Re-Take US History With A Real Professor!

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 10:19 AM PDT

2009/04/29 · 10:19

When I started college, I was a history major, but I dropped out; it was just too hard. Now I know why: my professors were all LYING IDIOTS!!! They told me a bunch of bunk about the Great Depression and the 1970s, b ut thanks to my new mentor, Professor Michelle Bachmann R-MN, I am now able to realize how much garbage those other teachers tried to poison my fertile young mind with. I failed my US History mid-terms with those liberal propagandists, but I can see the truth. I supposedly got these wrong before, but now I know the answer to these three questions thanks to Professor Bachmann:

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According to Prof. Bachmann, who was President during the 1920s?

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According to Prof. Bachmann, who was President during the 1920s?

Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, & FDR

0 votes

JFK, FDR, LBJ, and ACORN

10 votes

Steamboat Willie, Johnny Sokko, Tinkerbell and Admiral Ackbar

3 votes

Calvin Coolidge, the greatest President ever, and Satan aka FDR

1 vote

Jesus is the only President I answer to!

5 votes

Either C, D or E

5 votes

Hint: The correct answer is F

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Breaking A Generation

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Tuesday November 25, 2008 · 3:11 PM PST

2008/11/25 · 15:11

If I have a personal hero, it's my dad's brother. My uncle was a helicopter medic who served in Vietnam, and the war took his already fragile emotional 18 year old mind and broke it. For battlefield heroism, he was awarded two bronze stars, along with several other distinctions. He came back, addicted to drugs and a serious alcoholic. He spent more than 15 years trying to erase the memories of the battlefield, and by doing so, he lost his first wife, son, and numerous jobs/businesses. Finally, his second wife gave him an ultimatum: clean up or die without me around to take care of you.

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Tuesday November 11, 2008 · 11:51 AM PST

2008/11/11 · 11:51

I am a Veteran. Today is Veteran’s Day. That’s the easy part. The rest is much more complicated, for both my country and me. It’s hard for me to put into words what the meaning of my service is and how challenging it is to explain my feelings to those who never served. But I’ll try, again, to see if I can get it right.

My motivation for joining the Army in 1986 was not based in altruism; it was purely pragmatic. I had screwed up high school, figured I’d screw up community college, and regardless, my family was poor and wouldn’t be paying for my higher education. The Army recruiter found me at a moment of weakness, and I signed up for a three-year stint, guaranteed to be in Europe; the $24K for college was also a big incentive. Sure, on some level, I did feel a little pride in doing my part in defending my country, but I really didn’t worry that much about the Soviet horde rolling over the German border into WWIII. It was a low-risk gamble, and I took it.

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