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hfojvt

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14. except that every 4th of July

Reply to treestar (Reply #11)

Sun May 12, 2013, 07:11 PM

May 2013

we celebrate "the 4th of July" and not "Independence Day"

and maybe they know the year 1776, but the question was - which century was it in? "about 35 percent couldn’t assign the proper century to the American Revolution"

But really how is knowing the year 1776 any more significant to anyone's life than knowing the year the Magna Carta was signed, or the year the Edict of Nantes was revoked, or the year the defenestration of Prague took place or the year Missouri became a state?

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America the Clueless [View all] babylonsister May 2013 OP

K&R patrice May 2013 #1

Part of the problem is a lot of people mistake or use & admire ignorance as being principled. patrice May 2013 #2

IOW, bow to the loud-mouthed bully! Some of us aren't impressed with that style, though. freshwest May 2013 #7

Messing with the pollsters treestar May 2013 #3

somebody who doesn't know hfojvt May 2013 #5

Some think his first name, Barack, is Hebrew: freshwest May 2013 #6

Now that's interesting treestar May 2013 #10

You've got it all down: freshwest May 2013 #12

Thanks, I had not seen that before treestar May 2013 #13

Barack is Hebrew AMF2334 Feb 2015 #16

Commas, and periods, are your friends. n/t arcane1 Feb 2015 #17

Could be the RW conspiracy theorists who believe the NWO and the UN CJCRANE May 2013 #9

this begs a question though hfojvt May 2013 #4

In my opinion, the problem is that they know who Snookie is & many people would follow Oprah DearHeart May 2013 #8

It's not a whole lot to ask to know what Independence Day is treestar May 2013 #11

except that every 4th of July hfojvt May 2013 #14

One would have to be pretty shallow and dumb treestar May 2013 #15