Not from the Onion!

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[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

I am an American, although not a Texan, and I am so entirely unsurprised by this, I am only pleased to note that it isn't on the national platform.

And this poor guy; the more he holds in his deepest thoughts like that, the harder it will be for him in the future.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The Texas Republicans seem to have crazy of a style that's extreme within the US. Didn't they have a plank about opposing the menace of Panama Canal based Chinese ballistic missiles ten years ago?

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

Oh, wait...

Is this the same state that by power of ordering the most number of text books and forcing publishers to include or exclude (by whim of a conservative minded committee) what materials to publish gets to draw up the 'standard' educational text books for the nation?

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Trust me: Arizona gives Texas more than a run in the competition for crazy.

But then, Arizona was the CSA's last stand to take over the west, particularly California at the start of the waw. New Mexico got in-between Louisiana-Texas and that drive to California. Even today one could make a strong argument that AZ remains the strongest proponent of the number one CSA principle: secession (except for South Carolina, of course). It's also because of their gun craziness providing such a buy-and-sell market for Mexico gun dealer-gangs that parts of Mexico are such a wreck -- among other reasons too, of course, but this one contributes hugely.

Southern California was populated with southerners by 1860, btw, which contributes to the phenomenon that was Birth of A Nation and other Hollywood interpretations of history.

Love, C.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

It is.

Although I'm increasingly skeptical of that argument, as Canadian publishers are able to make a profit tailoring textbooks to a single province, which is a lot smaller than all-America-except-Texas.

As an example:
http://www.nelsonschoolcentral.com/cgi-bin/lansaweb?webapp=WSUBDSC+webrtn=subdsc+F(LW3CATURL)=S_S_GENERAL_SCIENCE

Nelson publishes textbooks for just Ontario and just BC. They even publish textbooks for fairly small courses (possibly one section in a bigger school) so very low numbers, but they still manage to be profitable. And there are three other publishers competing for the same markets.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

From what appears to be the Texas Republican Party's site, here is the platform in PDF form.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

The province of Nova Scotia, with an even smaller school population, has custom textbooks as well.

Prince Edward Island appears to be under the limit, however.

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

The pdf link you provide, http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012Platform_Final.pdf, includes the reported craziness. However, the site now links to the pdf http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2010RPTFinalPlatform.pdf, which does not contain the craziness, at least not according to the 'find' tool. Not sure if it's a hoax or the assholes are covering their tracks.

Dammit I need my anti-Bush icons back again.

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

And *now*, as I was checking the addresses for emailing a friend, the site links to http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012Platform_Final.pdf, the version with the craziness.

Certain people are dithering about covering their asses?

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

Situation explained: the link at the top of the page http://www.texasgop.org/about-the-party links to the 2012 platform. The link further down the page, under the heading What Republicans Believe, links to the 2010 platform. No ass covering, just lack of proofreading.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Texas has always been the Overton Window mover for American conservatives. The Republican Party test-drives all their craziness down there.

[rwpikul.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've seen a fair bit of the Arizona crazy. Another site I am on has a crowd of Arizonans and most of them spew the craziest things, (including one that makes Limbaugh look well researched and another on the far side of Ron Paul).[1]

The irony they all miss is that they also often reveal how poor they all are, how shitty their housing is and how they can't get decent health care.


[1] When the sane one of your crowd is a troofer who is certain civilization is about to collapse ANY TIME NOW! it's not a good sign.