{"id":4604,"date":"2011-01-29T06:28:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2011-01-29T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T11:28:07","slug":"texas-taliban-snark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4604","title":{"rendered":"Texas Taliban Snark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/contact-us/">https://blackhillsballoons.com/contact-us/</a> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/1\/28\/939444\/-Governor-Rick-Perry-Urges-Republican-Voters-to-Abandon-Public-Schools-\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>, I came across this astonishing, mind-blowing quote from Texas Governor Rick Perry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/releases/"></a> I am concerned that some the highly diverse Magnet public schools in  this city are becoming hotbeds for liberalism. \u00a0Do we really need free  school bus service, Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month,  Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, ESL, special needs and enrichment programs  like music, art or math Olympiad? I think we should get back to the  basics of the three Rs, reading writing and arithmetic. I mean when is  the last time a 6th grade science fair project yielded a cure for a  disease?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/atm/">https://worklivelaos.com/atm/</a> I mean, that&#8217;s just so buggered that my first reaction is that it&#8217;s a joke. What sane public official could utter such lunacy? But I kept reading the post and come across this equally whacked Perry quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/trainingoverview/"></a> I really don&#8217;t see why high schools should have to teach college level  courses like calculus, economics, physics, chemistry or biology. Not all  children go to college anyway. \u00a0Texas has plenty of on the job training  programs that teach skills and trades. Oil field workers need to know  how to operate machines that extract oil. They don&#8217;t need calculus to do  their job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/mahosot/"></a> Evidently, Perry was speaking to conservative business leaders at a luncheon in Houston and the press corp is mentioned as being there. So that&#8217;s it, I figure something like this has to be covered in bold print by the Houston Chronicle and other Texas publications. Nada.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/city-of-largo/">https://dinoeliadis.com/city-of-largo/</a> Now I&#8217;m suspicious. So I scroll down to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/comments\/2011\/1\/28\/75450\/6887\/1#c1\" target=\"_blank\">comments<\/a> at Daily Kos and see that the whole post is a joke and readers are pissed.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/contact/"></a> Lots of people, including <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2011\/01\/holy_crap_texas_how_can_you_st.php\" target=\"_blank\">PZ Myers<\/a>, got fooled, which I find amusing. I guess atheists can be just as credulous as believers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/emotional-intelligence/"></a> Via Daily Kos, I came across this astonishing, mind-blowing quote from Texas Governor Rick Perry: I am concerned that some the highly diverse Magnet public schools in this city are becoming hotbeds for liberalism. \u00a0Do we really need free school bus service, Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, ESL, special needs and&#8230;<span> <a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/faqs/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4604\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3017],"tags":[1682],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}