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Birthday Reflections on Winston Churchill- Nobel Laureate, War Lord, Drunk, Depressive, Racist, Killer, Imperialist, Savior

  11-30 is Winston Churchill's birthday.   He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and rightfully so.   The English language has had four masters, four Jedis...men who could write psalms in English: William Tyndale( the King  James Version of the Bible is based on his translation), William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill. They could match King David in psalm writing.   He was a great warrior, and an apex racist. He had no qualms or guilt or reservations about killing brown people in India, or black people up the Nile, or white, non Anglo-Saxons , in South Africa.   He was witty and pithy.   “ It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. ”   “ " I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. "   “Lady Astor said to Churchill, “ If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea,”  to which he responded, “

Why America is BACKSLIDING in Democracy

  Sweden is a mess.   It just made history by appointing its first female Prime Minister, she lasted eight hours. YES, EIGHT HOURS, she resigned after eight hours on the job.   Somali rappers are decimating native Swedish born rappers ( see the death of EINAR), and gun violence has reached an all time high.   “…. a throng of a hundred or so young men, most of them from African or Middle Eastern minorities, started fighting in a square in Hjallbo, a suburb of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city. Members of rival gangs seem to have started the scrap over the theft of a moped. Two days later a man in a nearby grocery shop was shot in the back of the head, thought to be as an act of revenge for the gangland battle. Then a policeman in Biskopsgarden, another suburb of the city, was shot dead. A few days after that a man was murdered in a barber’s shop in Frolunda, yet another suburb. To add to this litany of recent criminal violence, two young children were lucky to survive last week after bei