On an unrelated note, I’m on the email list for PragerU.
Today’s email included a link for a 10 question Citizenship test which the email claimed only 30% of US adults could pass… and only 3% of high school students… Who could resist a challenge like that?
Long story short, I got 10 outta 10 right… not bad for a random Canuck…
The Boy Scouts still require citizenship merit badges. Four different ones are required to reach the rank of Eagle. Scouting has always been big on citizenship. OTOH, Boy Scouts are on a long slow slide to oblivion. Moral values, self-reliance, community service and most anything outdoors has not only fallen out of favor but are seen as activities of the deplorable.
February 3, 2024 at 8:00 pm
JTC
I missed two too!
February 3, 2024 at 8:28 pm
WayneM
It seems to me that conservatives should focus on teaching their children about the actual history of the USA instead of expecting the neoMarxist public school system to do so. I mean… if a random Canuck who was lucky enough to marry a Texan can pass the test easily, it can’t be that difficult…
February 3, 2024 at 11:49 pm
NotYetInACamp
We are not doomed,
We do need to say and act correctly.
We do have a war to win.
For the people.
February 3, 2024 at 11:58 pm
NotYetInACamp
10 of 10.
I had courses on some of those.
I even got the number of Amendments correct this decade. They haven’t added any amendments lately.
February 4, 2024 at 11:58 am
Oldarmourer
Missed two but I talked myself out of the right answers for both of them, should have gone with what I ‘knew’ instead of what the media is trying to push on people to think.
Funny how the correct answer for another one was to not pick the ‘right to bear arms’…was that deliberate on the part of the authors to diminish it as a perceived right ? That’s the way things start…
That was the only question I blew. The question specified the First Amendment, but my brain misread it as the Bill of Rights — which stymied me, since they are all guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
Here’s an interesting factoid. Up until about 25 years ago, one of the questions on the US citizenship test was, “What is the most important philosophical statement found in the Declaration of Independence?” The “correct” answer was, “All men are created equal.”
Trust the government to get this exactly wrong. It’s the Declaration of Independence, for heaven’s sake, not the Declaration of Social Democratic Philosophy.
What’s the RIGHT answer?
“Governments [derive] their just powers from the consent of the governed; [and] whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of [our inalienable rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.”
It’s no accident that the government got this wrong.
But hey — as of 1997, 27% of US high school students believed that the Constitution contains the principle, “To each according to his need, from each according to his ability!”
February 3, 2024 at 7:57 pm
Mort
I was a Boy Scout for a long time and learned
much, My scoutmasters were WWII veterans.
We had a Hell of a time, and when I went into
the Army the only difference was I had a gun.
I donated for a long time, but when they saw
it necessary to allow girls to join, I stopped.
It is just another sign of how far our country
has fallen.
The idiots in charge, in following the ‘Great
One`s model of making America weaker to
make the world stronger, I think dont want
to attack Iran as that might cause them to
unleash the militants already in our country
to attack our infrastructure, so content
themselves with meaningless, forewarned
attacks on nothing which would affect Iran
to any extent.
Hopefully, there will be an election, and not
something to put a hold on it; martial law,
virus, pick anything. But- they are desperate.
Our troop had guns! Every scout earned his Marksman badge and the troop owned a shared .22 for those boys not lucky enough to have an awesome Daddy like mine who gave me my single-shot knob-safety Marlin for Christmas when I was 9!
I got a Martini style action drop block BSA .22 with a shot out barrel as a gift when I was a kid, traded it off for a chrome plated double barrel .410 that was registered at about ten feet, you had to aim off at any distance since the patterns crossed that badly, traded THAT off for a Marlin 1895 in .33WCF that according to their records was never made, I knew when to stop that particular sequence 🙂
Father would trade anything off and did so at least once a week, the only way to know what was in the gun rack was to look regularly for additions.
The trade that really irritated me was he got a .30-40 Krag I really liked and traded it for a .222 Remington I hated, but the worst was when I was in the service and he cut the ‘ears’ off the rear sight block of a P-14 Enfield .303 I dearly loved and was just leaving at home so I had something to hunt with when I came back on leave and stuck on the Quikpoint I’d given him for the .30-30 that couldn’t even come close to the vernier irons that were on it 🙁
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War’s coming and not just to Texas
Sundials don’t need winding.
But they do need constant adjusting to stay accurate.
I saw what she did there!
The Double D, where it’s always 12 o’clock high noon…
Sweet! We are getting a preview of the annual fundraising summer artwork in February.
