Thelma had to sit me down and explain to me why someone would want to be an internet machine hacker to send out a virus.  What’s the reward in it for them?

Thelma explained that some people just need to be mean for meanness sake.  “I thought that’s what the Republican Party is for,” interrupted Verdelia.

Thelma conceded that there’s a whole lot in common.  Like Republicans, hackers think they’re showing you that they are smarter than you are.  But they both make a mess of things.

And that’s where I saw the difference.  There’s probably a few Republicans smarter than I am, but there’s not a one of them who’s going to heaven.  However, I will admit that internet hacker are a lot smarter than I am.  Honey, I have a PC and an iPad.  I just have to pray that nobody is looking when I keep punching my PC monitor expecting it to do something.  Repeatedly.  Like a damfool.  I can hear Buck Pochek snicker about it … even when he’s not there.

What brought this up is that there’s a new virus out there that customer Star warned us about.

Yesterday, at approximately 13:00 UTC, SophosLabs began receiving the first malicious emails targeting those interested in the upcoming United States presidential election.

The subject line for this spam campaign reads “CNN Breaking News – Mitt Romney Almost President”.

When opened it appears to be a CNN news alert with today’s top stories including the leading “More than 60 percent of votes will be in favor of Mitt Romney.”

Now, normally, I would assume that’s another batcrap crazy email from batcrap crazy Uncle Lenny who is convinced that Barack Obama is the devil, Stalin, and Lindsay Lohan wrapped into one neat package and I would delete it and say a prayer for Uncle Lenny’s sanity.

But, this sucker might fool me for a minute.

It looks kinda real.  However, if I were to believe it, I would not click on the link.  Nope, I would be too damn busy packing the salon up for outsourcing to the Caymans because that’s what Romney would do.

Thanks to Star for the heads up.

Yesterday morning, local Republicans smirked that nothing would come of the serial Republican voter fraud in True the Vote’s front yard.  GOP county commissioner candidate Bruce Fleming has purposefully double voted at least three times.

Do not mess with me.  Seriously.  And do not mess with Bev Carter.  Even I’m afraid of Bev Carter. Honey, she will shoot you, stuff you, hang you over her fireplace and then open her house for the home tour.

Front page of the Houston Chronicle this morning.

And the guffaw of the day comes from Fleming himself in the Chronicle article …

“The less said is better,” Bruce Fleming said when contacted by phone late Tuesday afternoon. “Until we can determine the situation, I can’t really comment.”

The less said is better?  Dude, how about the less voting is better?

And there’s  Channel 2 in Houston – that’s Bubba on the far right and the only time you’ll find him on the right.

By yesterday afternoon, former GOP county chairman and current Republican State House candidate Rick Miller, the person who has to take at least 50% of the blame for this mess, was described as “very pale.”  During a candidate debate in front of the teacher’s union, one of our most trusted Democratic candidates overheard Miller talking to the GOP sheriff candidate, fretting that this “might be a black day for Fort Bend Republicans.”  It is the first known time that “Fort Bend Republican Party” and “black” has been used in the same sentence.  Hell, even in the same conversation.  This party is whiter than angel dust in Antarctica.

In all honesty, I’ve never seen old white men dance around like their feet were on fire.  It’s damn entertaining.  Local GOP candidates who were Fleming’s best friend on Monday are claiming not to even know him today.  And the Republican Party organization who gave this guy $10,000 and nothing to other GOP candidates?  Oops, bookkeeping error.

Oh lookie, even their signs are holding hands.

Miller and Fleming are tighter than skin on a sausage.  And I am not the only person who thinks that Miller knew about the double voting, thought it was clever, and gave Fleming the first ever Precinct Chair of the Year Award while other Republican mouths dropped open because Fleming had done nothing to deserve it.

Rick Miller is a braggart and a thug and is going to do everything he can to embarrass the Republican Party once he’s elected to the State House.  Y’all, please vote for Rick Miller!

Thank you to all the people who kept my phone ringing off the wall last night.

Okay, so what would you say about a Republican congressman who is very Godly and pro-life and asked his mistress to have an abortion?

You would say Ho hum.

Just another Republican.

A pro-life, family-values congressman who worked as a doctor before winning election as a Tea Party-backed Republican had an affair with a patient and later pressured her to get an abortion, according to a phone call transcript obtained by The Huffington Post.

The congressman, Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, was trying to save his marriage at the time, according to his remarks on the call, made in September of 2000. And, according to three independent sources familiar with the call and the recording, he made the tape himself.

