The Education of the Normans

This video is not in the Educate Deb series and can only be appreciated by people who have some knowledge of English history. If you know what happened during the battle of Battle of Agincourt, if you know your Shakespeare well enough to know who Henry V was, and if you know what Henry V connection to the Normans was, and you have 12 minutes to spare, then you may be interested in watching this short video on how the Normans got educated.

Granted, this is just one interpretation of the battle but it is a plausible one. It strikes me as an obscure battle that had a larger affect on history then many would think (although undoubtedly this was not the only time that the Normans had to learn this lesson).

Not in the News

I may have posted this once. It it timeless because the myth is timeless. The Gandhi Nobody Knows

They got a lot more wrong then just what is laid out here. But it is a start on what they got wrong.What ‘The Times’ Got Wrong About Slavery in America.

Everyone paying attention already knows this but it is not in the news.

Putting this on only because I can see this happening to me: 16 Indiana students hospitalized after getting shot with insulin by mistake

No commentary needed. But makes you understand why the law is popular to know that their were people being paid only $8 an hour in New York City of all places. $15 minimum wage hike is hitting, hurting NYC restaurants

Not in the News…..

The fatal mistake: Hospitals and providers agreed to take cuts after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, because they assumed that the law would increase the number of people with insurance and decrease the number who couldn’t pay their hospital bills.

A dark and dirty war that may one day hit you right in the gas tank: At the same time, however, there are many details available already that lend weight to their claims with regards to fighting in or around Najran, even if the Houthi’s assertions about the total number of Saudi casualties, and personnel and equipment they captured, remain dubious. The presence of LAV-25s, for example, strongly indicates that members of the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) were among those in the convoy that the Houthis attacked.

It is fun to pick on crazy people but it don’t accomplish anything. The example of perfectly crafted dissent that I’d like to submit here appears in this video from Massachusetts local TV news, showing some reactions to the fly-posting of white sheets of paper bearing the statement ‘Islam is right about women’. The reactions are deeply revealing. Nobody can clearly point out why they object to the statement – indeed, nobody seems to object to the statement at all on its face. Yet most seem to express offence at it – if a little unconvincingly.

Rare good news that is not reported.

Coming soon to a state near you.

Joe Biden recounting how he got the prosecutor fired.