There’s a rule in Texas – don’t point a gun at anyone unless you are going to pull the trigger.  And you better pull it quickly.

Cute Lori Klein

Arizona, a state with more rules than Chinese Monopoly, apparently doesn’t have that one.

Arizona state Sen. Lori Klein (R), a gun-rights champion, keeps a loaded raspberry-pink handgun in her purse, and during an interview with Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, she took it out and pointed it at him.

“Oh, it’s so cute,” Klein said, before aiming the gun at Ruelas’s chest to show off the red beam of the laser sight. Klein’s gun, a .380 Ruger, has no safety, but the senator assured Ruelas that he wasn’t in danger.

I’m from Texas so I know a thing or two about guns.

The Number Uno thing I know about guns is that they should not be cute.  Imagine the courtroom testimony:  “Yes, Your Honor, I shot his worthless beehind with my little lavender jeweled Ruger because I was wearing my Armani violet blouse that day.  I generally carry my pink sequined Ruger when I wear my Jimmy Choo peep toed slingback do me like a dog pumps.  And my red glitter Ruger is just perfect with my Prada handbag.  So, yes, I guess you could say that I put some thought into shooting him.”

Number Dos thing I know about guns is that if you point a loaded gun at someone and don’t pull the trigger, they are still gonna be real testy about it.  For example, if Ms. Klein had done that to me, she would be taking her Ruger home that night, but it wouldn’t be in her purse.

Number Three-o thing I know about guns is that pointing one at a reporter is classified as Olympic size  dumb because they buy their ink by the barrel and their paper by the ton.  People as far away as Texas will be making fun of you.

By the way, Lori Klein is the same State Senator who made a racist speech on the floor of the Arizona House. Republicans must be so proud of her.

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Scientific studies proving that you need to have a compassionectomy to be a Republican can be put on hold.  Herman Cain did the hard work for us.

Herman Cain found himself in hot water Monday with Latino Republicans after telling an audience that his solution to illegal immigration along the Mexican border would include a Great Wall of China-like electrified fence that would rise 20 feet high above a moat filled with alligators.

What?  No lions?

Don’t you wonder what they are putting in the tea at those tea parties?

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Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen says he knows for an almost certain fact that this guy is a Texas Republican.  Not safe for work or Momma.

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You know what’s even more fun than catchin’ a Republican in a lie?  Letting his fellow Republicans catch him.

You probably remember Texas Republican Congressvarmint Smokey Joe Barton as the guy who apologized to BP for our Gulf water diluting their oil.  Well, Joe has been pitchin’ a walleyed snot nosed hissy fit about incandescent light bulbs because, apparently, he ain’t got anything else to fret about.

Even Republicans are growing weary of it.  And they threw in Michelle Bachmann just as the icing on the cupcake.

As has been written about here before, a group of GOP lawmakers, including Joe Barton (TX) and Michele Bachmann (MN), have stirred up—along with their talk radio and Fox News cohorts—public concern over what they say is a looming “ban” on incandescent light bulbs.

And then his fellow Republicans go even further.

Unfortunately, these easy-to-prove facts have not prevented Barton, Bachmann and others from pushing legislation to scuttle the new standards. Barton’s legislation, dubbed “The Better Use of Light Bulbs Act” (H.R. 2417), is scheduled for a floor vote in the House of Representatives this evening.

Barton’s irresponsible and embarrassing legislation would accomplish nothing good. It would provide consumers with inferior products that burn out faster and result in higher energy bills. It would threaten the lighting industry’s investment dollars. It would waste energy and result in more pollution.

Lookie at that.  Finally, Republicans saying “pollution” like it’s a bad thing.  Will wonders never cease?

Thanks to Judy for the heads-up.

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Juanita is not outraged at Paul Ryan spending $350 for a bottle of wine at a restaurant.  “Wine in a restaurant is about the same fair price as popcorn in a picture show,” she explains.

What bothers her is that it wasn’t even an American wine.

It was a French wine called Jayer-Gilles 2004 Echezeaux Grand Cru.  “What happened with the Republicans being all mad at France?” Juanita asks.  “Plus, it’s just crappy wine.  It was the 3530th most popular wine on Wine-Searcher last year.”

Paul Ryan’s table ordered 2 bottles for a total of $700.  “Honey, for $700., you could buy 32 bottles of this Pinot Noir from the best winery in Texas.  Or 42 bottles of Etowah Derailer at Savannah Oaks Winery.  Or, my personal favorite, 53 bottles of Slick Willie’s Grape Wine in Hot Springs, Arkansas.”

“And he could have shared some of that wine with the people he was cutting off from their hard earned rightful benefits from social security and medicare.  Which, at least me, would have been the hospitable thing to do,” she explains.

“And since he was dining with lobbyists, they will take this business lunch off their taxes so you and I will end up paying for it.  Darlin’, if I’m buying the wine for Paul Ryan,” she announces, “he’s drinking Purple Moon Shiraz at $4 a bottle.  It tastes like crap, but that’s exactly how I feel about his tax cuts.”

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Juanita thinks it’s Governor Perry’s fault.  “He had everyone pray for rain so he could keep all the cool for himself,” she suspects.

This was my car yesterday afternoon.

It was where people across the south came to cool off.

And it will be worse today.  CNN says most of us will be served medium rare with a side of twice baked potato.

Thelma covered the agricultural news this morning. “It’s so hot that we’re feeding the chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying hard boiled eggs.  Potatoes are baking in the ground and corn is popping on the stalk.  And the water in watermelons is boiling on the vine.”

Verdelia covered the social news.  “It’s so hot it melted my diamonds.  I used the glove box in my car to bake a cake.  It’s as hot as high school love, Honey.”

It’s hot enough to make hell look like an ice house.

Here’s the forecast for our friend Carl in Cheboygan:

Okay, everybody meetup at Carl’s house.