Bless Her Heart
Mary Lou Bruner.
She’s running for the Texas School Board and she’s a real work of wacky art. Mary Lou believes that President Obama worked as a gay prostate (damn autocorrect) prostitute in his 20’s. She knows that to be a fact so one has to wonder if she had personal experience.
Mary Lou believes all manner of conspiracies including the one where Jesus rode a dinosaur. She believes that time spent studying science is a waste when creative story-telling will explain everything. Rain is when Jesus is crying, hurricanes are when he blows his nose.
She’s a piece of work, y’all, and it’s likely that she’ll be on the Texas Board of Education, mainly because she’s got one of those flag shirts that let you know she’s a Republican.
Her Facebook page is a’wash in wild.
Yeah, Noah’s flood caused the Grand Canyon.
And no, she does no make fun of your religion. She just thinks you’re going to burn in hell for eternity because God loves you and that alone gives her permission to discriminate against you. So, there’s that.
This trip to LaLaLand is that pre-K makes people gay.
Now, the reason that you might be interested in knowing this is because Texas is so large that textbook manufactures generally let Texas decide what textbooks are published. That means that no matter where you live, MaryLou Bruner is likely to pick the textbooks used in your school district.
That ought to keep you up at night. MaryLou, on the other hand, sleeps well because Jesus turns her off at bedtime.
Thanks to mollusk for the heads up.
Last I checked, pre-K curriculum includes a lot of finger painting, coloring, block-building, singing games, cooperative play and nap time. Not any time left for Mary Lou’s paranoid fears.
1It is futile to try to talk sense to the senseless, logic to the illogical and facts to the fact-deniers. Luckily Pre-K doesn’t use books, but the teacher’s manuals will have to be redacted.
One of two things splain Mary Lou’s emails, the responsibility for both of which lay at the feet of Mary Lou’s 24×7 keepers.
1. She’s off her mental disorder medications and using the Facebook.
2. She’s drinking Sterno again and using the Facebook.
2Had a student once whose dad “proved” the Grand Canyon was caused by the flood. Something about angle of a fish fossil. What concerned me was that the guy’s day job was running a nuclear power plant.
3I’ve got one of those gay prostates too, and I can assure you, it is no fun!
4It’s called projection. RWers believe everyone is out to indoctrinate little children, because that’s what THEY want to do.
5This does certainly explain why so many people are uneducated or undereducated because their parents told them not to believe anything they were taught in school as it was heresy. The truth is only in the bible.
Religious intolerance, be in from a Christian in America or a Islamist in the Middle East, is the cause of so many of the wars in our world. Both want their religion to the THE TRUTH and forced on all people, particularly to keep women and children in their places with men in charge. To heck (thinking of you mama) with them all!
6I would like to know where all that water went after the Great Flood. Maybe God just pulled the plug in the bottom of the ocean and drained it that way. Makes about as much sense as her version.
7Move over, Carly. Mary Lou is the woman for Teddie.
8“Mary Lou believes that President Obama worked as a gay prostate in his 20’s.”
I would send you the bill for my monitor, which is now dripping with tea, but i’m too damn lazy, and by god I needed that laugh this morning.
9“If you don’t eat your broccoli Mary Lou Bruner will come and talk to you.”
10Maybe a stupid question, but how do we keep her from getting this position? Who do I call, write, email. I have a new granddaughter, and I don’t want this idiot near her.
11OK. I’ll bite. What the heck are all the other people on the text book commission like? Are they all related to Mary Lou? Well, hellspitanddamn. She can believe what she likes but that does not give her the right to jam it down the throats of whoever she thinks are non-believers. I could tolerate the fact that she most likely believes rain makes applesauce but there is no way I cargo any farther! I’ve just been reading a biography of Charlotte Bronte by Ellen Gaskell. Its chock full of letters about all the fuss that went on religion-wise in the first half of the 19th century with preachers of every denomination blasting away at each other. Life was pretty grim back then and maybe this kind of substituted for entertainment of sorts. There is so much nowadays that is actually genuine entertainment that you wonder why its the same old my religion is better than your religion song. Maybe there is something addictive about that perspective. If so, it is way past time for a 12 step program!
12History will label this era “Belief defeats Reason”. The most dangerous people in the world are the “True Believers”.
Eric Hoffer’s book “The True Believer” should be required reading for everyone.
By the way, is there an opponent in this race? I’ll send money. and suggest that patrons of the Beauty Salon do the same. Perhaps we can write letters to the local newspaper. Town, newspaper, anyone?
13Time to point out that if she breaks the Flag Code on clothing, she is in the same boat as those who burn the flag as a protest. Perhaps, we can bring back the clothing part and put some teeth in it.
14“These impressionable little children who believe anything they are told” is why those kids should be kept way the hell away from religion. Any religion. One of the extreme results of not doing so is this bat**** fool who wants to indoctrinate little kids with her brand of rigid ignorance.
