how this 43% (and, of course, how did they ask the question/s) overlaps with the near 40 % (?) who feel the gov't had some involvement with 911.

By the way I did my own unofficial survey a couple weeks back, and found that despite some minor headway in other realms of society, 88.5 percent of Americans are “really fucking stupid.” The survey, of roughly 12,000 respondents, was conducted across color, age, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious and political-affiliation, and pet preference lines, and is considered the first of its kind.

The sets of questions asked of respondents were devised by a team of fourth and fifth-grade school teachers from around the country, and were distributed evenly among standard areas of knowledge, such as grammar and arithmetic, science, history, geography, communications, practical imagination, oral hygiene and survival skills. The 88.5 percent figure is up somewhat from the last time a similar study was conducted, in 1992, when 88.1 percent of those reached fell into the same category. The percentage for “functionally insane” citizens increased at essentially the same rate, from a 1992 figure of 8.4 percent to the current 8.8 percent.

Observing the results, Shlomo Dildowitz, a Rockville, Maryland social studies teacher and amateur golfer who was again chosen as chief coordinator and consultant in designing the survey, noted with some regret the decline, from 3.5 to 2.7 percent, collectively, of all other categories of intelligence in the survey, from the “highly informed, intuitive and creative,” down to the “reasonably trained and aware” and, the only other increased percentage, the “scarcely mentally adequate for any society.”

“I think we may need to look closely again at the questions and how they’re asked,” Dildowitz commented. “Are the questions fair? Are they what we would want asked of ourselves? Are people given enough time to respond, especially with the math and geography?” A one-time Lockheed-Martin manager, he cautioned that too much emphasis may be placed on areas of knowledge no longer relevant to our fast-paced, high-tech, information-based society. “Reading and writing are important, but not the way they used to be. Most adult Americans now are over-committed,” he said. “They have very active, responsible lives. When you have full-time jobs, a three-car garage, soccer lessons for the kids and the gym for you, dental and veterinary appointments, and church and choir practice two or three times a week, plus parties to host, you can’t do more than look at the paper on the weekend and fire out a couple emails here and there.”

“And my kids, they’re home-schooled, so I encourage them to just learn on their own, but it doesn’t add up to much time - we only have two computers for the five of them. They’re great kids though; actually my wife says we’re lucky to learn most of what we know from them!”

Meanwhile, the White House, getting word of the survey, lashed out in defense of America. Press Secretary Tony Snow, flanked by the President and Condoleeza Rice, began the session on Tuesday not with questions from reporters but with a statement: “To conclude from one off-base survey by the cultural elite that a majority of Americans are really fucking stupid, or whatever they said, does great harm to our nation during a time of tremendous strain for everyone, a time when we need to pull together to protect our freedoms from the brutal enemy of terror around the world. The President’s position is that this survey is not credible or useful and will only make us more enemies, while appeasing the fascists of the Arab world and of old Europe.”

[okay, I didn't just write this now; but felt like sharing... Thanks for sharing.]

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But he just HAD to be involved! YOU KNOW he was!!! After all... he is the only middle eastern leader we actually know of!!!!!!!!!

If it wasn't for Saddam... you could have convinced these idiots the easter bunny and the tooth fairy did it.

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Now is not the time to lose it. We need a new paradigm, obviously. Let's do a little brainstorming and come up with something - real quick like- to counter this dumbsass movement. What we have here is a FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE, OK,? Se let's just suck it up and deal with it, OK? Here's a given: The populace have been dumbed down for a generation or so and can't really fuckin think. Our mission: What the hell are we gonna do about it? My thought is this: When the going gets shitty, the shitty get going. I'm shitty. Who else?

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... the easier it is to sell.

and the Idiot in chief and his henchman have done a bang up job on Americans. Gutting the education system helps to keep people stupid, so the plan is on track unfortunately. Every child left behind.

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