Ole Bubba, attorney at law, ended himself up on the front page of the Houston Chronicle newspaper today.

Lisa Falkenberg, one of the few remaining investigative reporters in Houston and certainly one of the smartest, discovered a problem in Fort Bend County, where Ole Bubba and I live.

The story starts with a Department of Public Safety lab worker who got caught red-handed falsifying lab reports on drug tests.  He handled 5,000 cases in Texas since 2006.  They fired him.  However, the 5,000 cases he handled may have included more than a smattering of lies, lies, and double lies that put innocent people in prison.

Ole Bubba gets peeved about stuff like that.  He’s just an old country lawyer but he genuinely cares about justice and almost always sides with the underdog.

So, when Bubba discovered that some of his clients may have been convicted on false evidence, he was mad enough to squeeze mud out of a rock.  But is the Fort Bend County District Attorney doing something about it?    Is the Pope pregnant?

Other District Attorneys in other counties did the right thing.

Former Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos requested re-testing from DPS, but also sent notices in October to attorneys for former defendants whose cases may have been affected, and referred them to the public defender’s office for help.

Galveston District Attorney Jack Roady’s office sent letters, too. He also asked judges to appoint a panel of defense attorneys to represent former defendants in drug cases touched by Salvador. Of the 700 such cases in the Galveston area, the panel began filing appeals first in the 26 cases where people were still behind bars.

Even Texas’ highest court, which ain’t no bastion of liberalism,  said that evidence handled by this guy at DPS should “be considered tainted.”

John Healey

But people in Fort Bend County are sitting in prison who in all likelihood were convicted with false evidence.  I just don’t know how a man could sleep with himself at night knowing that and not giving a flip.  But, John Healey thinks he knows more than the court does and what’s a little prison time for an innocent person?  It ain’t like we executed them.

Bubba knew Momma would be reading the front page of the newspaper, so he couldn’t say “too damn little too damn late,” when Healey said he’d notified a few of the lawyers about it verbally.

… Healey says he now feels compelled to send notices to those who may be affected: “We would have liked to have waited until the rest (of the test results) came back to give a more complete picture to the defense counsel,” he told me.

Some defense lawyers may appreciate that gesture. But Don Bankston, for one, did not: “If they’d just sent out a letter, instead of having their eyes checking it, we could have had the eyes of 150 defense lawyers checking it.”

If you can read the whole story, you’ll like it.

I am told that you can read the whole story here.

Thanks to Ole Bubba for the heads up and not saying damn on the front page of Momma’s newspaper.

So, Daniel Pirtle, 45, decided to go to WalMart to do some shopping in Anchorage, Alaska.

Daniel is a double amputee, which I feel real bad about, so he has a service dog.   Only problem was that his service dog was running wild around the store.

So, along comes WalMart employee Jason Mahi, 33, who asked Pirtle “to place the animal under control.”

That, for some reason really hacked off Pirtle so he did what any grown man does when WalMart employees make unreasonable requests.

His request sparked an argument, during which Pirtle pull out a weapon and shoot Mahi in the stomach, witnesses said.

Gosh almighty.  That there might be what you call an over-response.  Thanks goodness, Mahi survived and was taken to the hospital, but not before Pirtle tried to escape in his electric vehicle.  Now I’m betting that his odds of outrunning the police in an electric wheelchair or, hell,  even a Prius were about the same as Rick Perry being elected President.

I wonder if Pirtle bought his gun and ammo at WalMart, which would move this story from better-than-average to outstanding.

I am also wondering if Mahi has one of those illusive WalMart employee health insurance plans.  That’s the story, Darlin’.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.

If you guessed Arnold Schwarzenegger, go back to your Republican seat in the 14th century.

Oh yeah, Rick Perry’s name was indeed listed on the straw poll ballot at the CPAC convention.  He even went and gave a speech there, where he tried to one-up Ted Cruz’s disdain of people with Multiple Sclerosis by promising to go spit on the graves of World War II veterans.

But he finished behind Whoszit and Whatchamadoddle.

Click the little one to get the big one.

Maybe if they had a line that went the other direction, Rick could have gotten his name on the chart.

Rick, Dude!, listen up.  You have two chances to be considered a viable Presidential contender, slim and none, and slim just saddled-up and left town.

