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  1. 4 minutes ago, bernorange said:

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    https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/1747-george-clayton-republican-candidate-for-texas-state-board-of-education/?do=findComment&comment=106290

    I remember a thread in years past that included a quote from a member of the SBOE at the time who was being critical of Texas schools teaching critical thinking skills.  I can't find it, so it's likely from the old site, which doesn't appear to exist any more, so the above is the best proxy I could find.

    Well this is what they had in their platform statement back in 2012:

    Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

    Of course, as previously mentioned, they’ve since scrubbed this off their main website and put something more tempered in its place…but who the fuck are they kidding? We’re supposed to believe that the 2023 Texas GOP is a more intellectual lot than their 2012 counterparts?

  2. 15 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    The same fucking reason we don’t provide medical care and education to our population. Half the country is in an anti-democratic brainwashed theocracy loving cult, and increasing “critical thinking” doesn’t help the cults enrollment numbers. 

    Seriously our own state’s GOP has a formal position against critical thinking. If there’s a hurdle bigger than that one, I’ve yet to see it.

  3. 15 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Ultimate fuck around and find out

    Nothing that they do makes any sense…if you look at the GOP as a traditional political party and a bunch of elected officials. If you look at them as a group of social media commentators and provocateurs, then it all makes sense.

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I do think he used to.  What originally drew me to him was his criticism of religion, which I still think is pretty much spot on.  But yeah, basically since the end of the dotard's term, he's been pretty bad.  Probably before that, but definitely that was when I couldn't handle him anymore.

    He’s always been pretty mediocre in that area.

  5. 11 hours ago, mchookem said:

    the world is not going to stop doing scientific studies b/c 'you can pay anyone to say whatever' you want. i mean yes, that is true...but there's a world of difference between a person making an assertion based on anecdotal supposition with little actual data and instead on how it 'feels'... and actual data, evidence, analysis and study.

    are there actual studies showing any correlation? i haven't seen any, it's all just 'it really seems like...' conjecture.

    like several other topics in recent years, the weight of actual logic and data seems rather one-sided. 🤔

     

    Seriously, if all one has is “it feels that way,” they have an obligation to excuse themselves from the discussion. 

     

    1 hour ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    This page is about 80% full of dudes that would watch Bernie sanders have a 3some with AOC and Warren while staring at a poster of Beto on their wall. 
     

    there are no safe spaces.  Rip in peace 

     

    no cr

    Makes a political statement, demands no CR. Yeah that totally checks out.

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  6. 2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    After a full year of negotiating, a grand jury subpoena, and a search warrant.

    Biden's employees found these and voluntarily turned them over.

    I think the reality is that transitions are a clusterfuck, especially grimy administrative details like where did all the documents go.  Thus, i would not be surprised if every past administration "made off" with a number of classified things and a substantial number of presidential records.  

    The difference is what happens when the past administration finds they have them, or, the government finds out they have them.

    Not to mention that some of the docs Trump was known to possess were of a TS/SCI nature, which to me is the most under-reported and under-discussed element of the story. Plus, the key phrase in the Trump case, legally speaking, is "willful retention." Far be it from me to have to explain that to a lawyer such as yourself, but the motherfuckers who try to draw this false equivalence haven't the foggiest clue what that is.

    Either way, when people are known to have stolen those kinds of docs (TS/SCI), they wind up taking a detour into Billy Batts-ville. But sure, let's talk about how Biden's lawyers voluntarily turning over a paltry sum of docs upon first discovery is anywhere near the same because BOTH SIDES!!!

     

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  7. 12 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

    So apparently Congress is in recess until 2/2, so they’re invading an empty building. 

    Hey, no one serious has ever accused Bolsonaro or his supporters of being intelligent.

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  8. 6 hours ago, TexasEd said:

    How do you commemorate Jan 6?

    I mourn it. Not for some undying love of our government. I have no love for it at all. But I do mourn it because I had to make the unfortunate decision to cut people out of my life that day.

    While my brother-in-law and I were watching the terrorists riot like the bumbling idiots they’ve always been on the TV, I checked my Facebook and saw that my godfather’s ex-wife had juuuuuuust posted “when in the course of human events.”

    I just about lost it.

    That’s the statement of a freak. It’s a statement that ranks right up there with Condoleeza Rice claiming that the Israeli aggression against Lebanon in 2006 was the “birth pangs of a new Middle East.” Just raw in its suckitude, vile in its awfulness, and an abject failure at everything it means to be an adult in America.

    I blocked that bitch on the spot, have not spoken to her since, and that evidently had to be a shared fate with a few others. I also learned later that one of the individuals involved in that falderal was a teammate of mine in high school (he was a year ahead). I consider every varsity teammate of mine from those two years to be a brother…except for him. 

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  9. On 11/22/2022 at 3:41 PM, Texzilla58 said:

    I followed Bielema going to Arkansas. My colleagues were mostly Big10 alums from Iowa, OSU, and Illinois. They were incredulous a three time conf champ would leave for the SEC, especially Arkansas. I have a lot of UA friends and they were overjoyed. He and his wife came in with a bang.

    He sounded like he had the right formula: solid O line, strong run game, tough defense. He was brash but so was Petrino, so they were ok. The shine fell off in the second season. He hated the heat and failed to drive stamina, often letting his o line skip lifting and soft practices. He was closing Fayetteville bars a lot of nights. He had a reality show. He hated recruiting and the talent collapsed because he focused on Florida and pissed off every high school coach in Texas. It was a mess.

    Maybe he learned something in his time with Belichik. He has regained and plus what he dropped in the nfl. I think he’s in the right place for now. They are paying him good and he’ll get a raise to stay. Jen might even give him a handy. Illinois fans are thrilled to just have a winning season.

    Yep. That story that Kingsbury told about Bitch Tits telling the THSCA "if you don't use a fullback, we'll kick your ass and if you throw it 70 times a game, we'll kick your ass" in conjunction with his incessant whining about HUNH offenses? Completely true, and it soured quite a few of those guys. You do not ingratiate yourself to a gaggle of coaches (trust me, that is the proper plural) by saying in a presentation to them that what they do as a collective is all bullshit.

    Anyways, hopefully that fat fucking retard plays the role of John Ashcroft to Mike Leach's Mel Carnahan in a few hours. 

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  10. 9 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    Hardly any of your laws apply to me but all the rights do.

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    If anyone wants to truly gauge how intellectually bankrupt the SC movement is, understand one thing: Kent Hovind is one of those people. 

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