The stint at Brunel is coming to an end on a slightly positive note; did the second marking for a bubbly little lady today and then took myself down to the pub later this evening with three colleagues. The ambience is there, there is a sort of coming up for air and I am going tomorrow.
The pub was a hub of noise, packed, stacked and England, I never thought I would see the day, but they did, they did, they started to play. A football match, of course, used to make me hoarse and now, well this evening at least, I only surveyed all and sundry, watched the folk, drank a coke and had a joke. A jolly good evening my first and last out in Uxbridge.
Back in the wee room and browsing the 'Guardian' online it is interesting to see how Sarah Palin's "gobbly gook belief system is appealing to the religious nutters in America. This, of course, is important because that vote makes up 23% of the United State's electorate. Might be more appropriate if the electorate in that "wonderful democracy" were more interested in her views on the credit crunch and maybe on foreign policy. No, they are more interested in her "gobbly gook" beliefs. Sarah started her life as a Catholic but seems now to be a Pentacostalist of that ilk that would appear to incorporate a full blood-curdling theory of Premillenial Dispensationalism into their belief system. A belief system that is full of "chosen people" and "second comings" and that reserves a special place for the Jewish people. If Obama's speech some months ago to AIPAC might hardly have the Palestinians dancing in the streets of Gaza, this particular lady and the neo-conservative, religious loonies might even represent a threat to their very existences. No need to be over occupied with Sarah Palin's views on foreign policy just delve into the writings of the 19th Century English evangelist, John Nelson Darby, and her views will reveal themselves before she opens her mouth and I thought these nutters were on their way into the history books. Goodbye George W Bush and hello Sarah Palin.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/uselections2008.sarahpalin1
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