Kenneth McFarland - Are We Raising the Red Flag Over Ourselves?

Kenneth McFarland - Are We Raising the Red Flag Over Ourselves?

LP probably released in 1963 (no date given); McFarland references having spent time at some hotel bar in New York during the Cuban Missle Crisis

What he means by the title of the LP is that he believes the United States of America could end up becoming a socialist/communist nation just like the Soviet Union because of many things including the enactment of the New Deal to help the United States recover from the Depression (i.e. creating jobs for the millions of unemployed people and to help restart the economy) and of something called progressive education. Basically, progressive education focuses on the individual abilities of the child or student and that each individual has his or her own learning style. A key component of progressive education is diversity.

Before Kenneth McFarland embarked on a career of public speaking in front of rich businesspeople and recording many records like this one, he was a superintendent of the Topeka, Kansas school system which was the school system in the Brown v. Board of Education case during Mr. McFarland's tenure. I guess I know why he's bitter towards progressive education. McFarland is also not happy that schools no longer post all the students' grades on all students' report cards. McFarland advocates that everybody should live life in competition everyday including children. I guess that it doesn't matter that students may or may not actually learn anything despite getting A's and B's. It's all about getting better grades than one's classmates. It's not really about measuring how well students are learning. I always thought that letter grades are kind of pointless anyway and I made mostly A's and B's.

McFarland advocates that people should succeed on their own, that is by competing against others. He thinks that those who are rich are the most successful and they should be treated better than anyone else. I guess that anyone born into a rich family is automatically a winner in life. He gripes that the rich pay more in taxes than anyone below them in the economic ladder. This is another way that the U.S. was supposedly headed towards becoming a socialist/communist country. The American way is competition and what he thinks of as "free enterprise" which really means no government regulation of business. McFarland is mistaking economic regulation by the government as control of industries.

On this record, McFarland speaks in front of a group of hospital and healthcare executives somewhere in southern California. It takes McFarland about 11 minutes to get into the topics mentioned already in this post. McFarland implies that the premier of the Soviet Union at the time, Nikita Krushchev, laughed in an evil way at the Americans are becoming a bunch of commies for progressive taxation and progressive education. Okay, Khrushchev didn't really laugh in an evil way at the U.S. (maybe he really did), but McFarland mentioned that Khrushchev said in a speech that the U.S. would someday raise the red flag (communism) over themselves. I can imagine McFarland boiling into some rage and his blood pressure rising at the mere thought of Khrushchev's speech and the fact that not every American shared McFarland's points of view on life. I'm sure everyone knows what happened after this LP was released. You can say that the opposite took place instead.


Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Are We Raising the Red Flag Over Ourselves? side 1 {27:32}

Side 2

1. Are We Raising the Red Flag Over Ourselves? side 2 part 1 {19:43}

2. Are We Raising the Red Flag Over Ourselves? side 2 part 2 {6:03}

Note: side 2 is broken into two parts because at one point the needle gets stuck in a groove; the stuck part lasted well over a minute and I had to gently nudge the needle forward

John Ankerberg - The Fatal Myths of Condom-Based Sex Education

John Ankerberg - The Fatal Myths of Condom-Based Sex Education

released on cassette in 1993

I found two cassettes of this program at a local thrift store. The program on the cassettes is from the The John Ankerberg Show TV program. "The Fatal Myths of Condom-Based Sex Education" purports to explain the fallacies of sex education involving condoms and other sexual protection drawn from supposed research and wild tales of public schools encouraging promiscuity. It does not take long on the program for Ankerberg to make clear his agenda of pushing ideological fundamental Christian based abstinence-only programs in public schools. Ankerberg and his many guests including the likes of Phyllis Schlafly, D. James Kennedy, Gary Bauer, Charles Stanley, Beverly LaHaye (wife of Left Behind author Tim LaHaye), etc. assert that using condoms will still lead to dire consequences such as teenage pregnancies and death. According to them, public schools or rather every school should be teaching morality drawn from their kind of religion.

Some douchebag named Josh McDowell says on the program that people believe it is not government's or society's business what goes on with two consenting adults behind closed doors. Josh becomes indignant when he points out that these same people want the government to fund AIDS research as if it is a hypocritical thing to do. I guess that finding a cure for a deadly disease is immoral if said deadly disease is supposed to prevent teens and unmarried adults from fornicating, right. I would not be surprised if Josh is still as ignorant of AIDS today as back in 1993.

