Visited A Friend In The Hospital Yesterday...

... and this was the name of the building he was recovering in. Yes that's conservative Tea Party funder David H. Koch - the guy who Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker thought he was talking to on the phone. Yep ... THAT David Koch.

Apparently Koch gave a bunch of money to the Hospital For Special Surgery so the hospital re-named their main building (below) after him. And I gotta say - it's pretty nice, as hospitals go - with great views of the East River.

When I got home I did some research, and found out that Koch ALSO has a theater named after him at Lincoln Center. The New York State Theater (below) - which houses the New York City Ballet and the New York City Opera - was renamed the David H. Koch Theater in 2008, after Koch pledged $100 million for renovations and ongoing maintenance. BTW - most of the people who work and perform at the David H. Koch Theater are Union members. HA!

I wonder what those rank-and-file Teatards would say if they knew just how much money their Sugar Daddy (Koch) was spending in fancy NEW YORK CITY - which is just crawlin' with all them there HOMERSEXTICALS and DIRTY COMMIE LIBRULS ?!?!!

I bet they wouldn't be too happy.

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Ultraconservative Texas Extremists Rewrite U.S. History

The Texas State Board of Education wields undo power over textbook publishers, since Texas is the second-largest purchaser of textbooks.  Curriculum guidelines adopted in Texas affect what students nationwide learn because book manufacturers will print whatever their largest customers want them to.  These Texas-approved textbooks are sold to smaller states/school districts all over the nation, and the lessons in these texts are taught to students everywhere.

On Friday the conservative-dominated Board injected their radical ideas into the social studies, history and economics curricula that will be taught for decades.  Some of the changes included (via Joe.My.God)...

-The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum's world history standards on Enlightenment thinking, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.” 

-"Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state." “I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”

-The Board refused to require that “students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others.”

-McCarthyism will be taught as an example of how communism was rooted out of the federal government.

-Students will learn about the "patriot movement" of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract With America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.

-"Board members also rejected requiring history teachers and textbooks to provide coverage on the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy and new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, while the late President Ronald Reagan was elevated to more prominent coverage."

You've got to hand it to conservatives - they don't miss a trick, do they?  It's amazing ... and disgusting.