my shiny metal ass! However the thought of her lying liberal lips there... 
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHG!!! Well, you can understand--
Posted on 06/15/2010 12:14:35 PM PDT by AmericaUnite
It’s not that I have anything against Mexico; love the country; love the people. It’s just that I would like to edge the state of Texas over the border and out of America. My issues with the Lone Star State, aside from the fact that it nurtured and launched the career of George Bush, is that the Texas school board has staged an intellectual coup d’état, voting in changes to the school curricula based on political and religious bias rather than educational criteria.
In this case, the board is pushing an ultra-conservative, Christian agenda. But no religious or political agenda would be acceptable.
This is a cautionary tale because what happens in Texas doesn’t necessarily stay in Texas. Textbook publishers are paying close attention. According to published reports, over the last year, they sent curriculum writers to the contentious Texas school board meetings to see which way the political winds were blowing down there.
Publishers are in the business of selling books; if evolution is a nonstarter and creationism is to be embraced, the publishers will tweak their texts accordingly. Of course, those same books will be purchased by other states, which may not concur with Texans’ religious theory. But Texas has 4.8 million schoolchildren, and business is business — or, as Molly Ivins, the great Texas writer, used to say, “Bidness is bidness.”
In the past, the influence of conservatives on the Texas Board of Education has been balanced by the liberal influence of California, the largest purchaser of textbooks. However, because of the economic collapse, California has put off purchasing any new books until 2014. So, Texas rules.
(Excerpt) Read more at liherald.com ...
Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam...
Haven’t the Indians suffered enough?
my shiny metal ass! However the thought of her lying liberal lips there... UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHG!!! Well, you can understand--
Having said that, if Texas went back to Mexico, Texas would kick their collective (like that adjective, Randi) a$$es, and we would have to administer the country. You know Randi, like infrastructure, laws, national defense, etc..
No Randi, it would be better to give Texas to Massachusetts.
Why are most all liberals idiots?
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Isn't it funny how leftists take their political and religious biases and call them "educational criteria?"
Not only are they the masters of Projection they need to remember that you can call a dog a horse but it still does not make it a horse.
Texas declare independence and take over Mexico in one go.
Might be kinda cool. If Obamists stay in Washington and the Texans take Mexico City, come back in ten years and see who’s better off.
Yeah, those EEEEEVIL Texicans...actually wanting FACTS in textbooks. How DARE they!
Them’s fightin words, mister!
When somebody puts out an article like this, it makes you wonder if they have enough braincells to enable movement of their body.
It must be like trying to jumpstart a car in -10° with two D cell batteries to get the writer of this article to come up with an original thought that was not programed into her.
How like cartoon zombies they are!
How about a 44-state secession from the Yankees?
We can be Americans and they can go on being selfish pr1*ks.
Split the sheets at the middle of the Hudson River, up to the Croton Reservoir (which is just above Chappaqua) ..... everything on the left stays in, everything on the right goes out.
Oh, and we pack up Princeton and Cornell (Ithaca, City of Evil) and send them along later.
Love it, will certainly give it a try.
I consistently get advertisements in Spanish in my old, historic neighborhood.
Oooh, you need to see the canyons around Amarillo (Palo Duro Canyon) before you hastily make a decision about the flatlands. That would be west. Absolutely beautiful country!
Or is it "done punged"?
Although I found this nasty, nasty Long Island Tick Madness thread all by myself, lol.
Let's look at what the Texas Standards actually say [Link, bold emphasis below is mine]:
(9) History. The student understands the impact of the American civil rights movement. The student is expected to:
(A) trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments;
(B) describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil rights, including ones from African American, Chicano, American Indian, women's, and other civil rights movements;
(C) identify the roles of significant leaders who supported various rights movements, including Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and Betty Friedan;
(D) analyze the effectiveness of the approach taken by some civil rights groups such as the Black Panthers versus the philosophically persuasive tone of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and his "Letter from the Birmingham Jail"; 5
(E) describe presidential actions and congressional votes to address minority rights in the United States, including desegregation of the armed forces, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965;
(F) describe the role of individuals such as governors George Wallace, Orval Faubus, and Lester Maddox and groups, including the Congressional bloc of southern Democrats, that sought to maintain the status quo;
(G) evaluate changes and events in the United States that have resulted from the civil rights movement, including increased participation of minorities in the political process; and
(H) describe how litigation such as the landmark cases of Brown v. Board of Education, Mendez v. Westminster, Hernandez v. Texas, Edgewood I.S.D. v. Kirby, and Sweatt v. Painter played a role in protecting the rights of the minority during the civil rights movement.
Seems pretty balanced to me if students want to understand the history of civil rights in America.
What Ms. Kreiss might be objecting to is pointing out the role the Democrat Party and their Southern leaders played in promoting segregation during the 60s. I lived through that period of our history, and everybody in the country knew back then what Wallace, Faubus, and Maddox and their associates stood for. Apparently, however, it embarrasses today's liberals to be reminded of them and the actions of the Democrat Party with respect to civil rights.
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I believe that for the most part most Texans are wanting conservative values taught to their children.
If this idiot writing this piece of garbage doesn't like it, let her sign up for the textbook committee in her state, spend the hours reading and commenting on the books and have her state adopt what she wants taught. She could also homeschool her kids, but that might actually require her to think and take time with the kids. Something she apparently doesn't want to do.
Just because you start out in Amarillo doesn’t mean you have to stay there forever. Look at this opportunity as getting your foot in the door.
I don't think this would happen. Most of us would rather leave as one state to become our own nation.
I’d prefer it to stay as is too. I just like positing the idea to libs to watch them sputter.
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