Sunday, May 23, 2010
TSBOE Member Opens Debate on New Social Studies Standards with a Politically Divisive Prayer
This whole debate was fucked from the beginning.
"Even before the Texas State Board of Education took up its expected debate today over what students will learn about separation about church and state in their social studies classrooms, board member Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, made her position clear. She offered the board’s opening prayer this morning and removed any doubt about what she and other far-right board members want students to learn: America’s laws and government should be based on the Christian Bible." ARTICLE
"Even before the Texas State Board of Education took up its expected debate today over what students will learn about separation about church and state in their social studies classrooms, board member Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, made her position clear. She offered the board’s opening prayer this morning and removed any doubt about what she and other far-right board members want students to learn: America’s laws and government should be based on the Christian Bible." ARTICLE
Texas Rewrites History by Rewriting Text Books

New York Times: Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
MSNBC: Conservatives put stamp on Texas textbooks
Huffington Post: Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State Education Curriculum
Washington Post: Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes
BONUS: Stupid Texas Laws
Global Warming Facts & GOP Lies
Each year, scientists at NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 base period. And January 2000 to December 2009 came out as the warmest decade on record.
Telegraph: Climate chaos? Don't believe it
The Economist: I don't believe in global warming, which must be stopped
ABC News: Palin: Global Warming Not Man-Made
ABC News: Howard Dean on Global Warming: Republicans ‘Don’t Believe in Science’
Telegraph: Climate chaos? Don't believe it
The Economist: I don't believe in global warming, which must be stopped
ABC News: Palin: Global Warming Not Man-Made
ABC News: Howard Dean on Global Warming: Republicans ‘Don’t Believe in Science’
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