create a NCAA football team or something...to get the topic of discussion going in another direction.

Gitmo Woes and Fixes

I sat there in a daze....thinking I'd sipped some 90 proof stuff. Here was the suggestion from a Fox News article...that some folks think we should just rename Gitmo....to help fix the Gitmo problem:

What if you gave it a name like "Shining Sands" or "Ocean Breeze" instead of ... Gitmo?

The prison center at Guantanamo Bay is destined to be closed down in January because "the name itself is a condemnation" of U.S. anti-terrorism strategy, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.

But while it has become a "taint" on America's reputation, according to Gates, the prison facility in Cuba is at the same time "probably one of the finest prisons in the world today," he said Friday on NBC's "Today" show.

I paused over this entire concept for a while....then I started come up with my ten suggested name changes for Gitmo, which I'd like to share with you:

1. Camp Jesus. I realize it won't work, period....but still, I'd like to suggest it. It'll win Baptist votes.

2. Camp Ozzie Ozborne. We'd pipe in Ozzie music....which would like be deemed illegal and a violation of human rights.

3. Bin Laden Sands. Just a crazy idea.

4. Camp Skippy. It'd drive the Marines crazy when you handed them orders there. That would be a pleasure to watch.

5. El Castro. Cubans in Miami might have a laugh, but thats about it.

6. Liberation. One-word, simple, to the point.

7. Naval Air Station Bush. GW wouldn't mind.

8. TOTFNBRPC (The Obama Temporary For Now But Really Permanent Camp)

9 Stimulus City, it'd make perfect sense to give them money or funding.

10. Gitmo-Paradise. Sometimes, you just need to add one single word to make things feel all better again.