I guess we’re lucky that it wasn’t the Virgin Mary on a biscuit over at Bessy Joe’s Diner.

Just hours after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio made his first appearance as Pope Francis at the Vatican, Florida resident Jodi Guthrie snapped a photo of a stunning cloud shaped like an angel hovering in the sky over Royal Palm Beach.

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Y’all, seriously, I think it looks like Mothman.  And that scares me.

I am given to understand that we have a new Pope.

From CNN –

Here’s more about Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina: He is 76, and is considered a straight-shooter who calls things as he sees them, and a follower of the church’s most conservative wing.

He has clashed with the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner over his opposition to gay marriage and free distribution of contraceptives.

Besides being the first non-European pope in the modern era, the first South American pope and the third straight non-Italian pope, he also is the first Pope Francis.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has, as Texas Ellen so punnily puts it, run afowl of the Feds.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is tasked with safeguarding the state’s natural resources, but this week a federal judge found the Agency responsible for the deaths of 23 rare whooping cranes.

The TCEQ’s management of water flows into the Guadalupe River lead to the deaths by not allowing enough freshwater into the river, raising its levels of salinity, according to U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack.

This is what happens when you appoint all your buddies  who are trying desperately to kill everything in Texas with oil or chemicals to Texas Commissions.

When Rick Perry says that Texans should be in charge of Texas, not the Feds, that translates to, “Bubba paid me good money to get on that commission.”

And if you think I’m exaggerating, I’m not.

Here’s the latest crook who sees Rick Perry as an investment.  There’s a big story in Florida about  Florida Republican Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigning today because she’s being investigated in a scheme of helping her friends in the internet cafe business, which were merely a front for gambling.

The skeletons in her closet reveal a femur yesterday.

The owner of Allied Veterans was arrested Tuesday in Oklahoma on charges of racketeering. He is accused of making $290 million after supplying illegal gambling software in Florida and claiming the games’ proceeds would benefit a veterans group. Oklahoma authorities say the group actually received only 1% of the money. Chase Egan Burns, 37 years old, and his wife, 38-year-old Kristin Burns, both face extradition to Florida to face the charges.

Chase Burns owns International Internet Technologies in Anadarko, about 60 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

Hey, this Chase Burns sounds like a real nice guy.

Is somebody keeping a count of how crooks we’ve found over the past couple of years throwing big money at Rick Perry?  Because, Honey, if we had a nickel for each one of them, we could buy a politicians, too.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen and Texas Ellen over at the ranch for the heads up.

Stephen has given me permission to share his excellent letter to the editor:

According to Sarah Palin government should stay out of our refrigerators (her response to NYC’s attempt to ban large-size sugary sodas). However, it is permissible, according to conservatives, for government to invoke policies concerning a woman’s vagina. It appears that conservative parameters for government intrusion are defined by temperature levels.

Stephen Weinstein

Thank you to our brothers who stand with the hooter toters.

Heir Apparent George P Bush, the son of a Bush –  Jeb, has put considerable thought into where to spread the Bush Dynasty.

He picked Texas.

He ain’t even from here.  But he has met “hundreds” of Texans.

In the video, Bush describes spending recent months traveling the state and having hundreds of conversations with Texans — but says he kept returning to the advice of his grandmother, former first lady Barbara Bush, whom he calls “Ganny.” Bush says she taught him the importance of public service.

And what’s he running for?  Why, Land Commissioner, of course.  The land commissioner administers state-owned lands and mineral resources.  And —

… the General Land Office plays an important part in veterans’ affairs while also overseeing investment in the Permanent School Fund, which administers funding to public school districts around Texas.

And that means he can give Permanent University Funds and Veterans’ Land Board accounts to his friends. He can help secure oil leases on Texas’ public lands for friends who want to look for oil.

Yep.  That’s certainly a job you’d want a Bush in.

And he’s running behind Gammy’s skirts because she’s the only Bush  with a higher approval rating than toad frog soup.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Paul Ryan with a little so-called slip of the tongue.

“This to us is something that we’re not going to give up on, because we’re not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.”

Thank ya, Big Guy, but we knew it all along.