Bad Deeds for 12/8/2008

TX SD 17: Joan Huffman Thinks Schools Have All The Money They Need – Joan Hoffman, who is running against Chris Bell in the runoff for the open seat in Senate District 17, doesn’t seem to have a clue about substantive matters of public policy. As noted in the TV commercial above, Huffman didn’t know how to fix the school funding problem, and says that schools have all the money they need. Clearly, she doesn’t have the kind of grasp that Chris Bell has on public policy issues.

Now would be a great time to make calls for the Bell campaign from the comfort of your very own home! You can get set up for virtual phone banking here. It is the very last election race that is ongoing in the nation, and you have a chance to participate in it.

 

State Board of Education Member Cynthia Dunbar Writes That Government Should Be Guided By “Biblical Litmus Test” – Right-wing State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar has written in her new book that that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” Dunbar endorses a belief system requiring “any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern. Dunbar created controversy last month after predicting that Barack Obama would impose martial law if he were elected president.

 

State Board of Education Ignores Input From Science Teachers In Favor of Beliefs of Intelligent Design and Creationism Advocates – Proposed curriculum standards for high school biology in Texas being considered this week by the State Board of Education have been drastically edited to remove language that conflicts with the ideas and beliefs of intelligent design and creationism advocates. The curriculum standards proposed Monday can be found here. The curriculum standards proposed in September which were written by science educators are here. From the first notices of deleted paragraphs to the last, it is evident that the State Board of Education is attempting to sanitize biology curriculum standards of anything remotely related to evolution.

 

State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) has filed another bill to add an “English-only” amendment to the Texas Constitution – Evidently realizing that the previous constitutional amendment he proposed was patently unconstitutional, State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) has filed another, slightly modified, bill to add an “English-only” amendment to the Texas Constitution.

 

Cheney Personally Thanked Chris Wallace For Defending Bush; Promises Him ‘Special Exit Interview’ As Reward – Appearing on Mike Gallagher’s radio show today, Chris Wallace of Fox News revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney personally thanked him at his holiday party:

WALLACE: Let me ask you this, did the Vice President say to you, “thank you so much for defending the president and yes I’m going to be giving you a special exit interview in a couple of weeks?”
GALLAGHER: Did he say all that to you?
WALLACE: Yes.
Later in the interview, Wallace said that “a bunch of people” at Cheney’s party thanked him for his comments. “Cheney was genuinely grateful for what I had done, and Ed Gillespie, the senior counselor to the president, was there and genuinely grateful.”
Fox News – So fair and balanced .. And laughable.

Regards,

Jim