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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 01:57 PM Original message |
Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in. |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. Too bad their trash will not pass muster |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Stay classy Texas. |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. Well they better not cover the American revolution because ..... |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. i'm sure that's not how the history books will tell it. |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. In 2000, they revised existing textbooks |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. Wonder why some of the crap you read about in school was wrong? Texas! |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. What about CA? |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:03 PM Original message |
Exactly - I was about to ask the same question |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
17. Maybe they were just talking out of their ass... |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:06 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. We're broke. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The insinuation in that post is that this has been going on for a while. |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. CA textbooks aren't terribly partisan. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:51 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I'm not sure what that has to do with why TX would influence |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. California has particular standards to which their textbooks have to meet |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:07 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Why would other states be interested in TX books though? |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:32 PM Original message |
I think the question goes back to volume. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
32. Doesn't make any sense at all to me. (nt) |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:57 PM Response to Reply #19 |
33. Since about 1961 |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:58 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Still makes no sense. |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 05:14 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. You'd have to ask the textbook publishers why. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I think every state school board performs that function, yes. |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. I'm not sure most states have one statewide school board. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Weird... this article implies otherwise... specifically, about CA. |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 05:59 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I'm talking about what started in 1961 in TX. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 06:02 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Because it needs to stop, that's why. |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 06:10 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Then I have an organization for you. They have been fighting this |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. Thank you! |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 05:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
38. It's because, unlike other large states, ... |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. That's not the implication in this article. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
6. Stupid Republicans... |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. "All your history are belong to us." - Republicon Homelander Fascists |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
9. Then they should not receive government money... |
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DeepBlueC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. +1 |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
10. Weird. Armed Forces radio plays Flush. Armed Forces websites don't block Flush. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
11. I say we PAY Mexico to take back Texas. |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
12. When someone says, "you're from Utah..." I always respond with, "yeah, but at least it ain't Texas!" |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. Hmm... the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. Is this a plan to create MORE right wing assholes in Texas? |
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GodlyDemocrat (388 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. Phylis Schlafly? Her son runs the site conservapedia.com |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
21. The right wing is going crazy. These nuts in Texas, the slobs at town halls, |
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Mariana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
46. The nuts in Texas have been crazy for a long time. |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
22. All my kids can identify all those people... as assholes. n/t |
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quiet.american (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:46 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Perfect answer, lol! nt |
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Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
23. They urged the committee |
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samrock (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
27. Can we now call the schools in Texas |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
30. Is this from the Onion? |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
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santamargarita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
44. The US should invade Texas and restore democracy by |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
45. This sounds like a job for the ACLU. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
48. I am so damn glad I don't have kids... or I'd have to do home schooling |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
49. That's why the right was so gung-ho about helping Muslim wackos fight the USSR... |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
50. k & R |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
51. Texas to teach the Bible too |
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