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Video: Texas Tech Students Don't Know Who Won The Civil War

A campus group called PoliTech went around interviewing students for a their Youtube show, "Politically-Challenged."

The video illustrates a shocking level of ignorance among students of Texas Tech, a public college that boasts 35,000 enrolled students a year.

The sample group was diverse. But the confusion about historical events was a constant that was palpable throughout the interviews of the students, who admittedly seemed to be caught off-guard by the basic history quiz.

Perhaps it can be blamed on Texas's faulty textbooks. It seems that Texas is achieving its goal of keeping the population poor, dumb and superstitious. They do this by censoring actual science out of textbooks to reflect Christian theology. They also interweave theology with real-life historical events. For example, Kathleen Wellman, a history professor at Southern Methodist University, told CBS News that many books give Moses – the biblical Hebrew leader who received the Ten Commandments from God – credit for influencing the U.S. Constitution, so much so that Texas students might believe Moses was literally the first American. They also have been trying to rewrite history because they feel actual history is "too favorable" to people like Hillary Clinton and doesn't concentrate enough on the virtues of conservative heroes like Ronald Reagan.

As Jacqueline Jones, chairwoman of the University of Texas' History Department, put it during an interview in September, "We do our students a disservice when we scrub history clean of unpleasant truths," Jones explained. "And when we present an inaccurate view of the past that promotes a simple-minded, ideologically driven point of view."

Misty » 10 Nov 2014 1:40 pm » wrote: Nice talking point lie Puss.
Obama does not want to put government in charge of the internet.
He is asking the FCC to reclassify broadband as a public utility, to help stop ISPs from creating internet slow lanes.

On what planet do you believe that there is enough competition among ISPs?

If you really preferred freedom, you would be in favor of net neutrality.

Misty » 10 Nov 2014 2:04 pm » wrote:"Those new Texas textbooks ought to finish off all factual historical knowledge, don't you think?"

Absolutely.

War Is Coming: Tea Partiers Already Planning Assault on GOP For Being ‘Too Timid’ With Obama

With America seemingly too engrossed in a Walking Dead marathon to care who gets elected, the party that stumbled into Congress on the zombie vote is already beginning to cannibalize itself. Yes, it seems on Capitol Hill, we’ve got our own real-life walking dead in the form of the neo-conservative movement, and the Republican Party that spawned it. But fear not, for Mitch McConnell, chainsaw-arm at the ready, says to those who put him in power, Come get some. Hail to the King."


Yes, the group of people establishment Republicans like McConnell call (somehow without the vaguest whiff of irony) “for-profit Republicans” aren’t getting much love from the leadership now that they’ve taken the Congressional majority. Of course, that much was pretty evident more than a year ago, when Republicans made it clear that while they were willing to use the Tea Party base to get in power, they had no intention of honoring the base’s demands when they got there.

Practically from the moment they took power, Republican leadership began looking at everything the Tea Party wanted and saying "Nahh…we’re not going to do that."

Take for instance McConnell himself, who spent almost his entire re-election campaign running against the scourge of Obamacare, promising to move Heaven and Earth to repeal it if only the Tea Party would put him in power. And then, once taking power, he immediately recanted, saying first that they would work with democrats (GASP!) and that there wasn’t a chance in Hell they were going to repeal Obamacare.

Of course, he and Boehner insist that repealing the law and replacing it with…dueling pistols, probably…remains a “goal,” they’ve stated in no uncertain terms that they’re well short of the 67 percent majority needed to overcome a presidential veto. So, on with the business of building that oil pipeline!

Even a good number of congressmen like Tea Party darling Ron Johnson, who were elected in 2010 on the strength of the neo-conservative uprising, are starting to get with the Corporate Establishment program:

“I understand the frustrations of the conservative base; I am one of them. I also recognize reality. We’re not going to pass the entire conservative agenda tomorrow. We can certainly lay it out, [but] let’s start with the things we can pass. Doesn’t that make more sense?”
And you can bet, Conservatives, already disgusted with the people they voted for, aren’t taking the betrayal lightly.

It’s true that establishment Republicans have largely marginalized Tea Party types like Ted “Army of One” Cruz from the process; already, he’s (appropriately enough) starting to sound like that one racist Korean War vet who’s still screaming to all who pass by about those damn commies up North. Cruz:

“After winning a historic majority,” (via zombie vote) “it is incumbent on us to honor promises and do everything humanly possible to stop Obamacare.”

But we already know the dangers of underestimating this particular group of rabid conservative psychopaths. This is the same group that split the party in two during the last shutdown, and they’re already making plans for another one if Barry Soetoro doesn’t admit to being a Muslim Kenyan Communist Nazi and immediately resign from office. And the Republican leadership’s failure to deliver on its promises will prove disastrous…or so says conservative activist and major fundraiser Richard Viguerie:

“That would cause a civil war inside the Republican Party. There’s almost zero trust between the base and the Republican leaders.”

And coming from a friend of Larry “KK” Klayman who in 1977 scammed a Children’s Relief Fund for two-thirds of its $1.5 million in donations…”zero trust” is saying something.

But Rand Paul — the most trusted pseudointellectual on the conservative right — agrees. While Establishment Republicans are quickly writing off the Tea Party base as irrelevant, Paul and other Tea Party members maintain that the uber-right is still a powerful voting bloc in the Republican Party. Evidence, the exit polls from this year’s Zombie Election. Doug Stafford, senior adviser to Rand Paul:

“They showed up. You can’t look at the turnout models, the polling pre-election and the results, and not think that conservatives showed up for this. They did.”

