Texas -- a failed state

[GenXer 2,894]

57 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Nurse: I’m not educated at all.

FIFY

This is what happens when you decimate public education.  

My niece got her nursing degree and then a doctorate in physical therapy.

She once said the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard a person say. She asked me if there was a bridge to Hawaii. You know, because it doesn’t look that far from California on a globe.

Speechless.

 

[Satchel 6,938]

3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

We have many years of Texas high school students who were only taught to pass the TAKS and then STAARS tests. They don’t know anything about Carter. The answer to any question about the Carter administration is Iran Hostage crisis but I doubt Carter warrants more than a couple of paragraphs in a history textbook.

Overall Carter is a relatively minor presidency surrounded by more memorable people and events. He had JFK, LBJ, Vietnam and Nixon before him and Reagan and the Cold War ending afterwards. Yes, I ignored Ford. General history will pretty much ignore Carter too.

a deeper dive into history would be kinder to Carter especially in an ideal of selfless post presidencies.

It was too depressing to add she said she heard of George Bush but didn’t mention Obama. These grown people know nothing about the world they’re living in.

[Sawbonz 27,580]

1 hour ago, GenXer said:

My niece got her nursing degree and then a doctorate in physical therapy.

She once said the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard a person say. She asked me if there was a bridge to Hawaii. You know, because it doesn’t look that far from California on a globe.

Speechless.

 

How hot is she

[Anastasis 23,479]

1 hour ago, GenXer said:

My niece got her nursing degree and then a doctorate in physical therapy.

She once said the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard a person say. She asked me if there was a bridge to Hawaii. You know, because it doesn’t look that far from California on a globe.

Speechless.

Geospatial awareness and representation is not one of their strengths. It's ok, we are all different. My wife cannot navigate anywhere on the planet without GPS. 

But if it told her there was a bridge to hawaii should would probably drive off it. 

[TwiceHorn 31,511]

5 hours ago, Satchel said:

In order for Texas to realize its full potential, much work must be done in black and brown communities to educate non voters. Spoke with my sister yesterday after her routine visit to the doctor. She had this exchange with a young Latina RN who graduated from Angelo State:

Sister: isn’t it wonderful to see Jimmy Carter celebrate his 100th birthday?
Nurse: Who is Jimmy Carter?  
Sister: He’s the former POTUS

Nurse: I’m not into politics, although my brother is trying to teach me more about it.

I’ve had similar dispiriting conversations with young (and old) black people when canvassing neighborhoods for votes.

Texas state universities are supposed to require six hours of US history covering colonial times to roughly the present.

Wtf, Angelo State.

[F250 28,792]

10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Texas state universities are supposed to require six hours of US history covering colonial times to roughly the present.

Wtf, Angelo State.

I thought it was 3 hours of U.S. and 3 hours of Texas history?

[F250 28,792]

Hook 'em Horns

AOC with the burnt orange.

 

 

[Brisketexan 105,168]

Hook 'em Horns
AOC with the burnt orange.

 
 

Damn….

[F250 28,792]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Damn….

 

[MissingInAction 25,121]

[Chad Fuck 17,697]

Hook 'em Horns
AOC with the burnt orange.

 
 

Quite rude.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,878]

1 hour ago, F250 said:

Hook 'em Horns

AOC with the burnt orange.

 

 

I think we all won tonight

[Eskimohorn 5,640]

Hook 'em Horns
AOC with the burnt orange.

 
 

She walks the walk when talking about restricting guns.

[atomheartbevo 89,750]

Don't mean to be Debbie Downer on an awesome page, but Abbott is probably the only person that can save an autistic guy who was failed by the hospital/doctors that he took his daughter to.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-lawmakers-urge-mercy-for-autistic-man-set-to-be-executed-in-childs-death/

Knowing Abbott, he'll let the guy die, even though Republicans and Democrats both believe he needs to grant him clemency.

