Comments | count_01: Justifies the existence of the tag in itself.

count_01

Justifies the existence of the tag in itself.

Mar 12, 2010 15:39

Texas. It's like a whole other reality.

texas is nowhere near anywhere else, teh n00z

Comments 8

jonelin March 12 2010, 23:48:43 UTC

holy mother of god! o_O

count_01 March 13 2010, 00:00:29 UTC

It was why they ran; it was why they were elected. Because contemporary history, science, and social studies texts did not comport with contemporary community standards.

The fact that those community standards fail to comport with verifiable facts, has nothing to do with school board elections.

theglen March 13 2010, 02:11:26 UTC

The Texas textbook vote. Always gets a rise, and people always take things out of context. 8th Grade textbooks never mention Jefferson. 7th grade textbooks never mention FDR. This got yelled about last time around and we were condemned for it. Never mind 7th grade is <1865 and 8th grade is >1865. Or the fact is the first vote of many and won't be decided for a while, they always approve too much and cut it down to size later. You'll get about 800 pages of stuff mandated, but about 500 of it gets cut out due to space. But its fun to watch all the people outside of Texas jump all over us before all the decisions are made.

count_01 March 13 2010, 21:09:24 UTC

And of course, McLeroy, the villain in this debate is...a lame duck whose policies (if one can honor them with that term) are fairly unlikely to see the light of day, even in Texas.

Bottom line: Moderation, balance, nuance and insight are boring! histrionics are much more fun.

theglen March 14 2010, 01:08:01 UTC

And this isn't even the final vote, this was a prelim vote, the actual vote comes in two months. But none of the news articles even mention that. McLeroy had a small faction and all but one were voted out. But yes, histrionics are much more fun.

lady_lucrezia March 13 2010, 02:14:26 UTC

seriously..
LMAO.. ahh I needed a good laugh.

terr_e March 13 2010, 21:21:33 UTC

Texas apparently is the North-Korea of the North-American continent ; Armed, dangerous and in complete denial of reality...

count_01 March 14 2010, 00:04:21 UTC

Nooo, Texas is a weird melting pot of its own. The North Korea of North America is...well, there is no place quite so shut off as North Korea. Maybe Westboro Baptist Church. That's a half-decent fit.