San Angelo, Texas, is out in West Texas 100 miles southwest of Abilene.  Abilene is near nothin’.  In every way.  Abilene’s main crop is dust, and their biggest export is Baptists.  America used to store our nuclear missiles in Abilene at an Air Force base, because if they accidentally blew up it would be considered urban renewal.

San Angelo is more worthless than Abilene.  Hell, they even shut down the Chamber of Commerce because there wasn’t any.  I spent a week in San Angelo one day.

So, when Republican State Representative Drew Darby of San Angelo was flying out of the Austin airport, he was stunned, stunned I tell you, that he could not carry a .38 caliber Ruger and six rounds of ammunition in a magazine on the damn airplane.

It was in his carry-on bag.  He “forgot” it was there.  So, all in all, it’s probably a pretty good thing the TSA found it before one of Darby’s grandchildren did.

I dunno about you, but if I have a deadly weapon, I like to know where it is.  I mean, it ain’t gonna do me much good if a bad man tries to mug me and I don’t know where the hell I put my concealed weapon.

Yeah, Darby, we’re idiots.  We believe you’re a NRA shrill and you “forgot” where your weapon is.  Yep.  We buy that.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I was in school and they a student came in the classroom with a note for the teacher.  We were told that John Kennedy was dead.  There were gasps, but the teacher continued on after that.

My Bubba, who had just turned 16 at the time, recalls, “Fifty years ago, I was on Main Street in Dallas, just 4 blocks from Dealey Plaza watching President Kennedy’s motorcade. I was right on the curb and both the President and Jackie waived at me, my mother and my auntie. In 1960, I made handmade JFK pushcards and passed them out on my paper route in Dallas. That was the beginning on my political activism. I will never forget the excitement of waving to my President and First Lady and the horror, shock and grief of learning of his death.”

I found this in his closet when we were moving in together.  I had it framed and it has held a place of honor in our home since that day.  It’s an original.

Where were you?

Go Leticia, GO!

Thanks to John for the great graphic.

When the Republican Governor’s Association met and someone suggested that they change the way they do their Presidential debates, Governor Rick Perry shouted, “Hell, yeah.”

He had three good reasons for wanting the change the process:

1.  It would be much more exciting if we found out that the Republican was an idiot during actual Presidential debates.

2.  It’s hard to remember what your speechwriters tell you to say.

3.  Uh, just a minute, uh, did I mention that it’s hard to remember? I did?, okay, uh ….

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Nah, that wasn’t a typo.  They sowed and now they weep.

National Organization For Marriage Ended 2012 With A $1 Million Deficit

Raising nearly $14.5 million in contributions in 2012, NOM reported spending nearly $16.5 million during the year. The group unsuccessfully fought three marriage equality ballot measures and one state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex couples from marriage in November 2012.

It could not happen to nicer people.  As hard as they tried, you cannot make bigotry and hate a virtue.

Don’t ya hope they owe all the money to other hateful people?  Two birds with one dogma – that’s my idea of productive.

Thanks to Dennis for the heads up.

Texas’ answer to Jabba the Hut, Congresspuggy Blake Farenthold, has a new Obama scandal.

Bless his heart, he can’t even let the old one get cold before he breaks out the new one.  But, this one is tremblingly ironic.  It involves numbers, something Farenthold is no damn good at.

When Farenthold got elected, the GOP leadership recognized an unEinstein when they saw it so they put him on the important, prestigious, and powerful Census committee. That means he only has to think once every ten years and even that causes brainstrain in Blake.

Blake has decided that the Census Bureau fudged the unemployment numbers before the 2012 election. He says that a New York Post article making the allegation is “extremely serious.”  That, campers, is the first time the words New York Post and serious have been used in the same sentence.   And coming out of the mouth of Blake Farenthold makes it the trifecta of ridiculous.

Okay, let’s pretend that the unemployment numbers were fudged.  Would take have taken away Mitt Romney’s total cluelessness?  Nope.  Would that have made people want Paul Ryan’s finger on the nuclear launch code?  Uh huh.

Two things are true:  The 2012 election was a damn landslide and Barack Obama is still black.  Blake needs to roll his butt to a quiet comfortable place of get the hell over it.

Thanks to Peter for the heads up.