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How do you propose we winnow out "the most ignorant fucknuts" in Okiehoma?

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Well based upon the evidence, of Fox News, Brietbart, National Review, their distaste for actual facts is clear.

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I don't know, I immediately thought of Catholic missionaries when that term came up. And we know how well they did saving of the savages.

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That's the one where he utters the words that will ring throughout history, "Now watch this drive," isn't it?

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The Black Robe Regiment doesn't hate all history. In fact, they chose 'Black Robe' because they learned from their southern friends that the white hooded ones are both too fucking hot in the summer and too hard to clean after the lynchings and cross burnings meetings.

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Arizona. Oklahoma. What does it matter?

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Sounds great! As soon as they figure out a way to make it totally clear that Jeebus had his hand on the shoulder of each of these writers, firmly but lovingly guiding their words, the plan will be ready to roll out. First Oklahoma, then THE WORLD.

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I did find myself wondering, whilst reading, if it is the extra C in the last name that makes these Fischers so evil and stupid.

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That's some serious AP level stupid right there. This bodes well for the Oklahoma legislature getting a 5 on their exam and getting out of some of their freshman stupid classes.

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Had we needed proof that the world is stupid and bad, Molly Ivins is dead and the OK edumacation board is, apparently, alive, though not sentient.

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Naw. Next they're gonna outlaw colleges, since Rand Paul and Scott Walker have conclusively proven we don't need no education; we don't need no thought control.

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I'm starting to think we need to build the dang fence just south of the Mason-Dixon line.

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And you trip over robes made out of the fitted ones.

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100% true, biting and hilarious? Yes, JohnBull's comment has it all.

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I have a good friend (commie liebrul) in Stillwater, so to me, there's always hope- until they come with torches to his front door.

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"gave the state sole control over determining curricula and assessment in Oklahoma schools"

I predict this will be the saddest sentence I will read all day.

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