Everybody reading this spends at least part of every day wondering if you are raising or have raised your kids right. We’re Democrats so we worry about that. We want our kids to know that we are all God’s children and to be mindful that to whom much is given, much is required.

I rarely talk about personal matters here but Little Bubba answered my wondering today for at least today.

Little Bubba and Bubba

Little Bubba, Attorney at Law, favors Bubba in the looks department. A little.

To be honest, I’m not sure that I had much to do with his birth and had I not been there when he was born, I would need convincing that I’m his mother.

And Little Bubba,  who is known professionally as Mark D. Bankston sent  an email to his Bubba and me today.

You guys would be so proud of me.  I just chewed out the CVS V.P. for Texas over the new installation of self-serve checkout machines in their Main Street store.  The poor lone employee was totally overwhelmed trying to run a conventional counter plus supervise five self-serve machines, and the manager refused to help or even speak to me about the machines.  The employee told me that three employees had been fired and basically replaced with these infernal machines.

So I used some google magic to find their corporate number in Texas, and found the VP for Texas.  I told him those machines are offensive to working men and women, and that it caused me to be stuck in the store for 20 minutes on my way to work.  I told him that I used to like CVS because they had been good to the working man in the past, and that CVS always had great customer service.  Also, the Main Street store typically had lines at 9am and 5pm (understandably), and that it’s insulting in this economy not to hire additional help in the store, but rather fire people and replace them with machines.

I told him that as long as those machines are in the store, I won’t be.  He got very nervous and told me he would call me next week.

I want to tell you one thing about this kid.  When he gets hold of something he don’t let go.  I pity the Texas Vice President at CVS.  Nah, I don’t pity him and neither should you.

You can call him and tell him that your Momma raised you right, too.

And Little Bubba, I am proud of you every day.  Every damn one.

Little Bubba and his proud Grandma at his office.

What could possibly go wrong?

Sometimes we folks in Texas take neighborhood patrol seriously. Very seriously.

It’s a frightening sight to some Denton County neighbors: an armed gunman in a helicopter, hovering near North Texas homes. A gun range allows target practice from the air; the shooter hangs out of a helicopter, firing close to homes near Aubrey.

The owner of the helicopter charges $795 per person for 15 minutes. Make your reservations right here. He is quick to assure people in nearby neighborhoods that it is very quiet and will not disturb their everyday lives. You know, unless somebody accidentally shoots you. M

It appears that no mental health certification is required for the pilot or gunners. That’s nice because we wouldn’t want to make this difficult.

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.

I told you that last Saturday I went to the Texas Senate Redistricting Hearings. Bubba and His buddy Kyle Longhofer, attorney at law, spoke. They, of course, we were wonderful.

I couldn’t go back today for the House Redistricting Hearings because I had to be in San Antonio by 5:00 and the hearings started at 2:00. Kyle, however, went. I am told by folks who were there that this hearing was a lot more raucous and fun. I don’t know how that could be since I wasn’t there and there are rules in Texas about having fun without me.

To speak at the senate hearing, we filled out one form and submitted it.

Oh, not so such with the House.   Lookie here at the picture at the bottom.

That’s the forms just to speak.

Kyle spoke for Fort Bend County and got a standing ovation at the end of his speech. Kyle knows election law like I know hair spray, and, Honey, I know hair spray.

After he spoke, while they were on a break, State Represenative Rick Miller, whose district is gerrymandered so badly that it looks like an octopus on crack and who is a Thug at Large, came up to Kyle along with Rick’s silly wife and confronted him in an attempt to intimidate him. They wanted to know why Kyle didn’t like him and why he spoke out against him. “My husband is a good man,” Mrs. Miller insisted.

No, Trixie, he is not. Rick is mean, hateful and vicious to women , a coward of the worst sort, a reactionary, dishonest, encourages voter fraud, and stood and watched a 70 year old woman get beat up.. And I have to stop to catch my breath before I get wound up again.

Kyle will not be intimidated. No Democrat is intimidated by you. We hold you in contempt because you are a jerk.

Please meet Virginia GOP lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson.  He is Ken Cuccinelli’s running mate.

Jackson believes that sin causes birth defects and that yoga is based in Satanism. He also believes that “while giving to the poor is important, the most powerful giving for wealth-building is upward giving.”  What he apparently does not believe is that spelling is an act of the devil.  His new self-published book:

To me, the best part is that he has written his own ten commandments, enshrining them in chiseled stone, because apparently God’s weren’t good enough.

I have no idea what he’s going to do with that axe but he better not chop down the Washington Monument.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Ted Cruz announced yesterday that the biggest obstacle to immigration reform is Barack Obama.  When he said it little spittle things were coming out of the side of his mouth, his eyes were glazed over, and he was wiggling his fingers wildly in the air.  Tomorrow Cruz will announce that Barack Obama has never fully explained his whereabouts during the Kennedy assassination and that he is a direct descendant of whatever landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

Ted Cruz has, in the words of Sen. Bob Menendez, a chronic case of Obamaphobia.  PoliticusUSA  puts it this way —

Cruz suffers from Obamaphobia, because he is a reflection of the voters that he is courting. He is preaching to the choir. Those who love Ted Cruz are obsessed almost to the point of mental illness with the “evils” of Barack Obama. For this reason, it is Ted Cruz’s egomaniacal political ambitions that are the biggest challenge to immigration reform.

Cruz’s behavior used to be called Obama Derangement Syndrome, but I think Obamaphobia is a better description. People like Cruz have progressed from derangement to a full on phobia of anything that is associated with the President of the United States.

I think Senator Menendez was being polite.  I think Cruz is dog dump demented and has screw loose in his thinker assembly.  Plus, his fiddle is missing two strings.

Thanks to Zyxomma for the heads up.

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.