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In reply to the discussion: Idaho lawmaker’s bill forces students to pass ‘Atlas Shrugged’ test to graduate [View all]MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)39. I wish that I could ask this guy, Goedde, to describe what's it's like to be a rocket scientist nt
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Idaho lawmaker’s bill forces students to pass ‘Atlas Shrugged’ test to graduate [View all]
Judi Lynn
Feb 2013
OP
I had to read "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx in high school and pass a test on it
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#15
You equate reading and being tested on a treatise of economic theory with a shitty novel?
Ikonoklast
Feb 2013
#48
Both are poorly written, long-winded tomes that espouse questionable economic and social theories
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#60
One is a pamphlet. The other is a billion-page screed to attack that pamphlet.
Scootaloo
Feb 2013
#53
Ayn Rand died on MEDICARE and SOCIAL SECURITY!!!! If she couldn't make it without socialized
grahamhgreen
Feb 2013
#33
Christ on a cracker. Are they going to supply students with No-Doz too? What a boring pile of crap
catbyte
Feb 2013
#36
It's actually a statewide narcolepsy study. They're only providing the Doz. (nt)
Posteritatis
Feb 2013
#68
I wish that I could ask this guy, Goedde, to describe what's it's like to be a rocket scientist nt
MrScorpio
Feb 2013
#39
Read the entire posting: Goedde wasn't serious; he was trying to make some point or other...
Moonwalk
Feb 2013
#44
Well, at this point playing to the teabagger base is becoming a stupid idea as it seems...
Moonwalk
Feb 2013
#66
The shame is that the GOP in ID can run through anything they want, and the dems can't stop
hrmjustin
Feb 2013
#77