GOP Rep Blames California Drought On Abortion

[kent]

I know several will come up with their usual partisan BS and say, "See, I told you Republicans are crazy."  The facts are she's just a run of the mill loon in CA, kind of like Pelosi, Boxer, etc., etc.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled program.

Scientists are still exploring the causes of California's historic drought, but one local lawmaker thinks it might all come down to one thing: God's wrath over abortion.

While speaking at the California ProLife Legislative Banquet last week, California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R) suggested a theory that the state's worst drought in 1,200 years may be divine retribution for California providing women with access to abortions, RH Reality Check reported.

“Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill,” she told the audience. “It rained that night. Now God has his hold on California.”

Grove was likely referring to House Bill 2, RH Reality Check noted, a Texas abortion bill banning abortions 20 weeks after fertilization, four weeks earlier than the standard set by Roe v. Wade.

Grove did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation that she made the statement at the event, but she elaborated on her theory in a Facebook comment.

"I believe --and most Americans believe --that God’s hand is in the affairs of man, and certainly was in the formation of this country," she wrote. "Is this drought caused by God? Nobody knows. But biblical history shows a consequence to man’s actions."

Pro-life activists in Kern County, the district Grove represents, didn't stand behind Grove's idea.

“We are huge fans of Shannon Grove and all her efforts in Sacramento on behalf of life,” Marylee Shrider, executive director of Right to Life of Kern County, told The Bakersfield Californian. “That being said, we have not made a connection between the drought and abortion here in California.”

Pro-Choice Kern County called her comments "absolute lunacy" and made this mock-up of a T-shirt.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-blames-california-drought-on-abortion/ar-BBl4ccP

[tallguy]

“Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill,” she told the audience. “It rained that night. Now God has his hold on California.”

Considering how badly Texas flooded, God must REALLY have been angry over Texas and Perry overstepping with that bill.  Makes just as much sense.   

I'd bet it overwhelmingly more likely that any retribution God is meting out to the states is in answer to all of these mindless, moronic, hypocrites insisting that they speak for Him.  It would sure piss me off....

[mmhmm]

Jun 13, 2015 14:16:26 GMT -5 kent said:

I know several will come up with their usual partisan BS and say, "See, I told you Republicans are crazy."  The facts are she's just a run of the mill loon in CA, kind of like Pelosi, Boxer, etc., etc.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled program.

Scientists are still exploring the causes of California's historic drought, but one local lawmaker thinks it might all come down to one thing: God's wrath over abortion.

While speaking at the California ProLife Legislative Banquet last week, California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R) suggested a theory that the state's worst drought in 1,200 years may be divine retribution for California providing women with access to abortions, RH Reality Check reported.

“Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill,” she told the audience. “It rained that night. Now God has his hold on California.”

Grove was likely referring to House Bill 2, RH Reality Check noted, a Texas abortion bill banning abortions 20 weeks after fertilization, four weeks earlier than the standard set by Roe v. Wade.

Grove did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation that she made the statement at the event, but she elaborated on her theory in a Facebook comment.

"I believe --and most Americans believe --that God’s hand is in the affairs of man, and certainly was in the formation of this country," she wrote. "Is this drought caused by God? Nobody knows. But biblical history shows a consequence to man’s actions."

Pro-life activists in Kern County, the district Grove represents, didn't stand behind Grove's idea.

“We are huge fans of Shannon Grove and all her efforts in Sacramento on behalf of life,” Marylee Shrider, executive director of Right to Life of Kern County, told The Bakersfield Californian. “That being said, we have not made a connection between the drought and abortion here in California.”

Pro-Choice Kern County called her comments "absolute lunacy" and made this mock-up of a T-shirt.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-blames-california-drought-on-abortion/ar-BBl4ccP

Yes, Kent, she's just another run-of-the-mill loon. Doesn't matter which party she belongs to. Thing is, I wish somebody would explain to me why this kind of thing is repeated all over the damned internet! It's stupid! We get it! Why are we furthering the idiocy?

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I was watching a movie this morning called "Idiocracy"... I am beginning to think that that movie is a better predictor of our future than "The Jetsons" was.

People like this "Representative" are why it's looking that way...

[marvholly]

I suppose the TX & OK monsoons/floods are divine retribution too? I believe those states have very strict abortion laws.

[mroped]

I blame Sarah Palin for the melting of ice caps!
She shot to many wolves out of the helicopter and God is taking his vengeance!

