Without an educated, active populace . . . a democratically elected republic means nothing . . . as the votes become meaningless and the proactive and knowledgable use the wheels of government to their own benefit (look at the elderly).

As for the Capital of Myanmar, previously known as Burma, it is Rangoon . . . due to the former British Territory nature of the Nation. However, like many things, they have attempted to change its spelling to make it more authentic.

And that picture is funny . . . that reminds me of a political cartoon of how Liberals thought Reagan saw the world:

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.c...sed-poster.JPG

Don't get me wrong . . . I believe that FMR POTUS Reagan was one of the top 10 Presidents the United States has had.

No, it's pretty much just because our public education system sucks. If I had a strong predilection to conspiracy theories, I'd suspect it was a plot to keep our population ignorant and docile. They only reason I don't is because of the NEA and AFT -- but they have , unquestionably, exacerbated the problem. More people are turning to some form of home-schooling, mostly out in the rural areas because they can afford it. Not easily, but much easier than urban areas.

It's also unfortunate that the only required world history is a single course in high-school, and it focuses exclusively on European history -- Africa and other nations only in relation to events in Europe. South America, all of Asia, Australia, Russia and eastern Europe are non-incorporated. The university sciences programs (math, chemistry, physics, engineering, programming [compsci]) require only American government history.

It's a wicked, wicked rough program. A lot of the problem stems to the liberal cowards in California (http://tron-chaser.net/images1/ani_emotrant.gif) selectively configuring textbooks to omit inconvienent details that any pitiful (literally -- the selections are dependent on the liberals having pity for the group) group files complaint with various publishers and authors. California is such a massive market, the publishers acquiesce to the requests, and that's what the whole country gets. Baby-killing neocons do the same thing where they can, in the exact opposite manner, of course, but we have more liberal universities than conservative.

Classic example of all this is Augusto Pinochet. He was a baby-killing neocon warmonger, raping gold, looting babies, burying detractors alive in mass graves. Never mind what Chile has become because of the specific changes he made and then left the country (i.e. abdicated) -- he was eviler than Hitler*. Or at least, if the guy is even mentioned in the American education system, that's the portrayal.




* Why is Hitler always the pinnacle of evility? Why isn't it Mao Zedong? Why not Saloth Sar? Why not Ghengis Khan? Or Saladin? Or David, with his bag of 200 foreskins (which he probably didn't take the time to just cut off the actual foreskin, and so it was actually a bag of 200 penises)? Why not Napoleon? Or Stalin? Or Che Guevera? Or Castro?
It really ticks me off that he's the standard, when he was a amateur in comparison to Stalin. Stalin stacked up more dead bodies in a week than Hitler did in a month.

My head started hurting after the first 10 seconds and i could feel my IQ plummeting , Luckily I was able to hit the close page button before two much damage occured ;):lol:

Once she does sounds like you'll be a match made in heaven...lol

Bonjour, Europe. :nope:

That IS scary?:o

Nah, I'm sure it's something easily explanable.

Like Copernicus being banned again.

:sunny:

Does it prove that the world is being taken over by idiots?:88):doh: I could put a point french joke in here but I'll be kind, my wife is part french and she might take it personaly!:-?

I suggest that just as S. Carolina is part and parcel of the USA, so, too, France is of the European Union. :roll:

Who else thinks Google Earth Pro is good for spying:) Hell i can pinpoint right down to anyones house around the world! I know where Arnold Schwarzenegger lives, I seen his house man!

Just give me your co-ordinates and i'll find your place:yep:

Anyone:hmm:

Makes ya wonder what the CIA and the rest have access too...

I would bet that if the follow up question to her was. 'Can you give me the name of any country in the world OTHER than the USA, SA and Iraq?' Her answer would probably be "You mean there are more?????"

You are wrong.

She would have answered "Hawaii."

Love it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Take 2.