Your rubber room is waiting
For those of you who don’t live in Texas, please allow me to introduce you to Mary Lou Bruner. She’s a retired teacher and counselor, who is likely on her way to joining the Texas State Board of Education. You might think her experience will bode well for the students of this state, and you’d be wrong. Why? Well, Ms. Bruner is absolutely nuts. Not only that, she’s the poster child for right-wing hatred, homophobia and straight up insanity.
Here are some examples of what Mary Lou believes, and remember, she will very likely play a lead role in determining what students in Texas read in textbooks.
She believes:
President Obama was a drug-addicted gay prostitute. Bruner insists the President is a Muslim, and she’s referred to him as “Ahab the Arab”.
Obamacare is part of a United Nations plot to trim the U.S. population by as many as 200 million people.
Climate change is not only a hoax, but one created by Karl Marx.
School shootings are happening in the United States because kids are being taught evolution.
Dinosaurs not only roamed the earth with humans, but there were little baby dinos on Noah’s Ark. I bet they were precious.
The USA should ban Islam and block all immigration from Muslim countries. After all, Islam is trying to conquer Merica.
Finally, here’s my favorite: Pre-K is designed to confuse young children about sexuality, and eventually turn them gay.
I’m not making any of this up. It’s sadly all true. What’s worse, she’ll inherit a great deal of educational influence once she takes her spot on the Board. People wonder why I’m not a huge fan of living in Texas. Well, I miss living in a place where someone like Bruner would be laughed at, not elected.
This woman is frightening. She should be committed and hidden away from sensible people, not thrust into a position of power. I don’t dislike people just because they share different political believes than I, but I despise this woman.
My wife is a Kindergarten teacher. In fact, she’s one of the most outstanding teachers I’ve ever been married to. Seriously, her students are lucky to have her in their lives. At the end of every school year, parents tell my wife how her warmth and caring changed their child’s view of school. She makes me incredibly proud on a daily basis.
It makes both of us sick to our stomachs that Bruner may have a say in what my wife is expected to teach. Education should be based on facts, not radical, conspiracy-fueled hate speech.
Ms. Bruner, if you had any decency at all, you would ride off into the sunset, but you won’t because you don’t. I hope you have nightmares of gay Pre-K kiddies riding their pet dinosaur, while quoting Marx and crying because the polar ice caps are melting.
Blame it on Canada!
The Rangers beat the Blue Jays Sunday afternoon, but what will be remembered about the game is the fight between the two teams. Specifically, one punch delivered by Roughned Odor to the chin of Jose Bautista. The Rangers have craved revenge ever since Bautista’s bat flip after his home run knocked Jeff Bannister’s bunch out of the playoffs last season.
While I think it’s silly to claim revenge, considering a heartbreaking, season-ending epic playoff meltdown runs rings around one regular season win in May, that’s not what caught my interest.
While the two teams finally retreated to their respective dugouts, the faithful at Rangers Ballpark started chanting, “U.S.A., U.S.A!”. Suddenly, this brawl between a second baseman from Venezuela and a right fielder from the Dominican Republic turned into a Trump rally. I’m sure that chant really pissed off the ONE Canadian player the Blue Jays have on their roster.
I’ve tried hard but I can’t imagine that chant happening in any other major league ballpark. A fight is a fight, and I understand why the Rangers aren’t too fond of the Blue Jays, but after today, I wouldn’t be surprised in there’s a movement among fans to build a wall across Niagara Falls.
What’s next?
You won’t believe what’s in the Texas GOP’s platform. Well, actually you will. After all, it’s Texas.