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Thursday, April 22, 2004 (5 comments)

Alright so I'm doing the DBQ project on WWII... and I'm reading about the proceedings in the House on declaration of war on Germany:

The SPEAKER. The question is, Will the House suspend the rules and pass the joint resolution?

Mr. MCCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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The question was taken; and there were yeas 393, answered "present" 1, not voting 36.

Now my first reaction to that was that I had to ask someone what this means, because I seemed to not understand it. So I asked CiCi, because I figured she'd know more about this stuff than me. Well, the end result is that she agrees with what I had initially thought, and I still find it hard to believe because it's so stupid. So there were 393 yeas, 0 nays, 36 not votings... and a "present"? Did some idiot say "present" instead of yea or nay? Or do I just interpret this wrong? Someone help me before I die of laughter!

Snoddy is going to love our title page. Hopefully, anyways. She'll enjoy the DBQ even more...

I love the usefulness of the Smart Tags thing on MS Office.... because they're never stupid and annoying in any way! And they never get in my way.

I want to say something about the statement by Dumb Question Faucet (Leaky) during US, because this one irritates me: "Everybody else treats our prisoners like crap but we actually torture them with dignity." And he sounded angry when he said this.

Ignorance abounds. What makes you think that "everybody" treats prisoners like crap except the Americans? Do you not think that Americans have committed their share of crap too? Are our enemies never pleasant to American prisoners? Even worse, when Americans torture others, they do so "with dignity"? When's the last time you received dignified torture? Why do I hate America??

A little over a year ago, in the AJC, there was a reader's letter to the editors. She commented on a large photo that was displayed in the paper a few days earlier. She was furious that the newspaper would dare show a picture of a disarmed (that means without a weapon, in case Faucet leaks brain fluid too) Iraqi POW being held at the point of an assault rifle. All they had to do, she said, was simply take the camera and take the picture from an angle θ such that the gun would be obscured by the prisoner's body. Now why didn't I think of that? Oh wait, maybe because our newspapers would be freaking propaganda?

That letter made such an impact on me that I still remember it. Although I can't remember a physics formula we learned three days ago, I can still remember this black hole of idiocy that I encountered four hundred days ago.

I read Ed's Xanga where he says that he doesn't feel AP classes live up to the standard. I thought about it for a moment, and it's too true, unfortunately. But I can think of a few exceptions, those being AP Statistics (last year, anyways), AP Calculus BC, and AP US. I feel that the most amount of relevant material has been covered in these classes, and that anyone who has sufficiently paid attention should do very well on the exam. But yes, a lot of our other classes just don't hold us to appropriately high standards. I still hate mass craploads of homework though.

Isn't it amusing that a few years ago, my parents asked me "Where are other 3 point go??" if I didn't get a 100 on a test, and now this has changed into... "Where do the other 33 point went?" Yes, this is most pathetic.

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