Lounge of Tomorrow - The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

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No doubt... just wondering if our travels were in the same... um... vicinity.

(Hey Wendy and Bobbi and Tori and Nick)

Mine sucked. Was supposd to still be gone but due to the expenses I listed in the vent thread we had to cut our out of town jaunt to 3 days 2 nights. We were in San Diego. We were supposed to be gone 6 nights. Sigh.

Good life lesson for the kids, though. Gotta pay for the have to before the want to.

Airing of grievances! Airing of grievances!

One of my big projects today is sorting through thousands of pages of Paliamentary Debates for a certain South Pacific country. The country is basically a theocracy. Reading the debates is terrifying. These government leaders are trying to adjust laws so that they coincide with what the bible says literally. Terrifying... imho.

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket (Post 293143)

You've got it wrong. While it is in the South, Texas's shores are on the Gulf of Mexico which is connected to the Atlantic, not the Pacific.

Not 20 minutes after I posted that "joke" I was forwarded this story:

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/tx709

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The TX State Board of Education has hired 6 "experts" to determine what will be in the books their schools use. Some of these "experts" are arguing that the state’s social studies and history textbooks are giving "too much attention" to some of the most prominent civil rights leaders in US History, amely Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall.

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The same "expert" wants to eliminate Thurgood Marshall, a prominent Civil Rights leader who argued the landmark case that resulted in school desegregation and was the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice. He wrote that the late justice is "not a strong enough example" of an important historical figure to be presented to Texas students.

David Barton, the one quoted above, is a noted Christian Right author who has specifically attacked the separation of church and state.

So yeah, let us know what Texas' future looks like, Brad.

Well, it did take a white man to get Marshall on the Supreme Court. It's not like he got there on his own power.

That's freaky, G.D.

What stocks should I buy?

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 293181)

That's freaky, G.D.

What stocks should I buy?

Has God gone public yet?

So I've watched Hillary Clinton's "outburst" in Africa. I can't really see what the big fuss is about.