Unlike the RR and conservatives and Repubniks, I actually provide evidence for the statements I make.

http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/experts-standards-textbooks/

Shortlink: http://wp.me/p1V0H-Py

Don’t believe everything Rush says because he is a “big, fat …” We won’t be a socialist country until the government confiscates McDonalds and the tire and brake shop where you work. I and most other sane Americans see Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as goodhearted American neighbors pitching in some tax dollars to help our less fortunate neighbors—like the Bible says for us Christians and just to be an altruistic neighbor for those who are not religious. And for all of you Southern Baptists out there who have sat through a sermon on Stewardship Sunday, you are not just supposed to give. The Lord requires you to give sacrificially of the first fruits—or as the pastor puts it—GIVE UNTIL IT HURTS. Most of us are not inclined to give like that, so the IRS helps us out a little bit in our holy or altruistic duties.

Please tell me you are not stupid enough to think that if Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid did not exist, the federal government would give back to you all of those tax dollars that they collect. Republicans, Democrats, or Purple People Eaters, they would just find something else to spend them on, and it would probably all go down some rat hole like colonization of Uranus.

You see. Congress is charged primarily with making laws and appropriating tax dollars for various federal purposes. That’s just their constitutional job description. Like everyone who works at a job, they don’t want to be accused of laying around on their sorry butts and doing nothing, like that lazy guy you fired down at the tire and brake shop last week. The problem is that to do something—anything—about all they are allowed to do is pass laws and spend money. The constitution restricts them. “Thou Shalt Not Laws” can be fairly inexpensive, but we already have most of those bases covered, and the bucket is a running a little shallow. That means Congress has to make new programmatic laws and spend money to support them. When was the last time you voted for a Congressman who promised to DO NOTHING in office and DELIVERED ON IT. They have to do something, so they do the only thing they are allowed to do—pass laws and spend your tax dollars.

Wake up!!!! About the only thing we can do is to influence them in how they spend that money. I would much rather those dollars go to help a sick person that to put a colony on Uranus. It’s way too cold there.

This is a really important point. I’m going to need to find it in the archives.

If possible, it would be a really big help to me if any time there’s something you see significant enough to write about, you could make a note of the agenda item number and the time of day when it came up in the session. Do you have that information for this?

I finally have the files and links up for the Wed. and Thurs. sessions at
https://tw-curricuwiki.wikispaces.com/TX_SBOE_Social_Studies_2009_November
so now I can start working on the substantive commentaries.

Again, Thanks.

Hypocrite? No, garden variety moron. McLeroy just opens his pie hole and Grade A FDA Choice Nonsense spews out. I believe that McLeroy has no more control over this than a moron has over drool.

(Hey, I am being charitable!)

For some reason, I’m reminded of Kitzmiller v. Dover, where the school board rode roughshod over the recommendations of (true) experts. IIRC, the judge in that case noted that blatant disregard for expertise.