Comments on: Texas plans to politicize textbooks the conservative Republican way http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/ Thoughtful commentary on the ideas, events, people and policies shaping our world Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:12:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: S.W. Anderson http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101699 S.W. Anderson Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:38:39 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101699 <p>Jeff, that's both a novel and plausible possibility.  Or, maybe it's being put out there to distract from the craziness of what Perry said about seceding, since he's running for re-election.</p> Jeff, that’s both a novel and plausible possibility.  Or, maybe it’s being put out there to distract from the craziness of what Perry said about seceding, since he’s running for re-election.

]]> By: Jeff Shaumeyer http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101695 Jeff Shaumeyer Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:02:45 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101695 Didn't Nixon resign his presidency so he could run for governor of Alaska? You know, to help the country. At moments of personal craziness I wonder whether this move to deify the wackiest of conservatives has the useful benefit of taking the focus off Texan's efforts to make sure that good evolutionary science is "balanced" with absurd creationist tracts in science classes. Those conservatives: so clever when we think it can get any crazier. Didn’t Nixon resign his presidency so he could run for governor of Alaska? You know, to help the country.
At moments of personal craziness I wonder whether this move to deify the wackiest of conservatives has the useful benefit of taking the focus off Texan’s efforts to make sure that good evolutionary science is “balanced” with absurd creationist tracts in science classes.
Those conservatives: so clever when we think it can get any crazier.

]]> By: S.W. Anderson http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101689 S.W. Anderson Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:03:50 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101689 <p>Terrell, I feel great empathy for southern Democrats. I know what it's like.  I'm in the red half of a blue state. My congresswoman is easily ID'd by the moss growing on her north side, the RNC talking points memo she's reading from, and the tin-soldier shuffle she does in close-order drill with her GOP colleagues.</p> <p>As I'm sure you realize, though,  LBJ, Ivins, Carter and the rest were then.  Bad news boors such as Perry,  Rove, Cornyn, Chambliss,  Sessions, Shelby, Vitter, Coburn, DeMint, etc., are here and now.</p> <p>Re: "wide sitz," LOL, I so don't want to know.</p> Terrell, I feel great empathy for southern Democrats. I know what it’s like.  I’m in the red half of a blue state. My congresswoman is easily ID’d by the moss growing on her north side, the RNC talking points memo she’s reading from, and the tin-soldier shuffle she does in close-order drill with her GOP colleagues.

As I’m sure you realize, though,  LBJ, Ivins, Carter and the rest were then.  Bad news boors such as Perry,  Rove, Cornyn, Chambliss,  Sessions, Shelby, Vitter, Coburn, DeMint, etc., are here and now.

Re: “wide sitz,” LOL, I so don’t want to know.

]]> By: Aloneonalimb http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101688 Aloneonalimb Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:38:38 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101688 Come on guys, we Democrats in the south have a hard enough time without you guys painting us all with the same toilet brush. Remember Ann Richards, Lyndon Johnson, Molly Ivins, John Lewis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Lloyd Bentsen, etc. The geniuses who came up with the "first draft" mentioned above deserve your derision, but we ain't all idgits!   On another topic: I've always wondered about Craig's "wide stance" from a linguistic angle. Could he have meant "wide sitz"? Come on guys, we Democrats in the south have a hard enough time without you guys painting us all with the same toilet brush. Remember Ann Richards, Lyndon Johnson, Molly Ivins, John Lewis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Lloyd Bentsen, etc.
The geniuses who came up with the “first draft” mentioned above deserve your derision, but we ain’t all idgits!
 
On another topic: I’ve always wondered about Craig’s “wide stance” from a linguistic angle. Could he have meant “wide sitz”?

]]> By: S.W. Anderson http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101671 S.W. Anderson Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:53:35 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101671 <p>Tom, LOL, that's good. Be sure to include how swell it was of the cavalry to relocate many natives — so the railroads wouldn't terrorize or run them over.</p> Tom, LOL, that’s good. Be sure to include how swell it was of the cavalry to relocate many natives — so the railroads wouldn’t terrorize or run them over.