Yes, there be an uprising in the wings of the Republican Party; McConnell and his friends, fresh in power, may have already buried the conservatives they used to get elected. But if there’s one thing we know about these people, it’s never to believe that they can’t rise from the grave, bony fingers and rotting flesh grasping at the air from grassy turf. Beware, Establishment Republicans…you may have survived Halloween night, but an unholy evil sweeps across your land.

Yeah…so what else is new?

RichClem » 10 Nov 2014 2:09 pm » wrote: Pretty funny coming from the moonbat who thinks FDR's New Deal ended the Great Depression.
Who claims that Joe McCarthy was mostly wrong.
Who thinks Gorby, not Reagan ended the Cold War.
Who thinks Obama is a success.

To cite just a few stupid opinions liberals have.

Misty » 10 Nov 2014 2:30 pm » wrote: Yeah, we all have the same opinions.
WTF would you know about factual historical knowledge?
You have your own version of wingnut history.

Did you see how uninformed those kids were?
It's you so-called Conservatives (more like radicals) who keep wanting to cut education and revise history to fit their own political and religious agendas.

Misty » 05 Nov 2014 8:49 am » wrote: She's adorable, and I'm very jealous. I have three wonderful grandsons, and I love them to death, but I really would love a granddaughter.

RichClem » 10 Nov 2014 2:38 pm » wrote: Oh yeah, the best conservative minds in the country are "wingnut."

Clem: Never mind that I've proven my contentions beyond any reasonable doubt using excellent sources.

Misty: Did you see how uninformed those kids were?
It's you so-called Conservatives (more like radicals) who keep wanting to cut education and revise history to fit their own political and religious agendas.

Clem: No, I didn't even read it, I'm so tired of your Disinformation.

Misty » 10 Nov 2014 2:55 pm » wrote: You only call them the best because they agree with you.

Did you see how uninformed those kids were?

It's you so-called Conservatives (more like radicals) who keep wanting to cut education and revise history to fit their own political and religious agendas.

It's a video Jackhole. And of course you didn't watch it, because you will do anything to avoid the truth.

RichClem » 10 Nov 2014 3:01 pm » wrote:I call them the best because they've been vindicated by history and facts.
That's why you avoid my threads, because you can't refute my claims.

Clem: No, I didn't even read it, I'm so tired of your Disinformation.

Misty: It's a video Jackhole. And of course you didn't watch it, because you will do anything to avoid the truth.

Clem: Stop spreading lies and Disinformation, and I'll pay more attention.

Misty » 10 Nov 2014 3:08 pm » wrote: No Kitten. That's not why I avoid your threads.
I avoid your threads because you are a demented circus freak.

Clem: Stop spreading lies and Disinformation, and I'll pay more attention.

RichClem » 10 Nov 2014 3:11 pm » wrote:You're a complete burnout with zero credibility.

RichClem » 11 Nov 2014 4:41 pm » wrote:Wow, it's been what, a few hours?

Misty » 11 Nov 2014 5:10 pm » wrote:I posted the proof that those stories were up for 3 days....

RichClem » 11 Nov 2014 5:52 pm » wrote:I barely look at your bulls*** because it's almost always dishonest, deceitful or misleading.
So f*** off.

RichClem » 10 Nov 2014 2:07 pm » wrote: Which puts government in charge of the internet.

RichClem » 10 Nov 2014 3:11 pm » wrote: I molested Honey Boo Boo too and I'm not ashamed to admit it!.

After soaking up all the glory of the 2014 GOP wave, the editors of the conservative National Review issued a stern warning to Republicans: getting too much done could come back to haunt you.

National Review said the idea that Republicans now need to prove their ability to govern is bad politics. The editors mocked Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, for urging the GOP to work on issues like immigration reform, trade, and corporate tax reform.

"With all due respect to the senator and like-minded Republicans, this course of action makes no sense as a political strategy," National Review wrote.
They argued that people don't actually care about issues like trade. But mostly National Review said that trying to govern would just make the GOP vulnerable. Democrats will filibuster, Obama will veto, and the party will continue to divide between the Tea Party and the establishment.

Instead, it should be all about 2016.

"That means being a responsible party, to be sure, just as the conventional wisdom has it. But part of that responsibility involves explaining what Republicans stand for — what, that is, they would do if they had the White House. And outlining a governing agenda for the future is a different matter from trying to govern in 2015," National Review wrote. "[N]ot much progress is possible until we have a better president. Getting one ought to be conservatism’s main political goal over the next two years."

And don't forget Obamacare!

"If more Republicans endorse an alternative like the one that Senators Hatch, Coburn, and Burr introduced, the party will simultaneously reassure conservatives that it has a plan for replacing Obamacare and the public at large that life after Obamacare won’t involve taking health insurance away from millions of people," they wrote.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/n ... not-govern

RichClem » 05 Nov 2014 9:08 am » wrote: He'll work very hard at it, and lots of bills will pass with bipartisan margins, but I'll bet Obama vetoes most.
And Dems will filibuster many good bipartisan bills, but you'll brush that off.

Clem: Your bulls*** about Repubs refusing to cooperate with Dems, about being the party of No is going to be exposed as the Democrat Talking Point Lie it was.

greatnpowerfuloz » 11 Nov 2014 7:11 pm » wrote:

We know you prefer the major communication players in charge of the internet so it's no surprise you are against anyone preventing them from interfering with the flow of access.

Thanks for confirming that you're a corporate receptacle, anal bag.

Misty » 11 Nov 2014 11:05 pm » wrote:Net Neutrality isn't about control.

It's about freedom.