This week, we'll wrap up our rightwing Christian-school textbooks' version of the 1960s as they actually happened -- not the way the liberal media would have you believe -- with a look at the Civil Rights movement, which is pretty good timing considering this week's
Since we're piling on textbooks here, one egregious bit of history left out of textbooks, and most college courses, is US labor history. It has been almost entirely eradicated.
These seem less like textbooks and more like beach reads every week. Why don't they just have the kids memorize Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" and call it a day? They could pretend the "fire" is a sly reference to hell.
If I'm going to read whacked White history, I'll take They Might Be Giants thank you very much. At least they're clever and ironic and you can dance to their songs.
Purple Toupee
I remember the year I went to camp I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks Somebody put their fingers in the President's ears It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba Now that's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something else Way down inside me I can feel it coming back
It&#039;s called a Quiet Riot. John Barth wrote all about <a href="http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Giles-Goat-Anchor-Literary-Library\/dp\/0385240864" target="_blank">it</a>.
I was in the Senate gallery the day the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, on a high-school field trip/American history summer course. Our teacher said we&#039;d remember the day, although I doubt if most of my white suburban classmates had much more idea than I did of what this all meant.
But I <i>do</i> remember that day, and am grateful for a history teacher who knew history being made when he saw it.
Being an ignorant fucknut is one thing, but actively and shamelessly promoting ignorance, by filling kids&#039; heads with this bullshit, is downright criminal.
<i>A 73-year-old southwest Missouri man with a long history of anti-Semitism is suspected of killing two people outside Overland Park&rsquo;s Jewish Community Center and then a third at a nearby Jewish assisted living facility.
After officers arrested Frazier Glenn Cross &mdash; an Aurora, Mo., man better known as F. Glenn Miller &mdash; Sunday afternoon, authorities said he went on a rant inside the patrol car. Though Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass wouldn&rsquo;t say what Cross hollered, a television crew captured him on video while he was handcuffed in the back of the car.
&ldquo;Heil Hilter,&rdquo; Miller yelled out, and then he bobbed his head up and down.
Four hours after the shooting rampage was first reported, Douglass said in a news conference that it was too early to know definitively what the shooter&rsquo;s motives were, but added: &ldquo;We are investigating this as a hate crime.&rdquo;
In all, the gunman fired at five people Sunday afternoon, police said, but he missed two of his targets, who were not injured. Police said the man had not only a shotgun but also a handgun and possibly an assault weapon.
Two of the victims who died were shot in a car at the community center, 5801 W. 115th St., Douglass said. One of them was William Lewis Corporon, a Johnson County doctor. The other, Reat Griffin Underwood, was Corporon&rsquo;s 14-year-old grandson, who died later at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.
The third victim, who was not publicly identified Sunday night was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Village Shalom senior living facility at 5500 W. 123rd St.
I&#039;m getting the feeling that you might do, or have done, this for a living. Don&#039;t OD on the richness of the target environment.
Since we&#039;re piling on textbooks here, one egregious bit of history left out of textbooks, and most college courses, is US labor history. It has been almost entirely eradicated.
Um, does anyone how many schools are actually using this book? Trying to look up data on this but it&#039;s hard to find.
Glad to know the Free Market was what really ended segregation in US Amercia, rather than that violent Johnson administration.
At least they didn&#039;t call it the Johnson &quot;regime.&quot;
These seem less like textbooks and more like beach reads every week. Why don&#039;t they just have the kids memorize Billy Joel&#039;s &quot;We Didn&#039;t Start the Fire&quot; and call it a day? They could pretend the &quot;fire&quot; is a sly reference to hell.
If I&#039;m going to read whacked White history, I&#039;ll take They Might Be Giants thank you very much. At least they&#039;re clever and ironic and you can dance to their songs.
Purple Toupee
I remember the year I went to camp I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks Somebody put their fingers in the President&#039;s ears It wasn&#039;t too much later they came out with Johnson&#039;s wax I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba Now that&#039;s all I can think of, but I&#039;m sure there&#039;s something else Way down inside me I can feel it coming back
Or Robots Rules of Order.
And the Panther ain&#039;t talking.
I hear it all started when some local toughs started dangling their participles in front of somebody&#039;s grammar.
It&#039;s called a Quiet Riot. John Barth wrote all about <a href="http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Giles-Goat-Anchor-Literary-Library\/dp\/0385240864" target="_blank">it</a>.
I was in the Senate gallery the day the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, on a high-school field trip/American history summer course. Our teacher said we&#039;d remember the day, although I doubt if most of my white suburban classmates had much more idea than I did of what this all meant.
But I <i>do</i> remember that day, and am grateful for a history teacher who knew history being made when he saw it.
To think no one could tweet it....
Obviously, all rabbis should be armed. And all retirees in retirement homes. We just don&#039;t have enough guns in this country!
Being an ignorant fucknut is one thing, but actively and shamelessly promoting ignorance, by filling kids&#039; heads with this bullshit, is downright criminal.
<i>A 73-year-old southwest Missouri man with a long history of anti-Semitism is suspected of killing two people outside Overland Park&rsquo;s Jewish Community Center and then a third at a nearby Jewish assisted living facility.
After officers arrested Frazier Glenn Cross &mdash; an Aurora, Mo., man better known as F. Glenn Miller &mdash; Sunday afternoon, authorities said he went on a rant inside the patrol car. Though Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass wouldn&rsquo;t say what Cross hollered, a television crew captured him on video while he was handcuffed in the back of the car.
&ldquo;Heil Hilter,&rdquo; Miller yelled out, and then he bobbed his head up and down.
Four hours after the shooting rampage was first reported, Douglass said in a news conference that it was too early to know definitively what the shooter&rsquo;s motives were, but added: &ldquo;We are investigating this as a hate crime.&rdquo;
In all, the gunman fired at five people Sunday afternoon, police said, but he missed two of his targets, who were not injured. Police said the man had not only a shotgun but also a handgun and possibly an assault weapon.
Two of the victims who died were shot in a car at the community center, 5801 W. 115th St., Douglass said. One of them was William Lewis Corporon, a Johnson County doctor. The other, Reat Griffin Underwood, was Corporon&rsquo;s 14-year-old grandson, who died later at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.
The third victim, who was not publicly identified Sunday night was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Village Shalom senior living facility at 5500 W. 123rd St.
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I&#039;m sure the home schooled kiddos in Arizona will never learn from these text books that it was the last state in the Union to adopt MLK Day as an official holiday and it&#039;s the only state to require voter approval to ratify it. <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/ar..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/art...">http://www.azcentral.com/ar...
I raise my right hoof in a silent Pink Power salute.