The value of a Yale education just went down

[Hugabear]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1720578,00.html

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Yale University says former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will teach at the New Haven, Conn., school next year.

Blair has been appointed the Howland Distinguished Fellow and will lead a seminar on issues of faith and globalization. The school says his efforts relate to the work of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which he is launching later this year.
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Maybe they'll hire Huckabee to teach biology or earth history next.

[devilgrrl]

1. "Tony Blair Faith Foundation"

:spray:

Oh man. :crazy:

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I don't really get the connection between faith and globalization.

[enlightenment]

7. Shoot! Missionary zeal was at the heart of 19th century

imperialism, which is the foundation of economic globalisation.

Look at this:

See the little missionary down in the right-hand corner?

Was Kipling writing a truth or satire?

The White Man's Burden

Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to naught.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen feebles
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers.

[ingac70]

3. It went down a long time ago...

http://2004.georgewbush.org/bios/yale-transcript.asp

[belpejic]

4. Association w/Yalie Bushes Destroyed Blair

It only took 7 years for Blair to be transformed from a well regarded statesman into an off-the-wall laughingstock. His inner looniness is becoming Tom Cruise-like.

[msongs]

5. faith allows politicans to murder 100,00's of thousands of iraqis and brag about it nt

[bullimiami]

6. yale, bush. hello....the value of a yale education has already shown itself to be farcical.