Thank you, Donald Trump, for your foreign policy lecture.

Breaking News

The University of Texas has evacuated this morning due to bomb threats.

The latest —

Update 10:46: UT Austin just posted to Twitter: “Time specified in phone threat has passed but we have not yet cleared all buildings. Decision to resume operations&classes will come shortly”

Hundreds of students are standing near the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Brazos Street. Police are telling people to move to the southern side of MLK, and officers and DPS troopers are blocking the entrances to campus in the area.

A UT official told the American-Statesman that the university had received multiple bomb threats to multiple buildings.

North Dakota State University has also received bomb threats this morning, according to news reports.

At 8:35 a.m. the university received a call from a male with a middle eastern accent claiming to have placed bombs all over campus. He said he was with Al Qaeda and these bombs would go off in 90 minutes. President Powers was notified and it was decided to evacuate all of the buildings out of an abundance of caution.

If I was married to Ohio Governor John Kasich, his name would be Limpin’ John today.

It seems he got carried away with himself and let us know where Republican women are while their husbands are out running the world.

“It’s not easy to be a spouse of an elected official,” Kasich continued. “You know, they’re at home, doing the laundry and doing so many things while we’re up here on the stage getting applause, right? They don’t often share in it. And it is hard for the spouse to hear the criticism and to put up with the travel schedule and to have to be at home taking care of the kids. And where is the politician? Out on the road.”

Somebody please go after hm with a pile of laundry and shove it up his … nose, okay?

Hey, at least he said “spouse” and not little lady.  That’s definitely an improvement.

Anybody check recently how far ahead President Obama is in Ohio?  Well, add two points to that for the ta-ta vote.

Thanks to Stephen for the heads up.

Beaumont – the gateway to East Texas and big haired wimmen.

Beaumont big hair

So, it was odd when after more than a decade, the Adult Cosmetology class offered through Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center fired the teacher and  is closing.

The reason, you ask?

Principal Thomas Amons would rather close the program than admit a man Amons thought was gay after a brief encounter with the prospective student on the first day of class Sept 10.

The teacher, Ms. Clark, says she saw this coming —

“Earlier this year, I learned he had a problem with gay guys while we were at the hair show in April.” Clark said at the hair show, Amons told her that he never wanted to see “flamboyantly gay guys” in the BISD program like the men enrolled at other programs competing in the event.

So, when 22 year old Kwmane Gray attempted to enter the program, Principal Amons, a deacon at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church where they apparently teach laying on of the gay, decided that he smelled – yikes! – gay and ordered Teacher Clark to remove Kwmane from the program.   She refused.

Principal Amons, who has not read a newspaper or watched Will and Grace in twenty years, closed the program down that very day.

Everybody is throwing a walled eyed snot nosed hissy fit, including fellow students, Kwmane’s mother, and every woman in Beaumont who is tired of bad hairdressers.

Three cheers to Teacher Clark, who is herself a pastor of a Groves church and owner of a salon in Beaumont.  She said that she is heartbroken at the thought of students not being able to utilize the much-needed program any longer, but that she had “to stand up for what’s right.”

Now here’s the question I have.  Are you telling me that Beaumont has had a cosmetology program for a decade and this is the first gay student they’ve ever had?

Well, that explains all that horrible hair in east Texas, now doesn’t it?

Thanks to Texas Ellen for the heads up.

Hanson, Massachusetts

Somebody taped over the little girl’s middle finger because, apparently, it is not child abuse to pay a little girl to model for a billboard with an obscenity, but someone within the zip code thought it was creepy so they covered it up.  Hansen, Massachusetts:  where creepy is the high standard of personal behavior.

This is only one of three signs Robert Sullivan has erected in front of his business.  Luckily, his lawyer is an idiot.

The offending finger has now been covered over with packing tape and the authorities are debating whether the boards are even legal, since owner Robert Sullivan did not get a permit from the building commissioner to put them up.

Town official Bob Curran said the eye-catching signs could be distracting and dangerous for pedestrians and drivers.

Mr Sullivan’s lawyer, however, said he is protected under the First Amendment and that he is entitled to ‘free speech’.

Ding!  Ding!  No prize for that one, Mr. Lawyer.  They do lack the required federal political disclaimer on them saying who paid for them.  We’re sorry you’re not our winner today, but please see John McCain for your consolation prize.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen who is a whole lot swankier than some guy in Hansen, Massachusetts

I’m gonna have to quit reading.  It makes my blood pressure go up.

What did George W Bush know and when did he know it?

…. the administration’s reaction to what Mr. Bush was told in the weeks before that infamous briefing reflected significantly more negligence than has been disclosed. In other words, the Aug. 6 document, for all of the controversy it provoked, is not nearly as shocking as the briefs that came before it. The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001. By May 1, the Central Intelligence Agency told the White House of a report that “a group presently in the United States” was planning a terrorist operation. Weeks later, on June 22, the daily brief reported that Qaeda strikes could be “imminent,” although intelligence suggested the time frame was flexible.

You wanna know another reason not to vote for Mitt Romney?  Condi Rice.  He’s talking about bringing her back.  That’s where all this Russia is our enemy talk is coming from.  Left her to devices, the attack on our Embassy yesterday would mean we should nuke Moscow.

They say that Lyndon Johnson went crazy at the end of his life, having nightmares about VietNam.  The problem is that I don’t think W has a conscious or enough verbal skills to actually dream.