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Post by michelle on Jan 11, 2009 0:51:18 GMT -8
Sorry to dirty up your topic, but when I saw that you wrote "Warren G." I thought to myself, "Why is Josh bringing up the rapper who sang Regulators?" It's late. I must go to bed.
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Post by Josh on Jan 11, 2009 8:34:31 GMT -8
LOL!
(do people still say that?)
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Post by carebear on Jan 26, 2009 19:18:36 GMT -8
I personally think that Bush should be remembered as one of the most amazing presidents to ever sit in office. I will truly miss him. God bless him for his great work.
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Post by robin on Jan 26, 2009 19:33:12 GMT -8
I personally think that Bush should be remembered as one of the most amazing presidents to ever sit in office. I will truly miss him. God bless him for his great work. You just became my new best friend! ;D It's nice to know that i'm not alone here. |
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Post by carebear on Jan 26, 2009 20:06:19 GMT -8
I'm shocked we are the only ones. What has this world come to?
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Post by Josh on Jan 26, 2009 20:38:13 GMT -8
A Carrie-Robin tag team duo could be devastating!  Ah, I love the political diversity of Aletheia-- just another example of your tax, ur, tithe dollars at work! ;D  |
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Post by christopher on Jan 26, 2009 22:29:16 GMT -8
Is it typical for history books to all speak with one voice? Or is it the publisher with the board of education contract wins?  |
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Post by rose on Jan 26, 2009 22:30:46 GMT -8
ok, so I wouldn't even be able to quote each great line in this thread...I just laughed to tears - about 5 different times...thanks for that...all of you!
And no...I will never forget Bono! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Margot on Jan 27, 2009 23:05:10 GMT -8
This is really is a pretty hilarious thread--(even if it is light on actual comments about George W.!) Meghan, my personal favorite of all "those" words is "warsh," -- as in Warshington. Although, out here in the sticks where I live, people regularly refer to the little town just down the road as "Gales Crick."  |
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Post by Josh on Jan 28, 2009 11:35:40 GMT -8
If you're talking public education, sadly, yes! (mostly)
You got it!
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Post by Alex on Jan 28, 2009 20:45:19 GMT -8
out here in the sticks where I live, people regularly refer to the little town just down the road as "Gales Crick." It's funny how uneducated people can be. In the town of Gales Creek it is, in fact, quite clearly a creek. Only much further up, past Beaver Creek and nearing Round Top Mountain, can it honestly be classified as a crick. Beaver Creek transitions to a crick as well as it approaches Timber, but when it feeds into Gales it is most decidedly a creek. Really it boggles the mind; if people don't take care to learn about local matters, how can they expect to vote responsibly on issues that influence the world tens of hundreds of miles away. |
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Post by Margot on Jan 28, 2009 22:58:37 GMT -8
Darn right, Alex!!!
But back to presidents..... (Remember those guys we started the thread about?) Last night, I started thinking about presidents and history books.
Then I thought about how many presidents are known throughout history by their intitials.
Which made me think about FDR and JFK and LBJ and W.
Which made me think about Barack Obama.
Uh-oh.
First, it's his funny first name, then it's his funny last name, then it's his objectionable-to-some-middle name. NOW his initials??? This guy needs an aka.
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Post by moritz on Jan 30, 2009 2:11:19 GMT -8
Darn right, Alex!!! But back to presidents..... (Remember those guys we started the thread about?) Last night, I started thinking about presidents and history books. Then I thought about how many presidents are known throughout history by their intitials. Which made me think about FDR and JFK and LBJ and W. Which made me think about Barack Obama. Uh-oh. First, it's his funny first name, then it's his funny last name, then it's his objectionable-to-some-middle name. NOW his initials??? This guy needs an aka. What does BHO stand for in English? Or is it that it sounds like biatch-o? As for W. and the history books: Of course I haven't got the slightest idea how American history books handle their past presidents. Over here we don't learn much about our past chancellors. A King or emperor here or there and of course a lot about a certain dictator. The legacy of a past leader is usually reduced to very few remarkable events. What remains of Bill Clinton is Monica Lewinsky, Nixon - Watergate, Kennedy - "Ich bin ein Berliner"* - What will remain of Bush? 9/11 and Weapons of mass destruction perhaps? Is there actually something exceptionally good he has done? PS: I just read that the guy who has thrown his shoes at W. has gotten his own monument in the city of Tikrit... www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-38018-9.html#backToArticle=604443*the funny thing about this historic speech is that it has two meanings: 1. (and that was what he wanted to say): I am a citizen of Berlin. 2. I'm a donut. I've seen the manuscript of the speech in a museum. He wrote that sentence in phonetics, so he wouldn't spoil it: Eesh been ayn Bearleener. |
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Post by michelle on Jan 30, 2009 19:40:44 GMT -8
What does BHO stand for in English? Or is it that it sounds like biatch-o? Hi Mo! I think what Margot was referring to was BO, which stands for body odor. We say that people who stink have bad BO. What remains of Bill Clinton is Monica Lewinsky, Nixon - Watergate, Kennedy - "Ich bin ein Berliner"* - What will remain of Bush? 9/11 and Weapons of mass destruction perhaps? Is there actually something exceptionally good he has done? I think with most presidents (as with most memories) we tend to remember the bad things. I was just talking with a friend last night about how sad it is the Nixon will always be remembered for Watergate, but what people forget is how much he did for foreign relations. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have China funding our debt. In all seriousness, he made huge strides toward creating a better relationship with China and USSR, he got us out of Vietnam and he made huge strides towards desegregation. But people don't remember (or probably even hear) these things. Sure, like with any other president he made mistakes and did things that people disagree with, but he did a lot of good things too. |
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Post by Margot on Jan 30, 2009 20:20:50 GMT -8
Sorry Mo! I forgot that we're fortunate enough to have an international connection here!! Didn't mean to exclude with the goofy American-speak  ) Michelle, I completely agree that we remember the bad and forget the positive things some of these presidents have done. The people who were singing George W.'s praises right after 9/11 are the same ones booing him on the way out the door.... We are a fickle bunch, I'm afraid. |
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Post by Josh on Feb 13, 2009 17:55:13 GMT -8
Ran across this quote in Christianity Today: In a Nightline interview, Bush said the Bible "is probably not [literally true], but I think you can learn a lot from it... [t]he important lesson is 'God sent a son'. |
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Post by ryan on May 22, 2009 11:16:26 GMT -8
I will jump into the fray here.
First: the word nuclear. I discovered in college that the word should be pronounced "new-clear" after I had pronounced it the W way. My roommate who was a nuclear physicist jumped on my case, and I haven't pronounced it wrong since.
I told the story about JFK and his famous Berlin line to a German exchange student who almost fell out of their seat laughing.
Most all of our presidents have done something questionable at some point (Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War!) I can cut our leaders some slack, but we still need to hold our leaders to a fairly high ethical and moral standard. While I do not agree with many Bush policies, I actually liked the guy. I think that history will likely treat him with some neutrality. Historians hate on him now, but wait until the next couple of Presidents make a mistake or two and Bush will be long forgotten.
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