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Old 06-30-2012, 02:18 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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That plank is better than one they had 8 years ago. It pretty much said if a person's behavior offends your religious conviction, you can kill them and it won't be a crime.

Having been a delegate to my senatorial district convention many times, all i can say is saner folks need to go to their precinct meetings and serve on the platform committee.

Some of this is scary.
So you brought up something they decided 8 years ago.
How much of it really gets put into law and practice ?

 
Old 06-30-2012, 02:49 PM
 
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So you brought up something they decided 8 years ago.
How much of it really gets put into law and practice ?
They got so much criticism, they left it out. Usually, it is just repeated year after year. The elected ignore it. My question is why have it, if the politicians say out loud to ignore it.
 
Old 06-30-2012, 02:56 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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They got so much criticism, they left it out. Usually, it is just repeated year after year. The elected ignore it. My question is why have it, if the politicians say out loud to ignore it.
Well why does any group meet, make a bunch of "rules" and think they are all that ? Then they all slink away for another year. Ego maybe ?

No one here in Texas pays them much mind.
 
Old 06-30-2012, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Pluto's Home Town
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Say it ain't so Republicans.

I know the GOP is all about believing the Good Book and not asking inconvenient questions, but would they really take it that far? Sounds like the friggin' Taliban.
 
Old 06-30-2012, 04:08 PM
 
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Originally Posted by 313Weather View Post
lol...

Texas Republican Party Seeks Ban on Critical Thinking, Other Stuff: Austinist



There are tons of other bat**** crazy proposals and stances in their platform, but the above takes the cake and eat it.
One of the major reasons I left the State of Texas is thinking like this.

I have NOT regretted my decision at all.
 
Old 06-30-2012, 06:50 PM
LML
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by burdell View Post
Geez, being Texans and liking things done in a big way I wonder why they just don't propose banning ALL thinking?
Some might think that was already done in Texas long ago....at least when it comes to their politicians.
 
Old 06-30-2012, 07:39 PM
 
Location: Houston
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A quote from the link:

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Since 2008, the price of gold has more than doubled, which means if the dollar had been pegged to the price of gold in 2008, everything from bread to automobiles would have doubled in price at the exact same time the country was spiraling into recession.
First, this assumes the price of gold will still have doubled if we were on the gold standard. If the dollar is pegged to gold, gold's dollar value remains the same.. Secondly, this would mean the dollar may well have approximately doubled in value against other currencies not pegged to the gold standard. This means you can buy twice as much imported goods as previous, all other things being equal. When your currency doubles in value against other currencies prices decrease.

If a dollar is pegged to gold, gold does not fluctuate against the dollar. No doubling of prices from everything from bread to automobiles, cheaper imported goods, the drawback is goods for export are more expensive.

The author of this failed Economics 101.
 
Old 06-30-2012, 07:52 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Originally Posted by psulions2007 View Post
I mean I understand that Republicans generally have problems reading and comprehending things, but the blog post provides plenty of links... including to the austin chronicle which leads to this:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre...form_Final.pdf

See Page 20 in PDF pages/Page 12 using the numbers at the bottom of the page or in the TOC

Or just Ctrl+F critical thinking

The Austin Chronicle has the reputation as the gay communities paper.

I know my daughter tries to be more defiant than I ever was to my parents. The key word, is "tries"
 
Old 06-30-2012, 09:11 PM
 
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Was there critical thinking in Texas to begin with. Drum roll.
 
Old 06-30-2012, 09:34 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Was there critical thinking in Texas to begin with. Drum roll.
Ya gettin' on the fightin' side of me.
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