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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 01:06 PM
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Don McLeroy: The Creationist in Charge of Education in Texas
 
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ABC News Nightline interview with creationist Religious Right fundie Don McLeroy ~ departing Republican member and Chair of the Texas State Board of Education (he lost his re-election to a moderate in the Republican primary earlier this month and his reappointment as Chair of the SBOE has 'ran into trouble'). Nightline details how the fundamentalist right wing agenda is influencing education across the country: "Where ever you live, your student may soon learn from his lessons..."
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 01:16 PM
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1. RW rallying cry: Take Our Country Backwards!
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activa8tr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 01:18 PM
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2. THAT must be what those Tea Baggers meant! O I get it now!
Maybe they can go ALL the way back in Texas to when it was a separate nation!

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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 01:26 PM
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3. Should be titled "The Dentist in charge of Education in Texas"
That mofo's only qualification is allegedly teaching Sunday School at his church.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 02:14 PM
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4. "Left doesn't know they have biased info." But he does know that his assertion
about McCarthyism is and shrugs it off as a last minute inclusion? Sounds like he was out in the Texas sun for to long. Now what about the rest of the country deferring to these holy rollers? I don't have any idea why the rest of the country is suspending their critical thinking to this bunch?
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 02:16 PM
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5. A bit of pity, please for Texans
We have our nut case right trying to destroy us from within, and our friends on the
left who can't wait to get rid of us, once the extremist right succeeds in their goals!

Don't forget, Texas gave the country Ann Richards, Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower, too!

On the down side, in Texas, a "moderate Republican" is one who believes Hispanics should
be given the option of leaving the State voluntarily before being shot.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 02:27 PM
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6. I envison an exodus of lefties leaving Texas like the Jews left Egypt...
and then we build a big high fence and declare that Texas has been given back to Mexico.
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 03:37 PM
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10. Considering the exodus from Egypt is a myth, I don't think it's gonna happen in TX.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 02:29 PM
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7. Recommended viewing
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Shining Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 02:52 PM
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8. K&R
The words "Creationist" and "Education" used in the same sentence make me want to scream !
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 03:01 PM
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9. Funny how facts - including history - have a liberal bias.
I am so effing sick of effing Xians.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 05:15 PM
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11. Therein lies the problem.
This is the reason they find history so..............unsatisfying. :rofl:
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lastone Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 05:29 PM
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12. This is exactly what is WRONG with this country - - -
That RELIGIOUS FANATICS have a say in anyfuckingthing about anyfuckingthing at all. Separation of church and state is a sad joke in the good ole USofA and it is time to stand up to these zealots and call them out for being STUPID, BACKWARDS and a DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE everywhere they go. The religious right, coupled with the corporate conglomerates ARE the republican party, they don't want you educated, they don't want you to have FREEDOM in any form, they are identical to the taliban except they come packaged in jackets and ties. I dare everyone in this board to disavow themselves from each and every religious fool they know, un-friend them on facebook, stop following their tweets send them email letting them know why! A good friend of mine who also happens to be a retired priest says "hate the idea, not the person whose idea it is" but I am saying that they are one and the same, if you say stupid, provably false things you are an idiot who should immediately be put in your dumbass place. There is NO GOD you fools - the earth is over 6,ooo years old - ever heard of carbon dating, FUCK AM I FED UP WITH THE STUPIDITY!
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