Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in.
Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in.
The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has “nothing about liberals,” the Houston Chronicle reported:
The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.” [...] Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.
The 15-member committee, stacked with 10 Republicans, is expected to vote along party lines. Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts” produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and César Chávez, and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”
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LOL, I gotta wonder at how much the right wing would be yelling about liberal, socialist propoganda if this was a left wing group trying to alter history.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:17 pmTime to sue the Texas State Board of Elections. Families sued the Denver School Board in Pennsylvania and WON. The same can happen in Texas.
Back to my studies. See you in 45 minutes.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:19 pmThe kids cannot read anyway.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:20 pmI’m fine with that as long as they tell the truth:
“OK class, in this next section we’re going to examine how a group of traitors systematically put a conspiracy into place to try to destroy the founding principles of the United States. Back in 1994…”
August 21st, 2009 at 2:21 pm***
teh stoopid.
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August 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pmSooooo, only cowboys in Texas history books. No Indians?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pmI see Texas’s poo-bahs are scared their population is becoming a little too educated, leaning a little too blue for comfort, so they’re adopting a “Leave our Children Further Behind” education policy.
Not that I’d ever subject a kid of mine to that State’s schools in the first place.
Texas parents – RUN!!! Get out of there while your kids may still stand a chance of getting into a college!!!!
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It’s the beggining of the new fascist state!!!! Texas …first step to secession…..Hurry Ray for Hollywood!!!
August 21st, 2009 at 2:26 pmIt’s no wonder why our country as a whole seems to be getting dumber; with the latest example being more than half of recent poll respondents believing that Medicaid and Medicare are NOT government run healthcare.
Then again what group is easier for those in power to control, educated and informed voters or uneducated voters who scare easily and believe whatever they are told?
We will continue to fall far behind all other industrialized nations when it comes to education. Very, very sad.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:30 pmThey need to insure future generations are as ignorant as they are… reduces the threat of exposure.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:31 pmHey maybe even a little revisionist history about Lee Harvey Oswald. Now there was man who was a proud gun owner. Too bad good people of Austin, you’re surrounded.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:31 pmWith 10 Rethuglicans on a 15 member board, it can’t be long before Creationism is in the history books, too.
Thank you, Texas redistricting (gerrymandering)!
Texas IS considered part of the South, isn’t it?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pmOh, there’s Indians, Zooey.
Every cowboy’s gotta have a bad guy to shoot.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pmTexas is “dumbing” their own kids, what a shame. Will see them in court real soon.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pmWow, Texas is about to peg their ’stupid meter’.
Texas secession is sounding like a pretty good idea.
Brain washing kids to make them little hateful Nazi’s is such a good idea, why doesn’t the rest of the south follow suit?
I just don’t think I can hate Republicans more than I do right now.
What ignorant, immoral, unethical scum bags they have become.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pmI bet these folks were the first to chortle about the Soviets “disappearing” people from the history books.
What makes them think propagandizing the study of history will work out any better for them?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pmWhatever. Ever met a kid that actually reads the textbook?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:34 pmThis shouldn’t surprise anyone…texas is so backward that the new candidate for governor is calling for the education system in texas be reinstated as it was in 1961 when she was in school in texas..This also means that all schools in texas will have to be re-segregated..in reality this would be a good thing in most texans small rat brains…
I’m sure that pretty soon Rush will have a public scholarship program to offer in texas for his university of advance studies in prejudice and lies to be offered free for all texas residence…
Sick place…
August 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pmThis is a form of child abuse — depriving students of a proper education — sanctioned by a politically partisan Board. Last week, it was mandatory Bible studies, now it’s Republlilcan-only. If this is really true, it is a disgrace.
If Texas won’t secede on its own — can we force them?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pmNothing like indoctrinating the young.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:36 pmThese rednecks sure are going to be surprised in the not too distant future when the growing number of not white people living in Texas start voting in greater numbers and the complexion of the state government starts changing. Perhaps when that happens the Texas Taliban will move to South America like some of their confederate forebears.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:36 pmlaugh if you will but, it’s our federal tax dollars going to fund this kind of drivel.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:37 pmHere’s why this is a big deal:
With regard to text books: As Texas goes, so goes the nation.
I completely understand wanting history books to discuss both sides of issues, to discuss both conservative and liberal perspectives when presenting historical information, but you can’t present a one-sided story and expect children to actually learn. That’s not teaching, that’s brainwashing.
And for the life of me, I can’t understand why one would want to remove George Washington and Abraham Lincoln from history books. These aren’t random figures, Texas, these were Presidents.
To smart people who live in Texas I have one thing to say: What the f uck are you still doing in Texas?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:38 pmsmidget,
August 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pmgood luck trying to convince the new england states to buy history textbooks such as these
Dear Citizens of Texanistan,
Secede already!
August 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pmralph the wonder llama says:
Oh, there’s Indians, Zooey.
Every cowboy’s gotta have a bad guy to shoot.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pm
So why’d they take out the liberals? ;)
August 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pmBozo
It’s not a matter of convincing. Texas is such a huge consumer of text books that they end up setting the standards of what goes in them. They control the market.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pmI taught high school social studies for 33 years, and the fact that any state would cripple their students in this way is scandalous. I guess they don’t expect them to compete with students living in other states or nations. What burns me is that it will be the students who will be harmed, not these pompous @$$e$ on the heavily partisan “Christian” review committee.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pmI thank God every day I don’t have children (I live in Houston). Problem is folks, is, from what I understand is that TX is the largest purchaser of text books, so as TX goes, so goes the rest of the country. Your children could also be dumbed down because they’re using the same texts. Unbelievable – first bible classes in the public schools, now this nonsense.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:42 pmYup. Don’t need no stinkin’ George Washington or Abe Lincoln bios. Gotta make room for glowing descriptions of GDumbya, Darth Cheney and Rush Limpballs.