[SubliminalHorn 6,808]

If anything he’ll speed up the execution 

[kevwun 15,809]

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11 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Texas state universities are supposed to require six hours of US history covering colonial times to roughly the present.

Wtf, Angelo State.

I don't think we ever finished a history book when I was in high school.  Carter is to far in the back of the book to get covered I would wager.

[bolverk 29,694]

12 minutes ago, kevwun said:

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I don't think we ever finished a history book when I was in high school.  Carter is to far in the back of the book to get covered I would wager.

The most recent event in any history class I ever took was World War II. Of course, I graduated high school in 1989, so hopefully, they're at least getting to Vietnam by now.

[Todd Gack 432]

11 hours ago, F250 said:

Hook 'em Horns

AOC with the burnt orange.

 

 

Hmm... I'm seeing early onset mommy boobies there.  Might be knocked up.  That's hot.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,912]

27 minutes ago, bolverk said:

The most recent event in any history class I ever took was World War II. Of course, I graduated high school in 1989, so hopefully, they're at least getting to Vietnam by now.

My youngest son graduated from High School in 2021, and he studied about Vietnam in History.  We he talked to me about it, I told him "that's not history, that's current events".

[bolverk 29,694]

8 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

My youngest son graduated from High School in 2021, and he studied about Vietnam in History.  We he talked to me about it, I told him "that's not history, that's current events".

What constitutes "history" is a matter of perspective as we all get older, I suppose.

[Brisketexan 105,168]

7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Don't mean to be Debbie Downer on an awesome page, but Abbott is probably the only person that can save an autistic guy who was failed by the hospital/doctors that he took his daughter to.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-lawmakers-urge-mercy-for-autistic-man-set-to-be-executed-in-childs-death/

Knowing Abbott, he'll let the guy die, even though Republicans and Democrats both believe he needs to grant him clemency.

 

3 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

If anything he’ll speed up the execution 

Speed it up?  Shit, he'll want to go down there and push the button himself.

The cruelty is the point, because it's a display of raw power.

A government that executes citizens guilty of heinous crimes is powerful.

But you wannna know what's REALLY powerful?  A government that can execute innocent citizens, without being stopped and suffering no repercussions.  THAT'S power.  The GQP loves exercises of power that are morally wrong and indefensible, because being able to get away with the "wrong and indefensible" is something only someone with absolute power can do.  And "absolute power" is their only goal.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,912]

Gameday sign suggestion for OU

 

[HenryJames 66,134]

57 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

My youngest son graduated from High School in 2021, and he studied about Vietnam in History.  We he talked to me about it, I told him "that's not history, that's current events".

[MissingInAction 25,121]

[wildcat09 29,357]

In on this page for...reasons...

[Chad Fuck 17,697]

3 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Gameday sign suggestion for OU

 

[atomheartbevo 89,750]

4 hours ago, bolverk said:

The most recent event in any history class I ever took was World War II. Of course, I graduated high school in 1989, so hopefully, they're at least getting to Vietnam by now.

I needed some history credits and I took a History of the Cold War class at ACC a couple of years ago.

The professor and I were both alive during a decent chunk of the Cold War.

The rest of the class was born after the Cold War.

It was actually a really good class, but most of the others in the class thought it was weird that we used to have duck-and-cover drills as kids.

[SydneyCarton 48,125]

3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I needed some history credits and I took a History of the Cold War class at ACC a couple of years ago.

The professor and I were both alive during a decent chunk of the Cold War.

The rest of the class was born after the Cold War.

It was actually a really good class, but most of the others in the class thought it was weird that we used to have duck-and-cover drills as kids.

I'm guessing you average 20 year old today woudln't think it was weird. 

[tx 3 putt 77,202]

16 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Texas state universities are supposed to require six hours of US history covering colonial times to roughly the present.

Wtf, Angelo State.

 

soon to be texas maga’s us history 

[Satchel 6,938]

16 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Texas state universities are supposed to require six hours of US history covering colonial times to roughly the present.

Wtf, Angelo State.