Ankerberg and his ilk contend that abstinence-only programs work the best for turning teens into responsible and moral abstinent teens. Even better is that teens become followers of Ankerberg's brand of religion and give 10% of their paycheck to their church. Anyway there is factual evidence that proves Ankerberg and his friends wrong [the two links are examples out of many more sources]. Plus check out the .pdf report "Abstinence Only vs. Comprehensive Sex Education: What Are the Arguments? What is the Evidence?" on the AIDS Research Institute website.

Informing teens, who happen to be at stages in their lives where the hormones rage the highest, about all of the options including contraceptives and abstinence along with factual information about sex is the most effective way for teens not to end up in terrible situations due to their having sex. Teens will be at least interested in sex due to the combination of raging hormones and curiosity. Why not properly educate them. Ankerberg tries to counter this fact by saying that human beings are not animals and that abstinence-only programs can control the animal urges that people do not supposedly have in the first place. Even if teens are growing up in a religious household or in religious surroundings, they'll most likely still engage in some fooling around. My friend and fellow blogger, JACkory, attended a church camp for three years while he was in high school. During the third year at church camp, his girlfriend did for him what Monica Lewinsky did for Bill Clinton. I have no doubt that stuff still takes place at church camps and church meetings around the world.

John Ankerberg is much occupied with Christian apologetics among with everything else of interest to fundies if his crammed website is any indication. According to his biography:

President and founder of The Ankerberg Theological Research Institute.

Producer and host of the nationally televised John Ankerberg Show, a half-hour program seen in all 50 states via independent stations, the DAYSTAR Network, the DISH Network, DirecTV and on the SKY ANGEL Satellite, numerous cable outlets, as well as on the internet. The program can be seen each week by a potential viewing audience in excess of 99 million people. John presents contemporary spiritual issues and defends biblical/Christian answers.

Note: The tapes have quite background noise including hissing that I was unable to get rid of. Otherwise the tapes still play and the listener can hear what is said.


Tracklisting:

Side One

1. The Fatal Myths of Condom-Based Sex Education Prog. 1 {19:44}

Side Two

1. The Fatal Myths of Condom-Based Sex Education Prog. 2 {20:03}

Side Three

1. The Fatal Myths of Condom-Based Sex Education Prog. 3 {19:33}

Side Four

1. The Fatal Myths of Condom-Based Sex Education Prog. 4 {19:31}

Rutgers Glee Club - 100 Years of Football

Rutgers Glee Club - 100 Years of Football

*special thanks once again to KL from NYC for this gem

KL said that his cover was too ugly or worn out to include so I have chosen the group photo of Rutgers Glee Club to use as the "cover".

This LP was released in 1969 to celebrate the centennial of college football. Rutgers and Princeton are reported to have played the first official tackle football game among institutions of higher education on November 8, 1869 which apparently is why Rutgers is celebrating 100 years of football.

The Rutgers Glee Club is renowned worldwide and yes even better, it has its own page on Wikipedia so you know Rutgers Glee Club is big time if it's on Wikipedia. Rutgers Glee Club was founded in 1872, 3 years after it played the first college football game. It is the 8th oldest glee club in America.
Rutgers Glee Club's repertoire mostly consisted of songs that celebrated school spirit. All of side 2 of this LP has those songs. The first side has renditions of other schools' songs for some reason along with some drinking songs. At the time when this LP was recorded and released, F. Austin "Soup" Walter was the director of Rutgers Glee Club. "Soup" made Rutgers Glee Club a glee club powerhouse and he directed it for 52 years. I have not found out how he got his nickname. I did find a website about Soup that is informative except for the story of his nickname. The drinking songs are a blast and I enjoy those the most. Steven M. Wolf says in the liner notes that "the music embodies the competitive energy and spirit of a sport that, perhaps stronger than ever, celebrates its one hundredth birthday." Who am I to argue?

Rutgers Glee Club is still active in the present. Like this blog, Rutgers Glee Club displays excellence except that it has displayed excellence a lot longer than this blog. Please enjoy this piece of lighthearted entertainment celebrating the school spirit and the top activity of collegiate life.

Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side 1

ALMA MATERS

1. Old Nassau [Princeton] {0:42}

2. San Souci [Columbia] {1:19}

3. High Above Cayugas Waters [Cornell] {1:43}

4. Navy Blue and Gold [Navy] {1:23}

5. Army Blue [Army] {1:40}

DRINKING SONGS

6. Gaudeamus Igitur {1:24}
Old German Melody

7. Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl {1:44}
Traditional Drinking Song

8. Eastern Drinking Song {2:06}
F. Mendelssohn

9. Drinking Song from "The Student Prince" {1:30}
S. Romberg

10. Down Among the Dead Men {1:34}
English Student Song

11. I Know a Tavern from the "Peasant Cantata" {1:56}
J. S. Bach

Side 2

SONGS OF RUTGERS

1. A Rutgers Toast {1:45}

2. Hail Mother {1:52}

3. Loyal Sons {2:33}

4. Down Where the Raritan Flows {2:31}

5. The Old Queens Bell {1:59}

6. The Rutgers History Lesson {2:24}

7. We Sing Thy Praise, Old Rutgers {2:47}

8. A Hymn to Queens {2:30}

9. On the Banks of the Old Raritan {1:38}

10. Vive Les Rutgers' Sons {0:34}

Dr. Milton I. Levine and Melba Rae - A Child's Introduction to Sex

Dr. Milton I. Levine and Melba Rae - A Child's Introduction to Sex

Note: I recently bought a new computer because my old computer simply bit the dust. I am still in the process of reorganizing my personal digital collections and I have yet to install the programs I need to rip LPs and cassettes and convert formats. I was fortunate to find something I've already put up before my old computer crashed. So, here it is.

I wish that I could have first learned about sex from an LP record. How cool would that be? Thus instead, I ended up learning about sex from another source, one that has pictures sans clothing if you know what I mean. I suppose I could pretend to forget all I know and listen to this record in an attempt to simulate the experience. Nah, who am I kidding? It will never work and it sounds wrong anyway.

At least, some people had an opportunity to learn about sex from a record since I imagine, here in America, a majority of parents were (and perhaps still are) uncomfortable explaining the subject. It may have been an act of bravery in the "good ol days" to even have a copy of this record in one's possession. Dr. Levine, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center at the time of this record's release, and soap opera actress Melba Rae adequately explain the process of how babies are made and the body parts used for making babies. This one is recommended for those who are not comfortable talking about it to children.

Tracklisting:  (link may be back soon)

Side 1

1. A Child's Introduction to Sex {9:44}

Side 2

1. A Child's Introduction to Sex continued {8:55}

Gary "Moses" Bowman Preaching on the University of Arkansas campus

Here's a video to commemorate the start of school here in America.

Gary "Moses" Bowman is a preacher who likes to visit college campuses in Arkansas, Oklahoma and in other states in the South. Occasionally, he is also known as Preacher Bob. Usually, Moses warns the young college students that not only are they going to Hell, but that there is no hope for them to change their destiny, no salvation; their destiny is Hell, Moses tells them. Depending on circumstances, students could get a potential double whammy, hell on Earth in the form of student loan repayments because the college presidents and trustees or regents want to jack up tuition and eternity spent in the lake of fire. If you're in a fraternity or sorority or wear shorts or skirts, you're headed straight for Hell. If you accept evolution, you're also headed for Hell. Yes, Moses likes to dispense his version of the truth and make people angry.

Gary Moses Bowman sings and dances while telling college students their futures are bleak. In this video, he does just that. I like the way he uses his whistle in between his singing as if the whistle is another vocal device aside from his voice. Maybe he should go on America's Got Talent or record an album so that it could be featured in the next incarnaton of 365 Days Project. At the beginning if the video, Moses sings about how evolution is spiritual pollution then sings another song at the end about how evolution caused the Virginia Tech shooting two years ago. In between his performances, he preaches about the moon and the Earth's "real age". Yes, he uses his whistle while preaching.

I usually do not post videos. In fact, this is actually the first time in my life that I've embedded a video in a blog. I've wanted to do this as I suppose I haven't really lived until I've embedded a You Tube video. I think this is a good first choice.

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Success in the Classroom

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Success in the Classroom

We'll continue with the back-to-school series of posts. This guy explains on this tape (from 1970) how to prepare for tests and how to do well on tests as well as how to make good grades in classes. I think I should have posted this one first instead of Techniques for Academic Success. Basically, if you don't do the homework and flunk the tests, you fail the classes. Thus, you become a loser in the realm of formal education which means you'll most likely for the rest of your life be working for low pay in either a big-box chain store taking shit from prick managers and ill-mannered customers or serving high-cholestrol, fattening, greasy food for a fast food chain while taking shit from prick managers and ill-mannered customers. So you better get motivated to succeed and start listening and/or passing this on to someone who's attending school.

Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side A

1. Success in the Classroom {28:44}

Side B

1. Success in the Classroom continued {24:35}

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Techniques for Academic Success

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Techniques for Academic Success

I know that the people out there want more druggie albums as well as more stuff about Satan and LPs of how to remove pimples from rear ends (I will be somewhat amazed if there is in existence of an LP of how to remove pimples from anywhere on the body). It's not that I am psychic that I know what people outside of my locality want (because I'm trying to find time to fully concentrate and listen to Russ Burgess again, yeah that's it.) It's that my visitors have asked for these kinds of albums.

I am sorry to disappoint any of you that the subject of this post does not deal with any of the topics mentioned in the above paragraph. No, I take that back. The cassette that is the focus of this post is very important, so you all really need this. You see, August is here and school usually starts in the middle of August here in the U.S. of A. Even if you are not going to school, no doubt you know someone who is going to school. If you are a visitor and fan of this blog, you are definitely acquainted with someone going to school. That person is yours truly.

This cassette by one Dr. J. Clifton Williams teaches listeners how to succeed in school which translates to how to be a success in corporate America. On side A, he explains how to effectively and efficiently write papers and give oral reports. I am fond of side B. Dr. Williams explains how the library is a very helpful resource for succeeding in school and how to use the library to its fullest advantage. That is awesome and here's the kicker. I am in library school right now. Library school is formally called School of Library and Information Studies (LIS). Library schools throughout the country have this name or something similar. Hopefully, I'll be employed in a library or archive somewhere soon.

There is not much information about Dr. Williams available. There is not even a Wikipedia entry for Dr. Williams although there is some composer who shares the same name who is apparently significant enough to have a Wikipedia entry. All I was able to find out is that he has degrees in psychology, does consulting in management and advises the president of Baylor University.

Nothing here about drugs, Satan or removing pimples, but you or someone you know will get an A or at least a B. Not to worry, druggie and Satan stuff as well as more stuff to make you a success in life are forthcoming.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Techniques for Academic Success {24:08}

Side B

1. Techniques for Academic Success continued {26:59}

James Walker - The New Age in Our Schools: The Three R's

James Walker - The New Age in Our Schools: The Three R's

This tape was produced by a group called the Watchman Fellowship which is "an independent and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age." The president of this organization is James Walker who is the lecturer on this tape. The Watchman Fellowship believes what is really the competition in the area of beliefs (those new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age) is dangerous to mankind. One of the specialties of this organization is knowing how to "witness" to members of cults and new religions or how to convince members of cults and new religions that their beliefs of Christianity are better.

I'm sure the Watchman Fellowship's heart is in the right place. After all, they're trying to protect us from those strange belief systems of other humans. Assumably, we all should not only believe but accept that what the Watchman Fellowship believes is true. The Watchman Fellowship is watching out for us, but who is watching the Watchman Fellowship? Sorry, couldn't resist.

On this tape, Walker claims that the New Age movement has infiltrated the public schools to attempt to teach/brainwash the children "the three R's" which are not reading, writing and arithmetic. They are relaxation, relativism and reality manipulation. Speaking from personal experience, I have never encountered anything to do with the New Age during all of my 12 years in public school. Maybe back then these New Age dudes with their ideas of relaxation, relativism and reality manipulation were lurking outside of the school walls with the drug dealers waiting to corrupt the innocent and naive young people such as myself.

One of the highlights of this lecture is where Walker plays a tape allegedly of a New Age spirit guide working over a third grade class. The tape is supposedly recorded by a student. That particular tape sounds enticing enough that I would like to get a copy myself. I want to know more about the white rabbit with long ears and pink eyes. This part starts at about the 28:20 mark on side 1.

Notes: Someone named Rick Branch is credited as compiling the material on this tape, but since Walker is the only one doing the lecture and there's no more information available about Rick Branch, only James Walker is credited here.

There are clicks throughout the files. That is because the condition of the tape itself is not very good. Also, side 2 the sound quality is lower. The listener will have to turn up the volume when listening to side 2.

Tracklisting:

1. side 1 {43:13}

2. side 2 {40:00}

Vince Hatfield - George Bush for Our USA

Vince Hatfield - George Bush for Our USA [single track]

Today is the big day. A new era begins. The often misunderestimated George "Dubya" Bush is no longer the president. I'm sure that today will be a sad day for a lot of people especially for those here in Oklahoma and the few other states that voted for Sarah Palin. Since Sarah Palin lost, oops I mean John McCain lost the election, God will no longer have a place in the Oval Office. The White House also will no longer be occupied by a regular guy with whom you want to have a beer with. Now America will look forward to having communism/socialism, devil worship, free love, and worst of all, intellectualism ushered in the consciousness of American society.