I suggest they hold off printing their new history books for another year. That way, they can include a bio on Rick Perry and his heroic efforts in the great Texas secession of 2010.
And, if Texas doesn’t secede, I think we should kick them out. If nothing else, it would increase the average IQ in the remaining 49 states by at least 40 points.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:43 pmWasn’t this Winston Smith’s job?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:44 pmTXProgressive says:
“Problem is folks, is, from what I understand is that TX is the largest purchaser of text books, so as TX goes, so goes the rest of the country.”
Exactly. And they know that.
The only good thing about this is that if they try to pass this type of farce onto the liberal states, lawsuits will ensue.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:44 pmLook at the downfall of Texas A&M. The head of the university system, Gov. Perry’s former Chief of Staff, nudged the first A&M president to head the university to step down only a year into her post using a poorly-written review. When henchmen with a different idea of organizational control get a key to the control room, any academic reputation goes down the drain.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:45 pmi wonder if they’ll include the fact phyllis schafly has a gay son or newt was playing “bury the pickle” with his mistress while at the same time trying to impeach the president for the same thing. or how tub-o-lard limpballs sent his maid out to score hillybilly heroin for him and how he got caught with a bag full of viagra coming back from his underaged child sex worker tour of the dominican republic?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:45 pmActivist judges in cowboy boots.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:47 pmI just hope that they add one of those “career profiles” at the end of the chapter on old Sam Joe…
August 21st, 2009 at 2:47 pmAnd this while the American public is getting collectively stoopider by the day.
Cheers,
August 21st, 2009 at 2:50 pmthomas jefferson founder of the democratic party = out
August 21st, 2009 at 2:50 pmcrybaby glenda becky hate speech monger= in
The quote from the Houston Chronicle also says before the line about Limbaugh and the NRA is…
“Another board conservative, Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio…would add James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, conservative talk show host Sean Hannity and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to the list of conservatives.”
Yeesh. There is no hope for the students of Texas if this actually passes.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:51 pm#3: BobbyG says:
The kids cannot read anyway.
Spelling. Should be “The kids cain’t read anyhow….”
Cheers,
August 21st, 2009 at 2:51 pmAll I could think of is the old cowboy saying “All hat, no cattle”. Maybe that’s why Michael Steele spent so much time talking about how to wear a hat!
August 21st, 2009 at 2:52 pmThe sad thing is as book go texas is a large school district so most books used in the rest of the states are kinda geared towards them.
scary very scary>>>>>>>>>>> no smart kid forward>>>>
August 21st, 2009 at 2:52 pmmajii says:
I guess they don’t expect them to compete with students living in other states or nations.
Bingo! I look at the home schoolers (most, but not all) in the same way: please, please, continue to teach your children things like humans and dinosaurs frolicked together in the backyard, about the War of Northern Aggression, etc., as it will only diminish the competition for good jobs someday.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:53 pm13. robbez_92107
Texas under Mexico had a war of succession (Republic of Texas starting with the Anahuac (?sp) Disturbances. The Alamo was around 1836 ended with the Treaty of Velasco – but Mexico had several intrusions into Texas into the 1840s.
Texas was made a state in 1845. And of course the Civil War was in the early 1860s.
In short, it seems like Texas is always in a perpetual battle with someone.
And as for the textbooks, I share the concerns of one-sidedness. But let me also add that a major Textbook provider in Texas is a member of the Bush clan.
And I don’t see how any national court could help but rule against the one-sided presentation that Texas seems to want. Not to mention the possibility of violating the Establishment of Religion clause.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:53 pmGuess they’ll be changing the name of the capitol to Limbaugh, Texas. Has a nice ring, does’nt it?
GW Bush was the father of our country, and the first president, Newt Gingrich freed the slaves, right after the Confederates won the Civil War.
A brave,new world.
God save us all!
Cheers :)
August 21st, 2009 at 2:53 pm‘Cause not all liberals are dark-skinned.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:54 pmProof history books are written by winners. How much was left out of the earlier version I enjoyed?
August 21st, 2009 at 2:54 pmThe kids are alright…
August 21st, 2009 at 2:54 pmAugust 21st, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Hey Texas, leave those kids alone!
August 21st, 2009 at 2:55 pmFascism CREATES CONFUSION through “facts”. It relies on junk science, revisionism, the elimination of cultural records/treasures and obfuscations to create its case and gain acceptance. Fascism can also combine Marxist critiques of capitalism or faith based critics of the same to re-define middle class perceptions of democracy and to force its issues, confuse logic and create majority consensus between targeted groups. This is also referred to as creating a state of Cognitive Dissonance, the mental state human beings are most easily manipulated.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:55 pmP.S. I attended high school and college before the permanent political campaign descended on America.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:57 pmuh…didn’t they use to call this brainwashing….isn’t it the same as the madrassas that teach their children nothing but hate for America…make sure the children only get one side so that they grow up good little robots.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:03 pmWill they document the shame and disgrace of Jim and Tammy Faye??
How about the Proud Patriots that dragged that old balck man behind a truck – they were conservatives, too – better not leave them out.
Will they include the Boot Camps that killed kids?
Those are “Conservative Contributions”, too.
(ps – what kind of self-respecting teacher would take a teaching job in that State?)
August 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pmI can’t wait for one of them to trumpet about how we’re number one in education worldwide.
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Luis Chapulin M says:
Hey Texas, leave those kids alone!
All in all, it’s just another damn brick in the Wall.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pmTexas school books have been horrible since I first arrive here [3rd grade] and have grown worse even without these Yayhoos and their return to a feudal states mentality consisting of Kings [CEOs] Clergy [Televangelists/Pundits] and ignorant powerless masses.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pmWell I suppose itmight help some kids learn to find teh Dominican Republic on a map…
August 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pmI got a very sarcastic idea. Why don’t we just let the highest bidder write the history books? Have a supremely private education system. Exxon could pay Hoover’s and Heritage’s team of writers to do it. The Chamber of Commerce could have its writers. My former best bud, Wayne LaPierre, could write history (even though he didn’t do so hot in school and lies about where he went to school). United Healthcare Group could write how the US has the greatest healthcare money can buy!
