Assholes in TX trying to re-write Textbooks.

[ape descendant]

Yeah, they're trying to re-write history and such in the great state of Texas.

Details in this informative video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQx_2j5nXuc&feature=sub

What do you think about this?

[the-nihilist]

"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."

[PortraitOfSanity]

Reason #39248207652 to avoid Texas like a rabid rat bearing plague lice.

[Ben Lahnger]

Thomas Jefferson coined the phrase "Separation of Church and State." So Texas has coined "Separation of Jefferson and history." - tweeted by Stephen Colbert

"Publishers with any pride would tell the Texas Board of Education to publish their own textbooks." - tweeted by Roger Ebert

There's also now a whole Twitter hashtag stream dedicated to #TexasSchoolbooks - http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23TexasSchoolbooks

Here are a few samples:

White is a mother tongue.
science is for commies and nerds... You don't want to be a commie or a nerd do you?
Fossils exist because Satan put them there to test your faith.
Reading list: Constitution, approved sections of the Bill of Rights, Pat Robertson, Louis L'Amour.
Science text is one line: #Jesus didn't have a microscope and neither should you.
The War of Northern Aggression.
Declaration of Independence actually written by James Madison, Francis Bacon or the Earl of Oxford.
"Tex-Mex" spelling now corrected to read "Chili."
The battle of the Alamo was successful in bringing democracy to citizens of San Antonio.
Texas schoolbooks rewrite astronauts: "Houston, you're not a problem."
Texas schoolbooks about botany: Nothing yellow about a Texas rose.
Texas schoolbooks will edit out mentions of seven of the original 13 colonies, which were great disappointments.
Texas schoolbooks agree Eisenhower said "I won't get in the gutter with that guy." But talking about Obama, not Joe McCarthy
Texas schoolbook list of American Presidents comes out to 31.
Texas will sue Obamacare to protect constitutional rights of its citizens. (Just those rights allowed in Texas schoolbooks.)
Omission Accomplished.

and this one because it made me lol so: "For Bush so loved the world that he gave it his only retarded son."

Unfortunately, I see the Texas Board of Education as a group whose behavior can only be modified by the next election - if enough local citizens actually disapprove of this malarkey (no certainty on that.)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I like living in Houston okay, but this state is a terrible place to raise a child.

So we're in for a bumpy ride for a while. Laughing at the situation is the only sane coping mechanism.

[vindicatedxjin]

And everyone thinks homeschooling is so bad........ I Thank Jeebus that I didn't go to public school.

[Tam Li Hua]

I can't watch Youtube while at work, but honestly, I'm not surprised.

Besides that, I doubt it's just Texas.

[ape descendant]

The huge problem is that other states tend to follow the example of Texas when buying texbooks... I don't want to live in a world where learning makes it worse. *tears*