Do you know where we need more guns because there are not enough guns to keep it safe for people with guns?

At gun ranges in Texas.  That’s where.

Yep, we need armed guards at the gun range.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.

Only the Republican Party could find a way to get perverted in Omaha.

It seems that the Republican Lt. Governor of Nebraska has a bit of a problem with his  … uh, cornhusker.  Lt. Gov Rick Sheehy was carrying on with four women at once prior to his wife filing for divorce.

An investigation by The World-Herald discovered that Sheehy made 2,300 late-night telephone calls to the women on his state-issued cellphone, many of them long conversations held in the wee hours of the night.

Many of Sheehy’s long conversations with the women were held late at night or in the early morning hours. Sometimes, he would call more than one woman a night, sometimes three different women.

And none of them knew about the others.

One woman he frequently called, Dr. Theresa Hatcher of Bellevue, told The Associated Press that she and Sheehy had maintained a long-term relationship after they met at a convention of emergency responders in Texas in 2008. As lieutenant governor, Sheehy leads the state’s emergency management efforts, and Hatcher is an emergency room doctor.

“I thought I was the only one,” she said. “Apparently, I was grossly mistaken.”

Look, I do not care about him sparkin’ around with four different women because  2,300 cell phone calls is gonna give him a brain tumor the size of Detroit.  Unless, of course, he was using earphones so that both hands would be free to … uh, cornhusk.  If that is the case, then the doctor girlfriend should implant his cell phone in his patootie so he can really butt dial.

Republicans:  using their state issued cell phones to screw everybody on speed dial.

Thanks to Dirty Carl for the heads up.

The Big Bloody Blob of the NRA has eaten Senator Lamar Alexander.

Lamar Alexander: Affected for sure

“I think video games is a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people,” he told host Chuck Todd.

That is very cool.  I did not even know that stuff.

So, here’s my deal.  Come on over to my house.  From 2:00 – 3:00, I will give you a video game to play.  From 3:05 until 3:05 and a half, I will shoot you with a gun.

Then you get to tell me which one affected you the most.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.

I think Republicans are trying read hard not to be stupid so that Bobby Jindal won’t call them out on it.

But he didn’t mention blabbering, and The National Review leads the way.

Eliana Johnson wrote an editorial criticizing President Obama for using the term “senseless violence”  in describing the Holocaust.  Of course, more than a few people cringed.

So then she wrote a crazy editorial defending her first editorial from those who wondered why she thought violence made sense.

The hysterical reaction elicited by my post underscores precisely the point I intended to make–that the notion, now deeply ingrained on the left, that violence is by definition senseless and incomprehensible poses an enormous impediment to understanding the world and the forces at work in it.

Being an editorial writer is a hard job because it’s not knowing what to write that’s important.  It’s knowing when to shut up. If Ms. Johnson’s editorial makes sense to you, you need to put down the bong and the beer can.

It appears in her attempt to demonize the left that Ms. Johnson has some ‘splainin’ to do about the sense behind a man going into the schoolhouse and shooting little children.

I’m just giving y’all the heads up that babbling is the new stupid.

Thanks to Robert for the heads up.

Right here in my home county, the Republican primary got rid of the short, undereducated, bully guy who played politics instead of running a sheriff’s department.  The Republicans replaced him with a short, undereducated, bully guy who plays politics instead of running a sheriff’s department.

The only difference is that new guy is a veteran who has never seen combat and fancies himself a major national political figure and a constitutional scholar.  Well, he does have a degree from Jerry Falwall’s Liberty University, which does bestow upon its owners the right to be wrong.

The new sheriff, Troy Nehls, called the President of the United States and the Commander in Chief “that clown in Washington,” during the campaign.  So, in his mind, he figured that if Obama was a clown, he himself had a duty to be one, too.

So, on Friday he issued a press release —

The Sheriff’s Office is committed to respect  and defend all unalienable rights of the citizens of Fort Bend County

The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office has received several requests for a statement in response to recent attention and federal executive orders relating to the right to keep and bear arms. Please accept this press release as a response in both my personal capacity and in my capacity as the Sheriff of Fort Bend County.

I have spent my career serving in law enforcement and with the United States Armed Forces for the purpose of protecting the liberties and freedoms we enjoy in our great land. With respect to the Second Amendment to the Constitution, my position is that the right to self-defense is an unalienable right and it includes the right to possess firearms, a position confirmed by the United States Supreme Court in 2008.

Please note that the duties of the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office include preserving the peace and fairly enforcing the laws of the State of Texas. Executive orders from the President of the United States directed to members of the federal executive branch are not applicable to a Texas official.

May God bless and protect you, the State of Texas, and the United States of America.

Very truly yours,
Troy E. Nehls

Sheriff, Fort Bend County

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I hardly know where to start, but start I will.

I guess I need to explain that unalienable is a term used by those who think Thomas Jefferson did not know how to spell crap properly.

And, self defense is neither an inalienable or unalienable right, nor does it even appear in the Bill of Rights.  Self defense is statutory and there are many limits on that.  For example, you do not have the right to use a firearm for self defense unless you believe deadly force is going to be used against you.  If somebody half your size comes after you with a wet noodle, you cannot shoot them to defend yourself.

And … we put limits on many methods that people may chose to exercise self-defense.  You can’t possess a switchblade knife, brass knuckles, or a sawed off shotgun.  You can’t possess a nuclear weapon, even if it’s just a small little tiny tactical one.  I don’t think you can possess a flame thrower unless you are a circus performer or something, which our new sheriff may well be so I’ll leave that alone for now.  Without a CLE, there are many regulations  to possess even a handgun.

When Sheriff Law Professor talks about the United States Supreme Court in 2008, it’s clownishly apparent he hasn’t read the case he’s trotting out to ring 1 of this circus.  In D.C. vs Heller, a 5 to 4 decision, even Justice Scalia argues …

Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

Hummmm … that doesn’t sound inalienable to me.  And Heller in no way says that you can’t place governmental restriction on firearms.

I guess our sheriff heard something on Rush Limbaugh about some case in 2008 and decided it said that we had a sacrosanct right to any weapon we want.  Honey, that’s the clown leading the clown.

So now that we have filled two rings of this three ring press release circus, it’s time to move on to Mr. Nehl’s belief that “Executive orders from the President of the United States directed to members of the federal executive branch are not applicable to a Texas official.”

Well, I suspect that even the High Sheriff of Fort Damn Bend County will stand up when the President of the United States enters a room.  And, if the FBI comes into my county and seizes a large stash of heavy artillery in the hands of a gun runner, I do not want my sheriff standing there defending the gun runners.

President Barack Obama is not trying to take away your guns.  He is trying to keep assault weapons out of the hands of criminals and insane people.  Well, and clowns.  I forgot about the clowns part.

Sheriff, your argument would be a lot stronger if you could tell me how many shootings occurred in Fort Bend County over the past 5 years and how many of those were ruled self defense.  If the second number outweigh the first number, you can take off your big ole clown shoes.  If it doesn’t, you have to wear a big clown nose.

I am also wondering which ones of the 20 gazillion Executive Orders that George Bush issued would the sheriff not enforce?  And when we have our next hurricane and the President issues emergency executive orders for my county will the sheriff meet them at the county line to stop them with a big clown nose?

The sheriff needs to stop playing politics and get to policing.  People around here are already calling him Little Joe (Arpaio), and not in a good way.

On the upside, it’s Republicans talking – how did Bobby Jindal so gently put it? – stupid, that keeps getting Democrats elected President.

Harold Cook and his Letters From Texas are going to hell.

Here’s your Friday laugh your butt off read.  It’s work safe.

(Momma, do not click that link.  It’s work safe but I do not want to have to explain it to you.)