Texas Taliban

[Seshmeister]

I find this very depressing.

From the Texas Republican Election Platform

http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012-Platform-Final.pdf

Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values
clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based
Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Wow that's really setting up Texans for the 21st century, once the oil goes the rest of the world is going to run past those kids...

Homosexuality ― We affirm that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family unit. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our country’s founders, and shared by the majority of Texans.

followed by a whole page on what women can do with their vaginas.


Extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary. It's more like 1952 than 2012...

[jhale667]

I find this very depressing.

From the Texas Republican Election Platform

http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012-Platform-Final.pdf

Wow that's really setting up Texans for the 21st century, once the oil goes the rest of the world is going to run past those kids...



followed by a whole page on what women can do with their vaginas.


Extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary. It's more like 1952 than 2012...

This is the "An open mind is the devil's playground" school of thought....they're idiots. And they wonder why the US isn't even in the Top 20 in the world educationally anymore.

[FORD]

"Texas is the reason that the President's dead......"

[ELVIS]

The oil isn't going anywhere in the next 200 - 500 years...

But I'm sure someone here will post "proof" that it will be gone in 50 years...

And I'm in total agreement with the last part...

[Seshmeister]

And I'm in total agreement with the last part...

More fool you.

What's your feelings on the fig issue?

I just sent off for this t-shirt.

[jhale667]

If there was ever any doubt about what's going on there... file under "Dafuq did I just read??"

Texas Republican party proposing to repeal the Voting Rights Act of 1965

http://www.examiner.com/article/texas-republican-party-proposing-to-repeal-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965

Over the last 50 years, the Republican party has been stamped with the stigma of prejudice and racism. While not all registered Republican voters and lawmakers have shown a history of bigotry, they still have to defend those who have.

Out of all the states in the country, one of the most conservative is the Lone Star State of Texas. The red state has a long history of racism that still exist to this day. As the New York Times reported earlier this year, a cemetery in Jasper, Texas is still segregated. African Americans are buried on the bottom of the hill at the cemetery, while whites are buried at the top. In Vidor, Texas, as in other segregated towns in the United States, there used to be a law known as "sundown towns." These "sundown town" laws were in place less than 50 years ago and restricted African Americans from coming into the town after dark.

Over the last 50 years, the Republican party has been stamped with the stigma of prejudice and racism. While not all registered Republican voters and lawmakers have shown a history of bigotry, they still have to defend those who have.

Out of all the states in the country, one of the most conservative is the Lone Star State of Texas. The red state has a long history of racism that still exist to this day. As the New York Times reported earlier this year, a cemetery in Jasper, Texas is still segregated. African Americans are buried on the bottom of the hill at the cemetery, while whites are buried at the top. In Vidor, Texas, as in other segregated towns in the United States, there used to be a law known as "sundown towns." These "sundown town" laws were in place less than 50 years ago and restricted African Americans from coming into the town after dark.

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In recent years, the state of Texas has acted in a questionable manner more than once. In 2010, the Texas Board of Education revised the school curriculum and textbooks and many historians have been extremely critical of the new direction the state is taking. In 2009, the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, even hinted that Texas could secede from the United States. Though these actions are alarming, what might be the most extreme action of all is in the 2012 Texas Republican Platform.

Earlier this month, the Republican party of Texas revealed their 2012 party platform that calls for congress to repeal the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Excerpt from page five of the 2012 state Republican party platform:

Voter Rights Act – We urge that the Voter Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits states from denying citizens the right to vote because of race or ethnic background. For the Republican party of Texas to propose the elimination of such an important piece of legislation just reaffirms the validity of the criticism that is levied at them.

With the election of the country's first African American president in 2008, the United States took another step forward in its battle against prejudice and racism. Though the country has progressed over the years, the Texas Republican party and their platform are a stark reminder that the country is a long way from being completely free of its racist past.
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Yeah, the "let's stop everyone we don't like from voting, and keep the rest dumb" plan..

[ELVIS]

Choices like Obama and Romney are what stops people from voting...

[jhale667]

Choices like Obama and Romney are what stops people from voting...

Bullsh*t. If that were the case there wouldn't be all the Repuke Voter Supression tactics going on. But to flat-out say - out loud even - that they want to do away with the voting rights act??? Insane.

[FORD]

Choices like Obama and Romney are what stops people from voting...

I agree.

https://www.voterocky.org

[jhale667]

I agree.

www.voterocky.org

Disenfranchised and supressed voters can't vote for 3rd party candidates either...

[Nickdfresh]

Choices like Obama and Romney are what stops people from voting...

Moderates? There's no excuse for this kind of extremist fucktardism...

[FORD]

True. But the Repukes are causing the voting problems, and the false "Democrats" refuse to do anything about it.

Right now, in fact, Ed Schultz is going off on the radio about some false "Democrats" who are going to vote in favor of Darrell "Joe McCarthief" Issa's ridiculous attack on Eric Holder. Holder's been pretty much a failure as AG in many areas, but this voter suppression bullshit is one thing he's actually taking seriously. And Issa (and the asshats at the NRA) ain't happy about that.

[ELVIS]

Holder is going to prison...

[chefcraig]

Disenfranchised and supressed voters can't vote for 3rd party candidates either...

There goes my vote, right out the window.

[jhale667]

Holder is going to prison...

All because of a retardedly paranoid "Dey took R guns" conspiracy theory that Issa ADMITS he has no proof of whatsoever. The lunatics are controlling the asylum.