Y’all, I think Bobby Jindal is off his rocker.

Apparently, people in Washington, DeeCee, last week celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dr. King’s I Have a Dream Speech upset Bobby something powerful.

He got to jabbering that what is wrong with this country is that people hang on to their heritage.

Jindal lamented that minorities place “undue emphasis” on heritage, and urged Americans to resist “the politically correct trend of changing the melting pot into a salad bowl” comprised of proudly ethnic identities.

Jindal insisted that, “while racism still rears its ugly head from time to time” since Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I have a dream” speech, the major race problem facing modern America is that minorities are too focused on their “separateness”

Oh no, you did not say that while standing in the South where “Southern Heritage” is the excuse always used to fly the Stars and Bars.   Good heavens, Bobby, you’re just one generation away from being Paula Deen.

Oh no, you did not say that in the state where Cajun and Creole folks still fight with each other over who has the best food, the finest wimmen, and the meanest football team.  I mean physically fight each other.

Hell, Bobby, you live next door to a state that still calls the Civil War the War of Northern Aggression.

Bobby, we could run you through a meat grinder and you’d still be an idiot.

Thanks to Kathleen for the heads up.

There’s a group of churches in North Carolina who have been taking the suggestion of Jesus of Nazareth very seriously.  They feed the hungry.

Every Saturday and Sunday for 6 years, they show up with coffee and sausage biscuits to feed people who need to be fed.  They have done this for six years, no problems whatsoever.

But then Republicans take over in North Carolina and you know how they feel about Sweet Jesus.  Republicans think Jesus only cares about abortion and guns and stuff.   Jesus ain’t worried at all about the least, the last, and the lost.  At least not Republican Jesus.  Republican Jesus will shoot your ass.

So, they can’t continue to feed hungry people.

If they do, they will be arrested.

On the morning of Saturday, August, 24, Love Wins showed up at Moore Square at 9:00 a.m., just like we have done virtually every Saturday and Sunday for the last six years. We provide, without cost or obligation, hot coffee and a breakfast sandwich to anyone who wants one. We keep this promise to our community in cooperation with five different, large suburban churches that help us with manpower and funding.

On that morning three officers from Raleigh Police Department prevented us from doing our work, for the first time ever. An officer said, quite bluntly, that if we attempted to distribute food, we would be arrested.

Arrested.  You know, like St. Paul.

Now, it appears this story has gone viral and people from foreign states have been pitching  a fit, too.  What this country needs is more people willing to feed the hungry, not more people in prison for doing it.  You can follow the story of the criminal feeders at their Facebook page.

Thanks to Bernard for the heads up.

We are never going to have good government until we get money out of politics.

And there’s a reason for that.

Please meet the good folks at ATI Enterprises Inc, including a Mr. Arthur Benjamin among others.  They opened schools in Texas, Florida, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.  Only problem was – the schools were a scam.

ATI Enterprises Inc. will pay the government $3.7 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it falsely certified compliance with federal student aid programs’ eligibility requirements and submitted claims for ineligible students, the Justice Department announced today.

Okay, so there’s a fine involved.  However, it appears that nobody is going to jail.

The government further alleged that ATI employees engaged in fraudulent practices to induce students to enroll and maintain their enrollment in the schools.   This falsely increased the schools’ enrollment numbers, and consequently, the amount of federal dollars they received at the expense of taxpayers and students, who incurred long-term debt.

So, you can defraud the government and college students and when caught, you can just give some of the money back?   You know except for the money you gave politicians.

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The money made defrauding the government goes to politician pockets, which might explain why no one is going to jail.

Told ya it was gonna make you sick.  That’s my job every now and then – just to keep you on your toes.

Okay, Rick Perry just got on my last nerve.

Rick went to Missouri and got himself tossed off the radio for dissing Missouri.  Then he takes about the Governor of Missouri personally.  So, Missouri decides to issue a list of Why Missouri is Better Than Texas.  (1) We can read in Missouri.  (2) Harry Truman / George Bush.  (3)  That whole “oops” thing.  (4)  Ted Cruz.  ‘Nuff said.  (5)  Real paved roads.  (Those weren’t the real reason; I was just making suggestions.)

The Democratic Governor of Missouri put on his nicest voice and said —

“I’ve been at this a long time and I certainly respect people’s rights to say what they want and to try to attract attention to themselves when they’re not going to run anymore so there will be some level of attention around them to try to make themselves relevant to the political discourse, and they’re entitled to do that,” he said.

Rick, Honey, he just kneecapped you.

You’re a punch line, Rick.  Come home and get back in the attic.

Thanks to David for the heads up.

Meanwhile, back at the Texas Governor’s rent house.  Thanks to Burnt Orange Report for the Pinterest interest!

There was a ruling today saying that a congressman’s right to privacy does not trump the public’s right to know about possible criminal behavior.  You would think that would be written down somewhere but it’s not.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington won a lawsuit today to Federal District Court against former Senator John Ensign (R-NV) being able to keep secret his tawdry little affair with a former campaign staffer who was then married to his Chief of Staff.

You probably recall that Ensign asked Clinton to resign after the Lewinsky affair because Clinton “has no credibility left.” Ensign touted his membership in the Foursquare Pentecostal Church and how he was against same sex marriage because marriage was so sacred and everything.

I mean, Honey, you could have seen this fall coming a mile off.  Nobody gets that sanctimonious without something to hide.

So Ensign gets caught doing the wild thing with his Chief of Staff’s wife and then spent taxpayer time and money trying to cover it up.

The ethics committee referred the case to DOJ for a further investigation, but the department declined to prosecute Sen. Ensign, instead prosecuting only the former chief of staff, Doug Hampton.  DOJ refused to provide any records, claiming Sen. Ensign’s privacy interests trumped the public’s right to know.

I’m happy to report to you that this is the fourth such case that CREW has won.  I know it’s Ensign who lives is Vegas but it’s CREW who is on a roll.

There is a simple solution here:  if you are in congress, behave yourself and also remember this simple rule:  pigs get fat but hogs get slaughtered.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

So if you form a political action committee (PAC) named Secretive Politics, it only makes sense that you never tell the FEC anything.  Ever.

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The address in Sugar Land comes back to an address not far from Tom DeLay’s house.  It’s the office of a  local lawyer.  Who appear to take her secretive stuff very seriously.

Secretive Politics, indeed.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.