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Luminous Animal

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Tue Dec 27, 2011, 09:36 PM
Dec 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change

"Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone. (Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term “separation between church and state.”)"

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GREAT stuff! Thanks for posting the images- BeHereNow Dec 2011 #1
Thomas Jefferson doesn't exist according to the reactionary right-wing ... Fantastic Anarchist Dec 2011 #2
WWPSS?* Lefta Dissenter Dec 2011 #3
Something hypocritical ... nt Fantastic Anarchist Dec 2011 #4
Seriously? That's a new one on me n/t eridani Dec 2011 #5
Here... Luminous Animal Dec 2011 #7
Oh, OK. I thought that the prior post meant that they thought eridani Dec 2011 #8
They go beyond not quoting him. xxqqqzme Dec 2011 #20
Superb, thanks for posting! Fire Walk With Me Dec 2011 #6
WOW! that is awesome. Love, love this! :-D secondwind Dec 2011 #9
Parts of/all of that quote are misleading, inaccurate, a la izquierda Dec 2011 #10
They worked very hard to construct an artsy representation of a complete FAKE, it looks like.... MADem Dec 2011 #11
Post removed Post removed Dec 2011 #12
Wow. a la izquierda Dec 2011 #15
Anything AT ALL to shit down their necks, right MADem? Occulus Dec 2011 #13
Excuse me, but I'm a historian, and I think your comment is utter bullshit. a la izquierda Dec 2011 #14
Thank you. MADem Dec 2011 #19
Well, last week it was the "Mayan" city found in Georgia. a la izquierda Dec 2011 #27
I saw that thread. MADem Dec 2011 #28
I beg your rude pardon? You think putting up bullshit propaganda--total lies--is HELPFUL? MADem Dec 2011 #18
Yep a la izquierda Dec 2011 #16
It's not inconsistent with Jefferson's known thoughts/writings, however Land Shark Dec 2011 #17
Doesn't matter. a la izquierda Dec 2011 #25
It does seem anachronistic, since corporate charters weren't at all common eridani Dec 2011 #24
Here is a Jefferson quote concerning aristocracy, taken from one of his letters to John Adams: Zorra Dec 2011 #22
Fine. But corporations and the aristocracy are very different animals. a la izquierda Dec 2011 #26
Wish we had some billboards all over the nation for that kind of things. We could replace all those jwirr Dec 2011 #21
K&R (nt) T S Justly Dec 2011 #23
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