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As frightening as it is to say this, George W. Bush isn’t alone with his rank of being a horrible president. I thought it would be fun to look at some of our other presidents throughout history to demonstrate that we actually have a long history of bad presidents.
This list is a simple complication of various “worst presidents” lists I’ve come across. I looked at all the data that they provided, compared a few of the lists, and created my own (though they are similar to the others).
A few lists also included Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. I purposely didn’t include those people because I really wanted to focus on older presidents. We know enough about those presidents.
It’s not a secret that America’s public school systems are failing. I recently watched a documentary by John Stossel called ‘Stupid In America*.’ Stossel investigates the the American public school system, comparing it to other countries (among other things) and going into depth over the involvement of the Teacher’s Union and how it is actually the one of the biggest causes of the failure.
In the video he raises the question about firing bad teachers. Take a moment and see how many teachers you’ve had over the years that you’d consider bad. If you’re like most people you probably were able to name just more than a few.
Here is AT&T’s response to the claims that they participated with the NSA to follow out the domestic spying initiative created by our favorite administration.
San Antonio, Texas, June 27, 2006
At AT&T, we vigorously protect our customers’ privacy and only share information as specifically authorized by the law.
The news media have carried reports alleging that AT&T is participating in an unlawful NSA terrorist surveillance program. Unfortunately, the law does not permit AT&T to respond to those allegations.
The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that AT&T may neither confirm nor deny AT&T’s participation in the alleged NSA program because doing so would cause “exceptionally grave harm to national security” and would violate both civil and criminal statutes. Under these circumstances, AT&T is not able to respond to such allegations.
What we can say is AT&T is fully committed to protecting our customers’ privacy and would not provide customer information to any government agency except as specifically authorized under the law.
Why don’t they just say, “Yes, we worked with the government and spied on you and there is nothing you can do about it.” The fact that the U.S. Department of Justice has told AT&T that they cannot confirm nor deny it speaks volumes. Obviously if AT&T wasn’t involved, the government wouldn’t tell AT&T what they can or cannot say.
Source: http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=22372
Let me start off by saying that I know I’m not going to win any awards blogging about how bad of a President George W. Bush is. Instead, I thought it would be fun to point out a funny coincidence.
I want to introduce this question, “Is our 43rd President totally at fault for his actions or is in genetic?”
Here, let me explain.
With a little over a month left before all my shows finally come back, I’ve been occupying my time by watching online documentaries. These are mostly commercial free versions of documentaries shown on the various channels which broadcast this type of content.
Here is a list of the some of the sites that I often use to find online documentaries.
Through our history people made discoveries that changed that way we live, but all by accident. I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of some of the ones that I thought were interesting. This is just a small sample from the hundreds I’ve found online and in some books.
Here is a list of various discoveries based on accidental discoveries.
Ever wonder where a word came from? Some words barely have an 100 year history, while some have over a thousand year history. Like most things, words have history as well. Here are some words I’m sure you’re familiar with and a brief summary about their origins.
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