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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 yo...

Responding to the NEW YORK TIMES' Advocacy to Abolish Prisons

As a member of a generation which grew up in a Spartan America, in which most men had to serve in the military; as a member of a generation which was bled to death in the jungles of Vietnam by a Panglossian Globalist Administration which wanted to democratize an unwilling people who wanted to be left alone; as a member of a generation which rallied from a cruel and  unnecessary sacrifice to defeat the Soviet Union of the Cheka, NKVD and KGB, this Blogger has grave and grievous concerns about turning over the future of the Republic to the New Thinking of Millennials, Nancy Pelosi’s “NEW AMERICANS.’ They just don’t think right; they have abandoned knowledge learned from painful lessons to indulge in sociological fantasy. They have forgotten that Mankind is riven by primordial and atavistic urges. Rather than attempt to have society control or govern such primeval forces, the New Americans wish them away. They use sociological jargon, as a magical ritual chant,  to ward off ...