]]> By: Tom Harper http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101668 Tom Harper Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:04:17 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101668 America was founded by a brave band of clean-cut men wearing Brooks Brothers suits and carrying briefcases.  When they first arrived here, they were nice to the primitive natives who were already here.  But there weren't very many of them and soon they all died of natural causes.   Anyway, that's part of  my first draft.  I'm working on a submission to the Texas Board of Education. America was founded by a brave band of clean-cut men wearing Brooks Brothers suits and carrying briefcases.  When they first arrived here, they were nice to the primitive natives who were already here.  But there weren’t very many of them and soon they all died of natural causes.
 
Anyway, that’s part of  my first draft.  I’m working on a submission to the Texas Board of Education.

]]> By: S.W. Anderson http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101661 S.W. Anderson Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:45:20 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101661 <p><b>Bee</b>, I've wondered if it's the water, the Lone Star beer, or some other tainted thing that warps so many in Texas. I don't like to dump on a whole state. But considering the political idiocy, lowlifes and skulduggery coming out of there in recent decades, it's hard not to.</p> <p> <b>Demeur</b>, I expect the wingnuts are why there's no mention of  Watergate in textbooks. The kids who happen to know Nixon resigned probably guess he wanted to spend more time with his family or mistress. Oh well, in a country with a hollowed out economy whose major exports are jobs and debt, why bother to educate the young completely and well?  They can go fight oil wars in the Mideast and be motel maids and pizza deliverers with a hollowed-out grade school education.</p> <p><b>Holte</b>, imagine being 19 and hearing for the first time that Ronald Reagan wasn't really the father of our country.</p> Bee, I’ve wondered if it’s the water, the Lone Star beer, or some other tainted thing that warps so many in Texas. I don’t like to dump on a whole state. But considering the political idiocy, lowlifes and skulduggery coming out of there in recent decades, it’s hard not to.

Demeur, I expect the wingnuts are why there’s no mention of  Watergate in textbooks. The kids who happen to know Nixon resigned probably guess he wanted to spend more time with his family or mistress. Oh well, in a country with a hollowed out economy whose major exports are jobs and debt, why bother to educate the young completely and well?  They can go fight oil wars in the Mideast and be motel maids and pizza deliverers with a hollowed-out grade school education.

Holte, imagine being 19 and hearing for the first time that Ronald Reagan wasn’t really the father of our country.

]]> By: holte ender http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101659 holte ender Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:33:48 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101659 The poor high school kids will be in for a shock if they are fortunate to go to a top Texas university for further education. Their professors will be pulling tufts of hair out, trying to explain to these indoctrinated individuals that: "No, Newt Gingrich is not the greatest American of all time . . . Richard Nixon was a crook . .  Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are celebrities, NOT philosophers . .." We wonder why things don't improve,  those wackos keep poisoning the stream.   The poor high school kids will be in for a shock if they are fortunate to go to a top Texas university for further education. Their professors will be pulling tufts of hair out, trying to explain to these indoctrinated individuals that: “No, Newt Gingrich is not the greatest American of all time . . . Richard Nixon was a crook . .  Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are celebrities, NOT philosophers . ..”
We wonder why things don’t improve,  those wackos keep poisoning the stream.
 

]]> By: Demeur http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101658 Demeur Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:11:34 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101658 The wingnuts will be delighted to know that watergate is not in high school history books. No mention of it at all. The wingnuts will be delighted to know that watergate is not in high school history books. No mention of it at all.

]]> By: Bee http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/comment-page-1/#comment-101657 Bee Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:07:53 +0000 http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2966#comment-101657 Ok, putting that stuff in textbooks is just totally nuttery bonkers. That said, I have to wonder if someone really is putting crazy juice in the water supplies. They've always been a bit wacked in texas, but lately they keep rising to new heights of wackadoo. I would love to see them secede - the drug lords on the border would take over the entire state within a month. I have to admit it would be rather gratifying to see them come slobbering back with tails between legs asking for military assistance getting those heads off the pikes outside the State Capital building. Ok, putting that stuff in textbooks is just totally nuttery bonkers.

That said, I have to wonder if someone really is putting crazy juice in the water supplies. They’ve always been a bit wacked in texas, but lately they keep rising to new heights of wackadoo.

I would love to see them secede – the drug lords on the border would take over the entire state within a month. I have to admit it would be rather gratifying to see them come slobbering back with tails between legs asking for military assistance getting those heads off the pikes outside the State Capital building.

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