Displaying 2,131 To 2,160 Of 3,884 Comments Oh boy we have a live one…. » Posted By PatsyT On May 20, 2010 @ 11:35 am Saw that too Khirad and almost fell out of the lazy boy! » Posted By PatsyT On May 19, 2010 @ 1:42 pm Help! This just makes me ill. Texas Schools Board Rewrites US History With Lessons Promoting God and Guns Published on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by The Guardian/UK by Chris McGreal in Houston Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state’s schools to “throwing them in to the enemy’s flames”. Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her own offspring at home and at private Christian establishments. Now Dunbar is on the brink of fulfilling a promise to change all that, or at least point Texas schools toward salvation. She is one of a clutch of Christian evangelists and social conservatives who have grasped control of the state’s education board. This week they are expected to force through a new curriculum that is likely to shift what millions of American schoolchildren far beyond Texas learn about their history. The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favour of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy. “We are fighting for our children’s education and our nation’s future,” Dunbar said. “In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology. There seems to be a denial that this was a nation founded under God. We had to go back and make some corrections.” Those corrections have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics and guns while diminishing the science of evolution, the civil rights movement and the horrors of slavery. Several changes include sidelining Thomas Jefferson, who favoured separation of church and state, while introducing a new focus on the “significant contributions” of pro-slavery Confederate leaders during the civil war. The new curriculum asserts that “the right to keep and bear arms” is an important element of a democratic society. Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favour of examining scientific advances through military technology. There is also a suggestion that the anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified. The education board has dropped references to the slave trade in favour of calling it the more innocuous “Atlantic triangular trade”, and recasts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as driven by Islamic fundamentalism. more below…… http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/18-2 » Posted By PatsyT On May 18, 2010 @ 7:37 pm What a cute film . . . Quarantine K Street. We’re going to K Street to quarantine the big bank lobbyists and stop them from spreading their greed like a virus throughout the political system. » Posted By PatsyT On May 15, 2010 @ 9:39 pm Javez, » Posted By PatsyT On May 15, 2010 @ 9:49 am Javez, » Posted By PatsyT On May 14, 2010 @ 10:21 pm I caught it on the Keith O Show. Thanks Loved it! » Posted By PatsyT On May 13, 2010 @ 8:22 pm I wish I could see that KQ 🙁 It will not play for me. Boo Hoo » Posted By PatsyT On May 13, 2010 @ 5:12 pm KQ, Kalima & Adlib, http://www.change.org/action-network
Over the past year, more than 2 million actions have been taken on Change.org, leading to dozens of social change victories. But we’re only just beginning, and today we’re excited to announce a major step forward in expanding the reach of Change.org-powered actions across the web. Starting today, we’re enabling any website to become a source of social action by featuring a feed of breaking advocacy campaigns from hundreds of leading nonprofits. Using our embeddable action widget, visitors to each partner website can browse top campaigns and immediately take action » Posted By PatsyT On May 11, 2010 @ 8:29 pm Emerald1943, So true, I looked at a few minutes and thank goodness I am to busy to stop and look or listen. Sickening!! and they are just making up stuff (thanks S Palin) to fix it!! » Posted By PatsyT On May 11, 2010 @ 4:29 pm Javez did you say- Soap Opera?? **DARK SHADOWS** ?? httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs&feature=related httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-gLDm_q3s&feature=related httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9XIq8Ud2I I think this one below is from the Film ! » Posted By PatsyT On May 9, 2010 @ 9:36 pm They are celebrating their 5 year anniversary. Lots of old posts were being featured. » Posted By PatsyT On May 9, 2010 @ 10:46 am This is not good news… http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/8/864758/-Breaking:-The-Dome-Did-Not-Work-UPDATED There was a diary up a full 3 hours ago that speculated that the dome designed to help plug the disasterous BP oil leak had failed. The diarist had issues of confidentiality of sources however, as of about 10 minutes ago it is official. According to Doug Suttles BP Director of Operations the containment dome did not work because of gas hydrate crystal formation which apparently caused two problems with the apparatus. the crystals changed the boyancy of the device, and the crystals caused the plumbing for funneling the oil up to the capture ships to fail. The BP flack has mentioned several avenues to fix these problems, from heating the apparatus to several other “industry specific” techniques they will try and employ. As of now the dome has been lifted off the source of the leak and placed on the sea floor. Improvements to diary to come. » Posted By PatsyT On May 8, 2010 @ 8:52 pm Worth reading. . . . check out this group if you have not already
