My Dear Old Texas

I live in Texas. I actually like the state.

Most of the people are of the, "you mind your business, I'll mind mine" variety. Most judge you on your actions. The old , "live and let live" idea.

Then you have the others. The folks who call for "less government", but want THEIR government to poke their nose into YOUR business.

In addition, there are the arch "conservatives" - AKA: Traitors To The United States Of America.

Now they seem to want to further enshrine TREASON, veneration of The Confederacy. How damn stupid is it to support treason in support of slavery, while avoiding the real American rebels like Ethan Allen, Tom Paine, Tom Jefferson, Samuel Adams, etc.

Jeff Davis should have been hung for treason.

This from FireDogLake:


"Coming Soon to Your Kid’s History Book, Courtesy of Texas: Veneration of the Confederacy
By: Blue Texan Thursday March 11, 2010 10:30 am


It’s official. The Texas School Board is close to overtaking George W. Bush as the single most embarrassing thing about the state.

Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light, emphasize the role of Christianity in American history and include Republican political philosophies in textbooks.

In other words, Phyllis Schlafy, the Moral Majority and the NRA are now super important, while stuff like the Civil Rights movement and the New Deal–overrated. And since Texas buys a lot of school books, the state has a disproportionate effect on texts nationally, so everyone’s screwed.

Look away!

References to Ralph Nader and Ross Perot are proposed to be removed, while Stonewall Jackson, the Confederate general, is to be listed as a role model for effective leadership, and the ideas in Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address are to be laid side by side with Abraham Lincoln’s speeches.

Now I was under the impression that Jefferson Davis’ central idea was to commit high treason against the United States and start a war that killed over 600,000 Americans–all in the defense of white supremacy and slavery.

But that’s probably a result of many years of librul brainwashing, which these new conservative texts will presumably correct"


Now, that "role model for effective leadership" Stonewall Jackson was "accidentally" shot and killed by his own men. He was also considered heartless, a brutal driver of men, and a butcher by some folks -- not often spoken of that way. It seems the best way to cover up the murder of a superior is to tell the world how "beloved" he was.

That's easy to do AFTER he's dead.