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2008-02-04 Britain

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Posted by lotp 2008-02-04 09:21|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 This is happening here in the U.S. as well.

Think about it. Our colleges and universities are teaching young adults that critiquing everything Jefferon did or wrote is a sign of enlightenment due to the fact that he owned slaves, but that critiquing MLK or Ghandi for anything they said or did is racism because their skin was not lily white.

Our public high schools are teaching students that Christianity was the number one purveyor of murder and oppression in the 20th century and barely, if at all, mentioning Stalin, Mao, etc. who were all atheists. Those same high schools are requiring Nickeled and Dimed, an anticapitalist screed written by an outspokenly socialist author, as summer reading but the same kids are never even exposed to The Federalist paper regarding the need for discrepancies in wealth in order to form a vibrant and decent society.

Given this environment, it becomes difficult for average and even above average people to sift through the agenda and know what is real from what is mythology.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-02-04 10:02|| 2008-02-04 10:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder how many are also self-proclaimed jedi or just pranksters. I don't think polls take into account that sort of thing but I know I've mislead a poll taker more than once.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-02-04 13:22|| 2008-02-04 13:22|| Front Page Top

#3 And most disturbingly, a whopping 65% of them believed Flashman was fictional.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-02-04 15:09|| 2008-02-04 15:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Correct me if I'm wrong, but the gesture Churchill's giving is NOT what is typically considered "V for Victory", is it? Or did he have special dispensation to use it that way?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-02-04 21:52|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2008-02-04 21:52|| Front Page Top

Thinking of this guy? Churchill gets to do it anyway he wants!

Posted by KBK 2008-02-04 22:01|| 2008-02-04 22:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I believe in some countries the reverse V is similar to the middle finger.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-02-04 22:59|| 2008-02-04 22:59|| Front Page Top

#7 rjschwarz, true, 't means "I have two dicks and will fuckya real bad".

[I just made it up, never heard of such a thing, you may confuse it with Italian "cornuto" (approx. transl. = "pwned your wife/GF"), ponting finger and little finger, the rest and the thumb folded in]

Posted by twobyfour 2008-02-04 23:29|| 2008-02-04 23:29|| Front Page Top

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