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Lissiehoya
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Saint Louis, MO
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Mar 18, 2010 - 10:02pm PT
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@Port,
Wow, that's completely appalling, especially since the tendency of historical scholarship now is towards opening it up to minorities (in terms of race, gender, etc.) whose stories have not been told.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 18, 2010 - 10:06pm PT
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I can't tell you how glad I am to have a house in a remote part of Patagonian Chile.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:18pm PT
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"- Thomas Jefferson no longer included among writers influencing the nation’s intellectual origins."
This can only be put forth by people who have no feel for history, and are certain no one else has either - ergo, they wil not be called out for a dissing the one guy who was at the very heart of America's "intelectual origins." TJ basically wrote the Declaration of Independence, cobling it together from various enligtened parts. He also was the chief author of the "Empire of Liberty" ideal, putting the highest curency in free and independent thinking. Anyway you shake it, Jefferson was one of the Founding Fathers and for his children to say otherwise, a couple centuries later, is nothing short of a historical farce.
The word "peckerwood" sure comes to mind in reading this shite...
JL
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Redlands
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:23pm PT
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I guess they'll have to chuck out those "Teabaggers" then, since they're always holding signs quoting Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants".
Whatever will they do? How to choose...TeaBag Party or JesusJesusJesus.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:28pm PT
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Ironically, Texans have a great sense of history, but only of their own. Texas has always marched to its own drummer compared to the rest of the U.S. It has lived under five different flags, including the Republic of Texas flag. It negotiated to join the Union as a sovereign country and still feel themselves to be one in many ways.
Texas was also the place in America where poor and in-trouble southerners could get a fresh start, a place where personal histories disappeared at the border and a new identity began. Needless to say, it was the Wild West for a long time and life was cheap. Then the southern religious families moved in and tried to modify it. The paradoxical result is a highly religious society, that has its own version of history, executes more prisoners than any other state and and is still the wild gun- toting (concealed weapons to be exact) West.
Love it or hate it, Texas is unique.
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:40pm PT
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Port is reading the losers side of the School text book fight.
Losers lie, especially academic ones, with half truths and innuendo.
Read the winners side and see all the slime that was cut out by
Texans who care for their kids education.
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Port
Trad climber
San Diego
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Mar 19, 2010 - 01:13am PT
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A lie huh? I didn't write this. Its an AP piece for Yahoo News. Heres the link.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100315/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1253
CC, there is a trend here throughout all of these changes to the curriculum that is ethnocentric, religiously centered, and diminishes the contribution of minorities to our country. I challenge you to provide your list of "slime" that was cut out so people can judge for themselves, as I have done.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 19, 2010 - 01:26am PT
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CC, there is a trend here throughout all of these changes to the curriculum that is ethnocentric, religiously centered, and diminishes the contribution of minorities to our country.
What I see is a 21st century Texas reverting back to the Texas of my 1950's childhood.
What I was particularly incensed about since it involves the distortion of even their own history (which is supposedly sacred even when U.S. history is not), was the dropping of any reference to the Hispanic Tejanos who fought for the Republic.
Those defending the Alamo against Santa Ana's hordes included Anglos Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie, my g-g-g uncle who was 16 years old and died with his two best teenage friends, along with many Hispanic supporters of freedom.Every March there is a special ceremony for the descendants of the defenders of the Alamo, and the majority of those attending are Hispanic, something most people don't know and the Texans have now chosen to ignore.
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Barto
climber
Minneapolis, MN
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Mar 22, 2010 - 02:14pm PT
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My favorite related t-shirt slogan: "English--Good enough for Jesus!"
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