The taxpayers won’t have to pay a dime—-unless you count the $25,000 per year for K-12. Higher education? Well, that’s really going to cost you, but at least there won’t be any Dept. of Education and taxes!
August 21st, 2009 at 3:10 pmHistory consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:12 pmVoltaire
We don’t need no (any) education
August 21st, 2009 at 3:14 pmWe don’t need no (any) thought control
The important thing to remember that as long as these are high school kids you can be pretty sure they will believe and internalize exactly the opposite of what they are being taught….
August 21st, 2009 at 3:16 pmthere is a little troll in here voting everyone down every time the make a sarcastic comment slamming this stupid decision by Texan lawmakers, lol.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:16 pmNO, NO you libs don’t get it! The driving force behind this is the hope that in the near future Texans will be collectively even stupider than they currently are. The plan is that by the year 2015 George W. Bush will no longer have the state’s lowest IQ.
Hey George, the childrens ain’t be learnin’ two gud deep in the heart of Texas are they?
When George was Governor of TX he and his Administration fought hard to pass laws to make kindergarten non-mandatory.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:18 pmOh wait, here is a better one…
Ambrose Bierce
August 21st, 2009 at 3:18 pmZooey says:
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Sooooo, only cowboys in Texas history books. No Indians?
August 21st, 2009 at 3:19 pmIndians dont amount for nothing, never have, never will, for the superior whites.
go ahead and secede already!
we don’t need this kind of politicization of our schools!
August 21st, 2009 at 3:20 pmThe state is starting to turn blue, so they have to do something to keep it red. Arent they also forcing the teaching of the bible in schools?
August 21st, 2009 at 3:20 pm“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” — Florence, S.C., January 11, 2000
“As yesterday’s positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.” — On the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass… a literacy test.”[22] — Townsend, Tennessee, February 21, 2001
“Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.” —Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004
August 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pmI love this one. A few weeks back a group of kids were here at the house visiting our kids and the discussion turned to dinosaurs.
I coyly asked one of them how many cave men he thought it took to take down one of those large beasts.
The speculation went on for some time and I never did point out the obvious at the time to avoid embarrassing them but I caught them each one or two at a time and pointed out the obvious problem with the scenario…..
The challenged me at first but after some internet searching they were a little pissed that they did not fully understand this obvious fact.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:25 pmApparently not everything is bigger in Texas.
What a vast collective of small minds.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:25 pmlurkmode says:
go ahead and secede already!
No seccession. They can be returned to Mexico if they want, but if they try to secede, I’ll be the first to advocate Civil War II, the Ultimate Smackdown.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pmFred, your last name wouldn’t be Flinsto… No, never mind.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:30 pmI left out a “t”
August 21st, 2009 at 3:31 pmTexas, and I am trapped here, is an embarrassment, a colossal embarrassment.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pmWhen I read things like this, I wonder if I am stuck in a nightmarish twilight zone episode.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:37 pmTXProgressive says:
Actually NO. Texas is the Second largest purchaser of Textbooks. I believe California is the largest
August 21st, 2009 at 3:37 pmThe holy roller theocracy is on its way, folks, unless we work hard to drive a stake through the repiggie beast.
This is the true expression of the repiggie crowd, no matter what some of them may protest to you quietly.
Please don’t vote for any repiggies in the local elections this fall. They all approve of this stuff. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be repiggies.
Texas is starting to resemble that Iranian type of theocracy that the incredibly dim-witted stupidhead DeMint of South Carolina warned about yesterday.
It’s not the Dems or the Greens doing this crap. It’s the g-damned repiggies.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:37 pmSecede already…..texas wingnuts.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:39 pmThe GOP cannot win over minds with facts and true history….they must resort to cherry picking history, revising history and manipulating minds……
August 21st, 2009 at 3:42 pmPropoganda and keeping the masses misinformed…that’s the GOP way.
smidget says:
To smart people who live in Texas I have one thing to say: What the f uck are you still doing in Texas?
I only moved to this backwards state 2 years ago for a good-paying job…a job I was laid off from (after only 8 months) because the project I was working on lost its funding due to Bushie’s asinine policies…..now I can’t afford to move back to the sanity of the North.
HELP ME OUT OF THIS LOONIE BIN !!!!
August 21st, 2009 at 3:44 pm18
August 21st, 2009 at 3:49 pmRelatively few educators in these parts?
Will they include Gingrich’s three wives history (dumping one on her cancer bed) and Limbaugh’s oxycontin purchase(cigar box of cash in maids hand) and his hearing loss due to the oxycontin abuse. Such great US values. And don’t forget both were draft dodgers.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:49 pmtombake @7
In the Old South it was a crime to educate a slave, which I believe included Texas. The ignorant are easier to control. So, this would be just an example of keeping with tradition. Old-time values and all that.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:52 pmIt kind of makes you wonder why in the hell we ever fought the civil war to keep the country together – please, Texas, just go away and take the rest of the south with you.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:53 pmarbereshe says @ 81
Okay guys. We need to start taking up a collection for the “Save arbereshe From Texas” fund.
In all seriousness….that sucks, man. Maybe you should try to get yourself to Austin, so you can at least have some level of sanity while you save up.
August 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pmWelcome to Animal Farm! I thought Abe Lincoln was a good guy? Republican Party and all. But this is Texas and home of the W, and other “leaders” that they revere.
August 21st, 2009 at 4:10 pmMy deepest sympathies to all of the progressives who might still be in Texas.
I always thought that “King of the Hill” was merely satire!
