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Everything you need to know about the celebration of ignorance that is conservative thought is in this odious commentary.

Sure, Republicans have never seen a war they didn't like (well, except for any forms of genocide on non-whites) and they love giving $35 billion or so to oil companies, etc. but "wasting money" on libraries? That's horrible!

For what it's worth, here's the rebuttal from the Chicago Public Library Commissioner.

Remember where you were, when you could still laugh about teabaggers and racists and Arizonans, because funny time is almost over. If the unemployment keeps up -- one in five adult white males has no job and will never have a job again -- and people keep walking away from their stucco heaps they can't afford and the states and cities and counties and towns keep passing their aggressive racist laws to rile up the trash even more, shit's going to very soon become very bad, and whether it's the National Guard having wars in the Sunbelt Exurbs against armies of crazy old white people who are finally using their hundreds of millions of guns, or whole Latino neighborhoods burned to the ground the way the Klan used to burn down black neighborhoods a century ago, we are in for a long dark night and no light-colored paint is going to fix that.

Yes, the school has since backtracked this crazy BS decision, but the anger lingers. How dare these bastards lighten the skin of a mural of their own students?

I heard about this racist crap on the way home - and still in Aryzona. Here is the original news story.

This makes me absolutely livid. It is bad enough that in general Republicans, Tea Baggers, Klansmen and generic conservative racists hate people based on the color of their skin, or religion, or sexuality, or gender. It is worse that these cretins try to steal votes from folks they don't agree with or do a multiple of sins to diminish folks. Often they do this in the name of God, which should make for an interesting line-up at the afterlife but I want their evils punished in the hear and now. For Aryzona, they didn't need another black eye, but they earned it.

Look, racists shout ugly things. When the last two racists on Earth exist, they'll be white Americans riding together in a rusty El Camino yelling hateful crap drinking Mexican beer out of a 40 oz. and being completely unaware of the irony.

You do NOT kowtow to these bastards. And you certainly do NOT tell your minority kids that their color isn't good enough for a mural and try to literally whitewash their skin.

The racists are just idiots. The school administrators should have known better. Hell, all of Aryzona should know better.

Here's Roger Ebert explaining it better than I can.

Plus accompanying video:

It's nice to know that historians - particularly those in Texas - are lining up against the Texas state "reforms" that teach stuff like slavery wasn't so bad and Joe McCarthy was a nice guy or whatever lies they are selling.

Plus, another view supporting California's move to reject any textbook that is printed that includes the Texas lies.

Seriously, people in general are pretty stupid. Willingfully lying to children because you are bigoted and hate others is just cruel. Our children are supposed to be *better* than us, not force fed bullshit that doesn't reflect reality.

Texas is for lunatics.

Here is more on the insane crazy lies they are planning to pack into Texas schoolbooks. California, thank God, is working to ban Texas-approved schoolbooks in the Golden State as they are "a threat to the apolitical nature of public school governance and academic content standards in California." Amen.

In other Texas news Governor Traitor Rick is blowing through hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fund his rental home since the governor's mansion got hit by arson a couple years back.

So much for fiscal conservatism.

Conservatives hate education so much that they are now resorting to vandalizing classrooms and stealing educational materials.

Truly, when are we going to stop listening to these traitors until they start acting like adults and making some form of sense again?

Not that Gabriel is a social recluse or anything, but it is good to know that roleplaying can help socialize kids by not forcing them to change their ways and have fun to boot.

Why is it that conservatives - and some liberals to be sure - think that screwing our kids out of an education is the first thing they should do to balance budgets?

And why do they think they are going anybody a favor by doing so?

Can't they see the long term damage to our nation?

Teacher plans to eat school lunches every day and then blog about it. Here is a writeup about the project, and then the blog itself: Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project.

Good luck to her.

My sentiments exactly.

Nice to know that some conservatives believe in education. Too bad their attention only comes from trying to destroy it. From denigrating science to outright lying about sex education, it shouldn't be a surprise that lies and deceit are part of their literal whitewashing of history. Here are the worst lies and coverups they plan on implementing.

THIS is what anti-Americanism is. Our nation is better when we are open about our past, not trying to make golden Baal statues of Reagan or whatnot.

I get a kick out of watching Gabriel process new things. That's why this article had me nodding and smiling the whole way.

We love taking the little guy on trips because it's like his brain jumps to a whole new level each time. Be it going home to Illinois for Thanksgiving or to San Diego to the zoo or just to the truck show last weekend, each experience gives his brain a big ol' jolt.

It's a blast, and I hope to keep on enjoying watching it happen.

Apparently all those "family values" and "abstinence" aren't working out so well in the Rethug states.

That bastard Don McLeroy may have lost his seat on the Texas State School Board, but there are still plenty of Talibangelical jackasses who want to destroy our education system.

These are the pricks who honestly think that Joe McCarthy is some kind of American hero. No, seriously.

These people have literally got to be stopped. Not in a lethal sense, but their point of view, their derangement, their flawed thinking and beliefs. Their disease has got to stop being taken seriously.

Yes, it starts with an election, but this is one in Rethug-ruled Texas. Even a possibly moderate Republican is going to have Luddite and Talibangelical tendencies, if not Tea Bag Traitor ones come re-election time.

We need our children educated, not fed fairy tales and lies. We want them to open their minds and not close their hearts. That's what the Republicans want to give our people: hate, fear, ignorance. Never forget that.

Stay vigilant folks!

This is a pretty cool interview with a guy who decided to upload educational videos he made for his family and friends to YouTube. He's covered math, science, and recently economics.

You can find them here.

Good stuff and I'm going to try to visit from time to time to see what's new.

Here's a measuring stick for you. You are an insane Tea Party Traitor bastard if you think Joe McCarthy is a hero and want to change the nation's textbooks to say just that.

Sure, and I'm sure they were all for Hitler's "population reduction" campaigns and book burnings, too. These thoughts of cultural suppression and hatred, religious zealotry, literal whitewashing of history, and Luddite denial of science needs to be challenged and stopped if we even plan to try to maintain our status as a great nation.