I love two things today:  People with a sense of humor and rainbows.

Somebody bought the house next to Westboro Baptist Church and painted it rainbow colors.

For too long, the Westboro Baptist Church has been targeting the LGBTQ community with messages of hate and discrimination. Often, protesting American soldiers’ funerals and organizations that support equality. This faction preaches extremism in our communities and directly targets our youth. To combat their messages of hate and to support equality and anti-bullying initiatives in schools and in our community, Planting Peace has established the Equality House in Topeka, KS.

Located directly across from the Westboro Baptist Church, the House is a symbol of equality, peace, and positive change. The house, which is painted the colors of the Pride flag, will serve as the resource center for all Planting Peace equality and anti-bullying initiatives and will stand as a visual reminder of our commitment, as global citizens, to equality for all.

There ya go.  That’s how you make a difference in people’s minds.  Except the Westboro people, who have no mind.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I want you customers to see Screwy Louie Gohmert in action. You need to see Louie sneer about the “simpletons that sometimes write for Huffington Post.”

He was quickly informed by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner that his son writes for the Huffington Post.  By the way, Frank Sensenbrenner is a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Click right here and be perfectly delighted at Louie mumbling “PhD…well…” as he gathers his papers.

That is pure Louie Gohmert.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

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.