Winston Churchill, one of the most towering figures of the 20th century, has been cut from a list of key historical figures recommended for teaching in English secondary schools by something called the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
So, unless there are real teachers left in the UK for 11 to 14-year-olds, they will subsist primarily on the Labour Party-approved diet of global warming, why George Bush is responsible for all the world's bad, and why increasing taxes is always good. By the way... Hitler, Gandhi, Stalin and Martin Luther King are out as well.
The man regarded by his countrymen as the greatest Briton in history and will always be relevant as shown by the following quote from his book "The River War" published over 100 years ago:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."
This will no doubt come as a shock to you:
The UN has told Chad, Uganda and Ethiopia that its World Food Program cannot continue to feed the estimated 90 million people it has the last five years.
The UN blames "high commodity prices"... this from the ongoing criminal enterprise-on-the-Hudson which $10 to $20 billion in the "food for oil program" end up as bribes, payoffs and even funding for al-Queda operations.
Besides, any bets on which country gave the most to the food programs in the first place?
And speaking of money...
This --the most annoying urban legend--"women only make 73 cents (or 29 cents or 13) for every dollar a man makes--may finally be put to a long needed death:
A recent Pew Research Foundation survey found that 60 percent of working mothers said a part-time job would be best, up from 48 percent 10 years ago. And 19 percent said not working at all would be ideal -- roughly the same as in 1997. Only 21 percent of working mothers with children under 18 viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, down from 32 percent in 1997.
Anyone with a bit of common sense has known since feminists started fostering this lie decades ago, that when specific jobs are gender compared, there is virtually no difference in salary. The devil is always in the details... women are seldom found in high-risk jobs, jobs with extensive travel, jobs requiring great physicality... all of which are more highly paid.
Furthermore, women tend toward lower-paying jobs such as teaching, and most of all, men don't get pregnant.
Guess what? You can't have it all... unless you cheat.
Brilliant remarks from Sir Winston.
Seems to me that a major problem with throwing money at the (3rd world hunger) problem is that MOST of the money ends up in the hands of the very people who are creating and perpetuating the problem. It is like trying to solve your brother-in-law's gambling problem by "loaning" him more money.
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Posted by: DontAskMe | July 17, 2007 at 12:40 PM