tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post1555166271584132833..comments2023-11-05T04:47:41.006-06:00Comments on A World Quite Mad: Christians Fighting Each Other in Ireland in 1908A World Quite Madhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18173346413223847865noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post-42084679114022396212009-10-19T17:34:21.667-05:002009-10-19T17:34:21.667-05:00I'm glad that I am old enough that I graduated...I'm glad that I am old enough that I graduated right around the time they started all that testing bullshit. But even when they did teach history in schools, it was never really accurate and always whitewashed.<br /><br /><i>Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.</i>A World Quite Madhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173346413223847865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post-66343611903508683532009-10-19T15:20:41.090-05:002009-10-19T15:20:41.090-05:00Unfortunately, a growing number of our population ...Unfortunately, a growing number of our population are growing more ignorant by the day. They don't or can't read and were never taught how to think in school so they are very susceptible to creeps like Beck and Coulter and O'Reilly and Savage and Rush and all the other nasties out there who are making millions by tearing down our country and our president.<br /><br />Before I retired, public schools in Florida were under the gun to teach a test designed to make politicians look like they cared about education. But they didn't and don't. They care about getting re-elected. Thus, the principal at my school thought we could and should do away with everything except reading, writing and math. No history, no English, no literature, no nothing except those three subjects because those three subjects were what was being tested and determined how a school was deemed to be doing its job.<br /><br />This still goes on, day after day after day. And ignorant masses graduate (or not) to head out in the world to believe every crackpot they hear because they're knowledgeable and frightened.Lowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15305748075301453010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post-4502496875508814832009-10-19T10:35:24.943-05:002009-10-19T10:35:24.943-05:00Teabaggers do make for good cat's paws. I alwa...Teabaggers do make for good cat's paws. I always found it interesting that things got incredibly hot in that respect right after the Obama Administration started targeting Off Shore Accounts. <br /><br />hmmmmmmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com