On 10/25/21 11:29 PM, Billford wrote:
> a322x1n <void@void.void> wrote in
> news:XnsADCED76AE8E86time2016cablelynxcom@85.12.62.249:
>
>> sri atman devi <sri.atman.devi@gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:71f4c793-7db9-4a25-9fb9-3219b945c88cn@googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> On Monday, October 25, 2021 at 6:37:58 PM UTC-7, Mitchell Holman
>>> wrote:
>>>> sri atman devi <sri.atm...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>> news:2f0df892-a2fe-4d52...@googlegroups.com:
>>>>> This is hilarious. Concepts that SHALL NOT BE DISCUSSED
>>>>> in Wisconsin schools from this point forward.
>>>>>
>>>>> My favorite: obviously no one told them that "Free Radical Therapy"
>>>>> is a cancer treatment, and not a bunch of Commie Symps sitting
>>>>> in a circle plotting The Revolution.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37804650/wisconsin-legislatur
>>>>> e-p
>>>
>>>>> olice-speech-schools-critical-race-theory/
>>>>>
>>>>> Sri
>>>> Some of us remember when the Texas GOP
>>>> wanted to ban thinking entirely. You know,
>>>> because thinking children might "undermine
>>>> parental authority".
>>>>
>>>> Texas GOP Platform opposes teaching
>>>> "Critical Thinking Skills" in schools.
>>>> June 27 2012
>>>>
>>>> The Texas GOP has released their party
>>>> platform, and holy hell it is a disaster.
>>>> End social security and give it to Wall
>>>> Street? Check. Hating us some gays and
>>>> some sinful women-folk? Check? This kind
>>>> of stuff I expect from know-nothing
>>>> Republicans, but opposing the teaching of
>>>> critical thinking skills in schools?
>>>>
>>>> Who needs critical thinking skills when
>>>> you have got Fox News and Rush Limbaugh
>>>> to tell you what to think?
>>>>
>>>> Just check it out......
>>>>
>>>> Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose
>>>> the teaching of Higher Order Thinking
>>>> Skills (HOTS) (values clarification),
>>>> critical thinking skills and similar
>>>> programs that are simply a relabeling
>>>> of Outcome-Based Education (OBE)
>>>> (mastery learning) which focus on
>>>> behavior modification and have the
>>>> purpose of challenging the student’s
>>>> fixed beliefs and undermining parental
>>>> authority.
>>>> https://tinyurl.com/y86mcqnw
>>>
>>> Don't know whether to laugh or cry.
>>>
>>> But hey: get a gander of the Texas GOP Platform for 2020:
>>>
>>> opposing any effort to classify carbon emissions as a pollutant
>>> abolishing the EPA
>>> repealing the Endangered Species Act
>>> prohibiting teaching “sex education, sexual health or sexual
>>> choice or identity in any public school” recognizing pornography
>>> as a “public health crisis” abolishing Child Protective
>>> Services abolishing the Department of Education
>>> teaching American history courses “heavily weighted toward the
>>> study of original founding documents” opposing the use of any
>>> national or international education standards requiring mandatory
>>> daily pledges of allegiance to both the United States and Texas
>>> banning critical race theory from schools
>>> banning any lockdowns, contact tracing, or mask mandates as public
>>> health measures newly limiting the time disabled people can
>>> receive SSDI benefits eliminating the minimum wage
>>> banning cities from passing paid sick leave ordinances, rent
>>> control, or plastic bag bans abolishing school-based mental health
>>> care providers “oppos[ing] all efforts to validate transgender
>>> identity” repealing all limits on campaign contributions to
>>> politicians repealing all estate taxes
>>> eliminating same-sex marriage
>>> eliminating no-fault divorce and supporting covenant marriage
>>> entirely eliminating abortion
>>> introducing a right to use cryptocurrency to the Texas Bill of
>>> Rights requiring employers to verify citizenship status through
>>> E-Verify abolishing all federal welfare programs
>>> drug testing state welfare recipients
>>> adding “the right to refuse vaccination” to the Texas Bill of
>>> Rights stopping fluoridation of the water supply
>>> disallowing prescription drugs manufactured outside the U.S.
>>> limiting Medicaid
>>> banning Drag Queen Story Hour from libraries
>>> allowing people to bring guns into schools
>>> a prohibition on using gas or vehicle taxes for public transit or
>>> bike lanes opposing a path to citizenship for undocumented
>>> immigrants and using mass deportation instead abolishing the
>>> refugee resettlement program eliminating birthright citizenship
>>> new criminal penalties for desecrating the American or Texas flag
>>> revoking the tax-exempt status of any organization that
>>> “knowingly aid[s] and abet[s] illegal immigrants” ending the
>>> H1B foreign worker visa program ending daylight saving time
>>> “support[ing] an aggressive war on terrorism”
>>> requiring cities that cut police budgets to cut property taxes by
>>> the same percentage eliminating all public funding for public
>>> broadcasting repealing the “motor voter” law that allows voter
>>> registration at state DMVs withdrawing from the United Nations
>>> “unequivocally oppos[ing]” the ratification of the UN
>>> Convention on the Rights of the Child
>>>
>>> Dragging us kicking and screaming into the 19th century.
>>>
>>> And that's only some of the more ... entertaining of more than three
>>> hundred points.
>>>
>>> Sri
>>
>> Thanks, excellent points. Everyone should read this, even Republicans.
>> What more can be said?
>
> Hang every Democrat in the USA for opposing it.

Too kind, too quick ... make them work at StarBucks
or some super-Woke job where they can't scratch their
noses without being accused of implying rape or
colonialist patriarchy :-)

On the whole, that Texas Agenda sounded pretty
damned good.

A word of advice however ... just drop the abortion
stuff. That'll turn far too many women against you,
even nominally conservative women. Every vote counts
these days. No pro OR anti abortion stuff - the issue
just doesn't exist ...