Barren Realms MUD

Most of who? I know many who don't!!

I guess Stars is just saying that if many didn't want him to be the president, he shouldn't have won the election.

Yes but rather he won or not was debatable. Though I won't debate that here.....*whistles*

wait wait wait...you mean it ISN'T a chimp that's running the whitehouse?

George Bush received fewer votes in the 2000 election than Al Gore. It was the distribution of those votes, not popular sentiment, that won him the election. It remains to be seen where people stand now, four years later.

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm
The numbers in the next link differ slightly but have some interesting statistics with it.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/20 ... ection.htm

Check out those numbers...YOWZA.

Here's one way to think about the last four years of your life, folks:

Bush won Florida, and thus the election by 537 votes. For reference, Socialist Worker's Party Candidate James Harris received 562 votes in Florida. Al Gore received 543,895 more votes than Bush overall.

There were 5,963,110 votes cast in Florida overall, so 537 votes represents 0.009% of the Floridian vote. There were 105,405,100 votes cast in the entire election, so 543,895 votes was 0.5% of the overall vote.

So close...

"Once a wise man known as Notradames predicted that in the year 2000 the village idiot would gain power and take over the whole village. In the year 2000 George W. Bush became president."

Just wanted to share.

You guys been watching Letterman play Trump or monkey? People guess wrong all the time.

I still hold that George is a chimp in a human suit *nod self* Although chimps are usually brighter....*thinks*

Picking on George Bush sure is popular nowadays.
I guess he must be doing a good job as a president. The only bad thing I hear about him is that he kind of looks like a monkey. You know, we all kind of look like monkeys...

Just because a president is being picked on does not mean they are doing a good job. Look at Regan

i gave my grade 8 kids a math test the other day. some of them did okay, but there was one who got 2/60. a trained monkey, randomly filling in bubbles, would on average get 15/60. i'm sorry, but when you write a test and a monkey does 7 times as well as you do, it's time to drop out of school and cut your losses.

I dissagree with you there Dis. Have you considered maybe this child has a learning disability? Or that maybe something is going on at home preventing him/her from being able to concentrate properly?

Just because the child didn't do well on the test does not mean they aren't incredibly brilliant. There are many people in history who were geniuses, however give them a test and they would fail miserably. I myself do not fair well on tests even when I know the information backwards and forwards, because I lock up and my mind goes completely blank (and timed tests are the worst).

There was a guy in my class when I was a kid. Everyone thought he was really dumb and bad at reading, he never did well on tests, or anything in class. Well as it turns out he was dyslexic and once he started getting help on that his grades went up dramatically and when we had to take this random standardized test in reading and writing comprehension, he tied with me for the top grade in the school.

There are so many reasons for why this student of yours could be doing badly, but it doesn't mean the system should give up on him/her and that they should drop out, especially as an 8th grader. The fact that you're this child's teacher and saying this is even sadder

we're not talking about "failing", or "doing badly", we're litterally talking about doing worse than a trained monkey. of course, i'd never ever tell the kid to drop out, nor his parents, but realistically what possible reason would there be for this kid to be in the greade he's at? he should be back in grade 2, or in some sort of special school where he could get the help that he needs. placing him in a normal grade 8 classroom where, in my opinion, the teacher's primary responsibility is to teach the grade 8 curriculum not the grade 2 curriculum, is utterly pointless. the current philosophy seems to be "if you fail him, it'll be bad for his self esteem". personally, i think that passing him onwards without any hope of success is not only WORSE for his self esteem, but completely at counter-purposes with his education. if you get 2/60 on a multiple choice test, there is NO way that you belong in that classroom.