It would have put your first post in a different light if you had troubled to mention there that this young person styles herself s very conservative. That you did so now strikes me as very convenient. Parker is important in the same way that Goldwater should be important to the young person as you originally described her: the loser in an election decades before you were born.
Well, if the Amazons were in South America, how could the ancient Greeks have known about them, mister smarty pants? 
Bloodythirsty Azteks. And then pirates stole them.
I was installing a television in a house a couple of years back when I was working for an appliance shop, and the gentleman I was installing it for didn’t understand that his television, computer, modem, cable box, and lamp all needed electricity to work.
Well, I wanted to keep partisan politics out of it, and hoped that “politically engaged” was sufficient. IMO, liberals should know who Goldwater was. YMMV.
A few weeks back I was on a training course at work. We were paired up at one point and given an assignment to guess which fictitious character our partner was. My partner, a senior quality representative (and about 55 years old), was given a card indicating he was “The Wizard of Oz.” I had five guesses to try to determine who he was.
First question: I asked him if he was male, or female and he answered female. So I came nowhere near guessing the correct answer after that.
Turns out he thought Dorothy was The Wizard of Oz.
I let sleeping dogs lie, but my perception of him as a trustworthy source of information is much diminished.
Oh yes, my son’s friends who did without educational television because their parents lacked the technical ability to install a cheap VHF/UHF splitter. We lived in a deprived area with no cable TV.
When I was a kid with a new Nintendo Entertainment System, we only had one TV. I had to beg my dad to hook it up (simple RF adapter, not AUX cables). He’d bitch about it, put it off, and it would take him 20 minutes with directions. Taking moving into account, this happened many times, all the way up to my SNES. My mom wouldn’t even consider trying. Then we got a second TV - a little 13 inch job. I would abscond with it up to my room, and instead of begging my dad to hook it up, I thought fuck it, I’ll tackle it myself – less hassle.
Holy shit, is that simply. I could believe I wasn’t skipping some satellite orientation steps or something. WTF was he doing for 20 minutes? Screwing it in with his toes?
Sadly it’s all too common for people to not know how vaccines work. A look at some anti-vaccer’s posts is enough to make your head spin.
Saw one comment that the only people that need the vaccination are those with compromised immunity diseases.
Most believe that actually getting the disease builds better immunity to that disease than using the vaccine. (yeah, so you want to get sick to prevent getting sick? hello?) Some seem to actually think that getting a disease makes your immune system stronger against other maladies.
56 percent of this French TV studio audience didn’t know that, either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmLwnSXNpFU#t=1m4s
You’ve never seen a MARX BROTHERS MOVIE??? DUCK SOUP??? Consarned young whippersnapper mumble mumble… 
The point is that if GW Bush made the same mistake, you’d be repeating it endlessly and laughing at how stupid he was, ignoring a reasonable explanation. It’s like you seem to think that the Tea Party is composed of religious young-earthers. It’s also like lots of people think Sarah Palin really said “I can see Russia from my house”, or even if they don’t, they think she’s that stupid anyway.
BTW, last November a Cornell prof still thought that Bush carried a “plastic turkey” when he served Thanksgiving dinner to some troops in Iraq in 2003. (The original source page has been corrected.) http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/permafowl/
CA’s public schools are producing graduates who don’t know the meaning of Independence Day. Zombie Americans have forgotten why 4th of July is a holiday!!! - YouTube
It works if you get an infectious disease serious enough to die from it.
Dying from an infectious disease reliably prevents you from getting any other disease later on.
(Any anti-vaccer could have told you that!) :smack:
That’s OK, my sister in law doesn’t either.
She’s a doctor and she gives homeopatic “vitamins” to her kids 
There were news reports a year or so ago about a celebrity who attempted suicide by overdosing on homeopathic medicine.
I believe the technical term for that is “drowning”.
DHMO (Dihydrogen monoxide) poisoning.
Or a surfeit of flour.
Gets even better when an American asks me (a Brit) if I celebrate the 4th of July.
Without intending to give ammunition to nutjobs, I do wish to point out that in certain limited cases, that’s true. The word vaccination comes from the Latin term for “cows” because the original smallpox inoculations were prepared from cowpox, a different (but related) disease.
Well, you could always celebrate the anniversary of getting rid of America.