Perry's Closet Full of Bones?

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Why Is Texas' School Budget Being Cut to Give Big Oil a Tax Refund?

the politicos are expected to hand out some $135 million in tax refunds to the oil giants. Where will that money come from? Nearly half would be ripped right out of the local school budgets that were already decimated by Perry's $4-billion cut this spring in state funding for local districts.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews..._a_tax_refund/

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Jimmy Ricky's idea of "shared sacrifice"

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Flood-Gate: Perry Officials Try to Hide Sea Level Rise from Texans with “Clear-Cut Unadulterated Censorship”

“We Live in the State of Denial, the State of Texas” Censored Rice University Oceanographer John Anderson Tells Climate Progress

In one of the most flagrant recent instances of scientific censorship, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) refused to publish a report chapter unless all mention of climate change and its impact on sea level rise were eliminated. The author — Rice University oceanographer John Anderson, a leading expert on sea level rise with more than 200 publications — refused. As a result, TCEQ killed his chapter in The State of the Bay, a regular publication of the Galveston Bay Estuary Program.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/1...se-censorship/

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Repug "science" is UCA science, is "Christian" science.

[Wild Cobra]

Flood-Gate: Perry Officials Try to Hide Sea Level Rise from Texans with “Clear-Cut Unadulterated Censorship”

“We Live in the State of Denial, the State of Texas” Censored Rice University Oceanographer John Anderson Tells Climate Progress

In one of the most flagrant recent instances of scientific censorship, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) refused to publish a report chapter unless all mention of climate change and its impact on sea level rise were eliminated. The author — Rice University oceanographer John Anderson, a leading expert on sea level rise with more than 200 publications — refused. As a result, TCEQ killed his chapter in The State of the Bay, a regular publication of the Galveston Bay Estuary Program.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/1...se-censorship/

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Repug "science" is UCA science, is "Christian" science.

Maybe if they tried talking about realistic sea level rises instead of the levels they try to scare people with, they might get published.

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yeah, like let's not scare people with talk about peak oil/declining oil/declining discoveries.

[Wild Cobra]

yeah, like let's not scare people with talk about peak oil/declining oil/declining discoveries.

The story was about rising sea levels. The tale is that it is censored. It appears to me that the censorship is valid since they wish to say the sea levels will rise four times historical levels.

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everything about global warming SEEMS false in your UCA-shiller universe.

You and others here really ought to contact Kock Bros about getting compensated.

[Wild Cobra]

everything about global warming SEEMS false in your UCA-shiller universe.

You and others here really ought to contact Kock Bros about getting compensated.

Even the IPCCC came around and acknowledges their assessments of sea level rise was wrong.

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so the low-lying islands aren't seeing themselves start to disappear ? I'm so relieved

Even in Maryland, high tides are pushing the Chesapeake onto waterfront streets. and the worst is yet to come. GFY, denier liar.

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Startling Images Of Vanishing Himalayan Glaciers

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/...ayan-glaciers/

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Rick Perry’s Revolutionary War ‘History’
October 12, 2011

Exclusive: The stupidity of the Republican presidential field seems to know no bounds, with Gov. Rick Perry’s putting the American Revolution in the 1500s and joining Rep. Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party in messing up the history of the nation’s founding, notes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

For people who supposedly revere the Founding Fathers and the Cons ution, the Tea Party and its favored candidates seem to know little about the actual history of the Revolutionary War or why the Cons ution was written.

Instead, the Right has spun an upside-down narrative of America’s founding era, much as the Right’s pervasive media has created false narratives about almost everything else, a disturbingly easy process given how ignorant some Americans are about their own history.

The latest example of this garbled history came from Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday night when he placed the Revolutionary War in the 1500s, a couple of centuries before America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776 – and even before the first permanent English settlement in the New World, Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry

“Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom,” Perry lectured. “As a matter of fact they were very much afraid of that because they’d just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.”

Perry’s “history” lesson followed a similarly loony account from Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, who – while pandering to Tea Party voters in New Hampshire – told them, “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord.”

Of course, the Revolutionary War battlefields of Lexington and Concord are in Massachusetts. (Bachmann may have gotten confused because there is a Concord, New Hampshire.)

But the Tea Party’s rewriting of America’s founding narrative is more cynical than the know-nothingism of Perry and Bachmann. The Right has made a conscious effort to distort U.S. history into something that would have made the southern Confederacy proud, by wrapping its desire to maintain slavery inside the prettier trappings of the phrase, “states’ rights.”

The Confederates of yore and the neo-Confederates of today reinterpretted the Cons ution as a do ent providing for a weak central government that must submit to the supremacy of the states. That bogus historical claim was the core point in Perry’s bungled “history” lesson on Tuesday night.

To push this revisionist history of the Cons ution (under the guise of “originalism” or “strict constructionism”), the Right ignores what the Founders were up to when they convened the Cons utional Convention in 1787. They were set on replacing the weak central government in the Articles of Confederation with a strong one in the Cons ution.

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Jimmy Ricky is the classic Repug, an ignorant, under-educated, hick simpleton from TX, with more shoots-pooh that brains, and willing to screw anybody and everything to enrich and protect BigOil.

[Wild Cobra]

so the low-lying islands aren't seeing themselves start to disappear ? I'm so relieved

Even in Maryland, high tides are pushing the Chesapeake onto waterfront streets. and the worst is yet to come. GFY, denier liar.

I'm not saying the sea isn't rising. I'm saying it isn't rising as fast as they want put in the material.

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Like I said two months ago....

As of right now Rick is the male version of Sarah Palin '08...crap governing skills and dumber than a sack of hammers. Everyone is ooohing and ahhhing over the new guy but once his record and half-truths are put under a microscope and he gets the real heat and scrutiny of the national stage Rick Bush's campaign is gonna fold like a cheap lawn chair.

The sad part is he's not even on the national stage yet where the real heat is. I didn't think he'd show so much stupidity and fold this quick in the primaries. I'm waiting on that ultimate meltdown in 2012...if he makes it.