Mary Lou Bruner might even get elected


Now that’s a terrifying thought. Bruner is a retired teacher (!) running for the Texas School Board (!!) with a set of beliefs about science that ought to have gotten her fired long, long ago. Instead, she’ll probably find herself in that nest of loons with influence over textbooks all around the country.

Bruner, in fact, has written about the extinction of dinosaurs. When the flood waters subsided and rushed into the oceans there was no vegetation on the earth because the earth had been covered with water. . . . The dinosaurs on [Noah’s ark] may have been babies and not able to reproduce. . . . After the flood, the few remaining Behemoths and Leviathans may have become extinct because there was not enough vegetation on earth for them to survive to reproductive age.

Meanwhile, Climate change has nothing to do with weather or climate, it’s all about system change from capitalism (free enterprise) to Socialism-Communism. The Climate Change HOAX was Karl Marx’s idea. It took time to ‘condition’ the people so they would believe such a HOAX!

We haven’t even gotten to her political beliefs, which are just about as nutty.

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That a few kooks exist and think they’re qualified for high office is never surprising. What’s troubling is that there are a significant number of people who will vote for her.

Comments

  1. kayden says

    When will Conservatives figure out that calling someone gay, liberal, Socialist or bisexual is not an insult?

  2. says

    After the flood, the few remaining Behemoths and Leviathans may have become extinct because there was not enough vegetation on earth for them to survive to reproductive age.

    Why didn’t this lack of vegetation affect the mammal herbivores?
    And why don’t these people ever ask these questions themselves?

  3. Snoof says

    LykeX @ 2

    Why didn’t this lack of vegetation affect the mammal herbivores?
    And why don’t these people ever ask these questions themselves?

    Well, obviously there was enough vegetation to feed small mammalian herbivores, like rhinoceroses and bison, but not large dinosaurian herbivores like Albertadromeus and Eousdryosaurus.

  4. says

    Climate change has nothing to do with weather or climate, it’s all about system change from capitalism (free enterprise) to Socialism-Communism. The Climate Change HOAX was Karl Marx’s idea. It took time to ‘condition’ the people so they would believe such a HOAX!

    I…I just don’t have words for this level of wrong.

  5. redwood says

    I’d really like to see a cage match between Texas and Florida for which has the craziest nutters running for office. I know, I know, apologies to the decent folk in those two states who hate being hated on but you have to admit that the current lot of presidential candidates like Jeb?, Rubioto, and Crazy Cruzy take a lot to beat. Maybe Mary Lou will be up there with them some day–her beliefs are similar enough.

  6. peterh says

    There’s some weapons-grade stupid in that woman’s remarks. But I digress.

    “That a few kooks exist and think they’re qualified for high office is never surprising. What’s troubling is that there are a significant number of people who will vote for her.”

    What’s even more troubling is that both she and those likely to vote for her are also likely to reproduce. I’m almost ready to seek the resurgence of eugenics. (Couldn’t be any worse than what we’ve got in Bruner & her ilk.)

  7. says

    Perhaps, for once, people should actually turn up and vote in the primary and the election to ensure she does not win. There is always so much focus on the presidential candidates but local elections mean a lot in the US and few people bother to pay attention. I am having a really hard time finding exact SBOE election results in order to calculate the turnout, but every source I have found mentions the number of people who vote in the SBOE elections is abysmal. Extremely low turnout makes it a lot easier for candidates like this to win, especially when their supporters are motivated and are the few people who bother to vote. On top of that, in two of the eight districts up for grabs this year the candidate is running unopposed. No wonder things never seem to change, and ridiculous candidates like this win.

  8. yoav says

    Dinosaurs came of the magic boat and than starved to death because there was nothing to eat, sound like a really poor planing by a supposedly omnipotent and omniscient god.
    Another question, why was it only the dinosaurs who starved and not all the other animals which, according to a certain pork product, were all herbivores at the time.

  9. L. Minnik says

    Travis, I agree; the smaller elections are really important.
    Maybe making them more visible would motivate more people to run and also to vote?

  10. rq says

    I thought Leviathan lived in the water. Why would a lack of surface vegetation inhibit it at all?
    Just goes to show what I know!

  11. Dreaming of an Atheistic Newtopia says

    @3 Snoof
    Anything smaller than a small cow can’t be a dinosaur. That’s science. Plus anything other than T.rex and the one with the long neck are all hoaxes. Every body knows that, dummy…

  12. joehoffman says

    What gets me is, Democrats lose to these clowns all the time. How bad at campaigning do you have to be, to make that happen?

  13. Dunc says

    Nobody’s even mentioned the worst bit yet:

    When the flood waters subsided and rushed into the oceans

    How the hell is that supposed to work? Was all the flood water somehow heaped up on the land, leaving the oceans empty? Were there dykes along all the coastlines, turning the continents into raised pools? Were there no ocean basins at all at the time of the flood?

  14. Jeff K says

    She seems a little obsessed over our president, sounds like she’s got some interesting fantasies concerning his behavior as a young man.

  15. Matthew Trevor says

    grumpyoldfart @ 12
    I saw this tweet a few days back:

    i’m starting to think that this is the last season of America and the writers are just going nuts

  16. Scott Simmons says

    Dang, not my district, so I won’t get to vote against her.

    I could move, but then I wouldn’t get to vote against Joe Barton.

  17. Scott Simmons says

    Crap. That district is currently represented by Thomas Ratliff, one of the relatively sane Republican board members. I was hoping that this was a hopeless loon trying to primary a respected and established incumbent. But sadly, Ratliff isn’t running for re-election. So I guess it’s anybody’s ballgame.

  18. Zeppelin says

    Interesting, I don’t think I’ve seen someone make the jump from “climate change was invented by THE ENEMY” (i.e. the gay nazi communist pedophile satanist atheist conglomerate that they believe every one of their enemies belongs to, since Evil has to be all of one cloth to sustain their simple world view) to “climate change was personally invented by Karl Marx” before.

  19. Scott Simmons says

    @#7 & #9: The SBOE elections are part of the regular November balloting. I’m not registered with a party affiliation so I can’t vote in the primaries, but I would expect that it works the same way.

    So turnout per se isn’t the issue, especially in a Presidential election year, so much as informed voting. A lot of people have no idea who these candidates are and either don’t cast a vote in that race or vote for the candidate of their preferred party. I’m not really sure how to fix that. Disenfranchise stupid people? Probably not feasible …

  20. miso says

    When the flood waters subsided and rushed into the oceans

    How the hell is that supposed to work? Was all the flood water somehow heaped up on the land, leaving the oceans empty?

    According to the story in Genesis, some of the flood water came from “the springs of the great deep”, which many creationists interpret as enormous aquifers under the oceans. So I guess when God was done fucking shit up, he reversed the flow and sent any excess back to the great derp… er, deep.

  21. seball says

    grumpyoldfart @12
    Just be careful not to laugh too loud, remember, we have nukes and the loons running for the office that controls them are no better than this one!

  22. rogerfirth says

    I…I just don’t have words for this level of wrong.

    Yes you do. It’s called “Republican talking points”.