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News that will drive you to drink

Notably nutty, Elois Zeanah of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women compares the adoption of Common Core curriculum standards to the indoctrination of children in Nazi Germany. She then rooted around the oak trees out back and found some truffles.

• Hey guys, did you know that there is a civil war on? It's True, the Heritage Foundation tells us about how giving rights to Big Gay is causing a civil war:

• Matt Barber, the man who thinks about sweaty man-on-man action more than Lucky Pierre, the towel boy at the the L.A. Mineshaft, condescends to write an uplifting, loving, and open letter to gay teens telling them to knock it off or go to HELL. In the most loving way, of course. (Christian News Service)
• The Headline You've Always Wanted to Read:

  

  (Townhall)

--Tengrain

Comments

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I'm still befuddled by the right wing's determination to villify all things Obama, in this case, the Common Core curriculum, even though it's ultimately going to do many of the things the wingnutz dearly want, i.e., the privatization of public education. The Common Core standards will very quickly declare suburban schools as deficient as inner-city schools have been on the basis of standardized testing. This will lead to increased calls for vouchers and for-profit charter schools and the steady erosion of teachers' unions.

Indeed, that is its ultimate purpose. Middle-class suburban schools have been mostly spared from the worst of the condemnations made of American public education, and now, it's their turn, via Common Core.

You'd think the Alabama Republican Women would be jumping up and down with excitement over this, but, you'd be wrong. Obama's doing them a favor, but, they insist on looking that gift horse in the mouth because it comes from their avowed enemy.

[Syrbal/Labrys]

The stuff the right wingtards are up to now doesn't merely drive one to drink. It is more 21st century than that....it JET PACKS one to the booze store.