Progressive Texans–run away!
August 21st, 2009 at 4:13 pm“and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”
What? Like this?
“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”
– Thomas Jefferson
or this?
“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”
– James Madison
or this little nugget approved by 100% yea in the 1797 Senate, the Treaty of Tripoli:
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
August 21st, 2009 at 4:31 pmRewriting history, the ultimate Nazi move.
Phyllis Schlafly’s group is the one that created a list of the 10 Most Dangerous Books of the 19th and 20th centuryies (adding in Mein Kampf only after they were criticized for leaving it out): Dewey’s Democracy and Education is #5, just after The Kinsey Report and before Auguste Comte “Course of Positive Philosophy” John Maynard Keynes is #10.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=7591
August 21st, 2009 at 4:31 pmWhile it is sad that conservative Texans would force their ignorant world-view on children, it is sadder still that so many progressives on this board are ready to concede an entire state and all its people to that ignorance. After all, this is exactly what the conservatives would say, “If you don’t like it, leave.”
Every Liberal and Progressive on this board should be discussing how to fix this; particularly when – as several people have noted – Texas’ book buying decisions have an impact on the entire nation. Instead, we have posts that gleefully sling mud at an entire state and abandon millions of children to a future of fanatical ignorance.
Whose side are y’all on?
August 21st, 2009 at 4:38 pmIce9 says:
In the Old South it was a crime to educate a slave, which I believe included Texas. The ignorant are easier to control. So, this would be just an example of keeping with tradition.
So now they’re making slaves of their entire population, basically.
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NinerFan says:
“and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”
What? Like this?
Great quotes, thanks.
But I do think it would be instructive if more Americans had the chance to consider the fact that the Christian Pilgrims who settled on the Eastern seaboard were actually also driven out of a Christian nation (England). That they realized that having a state law meant that some would be disenfranchised, and they had a longstanding tradition of tolerance for differing religions and religious denominations between different communities, well before the Constitution was penned.
The problem with having state religion is that it immediately narrows to a specific form of that religion, excluding other forms, much as the Church of England excluded Puritans, Shakers and Quakers.
In Iran, many devout Muslims who supported the 1980 revolution later found their form of Islam outlawed. In fact, wherever a state religion is established, many of its early proponents quickly find themselves on the “losing side,” becoming the discriminatee rather than the discriminator, as they had planned.
The simple question to respond to the “we are a Christian nation because of the Pilgrims” meme is “Oh yeah? Then who were the Pilgrims fleeing from?”
August 21st, 2009 at 4:38 pmI pity the fools in Texas.
And their childrens, who isn’t gonna be learnin much.
August 21st, 2009 at 4:42 pmIf you want to help in the struggle to bring sanity back to the educational system, not only here in TX but in the US, please contact the state board of education. Heres a couple links…
TX education agency contact form – http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/tea/contact.html
State board of education – sboesupport@tea.state.tx.us.
August 21st, 2009 at 4:42 pmAnd another thing, according to a May 12, 2006 CBS article about Bible classes in public schools:
Let me repeat that: 37 states.
I am in no way defending any state’s choice to teach anything about the invisible sky-daddy and his zombie son. I am suggesting that some of you check your own state’s use of bible classes before, ahem, throwing stones at Texas.
August 21st, 2009 at 4:56 pm#58: dbadass says:
Well I suppose it might help some kids learn to find teh Dominican Republic on a map…
We did it (last month) the modern way. We used GPS and nav. electronics. “Go to the Turks and Caicos and hang a right….” The Hispaniola Current and the trades kicked the stuffing out of us, though … but fortunately we didn’t have to put up with Hurricane Bill’s swells.
Cheers,
August 21st, 2009 at 5:01 pmHaving attended public schools in Texas from the first through eighth grades, I can tell you that I got the impression that the South lost the Civil War on a technicality. When I took American History in an Indiana public school, I was floored. Most people in the class were quite familiar with a host of battles the South lost miserably; so when I took American History at the University of Texas, I was prepared for it.
But not for the story about the Pilgrims. All U.S. public schools tell fairy tales about the Pilgrims. After a riveting and horrifying college lecture about them, I went to the day care center I was working at and saw four year old children dressed up for a thanksgiving play. Seeing a mestizo child dressed as a Pilgrim after that lecture was kind of mortifying for me at that time. Later I spent some time being really mad. Why do they teach us this fairy story about Pilgrims, when the true story is widely available in college?
On reflection, I think kids should be taught a little historiography before they begin to study history. It should not be taught as if it were the one true story handed down on a stone tablet. I’m a bit disgusted with the “great man” approach to history anyway, but to have the great man focus while leaving out the great men they consider liberal is pure republican propaganda.
August 21st, 2009 at 5:04 pmAny effort to whitewash the 6 million dollar man out of existence, isn’t going to work.
What’s next? Jack Bauer didn’t really save the country from nuclear annihilation?
August 21st, 2009 at 5:20 pmAt first I thought this article came from The Onion. This is so sad. Let’s put pictures of caveman riding dinosaurs in the history books too!
August 21st, 2009 at 5:28 pmAny effort to whitewash the 6 million dollar man out of existence, isn’t going to work.
What’s next? Jack Bauer didn’t really save the country from nuclear annihilation
LOL Good one backup!
August 21st, 2009 at 5:34 pm96
August 21st, 2009 at 5:36 pmI made that trip when satnav first was the shits. The unit was twice as big as an old school vcr and you could only get a response when a satellite was directly overhead. Still DR is the shits…
Not to worry, given the current state of history education (especially in Texas), kids won’t learn the revisionist version either.
August 21st, 2009 at 6:08 pmRemember, this is the state that spawned No Child Left Behind, which was based on a testing program from the Houston City Schools, which included NO DATA ON DROPOUTS as a result of their program, making it actually Many Children Left Behind, eh?
