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Chrisjay

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Sarah Palin
« on: Jan 16, 2011, 12:42:41 PM »
Sarah Palin, the would be president of America hit back at the Arizona shootings accusing her critics of a "blood Libel" in a bazaar twist on a medieval slur against Jews. >:(

Whenever Ms Palin opens her mouth and spews out her latest nonsense, I'm cheered by the thought that at least no one as blatantly crass as her could ever make it into front line politics in Britian and survive for even a day.

Then I think of Ed Balls  ;D

Article from Julia Hartley-Brewer's column
 

caminito

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Re: Sarah Palin
« Reply #1 on: Jan 16, 2011, 01:43:31 PM »
It is frightening that people vote for her  :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E

Chrisjay

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Re: Sarah Palin
« Reply #2 on: Jan 16, 2011, 02:00:28 PM »
I agree she is as thick as two short planks but the Americans have always been partial to radicals when thing are not going well.
 

Elder Rebel

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Re: Sarah Palin
« Reply #3 on: Jan 21, 2011, 01:26:53 PM »
Of course she is as thick a three shorter planks .  However she could be elected.  The Tea Party will support her, as Chris said America loves radical solutions and just remember Geo Bush. He was short of grey cells. !!!

Talking of Geo Bush, I was in Babylon just before the Gulf War and saw the Egyptian experts repairing the Ziggurat of Nebuchadnezzar..  When it was built originally 'Neb' had his name stamped on every fifth brick.  Sadam Hussein had his name stamped on every fifth repair brick.

In a thousand years the archaeologists will recall Sadam Hussein.  Doubt if Geo Bush or Sarah Palin will be mentioned.  Such is the flow of history. !!!



Chrisjay

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Re: Sarah Palin
« Reply #4 on: Jan 21, 2011, 02:32:21 PM »
Elder Rebel
How true but even more frightening is kids studying history now don't know who Winston Churchill is, when asked to name a Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher (they all seem to know her) they said they were not born then, 1066 meant nothing, nor did Queen Elizabeth 1, Oliver Cromwell, Horatio Nelson, they had heard of the slave trade but could not say whether it was before or after the Second World War, they had heard of Paris but not Berlin, the only places they knew for sure was football stadiums and night clubs.  They are not required to learn about historical people or events but to 'imagine' what it was like to be a fishwife in the 17th century or some such twaddle.

Recently reported was the case of a girl studying Rwandan genocide as her specialist topic - her only source of reference was the film Hotel Rwanda - she seemed to know 800,000 people were killed with machetes but did not know Rwanda formerly belonged to Belgium.

How sad that we cannot provide a rounded education that encourages exploration of events and people and tells us how we got to where we are and the journey involved which is what history teaches us along with that exploration are the leasons we hopefully learned.

Let us also be very clear about this, the cost of state sponsored ignorance is £60,000 per head that is what we spend on compulsory education per child or perhaps it should be renamed attendance at school as education no longer seems to be the prority.
 

Elder Rebel

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Re: Sarah Palin
« Reply #5 on: Jan 21, 2011, 04:25:33 PM »
I agree but it is not just kids.  Ask most parents where Rwanda is and they are unlikely to know, same applies to many grandparents.  Try asking where the oldest city in the world is and you will usually get blank stares. Again they are unlikely to know its name.

It is not the kids we need to blame, but their parents and grandparents who have failed to make sure schools are up to standard and also failed to take an active part in the kids education.

My oldest grandson can tell you the answers to the above questions and many more because I helped in his education.  He is 17 now, got 8 grade A and 6 grade A* at 'O' levels and already understands 5th order Differential Equations and I would say is of average intelligence, but he works .

The point I am making is that we should never leave something so important as education to schools alone.  All successful societies have ensured that their children were the responsibility of all adults in the society.  We are failing because we have left education to teachers without support, without means of discipline and without taking steps to ensure they were doing a good job.

It's our fault --not the Kids alone.

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Re: Sarah Palin
« Reply #6 on: Jan 23, 2011, 01:53:29 PM »
That's Democracy - warts and all
Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage.
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