US History Lessons
Cliff
"the words of former Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska: 選f [the Pledge] was good
enough for the founding fathers, its [sic] good enough for me . . . 藻"
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005130499
"The Texas twist: textbooks unfit for consumption"
[
Texas Gov. Rick Perry knew what he was doing when he declared with a straight
face that he might lead a Lone Star State movement to secede from the rest of
the United States and go it alone because of Washington policies. Such brash,
wacky talk helped him beat the far more moderate, even-keeled Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison in the GOP primary.
Perry offered more big talk, which Texans relish. Yet, it's not big talk, but
lunacy that's happening over at the state's Board of Education. The 10-member
majority consists of unabashed far-out conservatives who are vowing to help
create a new national group-think tilted toward their politics by approving
social studies textbooks they deem historically correct and ideologically pure.
The five-member minority's opposition has been futile.
Don't scoff. As the largest state buyer of school textbooks, Texas, in effect,
forces publishers to adopt the Lone Star versions that are also sold in other
states.
So, reasons the Texas education board, if other states teach young people what
Texans believe about American history, in a generation or so the adult mindset
will be canted toward conservatism.
Not all Texans are sanguine about this attempt to twist, rewrite and blur
history.
Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd, among others, writes that "this
whacked-out troop of under qualified ideologues ... embarrass us, humiliate us,
make us look like a bunch of goobers."
A list of inclusions and omissions as well as twisted history suggests the board
is unapologetically racist, revisionist and obsessed by what they consider
"liberal."
The board eliminated listing eight Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) who died alongside
Davey Crockett at the Alamo 174 years ago. It de-emphasized Thomas Jefferson and
ordered more history about Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
The board also included data suggesting it agreed with Sen. Joe McCarthy's
allegations that the U.S. State Department was crawling with communists in the
1950s (never proven by McCarthy).
Hip-hop, mostly a black phenomenon, also was rejected for inclusion in the
textbooks as an influence on culture.
The board majority also rejected requirements that teachers and textbooks cover
the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, but
increased textbook attention to President Ronald Reagan. The board has until May
to change its mind. Not likely.
....
]
Cliff
http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/6092-anything-but-straight-texas-fool-board.html
"Anything But Straight: Texas Fool Board"
[
Last week, the Texas Board of Education voted 10-5, along party lines, to
replace history textbooks with right wing political propaganda. The vote
followed a separate, contentious scrum over whether creationism should be taught
in science courses.
Would it not have been easier to have simply jettisoned all textbooks and
replaced them with episodes of Glenn Beck and Pat Robertson's 700 Club on a
continuous loop during school hours?
In defending his bid to jam creationism into the school science curriculum and
rewrite history, ultra-conservative board member, Dr. Don McLeroy, said,
"Somebody's gotta stand up to experts."
....
Of course, many fundamentalists have long disdained experts, such as historians,
because they have a tendency to reveal men like McLeroy to be agenda-driven
amateurs. The extremism of the Texas School Board is evident by the guidelines
they voted for.
For example, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, the Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly
and the National Rifle Association have replaced Thomas Jefferson. This is in a
despicable effort to marginalize the man who coined the phrase, "separation of
church and state", while elevating America as a right wing "Christian Nation."
(Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein were also eliminated to make room for these
conservatives)
Newt Gingrich's flash-in-the-pan Contract with America and Rev. Jerry Falwell's
short-lived Moral Majority are elevated as historically important, while the
supposed religious roots of the American Revolution will be now be studied.
"I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and
state," David Bradley, a conservative school board member from Beaumont, told
The New York Times.
Social conservatives have created an entire industry to twist our nation's
history.
....
The bloc of seven fundamentalists on the Texas Board of Education doesn't really
care about public education. In fact, several members either home school their
children or send them to private schools.
....
]
Pong Lrick
"Cliff" <Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote in message
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> http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/16/28985/
> "the words of former Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska: 'If [the Pledge] was
> good
> enough for the founding fathers, its [sic] good enough for me . . . '""
trim
Pong Lrick
"Cliff" <Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote in message
news:qt52q5tv67jutj5t0...@4ax.com...
> http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/16/28985/
> "the words of former Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska: 'If [the Pledge] was
> good
> enough for the founding fathers, its [sic] good enough for me . . . '""
trim
§nühw¤Łf
of pure thought with
news:8a52q5tna53hufjh9...@4ax.com:
> http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/16/28985/
> "the words of former Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska: 選f [the
> Pledge] was good
> enough for the founding fathers, its [sic] good enough for me . .
> . 藻"
>
> http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005130499
> "The Texas twist: textbooks unfit for consumption"
> [
>
> Texas Gov. Rick Perry
Hes a retard...
> knew what he was doing when he declared with
> a straight face that he might lead a Lone Star State movement to
> secede from the rest of the United States and go it alone because
> of Washington policies.
Too bad he didnt keep his promise. He should take floriDUH along too.
> Such brash, wacky talk helped him beat the
> far more moderate, even-keeled Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the
> GOP primary.
>
Right, she's not k00ky at all.
> Perry offered more big talk, which Texans relish. Yet, it's not
> big talk, but lunacy that's happening over at the state's Board of
> Education. The 10-member majority consists of unabashed far-out
> conservatives who are vowing to help create a new national
> group-think tilted toward their politics by approving social
> studies textbooks they deem historically correct and ideologically
> pure. The five-member minority's opposition has been futile.
I bet they invoked Jebus...
>
> Don't scoff.
Too fucking late. Everything coming outta texASS that didnt involve a
guitar is pretty much worthless.
> As the largest state buyer of school textbooks,
> Texas, in effect, forces publishers to adopt the Lone Star
> versions that are also sold in other states.
>
What a fucking scam.
> So, reasons the Texas education board, if other states teach young
> people what Texans believe about American history, in a generation
> or so the adult mindset will be canted toward conservatism.
>
Translation: the spread of ignorance continues unabated at the hands
of our corporate overlords.
YAY AMURIKUH!
> Not all Texans are sanguine about this attempt to twist, rewrite
> and blur history.
>
All six of them with I.Q.'s above 100, sure.
> Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd, among others,
> writes that "this whacked-out troop of under qualified ideologues
> ... embarrass us, humiliate us, make us look like a bunch of
> goobers."
>
Old News.
> A list of inclusions and omissions as well as twisted history
> suggests the board is unapologetically racist, revisionist and
> obsessed by what they consider "liberal."
>
BUT THEY"RE DOWN WITH JEBUS!
So its all good...
> The board eliminated listing eight Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) who
> died alongside Davey Crockett at the Alamo 174 years ago. It
> de-emphasized Thomas Jefferson and ordered more history about
> Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
>
Its got more piccys of the REBEL FLAG and pickups in it too!
Its "Aryan Approved"!
> The board also included data suggesting it agreed with Sen. Joe
> McCarthy's allegations that the U.S. State Department was crawling
> with communists in the 1950s (never proven by McCarthy).
>
McCarthy was a known alcoholic who died of liver failure.
FYI
> Hip-hop, mostly a black phenomenon, also was rejected for
> inclusion in the textbooks as an influence on culture.
>
BUAHAHAHAHAHA! Fear of uppty blacks, yep.
> The board majority also rejected requirements that teachers and
> textbooks cover the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and Supreme Court
> Justice Sonia Sotomayor, but increased textbook attention to
> President Ronald Reagan. The board has until May to change its
> mind. Not likely. ....
>]
>
Fuck Reagan. That shitdrip was asleep for most of his presidency.
Word.
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