[MJ2.0]

Jun 13, 2015 18:08:15 GMT -5 @richardintn said:

I was watching a movie this morning called "Idiocracy"... I am beginning to think that that movie is a better predictor of our future than "The Jetsons" was.

I've been saying this for a while - Idiocracy is now the present.

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Jun 14, 2015 9:47:40 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Jun 13, 2015 18:08:15 GMT -5 @richardintn said:

I was watching a movie this morning called "Idiocracy"... I am beginning to think that that movie is a better predictor of our future than "The Jetsons" was.

I've been saying this for a while - Idiocracy is now the present.

Does this mean we really need to start valuing having and raising children again?  I've been wondering.

[MJ2.0]

Jun 14, 2015 9:49:37 GMT -5 oped said:

Jun 14, 2015 9:47:40 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

I've been saying this for a while - Idiocracy is now the present.

Does this mean we really need to start valuing having and raising children again?  I've been wondering.

I had a Facebook "disagreement" with one of my former HS classmates (a very successful game developer out west) about that. She posted an article about why lots of very smart 20-30 somethings aren't having kids. I said that the people who are the most stable and capable should be the ones to have kids if we want an intelligent society. She, like most of her cohort, doesn't want to settle in order to procreate - that it's hard finding men who share her interests that are good guys she's attracted to. Hard to argue with that.

[Deleted]

I've been vacilating in my ideas for my 'after homeschool' life. Wondering if I want to do something just for me, or something that 'gives back' and whether or not the best 'gives back' occupation might just be taking in a few more kids and trying to, mmmm, 'raise them up right'? 

Id also love to run one of those 'Truman Show' type places for people with Alzheimer's. But I'm not sure I can pull that off.

[djAdvocate]

Jun 14, 2015 9:59:09 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Jun 14, 2015 9:49:37 GMT -5 oped said:

Does this mean we really need to start valuing having and raising children again?  I've been wondering.

I had a Facebook "disagreement" with one of my former HS classmates (a very successful game developer out west) about that. She posted an article about why lots of very smart 20-30 somethings aren't having kids. I said that the people who are the most stable and capable should be the ones to have kids if we want an intelligent society. She, like most of her cohort, doesn't want to settle in order to procreate - that it's hard finding men who share her interests that are good guys she's attracted to. Hard to argue with that.

waiting is totally valid.  i didn't have my first child until i was 36, and i was quite happy with that decision.

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The issue is that those who wait, and have fewer, are probably those who should procreate more...

[djAdvocate]

Jun 14, 2015 11:08:57 GMT -5 oped said:

The issue is that those who wait, and have fewer, are probably those who should procreate more...

Idiocracy?

[weltschmerz]

I know several will come up with their usual partisan BS and say, "See, I told you Republicans are crazy." The facts are she's just a run of the mill loon in CA, kind of like Pelosi, Boxer, etc., etc.

Well, all you have to do is Google "Republicans and God's wrath", and the hits just keep on coming.

From abortion to gay marriage to movies...all punished by an angry deity.

www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ACAW_enCA440CA440&q=GOP+believes+in+God%27s+wrath

[Tennesseer]

Jun 14, 2015 11:34:54 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

I know several will come up with their usual partisan BS and say, "See, I told you Republicans are crazy." The facts are she's just a run of the mill loon in CA, kind of like Pelosi, Boxer, etc., etc.

Well, all you have to do is Google "Republicans and God's wrath", and the hits just keep on coming.

From abortion to gay marriage to movies...all punished by an angry deity.

www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ACAW_enCA440CA440&q=GOP+believes+in+God%27s+wrath

They're everywhere! They're everywhere!

[weltschmerz]

It's the exact same thing as naked Canadians in Malaysia causing earthquakes for angering the mountain spirits. It's identical. Mountain spirits, sky spirit...same thing.

Loons everywhere.

[weltschmerz]

Yowza!!!

The foolish geologists believe that landslides can only happen in certain areas. Well folks, that’s just stupid. What causes a landslide? Landslides aren’t caused by any physical process, but rather by the direct wrath of God. Much like God flooded the Earth at the time of Noah’s Flood, God can create landslides to punish sinners and unbelievers. It’s simple boys and girls. God created the universe, and he can control it in any way He sees fit. The only logical way to argue against this truth is to believe that you somehow came from a pile of goo that turned into an animal in the zoo and finally into you. That evil Darwinist dogma is just stupid folks. Heck, the scientists can’t even come up with good natural explanations for natural disasters. If the universe wasn’t made imperfect by the death caused by Eve’s transgression, then we wouldn’t have landslides to begin with!

creationsciencestudy.wordpress.com/tag/democrat/

[tallguy]

Jun 14, 2015 12:03:50 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Yowza!!!