August 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pmIn addition to his three wives, Newt also has a lesbian half-sister.
Bozo The Neoclown says:
August 21st, 2009 at 6:19 pmi wonder if they’ll include the fact phyllis schafly has a gay son or newt was playing “bury the pickle” with his mistress while at the same time trying to impeach the president for the same thing. or how tub-o-lard limpballs sent his maid out to score hillybilly heroin for him and how he got caught with a bag full of viagra coming back from his underaged child sex worker tour of the dominican republic?
Great! This should confirm Rush’s and Glenn’s image of themselves as more important to the United States than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
August 21st, 2009 at 6:20 pmI wonder how they are going to confiscate and destroy all those dinosaur bones those liberals planted around the world…
August 21st, 2009 at 7:12 pmI always thought that “King of the Hill” was merely satire!
The name of Hank Hills hometown of Arlen is based on a city near Dallas thats named Garland.
August 21st, 2009 at 7:21 pm
In Texas they are going to remove the biography of Stephen F. Austin? What they should be doing is discussing people like LBJ and his role in passing civil rights. Or maybe Sarah Weddington the lawyer on Roe v. Wade. Or Herminie Tobolowsky who was fundemental in the passing Texas civil rights.
August 21st, 2009 at 7:35 pmWhile the Texas State Board of Education has been an incubator for conservative politicians in Texas for years (I used to live there, back home safe in CA now….)– we can take heart in some voting results.
All four of Texas largest counties (Bexar, San Antonio; Harris, Houston; Travis, Austin; and even GWB’s own Dallas, Dallas) — went “blue” in the Nov 2008 Presidential election. Austin was something like 65-68%, it is a liberal, peace loving town that happens to have the state government.
I have many friends that still live in Texas and this kind of bs is NOT going to continue to fly.
With 82% of all Americans under 30 identifying themselves as “liberal/Democrat” — it could happen just with the natural cycle of life.
We can only hope.
August 21st, 2009 at 7:37 pmIndians Zooey?
Of course there are…in Tejhas they are called Democrats.
August 21st, 2009 at 7:44 pmI’m starting to think that Governor Perry’s threat for Texas to secede might not be such a bad idea after all. It might be worth it just to be rid of them.
But before we evacuate, let’s make sure that all movable property, possessions, and activities belonging to, or undertaken by, the United States are removed from this odious foriegn country. For starters: Every every single stick and piece of equipment at Fort Bliss. And NASA can surely shift its entire operations center back to Cape Canaveral. The list gets pretty long, pretty quick.
Let them invent their own Lone Star currency, too. Dick Armey on their 10, Phil Gramm on the 5, the Boy King on their 1. (Cornyn is worth about a nickel.) They don’t need to back it with anything; it will all be redeemable in heaven.
Finally, We won’t have to support them with federal money any more either (Already they siphon off much more than they contribute in federal revenue.)
Let these idiots go their own way. And good riddence.
[PS for ThinkProgress: How about a spell-checker? I'm rotten at it. I hope other readers will forgive any errors that exist here.]
August 21st, 2009 at 7:55 pmThe party of NO and STUPID rears its ugly head once again. I urge all children required to learn this drek to stand up and say, “no, AND HELL NO!”
August 21st, 2009 at 8:01 pmThe older I get, the more I learn that what they taughtme
August 21st, 2009 at 8:27 pmme in public schools was just Eurocentric crap. Just let me know who to donate money to in order to help Texas leave the Union. That state is anti-American and we do not need them.
The voters will need to do something about this.
And if they don’t – can we just let them secede already??????????
August 21st, 2009 at 8:36 pm*
Yes, let’s not teach our children about the FIRST president of the United States. I’d much rather them learn about an anal cysted, draft dodging, drug addict, doctor shopping, slob that was arrested trying to take illegal bags of viagra to an island known for sex with underage boys! That will serve them much better in the future.
August 21st, 2009 at 8:37 pmOf the fourteen characteristics of fascism, this displays the Republicans exhibiting both the eighth and the eleventh.
In fascist Germany, the Nazis took this to an extreme and had all education be completely party line. The Hitler youth program was the pinnacle of their achievement in total propagandized education.
The Texas Republicans have taken another step in this direction. They must be stopped.
August 21st, 2009 at 8:38 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Texas public schools have become the foremost right-wing training and breeding ground for producing even more dumbed-down conservatives.
August 21st, 2009 at 9:11 pmmarwick says:
I agree that this is a mistake. The textbooks should teach all of history, including how the liberal Progressive movement has its roots in Fascism.
Fascism was a right-wing movement in Germany, Spain, Italy, and everywhere else it’s ever occurred. Fascist minority parties are all right-wingers in the countries where they exist. Fascism always was, is, and always will be a right-wing phenomenon.
A modern description of fascism would be called “unitary executive theory.”
August 21st, 2009 at 9:16 pmmarwick,
That is probably the stupidest thing you could possibly say. You are brainwashed by the very fascism you think is somehow liberal or progressive.
I realize your mind cannot accept reality because you have had it distorted by a poor education, a weak mind, and continuous propaganda.
If it comes down to it, people like you will need to be deprogrammed in an education camp, and those camps will be your permanent residence unless you can open your mind to reality.
It’s not to late for you marwick, realize that fascism is a right wing phenomena, and it has taken over your mind. You are a victim of a movement that is out of control and which must be stopped at all costs before fascists control Americas nuclear, chemical and biological arsenals.
August 21st, 2009 at 9:23 pmWhile they’re at it, why don’t the rest of the nation impose that the only have access to only one TV channel, the FOX news network. Just so they can keep themselves informed.
