Y’all, you know how some people think that Barack Obama’s parents had his birth announcement placed in the Hawaiian newspaper because they knew for a dead solid certain fact that although he was born in Kenya he was going to be President one day so they started the conspiracy to claim he’s an American citizen the day after he’s born?

And, bless your heart, you thought that was crazy.

You ain’t met Louie Gohmert, East Texas’ gift to Ouija boards.

Voodoo Lookout

Louie thinks Elena Kagan knew years and years ago that John Robert was going to side with the liberal on the Affordable Heath Care Act. Seriously.

“Could [Kagan] have foreseen that perhaps a weakness of the brilliant [Chief Justice] John Roberts could be if you call something a penalty in a bill and then later call it a tax after it’s passed, then maybe the Supreme Court should buy it?” Gohmert asked Friday on the House floor.

Apparently, no one was there with a straight jacket and a butterfly net.

Gohmert went on to explain his belief that Kagan has powers beyond the normal human.

Kagan the “worst solicitor general in history” if she had not advised President Barack Obama on the inevitable legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act.

Well, duh, Louie.  Maybe her crystal ball was in for an oil change that day.

Of course she knew it was going to have legal challenges.   Everybody knew that because Louie held press conferences  every day, pretending to be a lawyer.

Thanks to the Louie Gohmert watch-out team for the heads-up.

Do you know what happens when you have so much money that you don’t even know where it all is?  Bad things.  Bad things happen.

Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show

Come to find out, contrary to claims made by Mitt Romney himself, Romney hadn’t left Bain when it invested in Stericycle, a company with “a troubling safety record.”

Another SEC document filed November 30, 1999, by Stericycle also names Romney as an individual who holds “voting and dispositive power” with respect to the stock owned by Bain. If Romney had fully retired from the private equity firm he founded, why would he be the only Bain executive named as the person in control of this large amount of Stericycle stock?

Bain made $50 million off the investment.  Romney did not invest in Stericycle to create jobs or grow the company.  He invested in Stericycle to make more money. There’s nothing wrong with making money, but don’t say you’re creating jobs when you’re sucking profit.

Okay, here’s my question:  where the hell is Joe Wilson to holler “You Lie!” when we really need him?

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Rupert Murdoch, a man on top of the news, has weighed in on the most important event of the week:

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch weighed in on the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce story Sunday, saying he thinks Scientologists are “creepy” and possibly even evil.

“Watch Katie Holmes and Scientology story develop. Something creepy, maybe even evil, about these people,” Murdoch said on his Twitter account, @rupertmurdoch.

Oh Dude, Rupert Murdoch knows creepy and evil like the back of his hand.  In fact, it is the back of his hand.

Thanks to Brian for the heads-up.

A good man, a smart man, and a class act.

I’ve begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle. It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something – something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true.

I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. There continue to be far too many incidences of bullying of young people, as well as discrimination and violence against people of all ages, based on their sexual orientation, and I believe there is value in making clear where I stand.

The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

I can’t think of a danged word to add to that, except that I am proud for him, too.

We know that Paul Ryan is running for Veep because he’s talking to God.  However, I am still questioning if the vice versa is true.

Talking about the Affordable Care Act (aka Obama Cares), Ryan went all, “Take off those glasses, brother, because if God wanted you to see, he wouldn’t have given you an astigmatism, which, of course, you got from listening in sex education classes and eating Michelle food like fruits and vegetables.

“I think this at the end of the day is a big philosophy difference,” Ryan told ABC’s “This Week.” “We disagree with the notion that our rights come from government, that the government can now grant us and define our rights. Those are ours, they come from nature and God, according to the Declaration of Independence – a huge difference in philosophy.”

No, no, Paul Honey, under the Republican plan, the right to get health care doesn’t come from God, it comes from insurance companies, which, conveniently, truly are the Republican God.  The difference being that God doesn’t have as big a profit motive on whether you live or die as insurance companies do.

It is estimated, even by Republicans, that 50 million Americans are uninsured.

When Fox News, his friend, ask Senator Mitch McConnell (R, State of Delusion) what about the 30 million – Fox errs on the conservative side in every way possible – uninsured, McConnell replied, “Let them eat cake,” while proceeding to grab the cake off the table and running out the backdoor stuffing pieces of pastry into his pockets.

“That is not the issue,” Sen. Mitch McConnell said. “The question is how to go step by step to improve the American health care system. It is already the finest health care system in the world.”

While there are those who would argue that America is not the finest health care system in the world, let us not forget that no matter how good it is 30 to 50 million people can’t participate.  Mitch McConnell has government health care and a whole bunch of cake in his pockets.

Our friend Cary sent a darn good explanation of the ACA from the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation that’s about 9 minutes long.  It’s non partisan even though it doesn’t mention the known Republican fact that the damn sky is falling.  Again.