When asked about the tape, he admitted it was true but said it was “just another sordid detail dredged up by the opposition.”

Dude, you did it.  You were sordid.  Nobody had to dredge.  There it was, filed under Sordid Scott.

Honey, you are not the victim of dirty politics.  You ARE dirty politics.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

It’s been a while here since we named Nut of Month here.

I'm Too Crazy For My Seat

Joe Walsh and good sense go together like pancakes and mustard.

Now he’s attacking Tammy Duckworth for picking out a dress to wear to the Democratic National Convention where she addressed the audience.

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) deployed a strange attack on his Democratic opponent, Iraq War veteran and former Veterans Affairs official Tammy Duckworth, at a debate Tuesday night — brandishing a photo of her picking out a dress for the Democratic National Convention.

The point that Walsh intended to illustrate was that Duckworth was a political insider and a handpicked candidate of the national Democrats.

Okay, the green eyed monster is all over Joe because nobody asked him to speak anywhere.  Hell, the man can’t get a word at the Lion’s Club.

Secondly, what did he expect her to do?  Wear a feed sack?

Joe proudly announced that while Tammy was picking out a dress, he was marching in a parade.  Dude, a parade only needs a few clowns.  After that, they get boring.  And, Darlin’, you and you alone filled the clown quota.  At the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Rose Bowl combined.

I’m fixing to tell you the damnest thing you’ve ever seen or heard.

Today you get to know why I’ve been chatting about Cathy Engelbrecht and her True the Vote bullies. There’s been a story a’brewin’.

Cathy Engelbretch did not sniff out voter fraud when it was right under her nose smelling like a goat with a three day old catfish on its back.  And here’s how I know that.

Like Cathy Engelbrecht, I live in County Commissioner Precinct 1 in Fort Bend County.

Bruce Fleming: Loves to Vote

Bruce Fleming is the Republican nominee for County Commissioner, Precinct 1, in Fort Bend County.  He won in a runoff election.  Bruce was also named Precinct Chairman of the Year last year by then GOP County Chairman and thug-about-town Rick Miller.  Miller then recruited Fleming to run for county commissioner which seemed like a good idea at the time since Fleming is unemployed.  Here’s Bruce’s website.

So Ole Bruce is a dandy Republican who loves God and hates government.

Recognizing that rights come from God, not government, and that it should be a servant, not a master, are foundational principles under attack today.

Let me tell you about Bruce’s foundational principles.

In 2006, 2008, and 2010, Bruce voted in person in Fort Bend County and by mail in Pennsylvania in the same general elections. According to his financial disclosure forms, Bruce Fleming also owns a house in Pennsylvania.  (He homesteaded a house in Texas and a house in Pennsylvania, but that illegality is a whole ‘nother story.)  Bruce felt that owning houses in both states gave him the right to vote in the same elections in both states.  That’s a third degree felony in Texas.

Bruce’s Fort Bend County voting record
(Obviously one of those Rush Limbaugh Vote for Hillary in 2008 voters)

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Bruce’s Pennsylvania Voting Record

Yes, it’s the same Bruce Fleming with the same address and the same birth date.  And, even though Bruce registered in Fort Bend in 2006, he’s still an eligible voter in Pennsylvania.  We’re still checking to see if he’s asked for a ballot by mail in Pennsylvania this election.

Cathy holding a True The Vote Goat Rodeo last night in Bruce's very own precinct

It appears that Bruce’s wife did the same thing in 2010.

So here sits True The Vote and the King Street Patriots out chasing imaginary voter fraud when real voter fraud is happening right here in their own front yard.

Ain’t that just the damnest thing you’ve ever seen?

There’s more to this story and all kinds of ugly Republican twists and splatters but I thought you’d want to chew on the glorious irony of Cathy Engelbrecht’s own Republican county commissioner candidate being a felony chronic serial voter frauder.

My Republican neighbor’s yard.  Let’s see which signs come down before the rest of the story breaks.

Bruce Fleming is running against incumbent Democratic County Commissioner Richard Morrison.   It is a Republican district but Morrison won it four years ago.

If the spirit moves you, make a donation to help Fort Bend Democrats get word out about this. You know you would love to be part of making fun of True the Vote.  You know you would.

UPDATED:  Bev Carter has her say – and boy howdy! – in her column and on the front page.  To be honest, I had forgotten about the asst. county attorney and voter fraud but I do remember the bathroom thing.  So, the only voter fraud in this county has always been Republicans.

Thanks to customer Donna for the great picture.