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(4,569 posts)Irony
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)I should have read more Mark Twain earlier in life.
johnsolaris
(220 posts)Hi,
The Texas GOP in their recent state convention passed a resolution as part of the Republican state Platform to ban Higher Thinking in Public schools. This is not a joke, here is the link.
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2012/06/texas_gop_no_more_critical_thinking.html?intc=es
You may also look it up on the website: Fishink, where I found it. http://www.fishink.us/?p=7012
The Republican Horde is coming. Fight back now
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Ignorant people who can be easily manipulated with arguments that appeal to their unquestioning, fear-driven, primitive brain are very useful to the plutocrats -- and very dangerous to people who actually think.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Explains why nobody will argue with me, though.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)here is a good place to browse
http://www.online-literature.com/twain/