DWI conviction w/o alchol or illegal drugs

flywallyfly wrote:

metsfan wrote:

flywallyfly wrote:

We are according to those insightful folks on here that like to use a broad brush to paint us all like that. I guess where they all live everyone is exactly the same?

A greater emphasis on “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s.” This means not only increased favorable mentions of Schlafly, the founder of the antifeminist Eagle Forum, but also more discussion of the Moral Majority, the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association and Newt Gingrich's Contract With America.

- A reduced scope for Latino history and culture. A proposal to expand such material in recognition of Texas’ rapidly growing Hispanic population was defeated in last week’s meetings—provoking one board member, Mary Helen Berlanga, to storm out in protest. "They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist," she said of her conservative colleagues on the board. "They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world."

- Changes in specific terminology. Terms that the board’s conservative majority felt were ideologically loaded are being retired. Hence, “imperialism” as a characterization of America’s modern rise to world power is giving way to “expansionism,” and “capitalism” is being dropped in economic material, in favor of the more positive expression “free market.” (The new recommendations stress the need for favorable depictions of America’s economic superiority across the board.)


- A more positive portrayal of Cold War anticommunism. Disgraced anticommunist crusader Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator censured by the Senate for his aggressive targeting of individual citizens and their civil liberties on the basis of their purported ties to the Communist Party, comes in for partial rehabilitation. The board recommends that textbooks refer to documents published since McCarthy’s death and the fall of the Soviet bloc that appear to show expansive Soviet designs to undermine the U.S. government.

- Language that qualifies the legacy of 1960s liberalism. Great Society programs such as Title IX—which provides for equal gender access to educational resources—and affirmative action, intended to remedy historic workplace discrimination against African-Americans, are said to have created adverse “unintended consequences” in the curriculum’s preferred language.


- Thomas Jefferson no longer included among writers influencing the nation’s intellectual origins. Jefferson, a deist who helped pioneer the legal theory of the separation of church and state, is not a model founder in the board’s judgment. Among the intellectual forerunners to be highlighted in Jefferson’s place: medieval Catholic philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas, Puritan theologian John Calvin and conservative British law scholar William Blackstone. Heavy emphasis is also to be placed on the founding fathers having been guided by strict Christian beliefs.

- Excision of recent third-party presidential candidates Ralph Nader (from the left) and Ross Perot (from the centrist Reform Party). Meanwhile, the recommendations include an entry listing Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a role model for effective leadership, and a statement from Confederate President Jefferson Davis accompanying a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

- A recommendation to include country and western music among the nation’s important cultural movements. The popular black genre of hip-hop is being dropped from the same list.

None of these proposals has met with final ratification from the board—that vote will come in May, after a prolonged period of public comment on the recommendations. Still, the conservatives clearly feel like the bulk of their work is done; after the 120-page draft was finalized last Friday, Republican board member Terri Leo declared that it was "world class" and "exceptional."





am i really using a broad paint brush when info bout the rewritten history books is out there for the whole world to see. i sure want my kids learning bout the NRA and country music and less of recent 3rd party candidates. i wonder if in the next edition will they include obama being the first black president or leave that part out.

You are when you lump the entire state as being for this garbage. If it upsets you so much petition ur state legislature not to buy the damn textbooks. Again -- not everyone in this state supports this crap !!!

I'm guessing u live in NY city since ur name is Metsfan -- so I guess everything that happens there should be blamed on the entire city? I blame you for the Yankees.

eric75surf wrote:

I have a condition which requires me to take some psychiatric meds I was on my way moving from los angeles to austin TX cause no jobs were available....i may have been driving slightly off...i was in what is called a manic state (manic depression/ bipolar is my condition). I was pulled over given a field sobriety test...the wma said I failed...i blew a zero...I admitted I was on meds (a doctor or pharmacist never said I couldn't drive). I was concicted and spent my first 58 days in ausrin behind bars...Now it's going to be hard for me to get a teacher certification; I know most people have it worse of then me...but "I didn't win the lottery by being born". Any pj club members have any advice to offer. I basically went to jail for being bipolar which contrary to some belief is real problem for some.