August 21st, 2009 at 9:25 pmmarwick says:
My GOD you are a stupid lying piece of garbage. Only people as stupid as YOU dont understand fascism is a RIGHTWING political philosophy. Or you do understand you are just a liar who couldnt care less what is real or true. You hate reality you HATE facts you only want to tell whatever lie smears the left. You are a disgusting ignorant punkass troll without a shred of honesty or decency
August 21st, 2009 at 9:26 pmAugust 21st, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I was thinking about this earlier today and it seems to me that Texas and all the other “cracker” states will be like the youth of Japan who have no idea of Japans war of agression in WWII, the Rape of Nanking, the enslavement of Korea, Pearl Harbor etc…
I met many Japanese students who couldn’t believe what was in american textbooks (much like my wife couldn’t believe much about Tianeman until she saw it here for the first time).
Now americans will be choosing which states they want to raise their children in and moving apropriately (if funds allow), not wanting their kids to be among the dumbest in the nation – and now among the dumbest in the world.
I’m sure states like MA (yeah!) will have the common sense to counter the textbooks in some manner.
August 21st, 2009 at 9:52 pmI’ve got to figure a way to get my daughter and grandson out of that state, quick.
We’ve had some political discussions over the last two years and I fear she’s slipping over to the dark side, but there is some indication she’s not beyond hope. This just might be the trigger to get her out of there.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:15 pm117. Marwick,
You may have to do a lot of contortions to somehow show that liberalism is the offshoot of it’s opposite (fascism).
However, it is fairly easy to document that the Bushes have famous ancestor Prescott Bush who was part of a pro-business group which tried to get America to side with and incorporate Nazi-ism. He was also part of the American eugenics movement (the deformed have no rights to exist). He was also questionably tied with a plot to assasinate the president.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:35 pmRucking Fetards- secede! Keep Austin as a bastion of sanity.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:53 pmThe danger in this is that the stoopid will spread from Texas to most other states, because the publishers of text books give the big states what they want and the rest of us have to take it. Texas and California have long dictated what’s in our kids books at school.
August 21st, 2009 at 11:11 pm“George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and César Chávez”?
Just how are they going to teach about Christianity in America with out examples like Washington, Lincoln and Chávez?
And they’re dropping Austin?
WTF kind of Texans are these people?
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 amOther revisions planned by the Texas Board of Education:
1) Native Americans said “take our land, please“.
2) The slaves asked to be brought over from Africa.
3) Secession is the ultimate expression of patriotism, and the Civil War never happened.
4) Mexico was defeated at the Alamo, cause Sam Houston’s Texian Army makes the “300 Spartans” look like sissies in comparison.
5) Dinosaurs never existed. They’re part of the Darwinian hoax being perpetrated on good, God-fearing folks. And crude oil was deliberately injected underground by God specifically for humans to tap.
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 amWait, we are in the 21st century, right?
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 amTexas is trying to correct the last 30 years of liberal slant that you clowns were fed and are trying to jam down my kids throats- want a little proof?
http://www(dot)onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=277712
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:35 amHow dumb are people in Texas, really? I’m kind of concerned. My cousin lives there and she has two small children. Otherwise, I would advise they break off from the rest of the country, along with maybe a few other southern states, and form their own country where they can wallow in their biases and stupidity.
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 amWow…you guys make me sick. Your no better then the people who are trying to change the text books. The majority of you have sunk to a new low.
What they are doing is wrong. But, what the majority of you are doing is wrong as well.
You scream for the south to start it’s own country and that Christians are destroying this great Democracy that we have.
I just moved to the South. Thank God that I did! I was sick of the liberal trash being thrown around in public schools. Add that to the feminization of our male youth and I couldn’t think of a single reason to stay in the north. That’s ok….just keep doping up your kids with drugs too keep them calm and filling their heads with hate.
Again, you are NO BETTER then the far right.
August 22nd, 2009 at 2:06 amThe textbooks should teach all of history, including how the liberal Progressive movement has its roots in Fascism
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fascism
August 22nd, 2009 at 2:58 amyourtinfoilhatisway2tight says:
HA HA. Please tell me that even YOU arent stupid enough to buy that BS. Wow you wingnuts really are the stupidest people on the planet. I KNOW you dont like facts or reality. Do you really think it is a good idea to brainwash your children instead of exposing them to, you know, REALITY? I swear brainwashed morons like you hate facts more than a vampire hates sunlight
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:19 amdenmore says:
I recognize this tune. It is why wont liberals just take abuse and not give it back? What happened to liberals being passive while us MORONS insulted you endlessly. I am sure you liked it better. I am glad you moved to the south. All you morons should get together. Keep the stupid all in one place so we can minimize its deleterious effects. Ah the feminization programming. You cowardly PUNKS think being a man is all about posturing and being a jerk. Real men dont CARE about anyone or anything. At least that is what the stupidest people known to man, like YOU, seem to think. I could school you but why throw pearls before swine and I appologise to real pigs since everyone knows they are MUCH smarter than moron wingnuts like YOU
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:25 amdentroll,
I thought you were for free speech, but you certainly don’t think liberal bloggers ought to exercise that right.
And please don’t try to kid us into believing that meth use isn’t high in the rural south–not to mention the fact that the divorce and out-of-wedlock pregnancy rates are much higher in the red states than in the liberal blues that you disdain so much.
denmore says:
Wow…you guys make me sick. Your(SIC) no better then(SIC) the people who are trying to change the text books (”textbooks” should be one word). The majority of you have sunk to a new low.
What they are doing is wrong. But, what the majority of you are doing is wrong as well.
August 22nd, 2009 at 5:31 am………….
I just moved to the South. Thank God that I did! I was sick of the liberal trash being thrown around in public schools. Add that to the feminization of our male youth and I couldn’t think of a single reason to stay in the north. That’s ok….just keep doping up your kids with drugs too keep them calm and filling their heads with hate.
@denmore
We try to keep people informed and everyone can make their own minds if such information is factual, including you. Intolerance and ignorance are not excuses to get your panties in a wad.
