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I didn't think he could get that far. |
It’s not that he hasn’t been busy. The Texas Legislature is about to begin its 83rd session, and he’s been warming up by posturing and talking smack about the people he apparently was elected to govern, although not by me, because whack-job drooling idiot. High on his agenda is making sure everyone knows that the crippling cuts he approved to the state’s education system won’t be restored just because some lefty conspiracy-theory nuts think the economy is recovering and tax revenues are on the rise. Or because his own comptroller admitted that she somehow underestimated state revenue (and subsequently Texas’ budget for two years) to the tune of $12 billion. That’s no reason to appropriate funds to our overcrowded schools and underpaid teachers, says Gov. Dick Perry.
He’s also been working hard to ensure that poor and
uninsured women of Texas are denied
access to health services. See, his GOP good old boys crafted a law stating
that if the state’s Women’s Health Program provided even one dollar to the evil
baby-killers at Planned Parenthood, which currently serves approximately 50,000
women, the entire program would be defunded. Isn’t that clever? Because clearly
it’s better that 10,000 women go without breast cancer screening than a single
one get to decide what to do with her own body.
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Before you know it, we'll want to wear shoes and leave the house. |
But the thing that finally nudged me to devote today’s post
to Gov. Dick Perry is his latest pronouncement on gun control. Namely, his statement
this week that the most effective deterrent to gun violence is…prayer. Not
regulation, not stricter laws, but prayer.
In response to President Obama's new gun control proposals, Gov. Dick Perry said that passing laws to reduce gun violence is for goddamn pussies. Basically, we all need to pray to not be the kind of person
who would shoot up a movie theatre or a mall or an elementary school. And then
God will grant those prayers, and nobody will ever pick up an assault rifle and
slaughter innocent people again. Because God grants all prayers, with the
possible exception of the prayers of gun victims’ families that their loved
ones would come home safely to them and not be mowed down in senseless acts of
violence by an asshole with a military-style arsenal in his basement.
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We're supposed to take away people's guns because their families didn't pray right? Please. |
In the eyes of Gov. Dick Perry, placing sensible restrictions on dangerous weapons is unconstitutional. But an elected official sponsoring a giant prayer rally, railing against separation of church and state, and now proposing prayer as a substitute for legislation is
God help us. Amen.
Yes, because all gun violence is due to the lack of praying...funny how people like Gov Perry screams long and loud that any nutbag be allowed a gun because a piece of paper from a couple hundred years ago says so, but god forbid women have control over their own vaginas
ReplyDeleteWhat a douchecanoe.
Apparently, I've been going about this whole "World Domination" thing wrong.
DeleteNew list:
Step 1: Become a woman-hating Republican with an insatiable desire to be hated worldwide.
Step 2: Pray.
Step 3: Underpants.
Got it.