[Vision2020] And You Think The Idaho SBOE is Just a Little Off

[Tom Hansen]

One option open to Texas (kinda somewhat) is to

1)  Secede from the union (not that this is ever likely to happen).

2)  Establish "Texasistan" as a third-world country.

3)  Seek foreign aid from the US.

If steps 1 and 2 were to become reality, step 3, in all likelihood, would
not make it through the US Congress.  The United States simply will not
aid a country that harbors terrorists.  In this event, Texasistan will
terminate any/all extradition treaties with the US.  Thus, making
Texasistan a haven for the likes of Bush, Ashcroft, Rove, Gonzales,
Rumsfeld, Cheney, . . . , . . . , . . . as the list growsand grows with
each published memo.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


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> Tom,
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> I was never in favor of a wall between the US and Mexico, although I do
> think the boarder needs tightened (a lot!) Once Texas started making
> rumblings of secession, I'm in favor of the wall,  but one that includes
> Texas on the other side!   Texas will just become another third world
> country, let's let them enjoy their freedom.
>
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>> Courtesy of The Texas Freedom Network at:
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>> http://tiny.cc/TexasSBOE
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>> Ed Board Extremists Target Social Studies
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>> Having done what they could to muck up the state’s science curriculum
>> standards, fringe right-wingers on the Texas State Board of Education
>> are
>> now moving to politicize the social studies curriculum for public
>> schools.
>> Texas Freedom Network just sent out the following press release:
>>
>> "The Texas State Board of Education is set to appoint a social studies
>> curriculum “expert” panel that includes absurdly unqualified ideologues
>> who are hostile to public education and argue that laws and public
>> policies should be based on their narrow interpretations of the Bible.
>>
>> TFN has obtained the names of “experts” appointed by far-right state
>> board
>> members. Those panelists will guide the revision of social studies
>> curriculum standards for Texas public schools. They include David Barton
>> of the fundamentalist, Texas-based group WallBuilders, whose degree is
>> in
>> religious education, not the social sciences, and the Rev. Peter
>> Marshall
>> of Peter Marshall Ministries in Massachusetts, who suggests that
>> California wildfires and Hurricane Katrina were divine punishments for
>> tolerance of homosexuality."
>>
>> It gets worse.
>>
>> "Barton, former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, is a
>> self-styled “historian” without any formal training in the field. He
>> argues that separation of church and state is a “myth” and that the
>> nation’s laws should be based on Scripture. He says, for example, that
>> the
>> Bible forbids taxes on income and capital gains. Yet even such groups as
>> Texas Baptists Committed and the Baptist Joint Committee have sharply
>> criticized Barton’s interpretations of the Constitution and history.
>>
>> Barton also acknowledges having used in his publications and speeches
>> nearly a dozen quotes he has attributed to the nation’s Founders even
>> though he can’t identify any primary sources showing that they really
>> said
>> them.
>>
>> Some state board members have criticized what they believe are efforts
>> to
>> overemphasize the contributions of minorities in the nation’s history.
>> It
>> is alarming, then, that in 1991 Barton spoke at events hosted by groups
>> tied to white supremacists. He later said he hadn’t known the groups
>> were
>> 'part of a Nazi movement.'
>>
>> In addition, Barton’s WallBuilders Web site suggests as a “helpful”
>> resource the National Association of Christian Educators/Citizens for
>> Excellence in Education, an organization that calls public schools
>> places
>> of “social depravity” and 'spiritual slaughter.'
>>
>> And what in the world is the point of putting a right-wing evangelical
>> minister on a social studies panel?
>>
>> "The Peter Marshall Ministries Web site includes Marshall’s commentaries
>> sharply attacking Muslims, characterizing the Obama administration as
>> “wicked,” and calling on Christian parents to reject public education
>> for
>> their children.
>>
>> Marshall has also attacked Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant
>> churches. In his call for a spiritual revival in America last year, he
>> called traditional mainline Protestantism an 'institutionally
>> fossilized,
>> Bible-rejecting shell of Christianity.'"
>>
>> Says TFN’s Kathy Miller:
>>
>> “It’s absurd to suggest that Texas universities don’t have accomplished
>> scholars in the field who are more qualified than ideologues who share a
>> narrow political agenda. What’s next? Rush Limbaugh on the ‘expert’
>> panel?
>> It’s clear now that just appointing a new chairman won’t end this
>> board’s
>> outrageous efforts to politicize the education of our schoolchildren.
>> It’s
>> time for the Legislature to make sweeping changes to the board and its
>> control over what our kids learn in public schools.”
>>
>> “With Don McLeroy’s confirmation hanging in the balance in the Senate
>> and
>> lawmakers considering 15 bills that would strip the state board of its
>> authority, these board members continue trying to push extremist
>> politics
>> into Texas classrooms. It’s as if they’re daring the Legislature to call
>> them on it.”
>>
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>>
>> Seeya at the Renaissance Fair and/or the Farmers' Market, Moscow.
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
>> change
>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>>
>> - Unknown
>>
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"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
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