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yes, exactly, I'm not saying Ford's life is any less then anyone else's life, however, when does life in prison mean parole after 20, 30 years?
Evidently Squeaky can't get passed the mental evaluation to be paroled ... A Charlie Manson follower or should I say family member?
Hell I know idiots I grew up with that just did 8 years for taking someones life and get paroled...if you take a life you should pay by losing yours.
Unless one is a history major in college, it's not a significant part of a student's course of study. Universities may require a history class or two as part of Gen Ed requirements, but otherwise, that's about it. I took two classes prior to entering my degree-specific coursework: European history course and state history. Of them, I found the state history course more enjoyable, and I definitely retained more information from it. I still have the textbooks and refer to them frequently in my family history research. Nothing will firm up your knowledge of history more than studying your family's genealogy.
Geeze Louise, your taking this way over the top....ok, fine, your right...I was so wrong to expect any college student to actually know who Hinckley was...forgive me....my bad!
Unless one is a history major in college, it's not a significant part of a student's course of study. Universities may require a history class or two as part of Gen Ed requirements, but otherwise, that's about it. I took two classes prior to entering my degree-specific coursework: European history course and state history. Of them, I found the state history course more enjoyable, and I definitely retained more information from it. I still have the textbooks and refer to them frequently in my family history research. Nothing will firm up your knowledge of history more than studying your family's genealogy.
Geeze Louise, your taking this way over the top....ok, fine, your right...I was so wrong to expect any college student to actually know who Hinckley was...forgive me....my bad! now we're talking about our family's geneaolgy?????
I'm far from middle age. Even in high school, I read about history for fun and my knowledge of history informs my political understanding today.
But trivia is just that - trivia. Knowing Hinckley's name might win me some money off a drink tab during bar trivia, but it's not actually important, nor does it indicate any level of education or understanding.
Well then you have a good start, because it took until my late thirties for me, although it probably began a little prior to that with a series that aired on PBS called Connections with James Burke. That show lit a fire for history in me. I have my favorite era, but all of it interests me, and I make it a practice not to belittle other's knowledge, because it's a tremendously vast subject that would take many lifetimes of intense study to master.
Evidently Squeaky can't get passed the mental evaluation to be paroled ... A Charlie Manson follower or should I say family member?
Hell I know idiots I grew up with that just did 8 years for taking someones life and get paroled...if you take a life you should pay by losing yours.
I'm wondering if our college grads actually know who John Hinckley is?
And I'm wondering why he has been released....?
Talk about what is wrong with this country? Pathetic...to set someone like this, scum who tried to murder one of our Presidents, and to turn him lose...pathetic...they ought to put the people in prison who decided to turn this animal lose...they are what is wrong with this country.
Our judicial system stinks....
What's wrong with this country is the ignoramuses that rant on MBs about "the uneducated" when they themselves don't even know what they're talking about.
Nana explained why he was released ... and actually, had to be released.
It is supposed to mean exactly what it says....
Most college kids today, no nothing about Politics.....nothing, they don't even know what Independence Day is or means, or what we are celebrating...they aren't teaching them American history...period!
As a ninth grader I took the Assassination of JFK, very seriously...Then Bobby, the JFK...very seriously....
James Garfield...
calling me smarty pants is a personal attack...
much worse then you taking my post personal b/c your child is in high school and asked...I didn't mean you...or your child, I was talking about the children in college, and they are just that, children.
What does their knowing or not knowing about him have to do with his release?
Are we to infer that it is because they might not know who he is that he was released?
I don't know any high school or college aged kids that weren't taught American history.
If they weren't taught history in your school district, well, that's sounds like a personal problem and certainly not one that is applicable to that age group as a whole.
The difference about murder and sentencing is cold blood in planned hot blooded is usually a crime of passion or spur of the moment insanity...liberals lawyers take the latter to the bank!
What does their knowing or not knowing about him have to do with his release?
Are we to infer that it is because they might not know who he is that he was released?
I don't know any high school or college aged kids that weren't taught American history.
If they weren't taught history in your school district, well, that's sounds like a personal problem and certainly not one that is applicable to that age group as a whole.
what it means is, in my mind, and my son and Daughter in laws trying to murder him was a paramount event...and I don't believe colleges are doing their jobs today, as far as teaching our kids about American History.
And no, we are not to infer that...
forget it, if you don't understand, please just forget it...
yes, exactly, I'm not saying Ford's life is any less then anyone else's life, however, when does life in prison mean parole after 20, 30 years?
He was not sentenced to life in prison, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. I mean, I may be an ignorant college educated liberal, but I wasn't even born then and I knew that.
Speaking of uneducated...
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Even in high school, I read about history for fun and my knowledge of history informs my political understanding today.
