In fourteen hundred and ninety two , Columbus sailed the ocean blue – and got totally lost, missed India by 6,000 miles but called the Native American Islanders Indians anyway, slaughtered them and stole their gold and, lacking any real wealth to go back to Spain with, instituted a slave trade that lasted 250 years and ruined the lives of tens millions of people. Yay! I got called into the Principal's office when my daughter gave a report like that in 7th grade – just 5 year ago. Suddenly, it's in vogue to question our " heritage " and the legends of the founders and that's a good thing. You want Russians to question Marx and Lennin and you want the Chinese to question Mao so why shouldn't our children question Columbus and Jefferson? Either you want to raise critical thinkers or you don't. There aren't many critical thinkers playing the markets these days. Over the weekend, Trump and North Korea continued their Twitter War after Trump's "calm before the storm" comments on Friday and Saturday afternoon, the President of the United States tweeted " Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid…hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work! " to which Kim Jong Un said that proved it was necessary to protect themselves against the “ nuclear threats of the U.S. imperialists .” Kim Jong-un also said that North Korea’s nuclear weapons are a “ powerful deterrent firmly safeguarding the peace and security in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia .” Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “ a reality show, ” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “ on the path to World War III .” Other key quotes from that interview were : "I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it's a situation of trying to contain him." …
In fourteen hundred and ninety two,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue – and got totally lost, missed India by 6,000 miles but called the Native American Islanders Indians anyway, slaughtered them and stole their gold and, lacking any real wealth to go back to Spain with, instituted a slave trade that lasted 250 years and ruined the lives of tens millions of people. Yay!
I got called into the Principal's office when my daughter gave a report like that in 7th grade – just 5 year ago. Suddenly, it's in vogue to question our "heritage" and the legends of the founders and that's a good thing. You want Russians to question Marx and Lennin and you want the Chinese to question Mao so why shouldn't our children question Columbus and Jefferson? Either you want to raise critical thinkers or you don't.
There aren't many critical thinkers playing the markets these days. Over the weekend, Trump and North Korea continued their Twitter War after Trump's "calm before the storm" comments on Friday and Saturday afternoon, the President of the United States tweeted "Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid…hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!" to which Kim Jong Un said that proved it was necessary to protect themselves against the “nuclear threats of the U.S. imperialists.” Kim Jong-un also said that North Korea’s nuclear weapons are a “powerful deterrent firmly safeguarding the peace and security in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia.”
Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.” Other key quotes from that interview were:
- "I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it's a situation of trying to contain him."
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