Ever since Sister Fabian made us memorize the names of all US presidents, and all of the president’s cabinet officials, I’ve felt the need to know stuff.

[Chad Fuck 17,697]

6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I'm guessing you average 20 year old today woudln't think it was weird. 

[Brisketexan 105,168]

4 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

My youngest son graduated from High School in 2021, and he studied about Vietnam in History.  We he talked to me about it, I told him "that's not history, that's current events".

CSB:

I met my now-wife in a class on the Vietnam War that we took together our jr. year of high school. 

At the time, she hated me, because (to hear her tell it) I was a pompous know-it-all asshole. 

Man, the fucking NERVE of her.  Talk about getting the wrong read on a guy, right?

[Loch Ness Monster 3,533]

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One in five adults can't read at a 4th grade reading level in my area. Cool cool.

[Anastasis 23,479]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

At the time, she hated me, because (to hear her tell it) I was a pompous know-it-all asshole. 

I know that feel. Fortunately probably for both of us, good looks won out. 

[Brisketexan 105,168]

3 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

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One in five adults can't read at a 4th grade reading level in my area. Cool cool.

Why are you hating on cops?

[wildcat09 29,357]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

CSB:

I met my now-wife in a class on the Vietnam War that we took together our jr. year of high school. 

At the time, she hated me, because (to hear her tell it) I was a pompous know-it-all asshole. 

Man, the fucking NERVE of her.  Talk about getting the wrong read on a guy, right?

You lied and told her she could change you, didn’t you?

[Brisketexan 105,168]

Just now, wildcat09 said:

You lied and told her she could change you, didn’t you?

Her explanation is that, when we met back up in college, I was able to "make her laugh."  That's credible, because we know I didn't overcome her prior sentiment with my good looks or money.

[atomheartbevo 89,750]

4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

I'm guessing you average 20 year old today woudln't think it was weird. 

Ducking and covering for a nuclear war that was never going to happen = weird.

Ducking and covering for school shootings that happen multiple times every year...yeah.

 

[tx 3 putt 77,202]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

 

At the time, she hated me, because (to hear her tell it) I was a pompous know-it-all asshole. 

 

 

i guess you become numb to things over time 

[bolverk 29,694]

1 hour ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

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One in five adults can't read at a 4th grade reading level in my area. Cool cool.

 

I've spent some time over on the football board, so none of those figures is surprising. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,912]

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

 

I've spent some time over on the football cloak room board, so none of those figures is surprising seem low. 

 

[Chuckie Finster 22,702]

I will cast my vote for anyone who promises to disable pre-sunrise Blue Alerts.

[The Royal We 3,072]

2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I will cast my vote for anyone who promises to disable pre-sunrise Blue Alerts.

Some cop got into a tussle 7 hours away from me so I have to be screamed at by my phone at 4:30am. 

[SydneyCarton 48,125]

15 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I will cast my vote for anyone who promises to disable pre-sunrise Blue Alerts.

Motherfucker got me too. 

[miguelito 11,266]

That's why I don't keep my phone in the bedroom.

My wife on the other hand, has her phone, her work phone, her tablet, her apple watch.

[kevwun 15,809]

Fucking woke us up while we’re in Port A for the weekend.  I had to look up where Hall County is.  Not a statewide emergency assholes.

[Radical Larry 28,654]

Thanks for the heads up, assholes. I’ll keep an eye out in about 6 hours if he’s heading in this direction. 

[DaysOff 7,959]

Appropriate

[Pam Cummings 9,646]

Is there anything more useless than a "blue alert"? Get fucked.

 

 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,515]

21 hours ago, bolverk said:

The most recent event in any history class I ever took was World War II. Of course, I graduated high school in 1989, so hopefully, they're at least getting to Vietnam by now.

‘88 grad here with the same experience and probably same textbook. We spent more time on the teapot dome scandal than anything after 1945.

If the same logic applied today students probably get up to Watergate. You probably need to be 25+ years behind so that some parents don’t have strong aversion to the history being taught.