Captain Cook, Fishing isn't a Sport and then normal service has been resumed on the global warming front this morning.
The Aussies are pushing for history to be taught in schools with a factual basis. Is there any other sort you may ask? Well you could ask any Japanese school child that question and see what you get. The Aussie teachers are being urged to put Captain Cook back into the curriculum and teach history as history and not some drivel that emerges on the other side of a marxist/PC filter. History is good stuff, indeed vital stuff. I reckon it is no coincidence that a lot of well respected political leaders over time (and I am not referring to the clowns we have to put up with here at the moment) took to writing historical pieces in the autumn of their lives. W. S. Churchill springs readily to mind.
Sideswipe has a bit that lists one bloke's ideas of what are non-sports being screened on ESPN. Bikini Modelling and Spelling are there but so is fishing. We have right of reply.
The comments page comes to the rescue as it often does. There is a piece from the mouthpiece of the NZ Business Society for Sustainable Development or some such. I suppose they represent the country's manufacturers of rope sandals and worry beads but claim to speak for 28% of the nation's business. Hmmm. This bloke is barking. He starts off with the usual scaremongering stuff, focussing on this occasion on rising sea levels. Apparently my front room will be history by about next Thursday as this tsunami of ever increasing high tides sweeps down the East Coast Bays. We then have the usual oxymorons of blaming both the 1999 drought and last years Manawatu floods on the evil global warming. Then we get into the meat of it - it's all our fault. He then goes on to enumerate all the things we must do now to save ourselves (and of course our children - we must not be selfish, must we?). He goes a lot further than most of these fruitcakes though and starts lauding the merits of farming algae on sewerage ponds for use as bio fuel. Deary me. Then comes a very odd bit. He starts espousing the merits of Jaguar cars - where does this come from? Read on and it all becomes clear. He only likes the namby pamby eco friendly 2.6 litre straight 6s and not the proper 400 BHP Supercharged 4.2 litre V8s that real men drive.
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