For the past 30 years, conservative Republicans have been able to dominate the economic policy debate by controlling the framework of the argument, by building an economic » Posted By PatsyT On May 8, 2010 @ 8:38 pm She is so happy in that hat. » Posted By PatsyT On May 6, 2010 @ 9:00 am I must be punchy… This has me laughing … way too much for this time of night… I wasn » Posted By PatsyT On May 5, 2010 @ 10:37 pm Boomer, I thought the same thing. » Posted By PatsyT On May 4, 2010 @ 9:09 pm Cher, You are a sweetie ! 🙂 » Posted By PatsyT On April 29, 2010 @ 9:56 am Oooo yes I feel so special. » Posted By PatsyT On April 29, 2010 @ 9:44 am Thanks Kes, I hope so too. » Posted By PatsyT On April 29, 2010 @ 9:32 am I have a favor to ask. Activist Mom, blogger and student. My husband ran for office in 2008, we answered the call in Orange County. I am going to school for environmental studies. I write about so many different things that interest me as long as I can bring attention to important issues, from the environment, food issues, health care, education, elections and local politics. If there is a cause, I will writer about it. I’m also a Democratic delegate and involved in local Democratic campaigns. » Posted By PatsyT On April 28, 2010 @ 10:18 pm Ecat I just want to cry when I hear that name. » Posted By PatsyT On April 28, 2010 @ 10:04 pm Cher your Avi is so cute ! » Posted By PatsyT On April 24, 2010 @ 3:35 pm Kalima, I found this unrelated item Very Interesting… » Posted By PatsyT On April 24, 2010 @ 12:19 pm I have been reading up on a fellow Quakers » Posted By PatsyT On April 20, 2010 @ 9:52 pm Cher that makes me think of this one » Posted By PatsyT On April 20, 2010 @ 8:59 pm This is a very hopeful sign !!! Generation We, due to their vast numbers and their shared values, can sweep away the extremists and unite around a new approach to national politics. » Posted By PatsyT On April 20, 2010 @ 10:58 am Khirad, » Posted By PatsyT On April 19, 2010 @ 10:33 pm Khirad, » Posted By PatsyT On April 19, 2010 @ 10:08 pm Bito, It is so nice to see your post. » Posted By PatsyT On April 19, 2010 @ 9:45 pmComments Posted By PatsyT
Rand Paul on Rachel Madow
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/rachel-maddow-corners-rand-paul-his-e
I played it over and over and my family concluded. . .
Lets all vote for the horse!
Gee, too bad we don’t live in Alabama.
I was hopeing they would not get this far…
Texas Schools Board Rewrites US History With Lessons Promoting God and Guns
US Christian conservatives drop references to slave trade and sideline Thomas Jefferson who backed church-state separation
http://action.seiu.org/page/s/kstreetcleanup?source=fbad5
Just a thought, Can you post a link?
Cause I bet some people here might want to leave a post or two.
This is something I love about you. I read those threads in my Orange Country Register and I mostly have to walk away but you are going in! I love that! Never give up on that inner compass that guides you. They are cowards! You are brave and you should keep it up!!
What do you think of this?
I think the Boy Scouts could do a better job at stopping this!
I have to find these on DVD!
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkkfGGu4Qk&feature=related
Kinda funny and creepy at the same time.
http://other98.com/
Try reading all the comments in order that appear on the right
under-Recent Comments from top to bottom- like this –
Funny thing I have not posted much of anything there lately but have read a few threads and instead of posting just reported on some of the toxic trollies.
Can you check out this blogger and vote?
This is a friend I found here in the OC
and I give her a ton of credit for being so active here,
It’s not easy. There are links to some of her work in my last post on education.
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/656-ellinorianne
Tragic.
I have been a drive by poster,
so much going on here with
Teachers Strike @ CUSD.
http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html
Johns Hopkins and Nixon.
I really look forward to all that you post.
I love the music of the world and you have opened up many new worlds for me, that’s for sure.
Safe Travels to you.
So appreciate the updates.
All of your travelogue posts have entertained, now this one cleans!
You can travel to my home, anytime, we are near the sea but
we have mountains of laundry just waiting for an adventure.
Oh, and we LOVE great music!
PS, we are wonderful chefs!
Ooooo . . . . . any pics of the equipment used for washing?
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You must be getting rest and following orders.
Great work, keep it up. 🙂
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