The birds!  The birds!

VATICAN CITY — Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds.

As tens of thousands of people watched in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, a seagull and a large black crow swept down on the doves right after they were set free from an open window of the Apostolic Palace.

Whoa, I bet talk radio will be buzzing tonight.

It’s North Carolina.

Davie County Sheriff Andy Stokes says he accidentally shot Deputy Chris Fleming after Fleming and his police dog had been shot by a man during a standoff Wednesday night near Mocksville.

I mean, Bob Marley tried to give you instructions, but no ….

But there was a happy ending any way.

Stokes later spoke to Fleming in Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, where Fleming was treated for a minor facial wound and a flesh wound in the shoulder. Stokes said he told Fleming that he had accidentally shot him.

Fleming then said to Stokes, ‘Sheriff, you was just doing your job,’” Stokes said. “He understood the situation. He’s (Fleming) a cop. He understood the necessity of it.”

It’ll be fun to see who volunteers to go on a raid with the sheriff next time.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Y’all, Steve Stockman is alive and apparently off his meds somewhere.  He’s going to let us in on his alien abduction tomorrow.

“Where am I? Find out Monday…” the congressman wrote in the tweet.

The message comes after weeks of unanswered phone calls and emails to Stockman staffers. When reached Thursday night, his wife declined to comment on her husband’s whereabouts.

A quick trip in the Juanita Jean Wayback Machine, reminds us that Stockman was a first term congressman almost 20 years ago who got a fax one hour before the Oklahoma City bombing warning about it.

About 45 minutes before the bomb went off on 4/19/95 in front of the Murrah Building, this idiot’s office got a fax that the sender (who turned out to be one of the “Michigan Militia” who knew McVeigh) had tried to make look like it came from a Federal agency, warning of a bomb threat to a Federal building in Oklahoma City.

Even though all bomb threats are supposed to be reported, this one went into the recycle box.

With all Stockman’s financial woes right now coupled with his political contributions reporting being practically non-exisitant, it’s gotta be a doozy of a story.

I have a suggestion.  There’s a story going around about James O’Keefe targeting Battleground Texas.  I say we pay O’Keefe to follow Steve Stockman around.  This is a win/win for O’Keefe.  (1) It’ll be the first honest work he’s ever had, and (2) we’ll even let him wear his pimp outfit.

You know, if Republicans didn’t provide all this entertainment, I’d have to go join the circus.

Last night’s fundraiser with Congressman Julían Castro (see edit below) was the most financially successful fundraiser in Fort Bend County Democratic history. Final numbers aren’t in yet but it looks great. Plus, everybody dolled-up at the country club and had fun. Congressman Castro was energetic, funny, and inspiring. Congressman Al Green’s financial and moral support made it all possible.

Now I’m going to sit in a recliner for a full day and ask Bubba to rub my feet.

This is half the room before everybody got there.

And as they were arriving —

Talk among yourselves while I rest.

ON EDIT:  Ho Boy, was I ever tired when I wrote this.  Congressman Joaquín Castro was our guest.  Julían is the Mayor of San Antonio.

The big story in Texas is, “Where is Steve Stockman?”

I’m just reminding you of what I said about him before:

If he ever accidentally swallowed a laxative, he’d disappear.

There you go.

Somebody alert the damn media to quit looking.

Okay, on one hand we have wimpy Republican State Senator Dan Patrick, a man who doesn’t even write his own tweets.

On the other hand we have San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro.  Mayor Castor  is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard law school.  Y’all remember him because he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

Dan Patrick went to the University of Maryland and trained to be a sports broadcaster.  He now has one of those verbal vomit rightwing talk shows in Houston.  He’s running for Lt. Governor.

So Mayor Castro decides it’s time to goad Dan Patrick.

Maybe I should add here that Mayor Castro’s grandmother came from Mexico to America to live with extended family after she was orphaned at 8 years old.  She’s an immigrant.

So, Patrick, or someone someone from Patrick’s office, tweeted back …

So, I think maybe there’s some rhetorical problems here:  Talk is cheap, let’s debate.  Uh, I think debating is talking.  I dunno, maybe he wants to debate with swords or something.

So last night Mayor Castro tweeted back …

“Let’s do that, Dan Patrick.”

I might add that Castro has about 55,600 followers, while Patrick has 10,200.

My bet is that Mayor Castro will wait to see if Patrick wins the GOP nomination and if he does, debate him then and whip his hiney all over the state.  The Democrat for Lt. Gov is my favorite Democrat on the ticket – Leticia Van de Putte.  Yes, she’s Hispanic.

Honey, all you gotta do is dig a hole and idiots will step right into it.