Yet! here you are, with all of your beliefs stating we’re just plain wrong, when we’re trying to move this country forward as a whole, back into a respected place it once held and beyond it. Knowledge is power and those that wield it will succeed, in spite of the few recalcitrant stragglers whom either will follow or get left to their own devices.
The Church an State are separate institutions and should stay that way, the republican party for too long have appealed to your christian values and then turn around and defiled them in any way the can. I don’t condone it but it’s the stark truth, it doesn’t imply it’s contained into one party but at least the democrats are not blatant enough about it. This is about the USA, you and me are merely pawns if chosen to be persuaded by their ideology and feign ignorance of the truth.
“Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men”
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:16 am(Voltaire 1694-1778)
I think I finally understand why conservatives advocate burning books. I say we send a few hundred thousand Texas “history” textbooks up to Alaska and let the Palin family burn them for heat. That’s about all they’re good for anyway.
What a waste of a tree.
EugeneDebs says:
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TXProgressive says:
Actually NO. Texas is the Second largest purchaser of Textbooks. I believe California is the largest
Luckily for us, yes. California may have its problems (a sudden influx of conservative influence, for example), but I don’t believe the state will ever be as bass ackwards as Texas. If anything, the rise of ignorance and intolerance (AKA Republicanism) in California is due to its proximity to states like Texas and Arizona. Right wing ideology is a plague that easily penetrates and poisons all but the most intelligent members of society.
Which is not to say that all conservatives or conservatism in general is ignorant, just this particular brand of conservatism (registered trademark GOP). Not all conservatives are stupid people, but most stupid people are conservatives.
August 22nd, 2009 at 8:36 amSince the Texas Bored of Education is weighted 2/3 Republican, there is little doubt their revisionist views will prevail.
However, any State which adopts textbooks written to comply with Texas’ mandates had better opt out of Federal Funding for Education.
Why? Just imagine a State-full of children whose knowledge is shaped by neo-christian revisionist history taking the Federally mandated No Child Left Behind tests. Entire States will be left behind.
If the neo-christians want to change curriculum to match their ideology, they’re going to have to change the federally mandated tests, first.
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:34 amyourtinfoilhatisway2tight says:
Texas is trying to correct the last 30 years of liberal slant that you clowns were fed and are trying to jam down my kids throats- want a little proof?
Is that proof? Looks like an advertisement to me. I don’t see the listing of the “48 lies” at all in that article, just samples of a book that Larry Schweikart is trying to push. If anything, I see very little proof.
History is usually perceived by one side in the best way that would soften the side’s image, and very rarely does it present the full story. No one is going to be completely satisfied by how history is portrayed in textbooks–heck, there are people who refuse to believe it, despite all of the evidence presented.
However, having politics dictate the content of the books in this 2-to-1 ratio certainly brings discomfort to me. I’m someone who wants to see fair balance in education, even to parts of the country that are strongly blue or red.
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 amHmmm, the losers re-writing history? Only in America.
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 amAnd what exactly do they plan to do with this new batch of cannon fodder?
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:04 pmUnfortunately, Texas buys textbooks statewide and is the largest single purchaser of textbooks in the country, so what Texas mandates, other states get stuck with.
And yes, our Republicans are that stupid that they don’t realize that Lincoln was a Republican.
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 pmThree things come to mind:
1) They are unbelievably stupid, short-sighted demagogues;
2) Thank God they’re from Texas and
3) It makes me fear, further, for our country
Mo Rage
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:39 pmThe Blog
Once again the Texas board of education (aka board of religion) gives new meaning to the term DUMB AS HAIR. They should be proud to have kids who will be smart enough to get those great jobs at McDonald’s. Maybe.
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:20 pmI got an ideal for all of you butt humping liberals, don’t move to Texas and you will not have to worry about it. You can stay in San Francisco and teach you kids (if you have any) it was really Adam and Steve.
August 22nd, 2009 at 4:12 pmThere is long history of conservative Republicans attacking public education. A huge part of these attack were born out of reaction of the 60s civil rights legislation. A Texan Lyndon Johnson rammed the legislation through the Congress. As result what was a Democratic stronghold, the south, became a Republican stronghold. The attack on education has taken many forms, the home school movement is largely based on parents not wanting their kids attending school with blacks. Republicans typically want to reduce funding or divert funding to private or religious schools, the call for vouchers is intended to divert public funding in the guise of choice. The other approach is what we see here in Texas, controlling the curriculum. As it stands I don’t see a path to reverse this effort to control the votes of the next generation. And as previously mentioned, Texas controls a larger portion of the text book market, and a lot of small states have little choice in accepting books written to specification of the Texas Board of Education.
August 22nd, 2009 at 5:18 pmOf course, Texas’s graduates will have a limited selection of Colleges and Universities to choose from.
August 22nd, 2009 at 5:27 pmbleeding heart,
Is there anything worse than a redneck from Texas?
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:57 pmNice try. I did not think I needed to bring up my families racial composition but all of my children are adopted and of some variant of brown. But of course if I am from Texas and conservative and believe in God I must be a racist and a redneck, right? And who was educated in one of them there limited Universities? Of yeah, I also graduated from an East coast school and I make 175K a year. Want to try something else? Seems that whole States Rights thing seems to bring out the worst in “you people”. Put on your Che Guevara t-shirt, go buy some Ben and Jerry’s and after you get done with it take a hot bubble bath and try again Wilma.
August 22nd, 2009 at 7:29 pmIf you think this first wave of reactionary textbook revision is frightening, just wait until the kids subjected to it have kids of their own and subsequently demand that the history books state “God’s angels fought the American Revolution,” and the science textbooks state that the Earth is the center of the universe and God’s footstool.
This type of intellectual bludgeoning (and I use the term ‘intellectual’ loosely) is why Mexican nationals escape Texas and settle in Colorado: they can’t abide the fact their children will be further intellectually deprived and dumbed-down (and believe me, Colorado is no hotbed of progressive thinking).