15too late but THE FLAG IS NOT CLOTHES!
16geeze, grow up.
Wouldn’t it be a treat if all the right-wing textbooks were replaced with electronic tablets containing factual up-to-the-minute information? That way the Texas boobs would have no sway in determining what our kids are taught. They proved themselves incapable of objectivity in this effort.
17I live in SBOE 9. Mary Lou Bruner is in a run-off on May 23. The good news is that she has a DEM opponent for the November general election, Amanda Rudolph, a secondary education professor at Sam Houston State University.
18Now I know why….. it’s Mississippi and Texas…… running neck and neck for No. (1) in Stupid.
Geesh. ….. I can’t even…… Hell. Damn. Too much.
19Some things in Texas should just stay in Texas. Like fire ants. And Textbooks. I hope the rest of the Board of Ed is NOT like her.
20“You can call me ignorant or intolerant or anything you want to . . . .”
OK. You’re ignorant and intolerant.
And then there’s this:
21“The -f-e-d-e-r-a-l–g-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t- Evangelical Christian Church wants to indoctrinate the little children and they did a bang-up job on me.”
More and more, schools are getting away from using textbooks and using primary and secondary sources and search engines on the internet, which may help end the influence of the Texas Board of Ed.
22One can only hope, Maryelle!
23Well if ignorance is bliss ole Maty Lou must be happier than a jog in slop. The Founding fathers saw first had what religious intolerance can do – war, killings, unfair imprisonment, torture. So we have freedom of religion and freedom FROM religion. Too bad Mary Lou can’t read doesn’t care about law or the vast majority of the people in this country.
24Sam in San Antonio says:
April 27, 2016 at 9:57 am
“If you don’t eat your broccoli Mary Lou Bruner will come and talk to you.”
If memory serves, George Hitler Weasel Bush hated broccoli and said so on national tv. Sic him, Mary.
25Kudos to two crows. She did ask for it.
26I believe the TBOE is overrun with wingnuts of the stoopid persuasion. The dumb dela dumb of dumbness.
27Oh snap, we’re in deep doodoo if she gets elected! Go vote againsther! The school system is crazy enough.
28God help us all. Although I gotta think God &/or Jesus would not vote for her either.
29Neither would be allowed to vote. Wingnuts wouldn’t accept voter ids from either one.
30Slight correction, maggie: that’s *Elizabeth* Gaskell’s “Life of Charlotte Bronte”. A somewhat underappreciated Victorian writer, although not quite in the same class as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Worth reading if you haven’t gotten around to her novels yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell
31@Frenway Fran..The Head of the State Board of Education appointed by the Gov….are you ready??? A graduate of Liberty University..counseling Degree. Remember? It was established by TV Preacher Falwell.This is the “University” from which George W selected so many appointees to embed in federal agencies.
32Oh. My. God. She really is totally nucking futz!
See you lying snacilbupeR “elites?” This is why you now have Drumpf. This is why your party is becoming the laughing stock of the world while it’s disintegrating before your eyes. It’s because you lie so much your minions can no longer identify the truth and you’ve encouraged the boundlessstupidity.
SnacilbupeR have made your bed. Now you can slowly putrify in it.
33So, which version of the Holy Bible does she believe in? And is she sure she got a good translation?
34Debby West @18,
Amanda Rudolph, Democratic candidate for Texas State Board of Education for District 9.
http://www.amandarudolph.net/
Not a lot on that website (yet?), but it has topbar links to things like “Donate”, “Contact, etc.
We all need to support Ms. Rudolph any way we can.
Especially in an SBoE contest against the likely (R) primary winner: Ms. Mary Lou Bruner (R-American Taliban).
Flagsuit or not, it’s what’s seething behind that vacuous grin and eyeglasses that scares the beejabbers out of me, sheer talibangelical mania.
These downballot positions have to be wrested from control of these raving (R) lunatics. Especially those directly involving our children.
35I have no idea if this SBoE District is even winnable by a Democrat, it is in East Texas, buckle of the infamous BibleBelt.
I agree with June Bug, The True Believer should be required reading–but here in Texas, they barely can read or write which makes them ideal candidates to be the followers–I remember this book well from my college days and I can tell you it still applies–this is what makes the current times pretty frightening with the news media being run by the corporate profiteers and not calling these whacks out for the nut jobs they are–May be June Bug remembers the movie King of Hearts where the people from the insane asylum take over the the town when left behind–difference is they were not bad compared to the wingnuts we see out there today representing their so called “conservative values” —
Cruz still strikes me as the most frightening because the true believers do not take the time to find out what so called “values” they are voting for. I am sure Mary Lou is one of his “disciples”–hope she is rejected for the position on the School Board–
36See if she is one of the Seven Mountains Dominionists.
37Definitely we oughta start a money tree for her opponent.