Boy Howdy, can I make the worst nightmare of NRA members come true.

How The NRA Built A Massive Secret Database Of Gun Owners

While the National Rifle Association publicly fights against a national gun registry, the organization has gone to incredible lengths to compile information on “tens of millions” of gun owners — without their consent.

So, the NRA, who spends every day fretting over the government getting a registry of guns, has a registry of … damn.  That’s pretty weird.

That database has been built through years of acquiring gun permit registration lists from state and county offices, gathering names of new owners from the thousands of gun-safety classes taught by NRA-certified instructors and by buying lists of attendees of gun shows, subscribers to gun magazines, and more, BuzzFeed has learned.

You know how they say that anything is for sale?  That list is surely for sale.

Hoisting with petards, are we?

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

It’s Ted Cruz again.

Oh, y’all, he is such a gift.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has come home to Texas to promote his long-shot bid to defund “Obamacare,” warning Tea Party activists Monday that they have only a few months to stop the health care reform law before people get “addicted” to it.

Yes, addicted to health care.  Addicted to be able to buy insurance with a pre-exisitng condition.  Addicted to heart medicine or asthma inhalers.

Oh, the shame of it.

Thanks to Andrew for the heads up and John for the graphic.

Congressdrunk Don Dwyer, a Republican from Maryland has a bit of a oopsy problem.  He drinks.  A little while back he pled guilty to operating a boat while drunk. And not operating it very well because he crashed it and injured seven people.  The boat was named “The Legislator,” so we should have expected nothing less than a crashing and injuring event.

October 25th is his court hearing on the drunk while boating.

But, Don’s problem is not alcohol.  No, siree.  Don’s problem is those damn gay people who make him drink.

Ya see, last week at 2:45 am he was stopped on the highway due to erratic driving.  He failed three field sobriety tests.

But this ain’t his fault, y’all.

First he blamed his failing marriage.  It’s wimmen’s fault, y’all.  But then he had a doozy.  The reason he drinks is because he feels “betrayed” by members of the Maryland House who supported marriage equality.

Dwyer says he felt sold out when Dels. Tiffany Alston, Wade Kach and Bob Costa voted for same-sex marriage, an issue he spent years crusading against. Dwyer told reporters one day before the vote that he had enough support to block the bill.

Marriage equality passed by the two votes of Republicans who had a change of heart.

He drinks to ease the pain of all those gay folks out there having wild, hot and gleefully sober s-e-x.  They are also buying houses, paying bills, getting sick, going to movies, celebrating birthdays, raising children, and living their lives just like “normal” people.  You know, just like Don Dwyer except for the drunk boating and driving stuff.

So I hope you gay people are happy now.  Don Dwyer would be sober and happily married right now if y’all hadn’t wanted your silly civil rights.

Look, nobody tell Don that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act passed congress.  I know that would lead to cocaine and sex trips to Thailand.  A man can only stand so much.

Thanks to Bernard for the heads up.

Okay, this guy is an East Texas preacher.  You know, like Sweet Jesus.

He went to Double Dave’s Pizza, Starbucks, Jack in the Box and Walmart in Huntsville wearing a fashionable AR-15 Bushmaster slung over his shoulder.

He says he was trying to make a point.

You know, that Jesus would carry an AR-15 to WalMart for their everyday low prices and you never know, of course, when some damn hippie is gonna give you guff in the hardware department.

Pastor Terry Holcomb has a message to bring to his flock:  screw this peace on earth crap and the whole meek shall inherit the earth because the Prince of Peace would tote the weapon of choice for mass murderers.

The man of cloth says he got some guff from WalMart.

Holcomb said customers and business owners didn’t complain until he got to Walmart. Within minutes a manager asked him to leave. Holcomb didn’t argue and walked out of the store as requested.

“Well, the Walmart in Huntsville definitely doesn’t honor 2nd Amendment rights,” he said in the video as he walked into the store parking lot.

They sell guns at WalMart, you freekin’ idiot.

This is not Pastor Holcomb’s first foray into Huntsville to show off his weapon.  He does this regularly as part of his mission.

For I was hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.  Matthew 25:35

Now, I think it’s real nice that there was no one in Huntsville who is hungry, thirsty, a stranger, needs a place to stay, or is in prison so that the minister has time to do this gun stuff.  (For you people from foreign states, Huntsville is home to the most prisons in Texas.)

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Nor will they get your butt into heaven.

Thanks to Bernard and John for the heads up.

You know the world is  good place when little blonde chicks thumb their noses at Putin.

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In case you didn’t hear, we’re digging up roads in Texas and replacing them with gravel because we can’t afford the damn upkeep on roads.

Texas is so poor that we can’t even afford to go window shopping.  Somalia?  Richer than Texas and with better government to boot.

Now I know that we can afford to send Governor Perry all over the country with his shiny face making teevee commercials bragging about low taxes in Texas and those same commercials soon become fodder for late night comedians.  We can afford that.

We can also afford to turn our noses up at $1 billion for Medicaid.  Since those people will be treated in emergency rooms for free, everybody’s health insurance, local taxes, and medical bills will go up.  But we don’t need no damn $1 billion of our own tax dollars coming back to Texas.  No sireee.

And the latest we can afford is $4 million for Attorney General Greg Abbott to sue the federal government so he can run for Governor on the evils of the federal government.

But that ain’t all —

Abbott’s office additionally has spent nearly $1.9 million defending the state in another case brought by minority and civil rights groups over redistricting. That amount is not included in the $4 million tally, which includes only lawsuits Abbott initiated.

I know y’all were all excited when Rick Perry decided not to run for Governor again.  I’m just tellin’ ya:  Greg Abbott is Rick Perry with a mean streak.  We have jumped from the frying pan into the pits of hell.

Texas cannot afford roads but we most certainly can afford Republican political campaigns with our tax dollars.

And that makes us Texas Proud!