Of course, Texans are pleased as a posse when anything furren is driven out, whether by pistol, ball bat, bullwhip, or Bible.
Here is how you know we’ve crested again on the doom meter: when another right wing Texan wins the presidency. Time to expect another war for big oil.
August 22nd, 2009 at 8:54 pm2xPurpleHeart says:
I got a good idea for you bone ignorant conservative shiteaters. Kiss my ass then go kill yourself for the good of mankind.
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm2xPurpleHeart says:
Sure you do. More like you make a dollar seventy five cents a DAY blowing crackheads for pocketchange. I dont care what your racial anything is. I care about how staggeringly stupid you are. I do love to laugh at morons as stupid as you
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 pmWhat’s next? A major in Faux News and Russ Limpballs?
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 pmAnother reason to hate Texas.
Juan Diaz’s “win” over Paulie Malignaggi. Paulie just kicked his butt, but you can’t have a New Yorker beating a Texan.
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:30 am“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
- Thomas Jefferson”
Ninerfan you do realize that’s not an actual Jefferson quote right?
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:38 amEugeneDebs says:
“I got a good idea for you bone ignorant conservative shiteaters. Kiss my ass then go kill yourself for the good of mankind.”
“Sure you do. More like you make a dollar seventy five cents a DAY blowing crackheads for pocketchange. I dont care what your racial anything is. I care about how staggeringly stupid you are. I do love to laugh at morons as stupid as you.”
What’s wrong? Did your your welfare check not get deposited on time? Or is it a deeper issue, maybe your crackhead mommy never breast feed you? Maybe your “life patner” did not use KY. No matter you prove my point, you sick, lost, little homos can never stay on the debate of the issue. When faced with something as complex as States Rights “Kiss my ass then go kill yourself for the good of mankind.” will always be the best you can come up with.
August 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 amEugeneDebs, just for you. Who is stupid? Laughing to the bank.
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I grew up in Texas and remember being asked on the first day of American History class, “Who here does NOT think that America is number one?”
My mouth dropped open.
I was further shocked when upon raising my lonely hand, thinking this was a spring board for further discussion, and hearing a few of my fellow students say I should be deported, the teacher said, “Okay then, which country do YOU think is better?”
He then proceeded to tear apart my feeble suggestions.
It’s one of those moments you regret not saying the right thing for the rest of your life.
This went for the rest of his miserable right-leaning, America love it or leave it community college class. And he was the head of the History department!
Texas, and the conservatives, don’t play fair they never have.
August 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 amBut they are smart and know how to move the masses in their direction…there’s no other way their party would ever be competitive if they didn’t have the wage slaves praising there corporate masters.
Sorry for the grammar and such, it’s late!
August 23rd, 2009 at 4:16 amTheLongRanger, I do not agree with you, but at least based on the way you framed your statement, I can agree to disagree.
August 23rd, 2009 at 5:01 amthere’s no other way their party would ever be competitive if they didn’t have the wage slaves praising there corporate masters.
You must mean the wage slaves like UAW, AFT, SAG, and all those other hatemongering, racist, conservative organizations, right?
I wonder, how could any self-respecting textbook agency actually do this to kids though? I suppose the $$$ is all that matters in the end. What a shame, you think at least they would have some dignity so as to not put their company name on that type of book. They would be effectively sponsoring brain-washing, which looks great on any company’s resume. Oh wait… it would for those who are looking to brainwash kids.
2xPurpleHeart, I agree with you that all some people can do is thrash wildly, call names, and have absolutely nothing to add to the debate, but two wrongs don’t make a right. States rights are one thing, but what about the rights of the children to a good education? This decision by the board, if it comes down, is going to show only one side of the issue. A GOOD textbook should show NO sides of an issue, instead giving students solid facts about what happened and letting the student take it from there.
The Republicans are once again trashing true conservatives. I am not a Republican, I am a conservative, and I believe what they are doing is WRONG. Commence flaming.
August 23rd, 2009 at 10:26 amDallas says:
Unfortunately, Texas buys textbooks statewide and is the largest single purchaser of textbooks in the country, so what Texas mandates, other states get stuck with.
And yes, our Republicans are that stupid that they don’t realize that Lincoln was a Republican.
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
And WHO profited from All Children Left Behind??
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/29/340312/-Bush-Profiteers-collect-billions-from-NCLB,-Part-23
http://current.com/items/89544845_bush-profiteers-collect-billions-from-no-child-left-behind.htm
Education, healthcare, national defense are among the things that cannot be left to for PROFIT corporations……
August 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 amTheLoneRanger,
Just because someone teaches a class in college doesn’t mean he can’t be an as*hole. What a horrible experience. I feel for you.
August 23rd, 2009 at 12:47 pmIt was people like them who had us believing that “Jesus” is/was blond and has blue eyes.
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:42 pmOkay — reading these comments shows me that supposedly “sane” people are eager to jump on the sweeping generalizations that everyone in Texas is either a blithering idiot right winger or impotent, pitiable liberal. No one pointed out that all the urban areas and some others went blue in the last election; or noted that Rachel Maddow recently reported that fewer Texans identify themselves as Republicans throughout the state. It seems to be open season on clear thinking if Texas is concerned. Come on, people — Texas is full of people who settled from all over the country and the world, many in the last few years. It would be great if the self-perceived morally superior non-Texans would look at TxProgressive’s comments on and do something constructive besides make themselves feel better by imitating the non-thinking bigots they claim to hate instead of joining the progressives in Texas to make it a better place for everyone–at least as good as some of the other Red states or places in the USA that have spawned some astonishingly ignorant political representatives. Do y’all really think you’re that different? I’ve lived in states on both coasts, the midwest, and Texas and found good people and disturbing ones everywhere.
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 pm