I've marked the first post with links for me. THANK YOU! something for me to plow through, but not right now. I can almost physically feel myself coming down from the last three days. I don't feel ready or able to quite deal with a drop and let it all out - it's not time yet for that, but I think my shoulders are separating from my head.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Aug 21, 2009 10:04:39 am PDT #4928 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Barb - Aug 21, 2009 10:08:09 am PDT #4929 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
msbelle, has your dad arrived yet?
msbelle - Aug 21, 2009 10:09:48 am PDT #4930 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
he got in around midnight last night. Already another body here is AMAZINGLY helpful.
Sparky1 - Aug 21, 2009 10:11:24 am PDT #4931 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
msbelle, I hope things begin to fall into place for the two of you.
Kate P., happy moving day (tomorrow)! Go to the Station Inn for me when you're settled in your new hometown!
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2009 10:21:14 am PDT #4932 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in.
The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has “nothing about liberals,” the Houston Chronicle reported:
The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.” [...] Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.
The 15-member committee, stacked with 10 Republicans, is expected to vote along party lines. Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts” produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen F. Austin, César Chávez, and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”
Miracleman - Aug 21, 2009 10:23:45 am PDT #4933 of 30001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Jesus Jump-Frogging Christ.
More and more I'm starting to think that we have to treat the wacko ultra-right-wing Conservatives as more of a cult than a political fringe.
Like Scientology, but without the tax breaks.
Polter-Cow - Aug 21, 2009 10:24:28 am PDT #4934 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dammit, Texas. I think I had a pretty good public school education. Don't fuck it up.
Sparky1 - Aug 21, 2009 10:28:31 am PDT #4935 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Texas teaching the bible in public schools this year: [link]
Hil R. - Aug 21, 2009 10:29:46 am PDT #4936 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Texas textbook changes impact way more than just Texas. In some states, each individual school district or school picks which textbooks it uses. In other states, the state board of education picks which books are used for all the schools in the state. Texas and California are both statewide-textbook-choice states, and so publishers will do just about anything to get Texas and California to pick their books, including editing them to fit whatever standards those school boards want. And then those textbooks, made to fit the Texas and California standards, are the same ones being offered for sale to schools all over the country.
-t - Aug 21, 2009 10:30:52 am PDT #4937 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts” produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen F. Austin, César Chávez, and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”
George Washington? Really? And Abraham Lincoln the first Republican president? Weird.