You will be delighted to know that since women in Texas can’t possible make a decision about their bodies on their own that help from a foreign state is coming.

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he will travel to the state capitol in Austin this week to explain why Texas women should lose the right to have an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

A press release obtained by CNN said that Santorum would hold a press conference at the capitol on Thursday morning in support of a 20-week abortion ban that was temporarily derailed by state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) and other Texas Democrats last month.

So, Santorum is coming to Texas to deny us our constitutional rights.  Ain’t that sweet?

Please, don’t let him come dressed like an Easter Bunny.

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.

Okay, so ya think she’s gonna be really mad when she wakes up and realizes what happened?

SAN ANTONIO –A woman was hospitalized with a gun shot wound to the chest after police say she tried to intervene in a fight between her boyfriend and his ex-girlfriend.  The shooting occurred a little before 2 a.m. at a home in the 1600 block of Amanda on the East Side.

According to police, the ex-girlfriend of a man showed up at his house and he grabbed a shotgun.  His current girlfriend tried to stop him and the shotgun went off, hitting the woman in the chest.  Police say the woman was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center in stable condition.

Police are still investigating and have not said if the boyfriend would face charges in connection with the shooting.

Yeah, ‘cuz if you shoot the wrong girlfriend that ain’t against the law in Texas.  That falls under the category of getting in the line of my gunfire, or the Dick Cheney Ordinance.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.

So, whoever thinks that Rick Perry isn’t setting up a second residency in Iowa is either drunk or lost.

Thanks again to customer John Kwitkoski  –
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Austinite Katie Heim was one of many to testify before the committee. Unlike the other testifiers, she read a poem she wrote, called “If My Vagina Was a Gun.” Read the full poem, below:

“If my vagina was a gun, you would stand for its rights,

You would ride on buses and fight all the fights.

If my vagina was a gun, you would treat it with care,

You wouldn’t spill all its secrets because, well, why go there.

If my vaginas was a gun, you’d say what it holds is private

From cold dead hands we could pry, you surely would riot.

If my vagina was a gun, it’s rights would all be protected,

no matter the body count or the children effected.

If my vagina was a gun, I could bypass security,

concealed carry laws would ensure I’d have impunity.

If my vagina was a gun, I wouldn’t have to beg you,

I could hunt this great land and do all the things men do.

But my vagina is not a gun, it is a mightier thing,

With a voice that rings true making lawmakers ears ring.

Vaginas are not delicate, they are muscular and magic,

So stop messing with mine, with legislation that’s tragic.

My vagina’s here to demand from the source,

Listen to the voices of thousand or feel their full force.”

Thanks to John Kwitkoski for creating this.

Okay, I’m real torn on this.

First there’s the sheer terror of Liz Cheney, Dick’s clone child, being a United States Senator.

Ms. Cheney, 46, is showing up everywhere in the state, from chicken dinners to cattle growers’ meetings, sometimes with her parents in tow. She has made it clear that she wants to run for the Senate seat now held by Michael B. Enzi, a soft-spoken Republican and onetime fly-fishing partner of her father.

When I first heard that, I almost strangled on my heart. Seriously.

But, there’s an upside.

But Ms. Cheney’s move threatens to start a civil war within the state’s Republican establishment, despite the reverence many hold for her family.

Mr. Enzi, 69, says he is not ready to retire, and many Republicans say he has done nothing to deserve being turned out.

It would bring about “the destruction of the Republican Party of Wyoming if she decides to run and he runs, too,” Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from the state, said in an interview last week. “It’s a disaster — a divisive, ugly situation — and all it does is open the door for the Democrats for 20 years.”

Now I know that giving us Democrats for 20 years doesn’t come anywhere close to getting even for what Dick Cheney did to this country, but it might be fun to see Liz both destroy the Republican Party and lose.

I’d pay cash American money to see that.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.