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To: DaYooper who wrote (6123)	4/4/2003 6:34:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12245

<Reinforcement of ones own views is comforting. Where ever it is printed.> True enough DaY. Thomas Sowell reinforces my views on affirmative action: jewishworldreview.com One of the cruelties of the education guilds is the lie that education improves one's mind and intelligence. Hogwash. This is the first time I recall anyone pointing out the obvious [to me anyway] that people who struggle and fail with education end up hurt, feeling inadequate and wasting a lot of money, time and effort when they could have been achieving in a context which they'd enjoy more and where they'd succeed. The collateral damage of affirmative action is those who give up disheartened because it's all too difficult. At high school, when I was 15, there was a boy who sat School Certificate three times in three years. The poor guy was never going to pass in 100 years and even if he did, by rote-learning sufficient stuff, he wouldn't be able to earn money from the "qualification". He would have been far better off accepting his academic limits, finding something he could do, quitting school and making some money and getting his life underway. The self-serving educational con artists wasted a vital chunk of his life - his parents, who presumably pushed him to try again each year, believing the lie that education is an unadulterated good thing. However, Thomas Sowell does think that education is necessarily a good thing and that it improves one's mind and even intelligence [from previous articles of his]. That's one of the few things of his that I've thought off-beam. Mqurice PS: I thought we might have a good fight between Chaz and WimpyLakers, but it looks as though they are too chicken. Also, re <Without both evidence of WMD and Iraqi citizen support we’re going to look completely out of line. With that evidence and Iraqi support we’ll be hailed worldwide > The WMD is a joke. The spooks and Disbanded Office of Disinformation is going to have to plant some WMD to make it look good. There was yesterday a 'find' of an Iraqi factory with 'white powder' and so on. What a joke. It was probably a flour mill, sugar packing plant, pesticide spray production plant or something like that. People running empires should NOT expect to make the profits AND be hailed worldwide. People with a lot of money should learn to be circumspect about their wealth and not expect to be hailed as well. Especially when they achieve the wealth by conquest. Even people like $ill Gates tend not to be hailed, even though they've produced vast benefits for hordes of people and made their money like that. Americans didn't hail the British Empire - neither should the Americans expect to be hailed around the world. Heiling is for the likes of Adolf, as in "Heil Hitler". The USA is not in Iraq for the benefit of Iraqis. That's a lie. None but the gullible will fall for that one. The USA is there to pay out some Islamic Jihadists for 911 and to defend Israel and to secure oil supplies and to control oil prices and to prevent Saddam getting stroppy in a geopolitically sensitive area and to show him what happens to people who attempt to kill King George II's wife and father and to show the rest of the world just what the USA military can do if anybody else gets smart and to open up some markets for American companies, poke France in the eye and Germany too, not to forget stopping Saddam getting the bomb or buying one from Pakistan or North Korea and to stop him making any other nasties. It's also nice that Saddam is such a nasty piece of work that it's morally justified in getting him anyway and the bonus that Iraqis will be better off and maybe Iraq [or segments if it breaks up] will become democratic and therefore, hopefully, more peaceable. Just like the USA is democratic and peaceable - giggle.... [with the world's biggest, by a factor of 10 or 100, military hyperpower, with masses of weapons of mass destruction]. As President Raygun used to say, "I'm from the government and we are here to help you" are words to strike fear into hearts [he was referring to Americans feeling the fear, but it applies elsewhere too]. So, don't hope to be hailed. Just count the profits and be satisfied with that. I'm hoping for Iraq to be filled with CDMA and Globalstar instead of GSM. That'll be some nice profits. If Iraqis also hail me, that's okay, but I don't mind if they just hail a taxi on their Globalstar phone.