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

[bear at moscow.com]

Kind of like a North American Argentina!


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> 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
>
>
>>
>> Tom,
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> http://tiny.cc/TexasSBOE
>>>
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>>>
>>> Ed Board Extremists Target Social Studies
>>>
>>> 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.”
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
> - Unknown
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