yes and if you want to learn more as an adult, you meet two types of people...pseudointellectuals who sneer at you as being a dumb yokel or people that think you are being uppity....
:-\
well you do meet some nice people that are patient and try to help. I am always so happy to meet them..
so what I dont' understand with this show "Who's Smarter Than A 5th Grader" is why do the 5th graders know this stuff and the adults don't? I would assume that the adults knew this stuff when they were in the 5th grade but by the time they are college aged, all that knowledge seems to have disappeared...
me? vote?? in a primary???.......
no way! that is for losers...
*Jess runs out really fast...*
I seem to remember hearing about a poll where people were asked what whether Barack Hussein Obama should be punished. The overwhelming response was "Absolutely!". Now, Obama may rhyme with Osama, but the similarites end there. Funny, but not really!
the article I referenced above is more than a little biased but the thought behind it I do agree with. There is a set of the community that no longer sees a need to grow up and become a contributing member of the community.
We are so obsessed with leisure we forget that we have to work first.....that nothing comes without a cost
Has anyone here on this board ever been polled? Stopped in the street or called and asked such questions?
I get so frustrated. I know these things! My friends know these things. Not everyone is stupid. But no one ever asks us. I wonder how these poll takers choose the people they ask. TV shows I'm not worried about. They're rigged just like everything else. They choose some people because they're smart and others because they can't chew gun and think at the same time.
I often wonder how poll takers choose their subjects too. At least one talk show host, Sean Hannity, regularly uses "polls," with questions such as "who is Vice President?" and "name three Supreme Court justices", but they're always aired to illustrate how dumb 'liberals' are, so what is actually aired on the show is more than a little, um, selective.
The only things I've ever been polled about were consumer products.
There are numerous scientifiic polls and professional surveys that show regardless of party or ideology most Americans are not familiar with even the basics of how the political system actually works, and they also don't know who the major players are.
Speaking of Sean Hannity, just for laughs I watched one of his "person on the street interviews" with assorted crowds in NYC - none of whom knew who Dick Cheney was. The answers they gave were really funny.
I was polled yesterday by a Texas exit polling group as I lwas leaving my precinct after voting. They asked me 9 questions.