re: #382 Obdicut

No. The specific thread in this conversation was about you laughing at the idea of theocracy— despite the fact that Texas is weakening and corrupting educational standards in the name of religion.

Texas has some economic success. They also have gigantic problems that are becoming worse, and they’re borrowing money from the feds to keep the state government going. Those low-taxes, unfortunately, aren’t providing them with the revenue that they need.

This doesn’t put them in a unique position. Many other states are grappling with revenue problems.

Pointing out the problems with creationism— and many many other parts of the school curriculum; if you’re under the impression it’s just about creationism please read some of Charles’s links above— is not a ‘boogah boogah’, it’s pointing out a real, actual problem that will only get worse with time, as the effects of that corrupted education are felt.

Your accusations of bigotry, of Charles’s posts on the subject being two minute hates, are extremist and bizarre.

The dogs bark, and the caravan moves on.

Obdi - were your skin any thinner, you’d hold nano-membrane patents.

And I accused charles of a two-minute hate, did I? Perhaps there’s a clinical terms for it, but what would you call paranoia that assumes someone is talking about someone else?

And again - how is it that the economic success of Texas somehow is diminished or negated by alleged deficiencies in the thinking of some members of a state educational bureaucracy? The two are unrelated.

But enough about all that unpleasantness. Tell me, with its superior public services, progressive educational system, and all the advantages that come with these and the other blessings bestowed upon it, how’s, say, California these days?