<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Could you pass the new US immigration test? : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>58087</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58087/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Could you pass the new US immigration test?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recently this immigration test was updated to include a more diverse group of contributors to American history and more recent historical events such as 9/11. Take the test and see if you have the civic knowledge to be a naturalized United States citizen.<br/>I did OK but my nieces and nephews scare me.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>137</score><crdate>4/13/2008 4:31:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T16:31:17+01:00</atomdate></link><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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No cheating and 10/10:)  Too bad I was born here so I guess I don't need to know any of this.  Ha!]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/14/2008 4:05:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-14T16:05:48+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>237899</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/58087/1/xml_widget.rss#q9</url><title><![CDATA[beckinacea @ 4/14/2008 10:12:21 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/plime-com/l/58087/1/#q7"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>chinook</b>&#160;:&#160;I definitely failed.  <br/><br/>I'm happy to stay up here with hockey, beavertails and beer, eh.</i></div>I'm with yoo. It's starting to get warmer... can't wait to see the folks from Florida coming up with skis this summer! Hahaha]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/14/2008 10:12:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-14T10:12:21+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>237666</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/58087/1/xml_widget.rss#q8</url><title><![CDATA[thebluefrog @ 4/13/2008 9:39:30 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I got all 10 right too.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/13/2008 9:39:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T21:39:30+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>237659</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/58087/1/xml_widget.rss#q7</url><title><![CDATA[chinook @ 4/13/2008 9:30:53 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I definitely failed.  <br/><br/>I'm happy to stay up here with hockey, beavertails and beer, eh.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/13/2008 9:30:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T21:30:53+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>237600</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/58087/1/xml_widget.rss#q6</url><title><![CDATA[2manyusernames @ 4/13/2008 7:26:18 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[oh my god.<br/>I just looked at the test. It is incredibly easy.<br/>Everyone really should get 10/10]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/13/2008 7:26:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T19:26:18+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>237583</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/58087/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[1thirteen3 @ 4/13/2008 6:51:21 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[10/10!<br/><br/>I can be a US citizen now!]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/13/2008 6:51:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T18:51:21+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>237510</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/58087/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[2longdogs @ 4/13/2008 4:58:03 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/plime-com/l/58087/1/#q3"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>2manyusernames</b>&#160;:&#160;the question is whether you can pass some random test -this one, 7th grade math, or whatever - right now, but could you pass it after studying for it.<br/><br/>So it really has no bearing whatsoever if you can pass this or not. The implication is that if a citizen can't pass it maybe it is too difficult to ask someone wanting to move here to pass it. That is a illogical statement that doesn't hold water.</i></div>I did not see that perceived implication. The fact the my high school nieces and nephews did really poorly is a reflection on how little fundamental knowledge of our constitution and history is being absorbed by our youth in school.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/13/2008 4:58:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T16:58:03+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>237496</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/58087/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[2manyusernames @ 4/13/2008 4:45:27 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[the question is whether you can pass some random test -this one, 7th grade math, or whatever - right now, but could you pass it after studying for it.<br/><br/>So it really has no bearing whatsoever if you can pass this or not. The implication is that if a citizen can't pass it maybe it is too difficult to ask someone wanting to move here to pass it. That is a illogical statement that doesn't hold water.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/13/2008 4:45:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T16:45:27+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>237486</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/58087/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[davethefish @ 4/13/2008 4:37:48 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[No I couldnt... Ah well, Rule Brittania... :P]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/13/2008 4:37:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T16:37:48+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>