Another Tea Party Weirdo

Ted Cruz, who won yesterday’s runoff to be Texas’ GOP Senate nominee, isn’t just a Tea Party guy, he’s also a weirdo.  Maybe that’s redundant.  Anyway, he’s one of those crazies who sees the U. N. under every bed, ready to take our freedom.  From “For God, Texas And Golf,” Gail Collins, NYT:

“Texas Republicans have just nominated a Senate candidate who is promising to protect America’s golf courses from the United Nations.

“In a blog posting early this year, Cruz vowed that as senator he would fight against ‘a dangerous United Nations plan’ on environmental sustainability that he said was aimed at abolishing ‘gold courses, grazing pastures and paved roads.’

“[T[he thing Cruz was talking about is actually a vague, non-binding resolution that’s more than 20 years old.”

Ladies and gentlemen, the next senator from the great state of Texas, Ted Cruz, the putz who will protect your putts.

Quote of the Day

Today’s quote is dedicated to Lonesome George:

“We are the children and inheritors of a culture that has banished God to heaven.  Early Christianity persecuted and ultimately largely extinguished any earth-based spirituality, and the physical world became a place of darkness and sin.  Then after the age of Enlightenment, the prevailing world view that grew out of Newtonian physics framed the world as an inanimate mechanism we could easily master, indeed were meant to master; we simply needed to discover its laws to tame it to our own ends.  As a legacy of that view we have developed a materialistic culture that treats the earth as a commodity that exists to serve our own selfish purpose.  Our greed now walks with heavy boots across the world, with complete disregard for the sacred nature of creation.”

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Prayer of the Heart in Christian & Sufi Mysticism

Quote of the Day

“Let me start from a simple premise that Oklahomans will understand:  you cannot put a gun rack on a Volt.”

Newt Gingrich, campaigning in Oklahoma.

Sorry, polar bears, you all have to die because we need our gun racks.

In Rick Santorum’s America

In Rick Santorum’s America, birth control is illegal.  He believes that sex should be between married couples and only for procreative purposes.  Of course, Americans still want birth control, so a black market develops, and local, state, and federal governments must expend enormous amounts of law enforcement resources to fight it.  People go to jail because they were caught with a pack of condoms.

In Rick Santorum’s America, abortion is of course illegal.  Back-alley abortions flourish once again (especially now that it’s so difficult to get birth control), and if you have a botched one, you have to decide if you want to go to the emergency room and “turn yourself in.”  Because if the hospital is able to save you (and many women will die despite their best efforts), they will then turn you into the authorities, and you’ll be prosecuted.

In Rick Santorum’s America, prenatal testing is illegal because it might lead you to seek an illegal abortion.

In Rick Santorum’s America, there are no public schools, and everybody home schools their children, whether they want to or not, whether they are qualified to do so or not.

In Rick Santorum’s America, women are free to work outside the home.  If you can care for your 8 or 10 or 12 kids and home school them, and you want to be a surgeon or attorney in your spare time, knock yourself out.

In Rick Santorum’s America, the poor don’t get any government help and must rely on private charity as their safety net.  If other Americans follow Rick Santorum’s lead in giving only 1.8% of their adjusted gross incomes to charity, there won’t be much for the poor to rely on.

In Rick Santorum’s America, there are no environmental policies or protections, so many of us get sick from foul air and water and contaminated soil.

Rick Santorum’s America — what a wonderful place to live!  And he calls President Obama radical and extremist.