I was going to post the Bushisms collection that is a compilation of audio clips where former President GWB articulates his ideas and policies on various topics, but it's not on my laptop. I'm out of town at the moment. However, I did find this gem on my laptop. Vince Hatfield's song was found somewhere on the webs several years ago. Vince wrote this song in 2000 while driving from home to his oil producing business. Sometime after God's president was given the keys to the White House, Vince performed the song at Bush's going away party in Midland, Texas. As Vince sings, indeed Bush has made the world proud of the USA. While listening to this tune, people can look back fondly on the last eight years as Bush has brought back morality and families. Surely, the wonderful man of values and character would not lie about engaging in war of aggression against another country much less committing the act of attacking another country in the first place and putting America into a massive deficit as a result. Now tears will flow because George Bush will no longer lead on.

George Bush for Our USA {3:27}

Professor X - This Beats Working for a Living: The Dark Secrets of a College Professor

Professor X - This Beats Working for a Living: The Dark Secrets of a College Professor

Here's another book for y'all. School is back in session here in the United States of America so perhaps this will be educational.

This paperback gives an insider's expose of the world of the college/university professor by a professor. This came out in 1973, but I suspect that most of the behaviors, habits, foibles and personality traits of professors depicted in this book are still the same today as well as the daily conditions of the academic world. An example told by Professor X is that professors generally lead dull lives, so to make their lives more exciting they start feuds with other professors usually over minor things. For instance, during a committee meeting, a professor became enraged and started an argument with a fellow professor over a $79 chair.

Another example of the behaviors of professors is that although they strongly emphasize to students not to plagarize, professors crib (or steal) material from several textbooks and use the material in their lectures and research.

The author wrote this book anonymously as he would have made a bunch of enemies and possibly would have had to seek employment in the "real world". The reader learns that most professors couldn't make it outside the confines of the academic institution and that professors tend to be rejects from industry and government.
It has somehow been revealed that Professor X is Odie B. Faulk, professor and head of the department of history at Oklahoma State University (located in Stillwater) at the time he wrote and published this book. Most of Professor X's personal anecdotes take place at Oklahoma State University. Odie has a page on the Texas Tech University's library of his donated manuscripts and other materials. One of those manuscripts include this book.


From the back cover:

AN UNCONVENTIONAL TOUR OF THE IVY-COVERED WALLS

Professor X asserts: "The Ph.D. has become a license to steal! The position of college instructor demands little work, less intelligence and no courage."

SALARIES: "Considering their work load, professors are amazingly well paid. A college instructor with a twelve-hour load is in the classroom just twelve hours each week."

ACADEMIC COMMITTEES: "The one committee on most campuses that actually does some work is the one dealing with salaries and fringe benefits. Here the professor members seem inspired, even possessed; they would make old-time labor leaders proud."

Students will read this book with glee, the profession will fume, and the hapless taxpayer will discover why he has to hock his future to pay for his children's college education.

Table of Contents:

page 9 - FOREWORD, PREFACE, AND INTRODUCTION

page 15 - I. ACADEMIC DUTIES

page 15 - Workload

page 20 - Selection of Textbooks

page 23 - The Lecture

page 31 - Educational Television

page 34 - Discipline in the Classroom

page 39 - Tests

page 45 - Grades

page 48 - Committee Work

page 52 - II. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

page 52 - Academic Conventions

page 57 - Writing

page 64 - The Book Review

page 75 - The After-Dinner Speech

page 80 - III. PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDES

page 80 - The Tendency to Anarchy

page 84 - The Professor and His Administration

page 88 - Elitism

page 92 - Pomposity

page 96 - Fads

page 101 - Feelings of Superiority and Inferiority

page 107 - The Educationists

page 111 - Lady Professors

page 115 - IV. PERPETUATING THE BREED

page 115 - Recruiting Graduate Students

page 120 - The Training of Professors

page 127 - Understanding the Profession

page 129 - The End Product

page 132 - V. INDIVIDUAL SURVIVAL

page 132 - Academic Quarrels

page 135 - Office Politics

page 138 - Defense Mechanisms

page 142 - The Route to Power

page 145 - Town and Crown

page 150 - Faculty Wives

page 152 - Faculty Entertainments

page 156 - CONCLUSION, EPILOGUE, AND AFTERWORD

part1, part 2  (links will be back soon)