Far Left Losing Control of American Schools.

[Mitsui2]

Still, keep giving your dollars to Pat Buchanan and someday you might meet jebus.

Okay, b.a., it was no doubt a typo, but I think "jebus" is a brilliant unconscious neologism!

I can see it now!

Just think: "He was a small-time carpenter's boy with personal problems and holes in his hands. He could walk on water, but still he was drowning in the sludge of the amoral city. Determined, music-loving, crowned with thorns and crucified by doubt, still he prowled the mean back streets of Edinburgh. the Jewish Detective Inspector determined to put a troubled world to rights..."

There's a film franchicse there if you could just clear it with Ian Rankin!

And hey, if you need a scriptwriter... I'm at the other end of a PM!

[Mitsui2]

texas conservatives win curriculum change

after three days of turbulent meetings, the texas board of education on friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of american capitalism, questioning the founding fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting republican political philosophies in a more positive light.

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the conservative members maintain that they are trying to correct what they see as a liberal bias among the teachers who proposed the curriculum. To that end, they made dozens of minor changes aimed at calling into question, among other things, concepts like the separation of church and state and the secular nature of the american revolution.

“i reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said david bradley, a conservative from beaumont who works in real estate. “i have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the constitution.”

they also included a plank to ensure that students learn about “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including phyllis schlafly, the contract with america, the heritage foundation, the moral majority and the national rifle association.”

texas conservatives win vote on textbook standards - nytimes.com
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school cancels prom after homosexual pupil asks to take her ''girlfriend''... And wear a tuxedo

a teenager's battle to be allowed to take her girlfriend to her school prom has divided america.

Constance mcmillen has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to order the dance to go ahead after her school cancelled it rather than let the same-sex couple attend.

Miss mcmillen, 18, is also demanding the right to wear male evening dress instead of the traditional prom gown.

constance mcmillen: School bans prom after lesbian student asks to take girlfriend... And wear a tuxedo | mail online

The Far Left are in control of Amrican classrooms.

N-U-T alert!

[b.a. baracus]

Okay, b.a., it was no doubt a typo, but I think "jebus" is a brilliant unconscious neologism!

I can see it now!

Just think: "He was a small-time carpenter's boy with personal problems and holes in his hands. He could walk on water, but still he was drowning in the sludge of the amoral city. Determined, music-loving, crowned with thorns and crucified by doubt, still he prowled the mean back streets of Edinburgh. the Jewish Detective Inspector determined to put a troubled world to rights..."

There's a film franchicse there if you could just clear it with Ian Rankin!

And hey, if you need a scriptwriter... I'm at the other end of a PM!

Not a typo:
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cl26POZGzA"]YouTube- Save Me Jebus![/nomedia]

But I like where you are coming from. I think you have given me enough to work up a draft of the first book of the series. Our hero can be a hard bitten barfly in the Oxford spreading a bit of the gospel in between drinking heavy ales and breaking up vice rings. Pity Rankin already used the title "Resurrection Man".

[Clanrickard]

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[dotski_w_]

Welcome to the Obama backlash. Real America is finding it's voice, growing a backbone and standing up to the radical left.

Are you lost, sonny? Go back to the Oreos.
Horses, yesterday

[cgcsb2]

Nobody ever agreed that the WMD's in question ever did exist. The UN did not support the Iraq invasion because most of the voting members did not believe the WMD evidence and voted against it.

Ok, I'm aware of that, but the US and UK had different ideas.

I do not know why it keeps being brought up.
In your opinion what was the US and UK's genuine intentions in invading Iraq?

I have no idea, I'd like Bush and Blair to answer that one, more importantly I'd like to know why Bush snr. installed Sadam as dictator of Iraq 12 years earlier.

[IvoShandor]

No need to bring Godwin in here,this kind of poisonous partisanship is equivalent to nutcase FFers wanting to change the Irish curriculum to to give space to theories about the origins of the Irish in the Tuatha de Danaan...or the fairies, and to promote material which will show that Brian Boru and Patrick Pearse were Fianna Failers and that Charlie Haughey was Ireland greatest hero.
If these neanderthal knuckle-draggers get their way the next things to appear on Texas curriculum will be Ann Coulters "Godless" and Limbaughs "The Way things ought to be".

[Joseph Emmet]

I'd like to know why Bush snr. installed Sadam as dictator of Iraq 12 years earlier.

Where the f... did this come from? Sadam seized power in 1979. GHW Bush wasn't even a gov't position and that was certainly more than 12 years before the present war in Iraq began.

What has this to do with the topic here?

[Joseph Emmet]

How is it that the decision made in one small school district or even in one state can be extrapolated to the whole of the U.S. The first case is the cancellation of a high school prom in Mississippi. Mississippi is one of the most religiously conservative areas of the country. Texas is also politically and religiously conservative. There is no way that what happens in these regions of the U.S. can be used to comment on the U.S. as a whole.

[CiaranMc]

How is it that the decision made in one small school district or even in one state can be extrapolated to the whole of the U.S. The first case is the cancellation of a high school prom in Mississippi. Mississippi is one of the most religiously conservative areas of the country. Texas is also politically and religiously conservative. There is no way that what happens in these regions of the U.S. can be used to comment on the U.S. as a whole.

Read this and weep:

"...when it comes to textbooks, what happens in Texas rarely stays in Texas. The reasons for this are economic: Texas is the nation’s second-largest textbook market and one of the few biggies where the state picks what books schools can buy rather than leaving it up to the whims of local districts, which means publishers that get their books approved can count on millions of dollars in sales. As a result, the Lone Star State has outsized influence over the reading material used in classrooms nationwide, since publishers craft their standard textbooks based on the specs of the biggest buyers. As one senior industry executive told me, “Publishers will do whatever it takes to get on the Texas list.”

Until recently, Texas’s influence was balanced to some degree by the more-liberal pull of California, the nation’s largest textbook market. But its economy is in such shambles that California has put off buying new books until at least 2014. This means that McLeroy and his ultraconservative crew have unparalleled power to shape the textbooks that children around the country read for years to come."

Revisionaries - Mariah Blake