{"id":129833,"date":"2016-02-12T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/12\/and-texas-education-continues-to-attract-interesting-people.html"},"modified":"2016-02-12T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T18:30:13","slug":"and-texas-education-continues-to-attract-interesting-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/12\/and-texas-education-continues-to-attract-interesting-people.html","title":{"rendered":"And Texas education continues to attract interesting people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently Mary Lou Bruner has a good shot at becoming a member of the Texas State Board of Education. If you want to learn more about her publicly broadcast feelings about teaching evolution, school prayer, climate change, Islam, same-sex marriage, the United Nations, the President of the United States, or the assassination of John Kennedy, check out the article. Then join me over at the bar; I'll be the one taking gin shots.<\/p>\n

(No, I don't live in Texas. But a lot of other folk, including children, do<\/i> live in Texas … and the Texas School Board has a wide-spread influence on textbooks used nationwide.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nMeet the Science- and Muslim-Hating Conspiracy Theorist Running for the Texas Board of Education<\/a><\/span>
\nThis is Mary Lou Bruner. Mary Lou believes that baby dinosaurs lived on Noah’s ark, school shootings are a product of kids learning evolution, and the New World Order is working to reduce the world’s population by about two-thirds. Mary Lou also just so happens to be running for the Texas State Board of Education. She has a pretty good shot.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Apparently Mary Lou Bruner has a good shot at becoming a member of the Texas State Board of Education. If you want to learn more about her publicly broadcast feelings about teaching evolution, school prayer, climate change, Islam, same-sex marriage, the United Nations, the President of the United States, or the assassination of John Kennedy, … Continue reading “And Texas education continues to attract interesting people”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51645,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/school-dazed-in-texas.html","url_meta":{"origin":129833,"position":0},"title":"School Dazed in Texas","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 30-Jun-15 5:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because why wouldn't you name a woman who has wanted nothing to do with public schools to head your state Board of Education to set curriculum for your public schools? 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