Ole Bubba and I went out to Enchanted Gardens this weekend just because it’s a wonderful place to go.  It’s pretty easy to find.  You go to the end of the earth and turn left.  Honey, this place is so far out in the country that they don’t get the Today Show until tomorrow.

We decided to drive around because there’s a golf course close by and we both own some golf clubs.  Driving along a clearly marked dead end road that looked kinda interesting, we stumbled upon Louie Gohmert’s worst nightmare.

Yeah, right.  I know an reeducation center when I see one.  This sucker had high fencing for about half a mile and then the road dead ended into this gate.

And it looks like they’ve already started the building to put all the confiscated guns in.

There were more teevee cameras than a presidential press conference and the gate was secure.  Real secure.  Four padlocks secure.

Hell, even Louie Gohmert and his secret powers of damn scary cannot get through 4 padlocks.

Now I’m not saying that you should tell Louie of Steve Stockman about this just to watch them go ape crap, but Lord knows they would if they saw it.

Well, the couple pointing fingers at each other over the ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberghail from New Boston, Texas, which is — ta da! — in East Texas.

They are blaming each other, which is kinda common in East Texas since all the sane people moved out and now they are left to fight with each other.

Their congressvarmint is Ralph Hall, who is 147 years old (he was born in 1923, do the math) and first went to congress in 1980 as a blue dog Democrat, switched parties in 1995 and is now a loud Tea Party crackpot.  He was a buddy of Jack Abramoff and spent more time than considered seemly in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Thelma says she’s impressed that the letters came from New Boston.  She didn’t know that anybody there could write.

Thanks to TexasEllen for the heads up.

It’s hot in Texas.  When God made it that way, he was hoping to melt the fools but that didn’t work out too well.  However, last summer was so hot that it melted a few diamonds.

After a decade of Rick Perry and his money grubbing buddies, Texas has very little infrastructure.  After Hurricane Ike, my 86 year old Momma went without electricity for over two weeks.  Her house was fine – a few limbs down but that’s all.  But it took two weeks to get electricity to her. The power companies admitted their infrastructure was crap surrounded by poop with a load of crud on top.

Back in 1975, we were promised that we’d save enough money by supporting deregulation that we could buy a Cadillac for each day of the week.  And like the promised insurance savings that would come with tort reform, that didn’t happen.  We were lied to.

What we got instead was the promise of brown-outs during the height of Texas heat.  Our power grid sucks.

In a recent report, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation projected that the Texas grid will have the lowest percentage of power reserves this summer of any region of the country.

The Texas Public Utility Commission thinks they might have a solution – stick it to the public.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas, which oversees the grid, has also been working on ERCOT’s power problem. One of its main moves so far has been to increase the maximum amount of money that power companies can get from selling their power. The idea is to give the companies a stronger incentive to build more power plants, though consumer advocates say this amounts to a giveaway to the companies at ratepayers’ expense — without any guarantees that the companies will build more plants.

Oh yeah, they will build more plants because corporations care more about people than profits, right?

The PUC has three commissioners who run it.  They are all appointed by Rick Perry.  You know where this is going, right?  The same place it goes every damn time we raise electricity rates.  No more power to the people, that’s for sure.

Democrats should call them what they are:  Rick Perry Brownouts.

Louie Gohmert is on a mission.  He is using each and every news cycle to blame something on somebody.  He is running dangerously close to running out of Democrats to blame, so …

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) accused Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday of being complicit in the terror attacks on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year and the deaths of four Americans, including the late Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Personally, I think he’s working his way through the phone book for people to blame.  Over at the Dairy Queen yesterday, I told Alfredo that I’m glad he’s coming before me, Juanita.

“Oh yeah, find comfort in the fact that you assume Louie knows the alphabet, do you?”  Alfredo snarked.