The foolish geologists believe that landslides can only happen in certain areas. Well folks, that’s just stupid. What causes a landslide? Landslides aren’t caused by any physical process, but rather by the direct wrath of God. Much like God flooded the Earth at the time of Noah’s Flood, God can create landslides to punish sinners and unbelievers. It’s simple boys and girls. God created the universe, and he can control it in any way He sees fit. The only logical way to argue against this truth is to believe that you somehow came from a pile of goo that turned into an animal in the zoo and finally into you. That evil Darwinist dogma is just stupid folks. Heck, the scientists can’t even come up with good natural explanations for natural disasters. If the universe wasn’t made imperfect by the death caused by Eve’s transgression, then we wouldn’t have landslides to begin with!

creationsciencestudy.wordpress.com/tag/democrat/

Wow!  If you are somehow able to make it to the end (Lord knows how I was....) of that ridiculous screed, it turns out to be a promotion of Rick Santorum's presidential campaign.  I guess it only makes sense that his true supporters are even more screwed up than he is, but still....  

May I reprise this?

I'd bet it overwhelmingly more likely that any retribution God is meting out to the states is in answer to all of these mindless, moronic, hypocrites insisting that they speak for Him.

[djAdvocate]

Jun 14, 2015 12:03:50 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Yowza!!!

The foolish geologists believe that landslides can only happen in certain areas. Well folks, that’s just stupid. What causes a landslide? Landslides aren’t caused by any physical process, but rather by the direct wrath of God. Much like God flooded the Earth at the time of Noah’s Flood, God can create landslides to punish sinners and unbelievers. It’s simple boys and girls. God created the universe, and he can control it in any way He sees fit. The only logical way to argue against this truth is to believe that you somehow came from a pile of goo that turned into an animal in the zoo and finally into you. That evil Darwinist dogma is just stupid folks. Heck, the scientists can’t even come up with good natural explanations for natural disasters. If the universe wasn’t made imperfect by the death caused by Eve’s transgression, then we wouldn’t have landslides to begin with!

creationsciencestudy.wordpress.com/tag/democrat/

so, when a landslide does no damage to any human being, is that God taking it out on plants and animals, or just a temper tantrum?

[tallguy]

Well, the plants and animals were obviously gay, so....

[mroped]

Aaaa! Rick Santorum!
Every time I see that guy's face the first tought is "Comedy Central-John Stewart!"
I tried not to, honestly, but I can't help it!

[Tennesseer]

Jun 14, 2015 13:13:24 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Jun 14, 2015 12:03:50 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Yowza!!!

The foolish geologists believe that landslides can only happen in certain areas. Well folks, that’s just stupid. What causes a landslide? Landslides aren’t caused by any physical process, but rather by the direct wrath of God. Much like God flooded the Earth at the time of Noah’s Flood, God can create landslides to punish sinners and unbelievers. It’s simple boys and girls. God created the universe, and he can control it in any way He sees fit. The only logical way to argue against this truth is to believe that you somehow came from a pile of goo that turned into an animal in the zoo and finally into you. That evil Darwinist dogma is just stupid folks. Heck, the scientists can’t even come up with good natural explanations for natural disasters. If the universe wasn’t made imperfect by the death caused by Eve’s transgression, then we wouldn’t have landslides to begin with!

creationsciencestudy.wordpress.com/tag/democrat/

Wow!  If you are somehow able to make it to the end (Lord knows how I was....) of that ridiculous screed, it turns out to be a promotion of Rick Santorum's presidential campaign.  I guess it only makes sense that his true supporters are even more screwed up than he is, but still....  

May I reprise this?

I'd bet it overwhelmingly more likely that any retribution God is meting out to the states is in answer to all of these mindless, moronic, hypocrites insisting that they speak for Him.

How is that even possible?

[MJ2.0]

Jun 14, 2015 12:00:05 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

It's the exact same thing as naked Canadians in Malaysia causing earthquakes for angering the mountain spirits. It's identical. Mountain spirits, sky spirit...same thing.

Loons everywhere.

Except there is a such thing as too much ugly. :eek: