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California Moves To Block Texas' Textbook Changes
eldavojohn writes "Yesterday the Texas textbook controversy was reported internationally but the news today heats up the debate as California, a state on the other side of the political spectrum, introduces legislation that would block these textbook changes inside California. Democrat Senator Leland Yee (you may know him as a senator often tackling ESRB ratings on video games) introduced SB1451, which would require California's school board to review books for any of Texas' changes and block the material if any such are found. The bill's text alleges that said changes would be 'a sharp departure from widely accepted historical teachings' and 'a threat to the apolitical nature of public school governance and academic content standards in California.'"
The next time a southern state wants to secede from the union.... LET THEM!!!!!!!!
Seriously, the country is better off without them.
They take all our tax money and return nothing. They dumb down the rest of the nation, and they are also probably largely responsible for most of the failed mortgages.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
There has been a slow rise in us-vs-them mentality since Reagan decided that it is best that people be responsible for themselves and not rely on government hand outs. At this point, the Left went ape shit and things have never been the same since.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I don't agree with a lot of the stuff they are attempting to change. But at the same time I don't agree with the textbook revisions that the liberals have been doing uncontested for much too long now. Current educational material are already filled to the brim with political viewpoints.
.sig? Get your own damn
Texas wasn't WON, it was TAKEN from the mexicans
The quoted portion above demonstrates how the typical liberally-minded, anti-creation individual really ought to be against social programs. They make us weak, if you 'believe' in evolution.
How does manipulating someone's bank balance change their genetic code?
If they could, they'd probably introduce a version or the burqa, but with a different, less Muslim name -- "Victorian Modesty Clothing", for example.
It's things like this that make one thankful for the 'separation of church and state' language in the US constitution. Now, we just need some work to enforce that language.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
You must be a right wing nutjob.. Anything less then Jefferson being a slave holder who raped his slaves just isn't unbiased education.
I jest, but seriously, Jefferson was responsible with creating the marines and our first battles with Islamic terrorists known as Pirates. As the story goes, Jefferson, while in France asked the diplomat from Tripoli what gave them the right to attack and enslave American ships and crews along our Atlantic border and the reply was "Alah gave them the right". This caused Jefferson to create a standing navy, the marines, and wage our first foreign war off the continental shelf which is memorialized in the marine's anthem, From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
BTW, Kuwait was the kingdom/port that gave us safe harbor to stage the attack on the ottoman empire and defeat the notion that they could pirate our ships with impunity. And yes, Kuwait was part of the ottoman empire at this time.
So even if we do concentrate on Jefferson, there is enough there to embellish both sides of the political isle. But I bet that version of history won't be included in the California revisionism. I agree not only with what you said, but think the entire hubbub about the situation is mostly because it will effectively undo some of the left's coating on American history that they already had in place.
The environment is constantly changing. What is a threat today might be an ally tomorrow. This plant obviously had some characteristics that Jane found useful, those characteristics become the fitness criteria. If the plant had not appealed to Jane, ...
I'd claim that that appeal was not, at all, what saved the plant. In fact, appealing to Jane caused the extinction of the plant's entire family tree by making it impossible for the plant to adapt to the threats of tomorrow, and even erasing the defenses against the older threats.
In other words, you failed totally to grasp the point of the story. In order to keep believing in your own argument you claim that the extinction of an entire family tree is somehow a successful adaptation for the plant.
Just so you know, in the rest of our discussion we'll follow this convention for positive and negative things :
dieing - bad
lots of dieing - very bad
almost everyone dying - very very very bad
living - good
you & your children surviving - good
Agreed ?
The fact that you make mistakes like this shows just how well you understand evolution, in addition it shows what a sawdust-filled brain you have and what an ugly blowhard you really are. (I've given up on not doing the personal insults. I had hoped that you would take that I don't reciprocate your insults as a hint I would like a reasoned argument, but it seems you cannot catch on to subtlety. So I'll be insulting you in my last paragraph from here on in just like you do to me. It is most unfortunate that you see the need for personal attacks in argument, one might almost say that such is an indication you lack confidence in the reason of your argument. Which brings the question of why that is so)
Wow... just change some of the nouns and you could sound like Sarah Palin.
Extreme positions require extreme opponents to balance them out. If you can't find them, invent them.
That's the art of politics...
Has your life really been impacted by all this nonsense or do you "know" someone that has been?