What have you done? THOUSANDS of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so that you can let it crumble to dust! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for WHAT? So you can... swim, and... dance and... PLAY!?
Posted on 12/06/2008 5:18:47 PM PST by bruinbirdman
The publisher claims the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society.
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Hopefully the new edition includes the word “dhimmitude.”
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More reasons to homeschool. A small percentage of children not dumbed down, demoralized down, and degraded down may not change the world, but even a small percentage of righteous people who can think and reason and have a strong moral compass can do great good, at the very least for their own circle of family and acquaintances. And that's how the world changes for the better - with people striving for goodness individually.
Funny - on the one hand, there are the radical enviro-wackos who worship the earth itself as god, and on the other hand, there are the (what to call them?) urban secularists who hate nature - maybe because when out in nature, some children - or adults - might wonder "Who made all this?" Plus a loner who takes walks in the woods and fields might not be as easy to hypnotize and indoctrinate. And must erase all British tradition to make way for Islamic domination!
Here is a list from the link of some removed words:
Carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe
Dwarf, elf, goblin
Abbey, aisle, altar, bishop, chapel, christen, disciple, minister, monastery, monk, nun, nunnery, parish, pew, psalm, pulpit, saint, sin, devil, vicar
Coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, decade
adder, ass, beaver, boar, budgerigar, bullock, cheetah, colt, corgi, cygnet, doe, drake, ferret, gerbil, goldfish, guinea pig, hamster, heron, herring, kingfisher, lark, leopard, lobster, magpie, minnow, mussel, newt, otter, ox, oyster, panther, pelican, piglet, plaice, poodle, porcupine, porpoise, raven, spaniel, starling, stoat, stork, terrapin, thrush, weasel, wren.
Acorn, allotment, almond, apricot, ash, bacon, beech, beetroot, blackberry, blacksmith, bloom, bluebell, bramble, bran, bray, bridle, brook, buttercup, canary, canter, carnation, catkin, cauliflower, chestnut, clover, conker, county, cowslip, crocus, dandelion, diesel, fern, fungus, gooseberry, gorse, hazel, hazelnut, heather, holly, horse chestnut, ivy, lavender, leek, liquorice, manger, marzipan, melon, minnow, mint, nectar, nectarine, oats, pansy, parsnip, pasture, poppy, porridge, poultry, primrose, prune, radish, rhubarb, sheaf, spinach, sycamore, tulip, turnip, vine, violet, walnut, willow
That is doubleplusungood.
Ah, Shakespeare comes to mind, let’s see, using the new approved words....
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
More and more it looks like we saved their butt in WWII for nothing. Or at the least, considering this is Dec 7th, we should have concentrated on Japan and the Pacific and let the chips in Europe fall where they may.
All our European ally countries have went to hell. To boot we helped enslave tens of millions to the yoke Communism. Some 'win'.
(Is that Pat Buchanan I hear in my head?)/s
> In less than one generation the Monarchy will be replaced with an Imam.
Yes, and in about than one month the Presidency will be replaced by a muslim dictator.
> The UK is done and they did it to themselves
He who laughs last laughs best. You do not yet know what muslim treats Barack Hussein Obama Dada has in store for you!
The US did it to themselves.
> More and more it looks like we saved their butt in WWII for nothing.
The Brits would say that they saved their own butt in WW-II, and that you showed up to the party late, just like you did to the previous one. And they’d be right.
> Or at the least, considering this is Dec 7th, we should have concentrated on Japan and the Pacific and let the chips in Europe fall where they may.
Uncle Joe would have enjoyed that immensely.
That's funny. And a good bit of revisionist history.
Then once we were in, Churchill convinces FDR to abandon the Pacific - and ALL American Military - and concentrate on saving England. Then given all the English casualties of WWI, who gets to carry the heavy load in WWII, the USA - our troops were expendable - cannon fodder. 'WE' had the unlimited source of personal, England didn't. Then due to MORE GB loses in bombing raids over Europe from '39-'41, it the USA's 8th Air Force who had to carry out the Daylight (suicide) bombing missions. But the Brits flew under the cover of darkness and as such suffered considerably fewer casualties. Then we have the ground war, from Operation Torch where WE landed in Africa (where the nice French fired on us) to Sicily, once again the USA carries the heavy load. Gets the dirty, high casualty missions. Then on to Italy and its the same again. WE get the job to kick the Nazis out of Italy. Then we have D-Day. Once again its the US Ships, the US troops, the US Airborne Divisions who get the heavy load. England contributed ONE Army division and One Airborne 'unit' to the invasion. Additionally, after that it was US fighter air power that provided ground support and wiped out the Luftwaffe. Not the Brits. And don't even get me started on Monty. That overrated vacillating assh*le caused the War in the European Theater to last at least six months longer that it should have. And his boneheaded Operation Market Garden was one of the dumbest military operation in history and doomed to fail from the start. My
So sorry, England was lucky. Lucky that WE saved their butt. And save it WE did.hate dislike for him is personal. HE caused one of my family members to get gravely wounded - he served in George Patton's 3rd Army, 4th Armored Division as a Tank Commander (and was in the Battle of the Budge). Patton was a REAL General. Monty was a poseur!
But the Brits were luckier still that Hitler was incompetent. If the Luftwaffe would have stayed on course during the Battle of Britain with the bombing of airfields for two-three more weeks GB would have fell. Fighter Command was almost out of pilots, and out of fighter planes (Spitfires and Hurricanes). The change to Bombing London gave them the chance they needed to rest, repair and regroup. They were also lucky when Hitler called off the U-Boat Wolf Pack attacks of shipping convoys. A few more weeks of that would have starved GB into submission.So, was it really worth it for the USA?
Sometimes I wonder.
> That’s funny. And a good bit of revisionist history.
Americans seem to have persuaded themselves that they won WW-II all by themselves, when in fact they were a part of a much larger team. And they showed up late to the game, long after kickoff.
That’s not revisionism, that’s the plain fact. America wouldn’t have entered the war at all if the Japs hadn’t bombed Pearl Harbor.
So pretending that the US “saved everyone else” is just nonsense: America went to war (late) because America was attacked by the Axis. In other words, it wasn’t altruism, it was self-interest.
I know that’s not how your movies teach WWII but that is how it was.
Obviously you are a Brit and upset at Muslims running your nation.
It great to see Brits like your self in the UK fighting the good fight!
I get the ideological motivation to erase any mention of Christianity, but what gives with all the environment-related deletions? Wouldn’t the leftists want to leave those in, so they could properly chastise capitalism for allegedly destroying every inch of green space in the world?
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