Personally, I think the final tipping point was  his little trip to California to steal jobs and all he came back with was a trailer of rednecks who were drunk and lost and three bottles of a nice Cabernet for under $10.

But that’s just my correct opinion.

Ted Cruz, the junior Senator from what is left of the Great State of Texas, voted against a resolution commemorating Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.

You wanna know why?

You don’t wanna know but I’m going to tell you anyway.

“Senator Cruz does not oppose the substance of the MS resolution, and he never did,” his spokesman said.  “Unfortunately, the sponsors of this resolution circulated their request for unanimous consent less than 48 hours before they wanted it passed.”

Cruz says his staff needed time to read it because who the hell know what manner of kindness and sympathy might be extended to the vultures who catch MS on purpose just to draw a taxpayer handout.

And look, I don’t want to be mean, but …. how long does it take to have someone on your staff read a non-binding resolution.  I mean, I understand that whole pointing at each word and sounding it out thing, but 48 hours?  Really?

But who is really to blame for Senator Cruz’s behavior?  Democrats.  Of damn course.   The member of his staff who doesn’t have time to read but can run her mouth on wind power said the fault lies with the …. “Senate Democratic staff, instead of working to ensure unanimous consent, instead decided to leak this story to try to malign Senator Cruz.”

Yep, the Democrats did it in the parlor with a candlestick.  Maligned this man.  For shame on them.

He’s a jerk, y’all.  A total jerk.

Remember how hypocritical King Street Patriots woman Cathy Engelbretch who strutted her stuff and challenged me on voter fraud and then I found out she lives in my little 10,000 person hometown?

Well, the neighborhood is going to the dogs again.  There’s a genuine Fascist.

James Ives, a prominent Tea Party activist who has hosted statewide rallies and political debates and has been a regular contributor on conservative radio, was the AFP’s fourth in command, commenting about the party’s principles on a fascist message board. An image of Ives in what appears to be a black uniform with yellow shoulder patches can be seen in a 2006 promotional video for the party.

I did not even know there was a 4th in command of the Fascist Party.  Does it require a uniform?   Can we send a drone?

Now James, since he’s been corralled and tied to the fence, says he has a good explanation for his ties to the American Fascist Party.  He was just experimenting and didn’t inhale.

Seriously.  The reason he posted weird crap on a fascist message board?

He said he believed he’d uncovered an underground cabal — and decided to stick around to do research for a “political novel of intrigue.”

“I thought, ‘I can blow the lid off of this. … I can go inside and find out what’s going on,’” Ives said.

Ives never wrote a novel. He did write a range of posts on the party’s Yahoo message board, communicating with his fellow “blackshirts” and the party’s chief organizer, a man who identified himself as the “Glorious Leader.”

Dude, that ain’t “experimenting,” that’s full hog.

Now, I looked up this guy’s address and he lives in a local neighborhood called Tara, where the streets are named Jeb Stuart, Grant, Gettysburg, Stonewall, and Jeff Davis.  But I didn’t have to tell you that, did I?

Local Republican Tea Party politicians are acting all shocked and awed about uncovering one of their own.

State Rep. Rick Miller, R-Sugar Land, who spoke at an event for the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party last week, said he first heard about Ives’ possible connections to fascism on Friday, in a meeting of concerned conservatives. “It does sound like something worth following up on,” he said.

Ya think, Big Rick, ya really think so?  Yeah, if I was following around a fascist I’d might look into it, but since you were also following around a man who bragged about committing voter fraud by voting in two states at the same time, I didn’t think you really gave a crap about the people you pal around with.

Now what was Ted Cruz saying about the faculty at Harvard Law?  Hellfire, Darlin’, we’ve got more admitted fascists in Richmond, Texas, than they have communists at Harvard Law.

Thanks to Michael for the heads up.

I have been informed that Bill O’Reilly is getting a divorce and that it’s getting nasty and he’s trying to destroy his ex-wife’s life and get her kicked out of heaven and take her kids away from her and he’s a vengeful rotten ole goat and no telling what nasty thing he’s going to do next.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

I cannot believe that Bill O’Reilly was married.

The rest of it, I believe.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.