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Why are Americans so stunningly ignorant?
RightSideNews.com ^ | 11 Nov., 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 12/05/2014 11:59:46 AM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice

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To: NorthMountain
And you did good.

Keep it up. And fact check.

/johnny

41 posted on 12/05/2014 12:22:24 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Michael.SF.
Where is Peruvia?

Unbelievable.

I don't get it.

42 posted on 12/05/2014 12:23:12 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POTUS shall now be referred to as POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

OK, JR, did the MoFo sign it did he not?

I think he did not and this was just another in a long line of “stir ‘em up” BS this street hustler is renowned for. Rope-a-Dope POTUS.


43 posted on 12/05/2014 12:23:52 PM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Because single females are inherently vain and narcissistic but have the power to vote.


44 posted on 12/05/2014 12:24:28 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Michael.SF.
Several colleagues I were having lunch at a Peruvian restaurant, when one of the group, a young engineer from a major private University asked: Where is Peruvia? Unbelievable.

He probably also wonders how many zeroes are in a Brazilian.

45 posted on 12/05/2014 12:25:58 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Tenacious 1
L'Etat, c'est moi
-Barry Soetoro

Except that he wouldn't say it in Froggish ... Arabic, maybe ...

46 posted on 12/05/2014 12:26:03 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Uncle Miltie
What’s a TV?

Pretty much a telecommunications device invented by germans during WWII that keeps real learning and life experiences from happening.

If you don't know what it is, don't worry about it, you aren't missing anything.

You can get much better on Youtube here. My grandkids know they will walk away from this TV void having learned some kinda damn thing.

/johnny

47 posted on 12/05/2014 12:27:35 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: phugg

lol


48 posted on 12/05/2014 12:27:45 PM PST by windcliff
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
Government schools.
"Main Stream" media.
Hollwood.
49 posted on 12/05/2014 12:28:21 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

I have a son that was in his senior year of High School, when we were watching the movie Apollo 13. He asked me why the U. S. didnt continue on and go to the moon anyway, after that little event. I then knew we were going to have to review some real history before he got out into the World.

It’s not the teachers as much as it is students that don’t care, and textbooks that have full chapters on Rosa Parks, and one paragraph on Thomas Jefferson.


50 posted on 12/05/2014 12:29:03 PM PST by wdnhrse
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To: X-spurt
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders

Do your own fact checking on the White House web site. I'm a friggin cook, remember?

/johnny

51 posted on 12/05/2014 12:29:59 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
Fifty years ago, when it became obvious where the “establishment media” was headed, we all had an option as to which way to go. That option remains viable to this day. In fact it has become increasingly obvious (and viable).

So do it.

52 posted on 12/05/2014 12:30:58 PM PST by YHAOS
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To: JRandomFreeper

Shockingly there was not, but I am not certain as to why this is.

Well wait, maybe I am. Obama is a liar.


53 posted on 12/05/2014 12:31:03 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Tenacious 1
Checks to government vendors require an appropriated funding site and funding bucket to get cut and signed.

The government doesn't operate on verbal orders.

/johnny

54 posted on 12/05/2014 12:31:31 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Because enough old men like me are not ripping the bark off the kids in schools. The teachers I had had a way of teaching that you never forgot shite.


55 posted on 12/05/2014 12:31:51 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Michael.SF.
Where is Peruvia?

It's next to Outer Slobovia, just north of Lower Craplachistan.

56 posted on 12/05/2014 12:31:56 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: bankwalker
kill your television!!!

Although I agree with your sentiments, I'd have to say when I grew up in the 1960s I watched a lot of movies on TV that gave a reasonable thumbnail sketch of history. And actually gave me an interest to read more about the details.

Nowadays, though, you have too much fantasy and anti-American trash floating on the airways (I grant you the pre 1970 movies tended to paint an overly rosy picture of America's history) that provide nothing of value.
And I think the most insidious introduction has been the Music-Video genre. Something about the combination of music and videos blasting at the eyes and ears kind of euthanizes the brain.

So I agree - Television will easily turn people's brains to mush, but I have to admit that I got some use out of the shows I watched while growing up and even used some of them to frame responses to AP History questions (that, and the Classic Comics were a big help...).

57 posted on 12/05/2014 12:33:59 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
You can teach them without ripping the bark off of them.

Of course, sometimes that does help, but mainly, I get my grandkids (and the other kids) to remember stuff without going all SSgt on them. They take their shoes off on the furniture because I can go all SSgt on them.

/johnny

58 posted on 12/05/2014 12:34:38 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bankwalker

texting is worse...IMO.


59 posted on 12/05/2014 12:45:16 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
This happens because most of the so called teachers are focused on indoctrination, not education. Facts are not necessary.

I've learned more about history outside of the classroom then when I was in school.

The classes, as I recall, were (with few exceptions) tedious and boring, They were taught by instructors who seemed just as uninterested as their students, in the subject matter,

I'm thankful that Rush Limbaugh has taken up the task of bringing our History to children, in ways that appeal to them.

We sorely need this if our nation is to survive.

60 posted on 12/05/2014 12:45:34 PM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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