71 percent of a random sample of Americans failed the test with an average score of 49. Less than half could name the three branches of government.http://www.herald-dispatch.com/opinions/x883084147/Knowledge-of-government-on-downhill-slide...and we're raising the next generation to be even worse?
A staggering 77 percent didn’t know the name of the first President of the United States.http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5400-us-students-flunk-us-citizenship-test...heck who can blame them, after all who has time to learn when they must text and twit(tweet?) and youtube and blog about each and every excruciating minute their entire day.
Come to think of it, maybe they deserve what they get. Run up the debt, universal everything for everyone!
...while you're at it, have a gander at a toy for the generation after that...
http://gizmodo.com/5348675/pole-dancer-doll-doesnt-really-set-the-perfect-role-modelHave a great weekend all! Especially you parents. ;)
Wine is sunlight, held together by water - Galileo Galilei
Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil - Louis Pasteur
Water separates the people of the world; wine unites them - anonymous
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world - Ernest Hemingway
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance - Benjamin Franklin
