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well that explains everything then doesnt it? except that Obama was born in hawaii and those two fellas are about as close a cousin as you and mistral's daughter.

other than that, you didnt get anything right.

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well that explains everything then doesnt it? except that Obama was born in hawaii and those two fellas are about as close a cousin as you and mistral's daughter.

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The Board struck the word “democratic” from the description of the U.S. government, instead terming it a “constitutional republic.”

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. ~to John Adams, April 11, 1823

K.

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ORIGINAL: Level

Yep, we got the shaft, and not a jar of Vaseline in sight [>:] The fuckers actually split my county in half!

Now, though I'm a life-long registered Democrat, I do vote per issue, and not all my beliefs are on the left, and I don't even necessarily disagree with some of that these jackasses are proposing in the textbooks, but as I posted earlier, some of it boggles my mind.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Conservative Republicans have achieved the impossible, they have rewritten history.

Sorry to say but it seems like a growing trend.

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If you think this is bad, wait until November.

Level and I are BOTH from and live in TX. I AM a Liberal. I vote. May the powers that be please keep Perry and any other Repubs out of Austin! Yeah, the state that can never seem to come anywhere NEAR NAAQS wanted to build 11 new coal fired power plants and Perry tried to rush it through. How much sense does that make? Not everyone in Texas is a fucking idiot. This used to be a Dem state til repubs gerrymandered us to hell and back. All behind closed doors, of course.

ETA: We've been going to hell in a handbasket ever since!

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

well that explains everything then doesnt it? except that Obama was born in hawaii and those two fellas are about as close a cousin as you and mistral's daughter.

No, he was born in Kenya.

I think that's somewhere between Austin and San Antonio.

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And you may not find if bothersome that they deleted the impact Jefferson and the Enlightenment had, certainly in regard to the founding of this nation, and on society as a whole, but it boggles my mind.

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ORIGINAL: DarlingSavage

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

well that explains everything then doesnt it? except that Obama was born in hawaii and those two fellas are about as close a cousin as you and mistral's daughter.

other than that, you didnt get anything right.

DS, that dog is scary!!
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" Here’s the amendment Dunbar changed: “explain the impact of Enlightenment ideas from John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson on political revolutions from 1750 to the present.” Here’s Dunbar’s replacement standard, which passed: “explain the impact of the writings of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and Sir William Blackstone.”

If you think this is bad, wait until November.

What's going to happen in November? The passing of curriculum dealing with Adam and Eve?

And you may not find if bothersome that they deleted the impact Jefferson and the Enlightenment had, certainly in regard to the founding of this nation, and on society as a whole, but it boggles my mind.

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4. Of course the USA is a democracy

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. ~to John Adams, April 11, 1823

K.

and that is what its about today.  Its not about acknowledging all religions equally, but acknowledging atheism as the preferred religion of government.

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Conservative Republicans have achieved the impossible, they have rewritten history.

Sorry to say but it seems like a growing trend.

Yes. This is (pardon me) a textbook example of why it's the business of every rational person in the United States to make a stand against the right-wing religious lunatics trying to force the rest of the country to live in accordance with their ignorant superstitions. This is why it's appropriate for people in Massachusetts to take an interest and voice an opinion on Congresswoman Michelle Bachman in Minnesota, for example. It's not just about how these wackos want to run their home town or their county - they want the entire country to live by their belief systems, and like cockroaches you need to stamp on them the first time you see one scurry out from under the garbage can. No matter what part of the house the garbage happens to be located in, because if you don't, they'll wind up infesting the entire structure.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Conservative Republicans have achieved the impossible, they have rewritten history.

Sorry to say but it seems like a growing trend.

Yes. This is (pardon me) a textbook example of why it's the business of every rational person in the United States to make a stand against the right-wing religious lunatics trying to force the rest of the country to live in accordance with their ignorant superstitions. This is why it's appropriate for people in Massachusetts to take an interest and voice an opinion on Congresswoman Michelle Bachman in Minnesota, for example. It's not just about how these wackos want to run their home town or their county - they want the entire country to live by their belief systems, and like cockroaches you need to stamp on them the first time you see one scurry out from under the garbage can. No matter what part of the house the garbage happens to be located in, because if you don't, they'll wind up infesting the entire structure.

well everyone can live the way the atheists want instead!

How about the way YOU want?

LOLOLOLOLOL

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How about just "keep your fucking god out of my life," or is that somehow too complex for you to comprehend?

Rhetorical question there, don't strain yourself trying to come up with a coherent answer, Dr. Cold Fusion.