On 09/09/2011 5:46 AM, BAR wrote:
In articleaOqdnZG38fW87PTTnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@giganews. com,
says...

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Sep 8, 7:18 pm, wrote:
Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly ? 81.2 %

?;^ )

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Does this mean we can be college professors?

Eisboch

We are too smart to be politicians.

And citizens.


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First rule of holes: If your in one, don't keep digging.
So in the hole, why do we insanely want more debt?

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Tim" wrote in message
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On Sep 8, 7:18 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 81.2 %

?;^ )

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Does this mean we can be college professors?

Eisboch


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Nope, to much sense.

On 9/9/2011 11:27 AM, Califbill wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Tim" wrote in message
...

On Sep 8, 7:18 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 81.2 %

?;^ )

--------------------------------------------------------

Does this mean we can be college professors?

Eisboch


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Nope, to much sense.


And besides that 26 0f 33 equals 78.78%

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:53:37 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:17:19 -0700, jps wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:10:30 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:37:45 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Sep 8, 8:51*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Tim" *wrote in message

...

On Sep 8, 7:18 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:

Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. *Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. * I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 81.2 %

?;^ )

--------------------------------------------------------

Does this mean we can be college professors?

Eisboch

Why stop there, man. DEANS!

I am holding out for SCOTUS justice ;-)

I'd gladly endorse you to replace Clarence Thomas.

Being pro choice myself and not a sex harasser, I suppose you would.
I would certainly drag the court to the left a bit in personal
freedoms but you might not like my 2d amendment and 9/10th amendment
views. I would certainly narrow a lot of the views about what the 14th
amendment means. It is currently being used to expand federal powers
over the states in issues that have nothing to do with protecting
rights. (unless you think people have the "right" to go to federal
prison for medical marijuana)

So, you would interpret the Constitution? Wow. That's quite a
statement!

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:00:12 -0600, Canuck57
wrote:

On 09/09/2011 5:46 AM, BAR wrote:
In articleaOqdnZG38fW87PTTnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@giganews. com,
says...

"Tim" wrote in message
...

On Sep 8, 7:18 pm, wrote:
Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly ? 81.2 %

?;^ )

--------------------------------------------------------

Does this mean we can be college professors?

Eisboch

We are too smart to be politicians.

And citizens.

You are barely smart enough to breathe on your own.

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:44:35 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:05:45 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:24:07 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:03:48 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:56:51 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:18:18 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch


96.97%


http://gfretwell.com/ftp/civics%20test.jpg


I never took philosophy.

96.97% here. I wasn't alive during FDR.

Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important
parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt
responded by threatening to:Your Answer: override the Supreme Court’s
decisions by gaining three-quarter majorities in both houses of
CongressCorrect Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who
shared his views

Interesting one to miss. I thought everyone knew about FDR threatening
to pack the court.

Must be a generational thing. The Socrates thing tripped me up.

That's surprising, given that you were alive then? LOL sorry.

Socrates and Plato were before my time but Aquinas was in my modern
European History class in high school.
It was all about the how uncontrolled debt and ill thought out foreign
adventures caused the fall of the Romans. ;-)

The Republicans were in charge during Aquinas' time? Wow.

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:48:12 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:06:32 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:08:33 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:24:31 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:



wrote in message
m...


96.97% here. I wasn't alive during FDR.

Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important
parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt
responded by threatening to:Your Answer: override the Supreme Court’s
decisions by gaining three-quarter majorities in both houses of
CongressCorrect Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who
shared his views

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That's one I missed also. I gave the same, incorrect answer.

Eisboch


The only way you can override the SCOTUS is to also get 2/3ds of both
houses of congress and 3/4ths of the state legislatures in an
amendment to the constitution.

Even worse, I think we all had classes that included this information!


In the 4th or 5th grade. Don't go on the Foxworthy show!

BTW this was a strange question for a lawyer to miss. I would expect
you to understand the ramifications of a SCOTUS decision.

It was. I guess I read it too fast.

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:56:08 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:20:57 -0700, jps wrote:

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:24:31 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:



wrote in message
...


96.97% here. I wasn't alive during FDR.

Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important
parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt
responded by threatening to:Your Answer: override the Supreme Court’s
decisions by gaining three-quarter majorities in both houses of
CongressCorrect Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who
shared his views

-----------------------------------------

That's one I missed also. I gave the same, incorrect answer.

Eisboch

Same here. Got the Socrates but missed the Gettysburg Address
question, which was dumb.

We had to memorize the Gettysburg address in middle school. I can
still come up with most of it today. ... what is today anyway? ;-)

Four shores and seven beers ago... oh wait...

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:47:00 -0600, Canuck57
wrote:

On 08/09/2011 6:18 PM, Eisboch wrote:
Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch

For a canuck, I think I did pretty good on my first try:

You answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %

I wrote them on the question of "If taxes equal government spending,
then:".... there technically was no right option. debt is not the same
as deficit. You can have debt with a zero deficit.

numb-de-plum could try all day and not get 50%.

Next time take it yourself.

On 09/09/2011 11:44 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:05:45 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:24:07 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:03:48 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:56:51 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:18:18 -0400, wrote:

Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch


96.97%


http://gfretwell.com/ftp/civics%20test.jpg


I never took philosophy.

96.97% here. I wasn't alive during FDR.

Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important
parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt
responded by threatening to:Your Answer: override the Supreme Court’s
decisions by gaining three-quarter majorities in both houses of
CongressCorrect Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who
shared his views

Interesting one to miss. I thought everyone knew about FDR threatening
to pack the court.

Must be a generational thing. The Socrates thing tripped me up.

That's surprising, given that you were alive then? LOL sorry.

Socrates and Plato were before my time but Aquinas was in my modern
European History class in high school.
It was all about the how uncontrolled debt and ill thought out foreign
adventures caused the fall of the Romans. ;-)

I missed that one, but should have gotten it. But do know Romans fell
from tax greed, currency failure and government fraud. Just like the
USA is doing now.

Seems obvious, but too many are blinded by the greed of debt and
promises of easy government money. Just greed. Moral decay.

--
First rule of holes: If your in one, don't keep digging.
So in the hole, why do we insanely want more debt?