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I AM NEVER VISITING VIRGINIA.
But… I don’t… Why would you outlaw that? WHY WOULD YOU OUTLAW THAT??
Foreplay ≠ babies, and YOU SHOULD ONLY BE HAVING SEX TO HAVE BABIES.
I thought Virginia was for lovers?
…what.
I don’t even…
Christmas must have come early; attempting to outlaw oral sex is a good way to not get elected.
Interesting…. whats the reason for it?
Other states have petitions in the process. But really, all you need is 25k signatures? I’ve signed petitions against corrupt rulings or vague laws that needed…
Ugh. We make these noises every once in a while. One of the people to talk about it previously was our fucking governor. Who then went on to try to be the Republican nominee for president. This’ll blow over, as it always does (especially once they realize that the world isn’t about to end during the next four years).
| — | A surprisingly blunt Washington Post editorial on Mitt Romney’s various flip-flops, prevarications and refusals to disclose even basic information about his finances, his campaign and his plans. (via upwithchris) |
A Message from The Greatest Generation (NSFW) (by karinmoveon)
GO VOTE! Even if you think your vote doesn’t count. I’m in Texas, a red state, and I’m voting anyway even though it seems futile. Why? Because if I don’t, then my vote definitely won’t count and I’d have no one to blame but myself.
Oh god…
I had heard and posted that there was a direct link between the Romeny family (specifically Mr. Romney’s son, Tagg) and the ownership of these voting machines. That DIRECT link has been debunked by Snopes. This Forbes article is about an indirect link between that family and ownership of said machines.
Two years since a conservative sweep of the State Board of Education, November’s election carries high stakes, with all 15 seats on the ballot and the instructional direction of 5 million Texas school children in the balance.
The divide between two camps on the issues of history and science, political and religious ideology is deep. For one, the fight for control of the SBOE is nothing less than a cultural clash. The other views the November contests as critical choices to protect conservative values.
The board determines curriculum standards and textbooks for the state’s K-12 public school system and also controls the $26 billion Permanent School Fund, which benefits public education.
The next board will select new science and social studies/history textbooks to reflect updated science curriculum standards.
“That’s where all these culture war battles will come to a head over what students learn about evolution, about civil rights, about church and state separation,” said Dan Quinn, spokesman for the Texas Freedom Network, an Austin-based group that monitors the SBOE from a more liberal perspective. “All those battles will come in 2013 and 2014, and the textbooks will be in the classrooms for a generation.”
Will the new textbooks “teach science or pseudo science?” Quinn asks. “Will we have history textbooks that teach facts based on real scholars or opinions based on the political beliefs of whoever controls the board?”
Remember that Texas textbook purchases are so large, they pretty much determine the content of texts used in schools across the nation.
From 2010, after conservatives won the most seats in the last election:
The conservative members maintain that they are trying to correct what they see as a liberal bias among the teachers who proposed the curriculum. To that end, they made dozens of minor changes aimed at calling into question, among other things, concepts like the separation of church and state and the secular nature of the American Revolution.
“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”
They also included a plank to ensure that students learn about “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract With America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.”
[…]
In economics, the revisions add Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, two champions of free-market economic theory, among the usual list of economists to be studied, like Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. They also replaced the word “capitalism” throughout their texts with the “free-enterprise system.”
“Let’s face it, capitalism does have a negative connotation,” said one conservative member, Terri Leo. “You know, ‘capitalist pig!’ ”
In the field of sociology, another conservative member, Barbara Cargill, won passage of an amendment requiring the teaching of “the importance of personal responsibility for life choices” in a section on teenage suicide, dating violence, sexuality, drug use and eating disorders.
[…]
In economics, the revisions add Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, two champions of free-market economic theory, among the usual list of economists to be studied, like Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. They also replaced the word “capitalism” throughout their texts with the “free-enterprise system.”
[…]
In the field of sociology, another conservative member, Barbara Cargill, won passage of an amendment requiring the teaching of “the importance of personal responsibility for life choices” in a section on teenage suicide, dating violence, sexuality, drug use and eating disorders.
[…]Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone. (Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term “separation between church and state.”)
This is important. This impacts the entire public education system in the US, not just Texas. Please vote!
Please vote. If you don’t want to vote in the presidential election because you don’t like either candidates and you want to send a message to the political parties (and I do know people that feel that way), that message will be heard much more clearly if you do vote on SOMETHING (and I’d highly recommend the State Board of Education election) instead of just staying away from the polls.
Conservative publication smears woman who asked debate question about equal pay
The conservative publication Free Beacon on Wednesday published an article smearing the 24-year-old woman who asked about equal pay for women at the presidential debate.
The article, published anonymously, alleged that Katherine Fenton’s Twitter account “reveals that purple Joose is her choice to get blackout drunk and she has a history of getting wet at happy hour.” The article also highlights sexually suggestive messages Fenton allegedly sent from her Twitter account.
The Twitter account cited in the article no longer exists.
Man, conservatives aren’t even trying to hide their misogyny, anymore.
Because if someone has sex her opinion doesn’t count anymore?
Well, if getting fucked up on drugs and having sex disqualify your opinions, I guess Rush Limbaugh should just shut the fuck up already.
And why was her question so enraging that they went on this witchhunt. Did they do the same to the other questioners?
