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Kendra Bancroft
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05-19-2006 12:18
Let George W. tell you...
"That's George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three—three or four books about him last year. Isn't that interesting?"—Showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006  _____________________
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Joy Honey
Not just another dumass
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05-19-2006 13:24
I wonder if this was one of them
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Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
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05-19-2006 13:27
I have always thought it's interesting that they don't teach kids in school that Washington owned slaves.
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Anya Dmytryk
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05-19-2006 13:31
I have always thought it's interesting that they don't teach kids in school that Washington owned slaves. i was taught that. it was glossed over, but they did teach it. _____________________
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Phoenix Psaltery
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05-19-2006 13:40
I have always thought it's interesting that they don't teach kids in school that Washington owned slaves. What's your point? It was accepted behavior at that point in time, and he did live in the south. P2 _____________________
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Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
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05-19-2006 13:51
I think it's interesting because it shows how some people try to “clean up” history. They don't like a certain aspect of the “father of our nation” so they just omit it. It's not the job of historians to paint history in the best possible light. It's there job to just report on the facts and let the reader make their own decisions as to what those facts mean. Does the fact that he owned slaves make him a bad person? That is for the student to decide, not the author of the history text.
I graduated in 1983 and I didn't have a clue that he owned slaves until I saw it on a History Channel show in the mid 90's. Maybe they teach it now, which is what they really should do. |
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Kendra Bancroft
Rhine Maiden
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05-19-2006 14:12
I think it's interesting because it shows how some people try to “clean up” history. They don't like a certain aspect of the “father of our nation” so they just omit it. It's not the job of historians to paint history in the best possible light. It's there job to just report on the facts and let the reader make their own decisions as to what those facts mean. Does the fact that he owned slaves make him a bad person? That is for the student to decide, not the author of the history text. I graduated in 1983 and I didn't have a clue that he owned slaves until I saw it on a History Channel show in the mid 90's. Maybe they teach it now, which is what they really should do. No. The interesting thing about George Washiington is that George W. Bush read 3 or 4 books about him. Isn't that interesting? _____________________
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nimrod Yaffle
Cavemen are people too...
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05-19-2006 14:41
Didn't he have wooden teeth?
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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05-19-2006 14:43
Didn't he have wooden teeth? I think so. Didn't he make them from a cherry tree that he chopped down himself? _____________________
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paulie Femto
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05-19-2006 14:47
That's better than a wooden BRAIN. giggle.
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Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
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05-19-2006 14:58
No. The interesting thing about George Washiington is that George W. Bush read 3 or 4 books about him. Isn't that interesting? I think the idea of Dubbya reading is interesting. |
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Phoenix Psaltery
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05-19-2006 15:01
No. The interesting thing about George Washiington is that George W. Bush read 3 or 4 books about him. Isn't that interesting? Don't be fooled. Laura the Librarian read the books TO him. P2 _____________________
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Ordinal Malaprop
really very ordinary
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05-19-2006 15:03
Very little is interesting about George Washington, in the grand scheme of things.
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Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
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05-19-2006 15:08
pfft, in "the grand scheme of things" the Earth and everything on it is so insignificant that even saying it's insignificant gives it too much significance.
But what does that have to do with anything? |
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io Kukulcan
Registered User
Join date: 2 Apr 2006
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05-19-2006 15:33
yeah, we should just all hate Georgie
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Phoenix Psaltery
Ninja Wizard
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05-19-2006 18:58
It's true. In a mere five billion years the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallow Mercury and Venus, and bake the Earth to a cinder. So why bother considering anything to be significant? It's all gonna burn anyway.
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Lo Jacobs
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05-19-2006 19:08
I thought the interesting thing about George Washington was that he never told a lie!
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Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
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05-19-2006 19:29
It's true. In a mere five billion years the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallow Mercury and Venus, and bake the Earth to a cinder. So why bother considering anything to be significant? It's all gonna burn anyway. P2 Not only is it all going to burn away, but the rest of the Universe won't even notice when it does! Have a nice day! |
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Chance Abattoir
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05-19-2006 20:57
I think it's interesting that he doesn't call him George Warshington.
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Shockwave Plasma
Mad Scientists Daughter
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05-20-2006 03:20
I always thought that the history of the USA was written by Walt Disney, which come to think about it, is about as accurate as Mel Gibson writing the history of the UK.
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Star Sleestak
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05-20-2006 03:25
Very little is interesting about George Washington, in the grand scheme of things. I dunno, George Washington wrote a treatise on the types and uses of cannibis. |
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Star Sleestak
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05-20-2006 03:26
I thought the interesting thing about George Washington was that he never told a lie! That's a lie. |
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Lucifer Baphomet
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05-20-2006 03:27
Didn't he have wooden teeth? Nice story, but false. I couldnt find the actual info that explains why people thought they were wooden .... but washington was a smoker, and the staining of the ivory, from smoking and certain foods, made the ivory look like it had a woodgrain. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6875436/ some shit about his teeth here. _____________________
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Buck Weaver
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I was named after George Washington
05-20-2006 03:38
Well, when you think about it, I was named after Abraham Lincoln, too. They were both named before I was.
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Reitsuki Kojima
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05-20-2006 04:19
I always thought that the history of the USA was written by Walt Disney, which come to think about it, is about as accurate as Mel Gibson writing the history of the UK.  Yes, I put on a couple pounds for my role as the heroic warrior Peter Griffin in which I defy the English to save England from the English! _____________________
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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