Then again, there is the possibility that it is because the 2024 fundraiser will occur in a maternity ward.
Reminds me of Lazarus Long’s settlement at Happy Valley in “Time Enough for Love.”
Zar Belk
Wow, that’s a blast from my past. I haven’t thought of Bobby in decades!
So many jokes and puns, it’s “hard” to choose… (teehee)
On an unrelated note, I’m on the email list for PragerU.
Today’s email included a link for a 10 question Citizenship test which the email claimed only 30% of US adults could pass… and only 3% of high school students… Who could resist a challenge like that?
Long story short, I got 10 outta 10 right… not bad for a random Canuck…
So in short we are doomed?
Are we doomed? I don’t know. Maybe you can tell me:
https://prageru.typeform.com/to/VLAAuaG6?typeform-source=search.brave.com
Full disclosure, I missed two of them.
The Boy Scouts still require citizenship merit badges. Four different ones are required to reach the rank of Eagle. Scouting has always been big on citizenship. OTOH, Boy Scouts are on a long slow slide to oblivion. Moral values, self-reliance, community service and most anything outdoors has not only fallen out of favor but are seen as activities of the deplorable.
I missed two too!
It seems to me that conservatives should focus on teaching their children about the actual history of the USA instead of expecting the neoMarxist public school system to do so. I mean… if a random Canuck who was lucky enough to marry a Texan can pass the test easily, it can’t be that difficult…
We are not doomed,
We do need to say and act correctly.
We do have a war to win.
For the people.
10 of 10.
I had courses on some of those.
I even got the number of Amendments correct this decade. They haven’t added any amendments lately.
Missed two but I talked myself out of the right answers for both of them, should have gone with what I ‘knew’ instead of what the media is trying to push on people to think.
Funny how the correct answer for another one was to not pick the ‘right to bear arms’…was that deliberate on the part of the authors to diminish it as a perceived right ? That’s the way things start…
That was the only question I blew. The question specified the First Amendment, but my brain misread it as the Bill of Rights — which stymied me, since they are all guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
Here’s an interesting factoid. Up until about 25 years ago, one of the questions on the US citizenship test was, “What is the most important philosophical statement found in the Declaration of Independence?” The “correct” answer was, “All men are created equal.”
Trust the government to get this exactly wrong. It’s the Declaration of Independence, for heaven’s sake, not the Declaration of Social Democratic Philosophy.
What’s the RIGHT answer?
“Governments [derive] their just powers from the consent of the governed; [and] whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of [our inalienable rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.”
It’s no accident that the government got this wrong.
But hey — as of 1997, 27% of US high school students believed that the Constitution contains the principle, “To each according to his need, from each according to his ability!”
I was a Boy Scout for a long time and learned
much, My scoutmasters were WWII veterans.
We had a Hell of a time, and when I went into
the Army the only difference was I had a gun.
I donated for a long time, but when they saw
it necessary to allow girls to join, I stopped.
It is just another sign of how far our country
has fallen.
The idiots in charge, in following the ‘Great
One`s model of making America weaker to
make the world stronger, I think dont want
to attack Iran as that might cause them to
unleash the militants already in our country
to attack our infrastructure, so content
themselves with meaningless, forewarned
attacks on nothing which would affect Iran
to any extent.
Hopefully, there will be an election, and not
something to put a hold on it; martial law,
virus, pick anything. But- they are desperate.
Our troop had guns! Every scout earned his Marksman badge and the troop owned a shared .22 for those boys not lucky enough to have an awesome Daddy like mine who gave me my single-shot knob-safety Marlin for Christmas when I was 9!
Nice. I received a 22 rifle when I was 9 also. Great weapon.
I got a Martini style action drop block BSA .22 with a shot out barrel as a gift when I was a kid, traded it off for a chrome plated double barrel .410 that was registered at about ten feet, you had to aim off at any distance since the patterns crossed that badly, traded THAT off for a Marlin 1895 in .33WCF that according to their records was never made, I knew when to stop that particular sequence 🙂
Father would trade anything off and did so at least once a week, the only way to know what was in the gun rack was to look regularly for additions.
The trade that really irritated me was he got a .30-40 Krag I really liked and traded it for a .222 Remington I hated, but the worst was when I was in the service and he cut the ‘ears’ off the rear sight block of a P-14 Enfield .303 I dearly loved and was just leaving at home so I had something to hunt with when I came back on leave and stuck on the Quikpoint I’d given him for the .30-30 that couldn’t even come close to the vernier irons that were on it 🙁