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Texas Textbooks

There's been a lot of scare going around about the Texas textbooks... actually a lot of fear mongering... and guess where from!? Fox News! Of course...

The Texas Education Agency criticized Fox & Friends for reporting "highly inaccurate information about the State Board of Education's efforts to adopt the new social studies curriculum standards." http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=8203

:twisted:

-jfff
http://jesusfetusfajitafishsticks.blogspot.com


(Also, a link to watch the school board's web cast can be found on my blog... also a link to read the standards.)

Prom cancelled after Lesbians try to go together

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lesbian_prom_date

I don't know how I feel about this, so I figured I'd ask the community.

On the one hand, i want to say "get over it, the times they are a changin" and on the other, I think "these are publicly funded schools, if the community sees this as something that they do not want their children exposed to, they ahve the right to voice opinion to pressure the school"

What do you all think? Was cancelling the prom the right decision?

Double Standards

I've taken some time to give an analysis on some double standards I've noticed over the years.

The double standards I'm referring to are race or religion-based or whatever you wanna call it. For every forum I've been on there's always one poster with the "let's wipe out Islam" or "get rid of blacks" mentality, and they make themselves known as racists and bigots.

Let's take Arabs and Muslims for example. And yes there's quite a few people who don't like either group, and they're proud of it and they know who they are. Very quick to ask for any incidences of Muslims condemning terrorism and al-Qaeda whenever said terrorist group does something. In my experiences the logic of the bigots (yes I'm talking about you) is that if there aren't Muslims taking up arms or holding speeches or whatever, then they are supporters of terrorism by default. Never mind that most peaceful Arabs and Muslims are just interested in living their own lives without having to get into politics and I can't blame them. Just from what I've seen in my long years visiting forums.

So I see that same logic is not applied to any other particular group, lets say whites who take part in white supremacist activities and burning crosses in lawns or beating the (*)(*)(*)(*) out of anyone who isn't white and Christian. No one goes around claiming that all white people are racists and love stirring up hate crimes because someone didn't openly condemn this.

Or with blacks, or at least not as often. Every time there's a homicide, murder or anything of the sort and a black person is the suspect it's very rare that I hear someone foam at the mouth about wanting to see groups of black people openly condemning this and if they aren't then they automatically love the gang-filled lifestyle.

Anyway, that's just my analysis. You're all allowed to draw your own conclusions.

House Dem’s: Lets Pass HCR WITHOUT a Vote!

Pelosi is obviously no fan of the constitution, but this one is a real corker.

Quote:

House Democrats looking at 'Slaughter Solution' to pass Obamacare without a vote on Senate bill UPDATED!
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
03/10/10 4:17 PM EST
Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?

Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal's Congress Daily:

"House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday.

"Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.

"Slaughter has not taken the plan to Speaker Pelosi as Democrats await CBO scores on the corrections bill. 'Once the CBO gives us the score, we'll spring right on it,' she said."

Each bill that comes before the House for a vote on final passage must be given a rule that determines things like whether the minority would be able to offer amendments to it from the floor.

In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House "deems" the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.
Would that rationale fly with the public? Is it logical? Of course not. But remember, these folks have persuaded themselves that a majority of the American people really want Obamacare. A blog post on House Minority Leader John Boehner's blog described the approach as a "twisted scheme."

How much fun will it be for Democrats representing congressional districts carried by John McCain in 2008 to be constantly reminded about the Cornhusker Bargain, the Louisiana Purchase, the Slaughter Solution, the death panels, $500 billion in cuts to Medicare, individual mandates, etc. etc
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...#ixzz0hsjkUvYY

Looks like they are willing to pull out all the stops, including trampling on the legislative process and the Constitution, to ram Obama's 1st big piece of "fundamental change" down our throats.
This is a gimmick that boarders on criminal and should be loudly condemned by all America's despite their political stripes.
http://biggovernment.com/sahiller/20...re/#more-87326

House rejects Kucinich’s Afghan withdrawal measure

Quote:

The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a symbolic resolution calling for the removal of troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and a group of mainly liberal members who argue the war cannot be won, was defeated 356 to 65, with only five Republicans and 60 Democrats backing it.

Democratic leaders took up the measure knowing it would not pass, but wanted to give frustrated liberals a chance to register their opposition to the Afghanistan policies of President Obama, who last December announced an increase of 30,000 troops to fight the Taliban and stabilize the government in Afghanistan.

The resolution led to an unusual three-hour debate on war policy, one of the few formal House floor sessions on Afghanistan since the U.S. sent troops there in 2001 following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Some Republicans passionately praised Obama for his policies on Afghanistan during the debate, while many liberal Democrats angrily denounced the continuing U.S. involvement there, although most refrained from attacking Obama directly. Neither party's leadership formally instructed their members to take one side or the other in the debate as they do on most important votes.

"The military escalation cements the path of the United States down the road of previous occupiers that earned Afghanistan its nickname as the 'graveyard of empires," said Kucinich.

I just thought I'd post this to present an example of what real liberals are like. I get so tired of the characterization of Obama and other Democrats as Marxists and soft on terror and national defense.

They are centrists.

Kucinich and the others who voted for this resolution are real progressives and real indepents (even the Republicans).

There's a difference.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/....html?wprss=44