Texas Board of Education compared to Palin

[Shallah Kali]

Texas Board of Education: 'Brawndo's Got What Plants Crave, It's Got Electrolytes?'
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/laurilebo/2653/texas_board_of_education%3A_%27brawndo%27s_got_what_plants_crave%2C_it%27s_got_electrolytes%27/

You know, I was going to write up a description of yesterday's Texas Board of Education debate over the social studies standards. But then I figured I'd just post a video of different excerpts from the hearing and let folks watch for themselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0O7_3o3BrI&feature=player_embedded

The board votes today on the new curriculum standards. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

OK. Here's a real video clip of the hearings in which the board discusses whether to keep civil rights and labor leader Dolores Huerta in the standards. (Favorite quote: "By definition of history, you should be dead.")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeJaS2msvJA&feature=player_embedded

*Sigh.* Brawndo's Got What Plants Crave. Dolores Huerta is a socialist. The critical thinking is the same. These board members are like Sarah Palin, so unconcerned by their abject ignorance that they cheerfully ramble on, stringing unconnected words together, figuring that if they keep using snippets of the right talking points, they will eventually produce a cohesive insightful point. (Not unlike the notion that a room full of monkeys banging randomly forever on typewriters will one day produce a Shakespearean sonnet.)

[BrklynLiberal]

1. THIS is EXACTLY how the repukes, the neocons, the teabaggers, etc got the foothold that they got in

making policy. they started at the grassroots..having their people elected to school boards..elections for which there is usually almost no turnout.
After that..they worked their way up the food chain..and got their minions seated in local governments..and more policy changes are made. It is an upward spiral of ignorance, hate and downright meanness. Up into the state legislature, and local Secretaries of State...who are in charge of voting procedures... and on into the Senate and House...

This just proves that there is no elections that is too small to pay attention to...ALWAYS VOTE WHEN GIVE THE CHANCE

[Shallah Kali]

2. Texas Board Of Education Members Largely Stay Silent When Man Says ‘Islam Brings Death’

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/22/texas-textbook-religion


At the opening of yesterday’s session — where the board gave final approval to the social studies standards — far-right member Cynthia Dunbar gave the invocation, in which she used the prayer to pusher her anti-church-state separation agenda:

Whether we look to the first charter of Virginia, or the charter of New England or the Charter of Massachusetts Bay, or the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the same objective is present: a Christian land governed by Christian principles. I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it. … I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion.

Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhGK9aYjDY&feature=player_embedded

Additionally, during a session this past week that included debate and comment from members of the public, a man stood up and said, “I have to tell you: Islam is coming, and Islam brings death. So I say, ‘Repent America, repent.’” CNN said that Lawrence Allen, the one Muslim member of the board, called the man out for his “insulting” comments, but not one of the other 14 members complained. Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QxVLxWevRU&feature=player_embedded