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Old 05-22-2010, 05:07 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Sooo... what I'm hearing is that Texas has an Education Administration that is far from perfect, and are possibly made up of people who got thank you letters for a $50 contribution to a campaign one time? Dude, if I could get a job like that for $50 or more then I'd be scraping cash together like crazy trying to get into the Superintendent slot.

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It's no different than how the President picks ambassadors. You think the ambassador to Bermuda got that job by being good at international relations? No... they got the job by managing grass roots campaigns and getting on the bandwagon long before everyone else.

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in school they taught us about lots of biased things about English history (for example portraying the perverted and heretic Harald the Oath Breaker as the "rightful" king of England in place of our true king, Duke William of Normandy!) - but I am able to make up my own mind.

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Um... not to go off on a tangent but William the Bastard had no claim whatsoever to the throne when he invaded. Even if the throne was promised to him by the exiled king, the kingship was voted on by the Barons so the prior king had no authority to do so regardless. Historically, he simply got lucky on a battle he in all reality should have lost.
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