Let’s take a visit to Bobtown, Pennsylvania, where Chevron Corporation’s fracking operation blew a gasket. Literally.

After an explosion that “sounded like a jet engine going five feet over your house,” flames from the explosion issued a challenge to the sun even 12 hours later.

The heat from the blaze — which caused a tanker truck on site that was full of propane gas to explode — was so intense that first responders from local fire departments had to pull back rather than risk injury.

The fire burned for five days, putting God only knows what into the air all around the area.  As of today, one worker is injured and another is missing and presumed dead.

Being a responsible corporation, Chevron wanted to make things right to the community after killing one of them, injuring another, putting something awful in the air, and expecting a small local fire department to clean up their mess.

So, free pizzas!  A pizza for you.  A pizza for you!  A pizza for you!  Everybody gets a pizza!

Here’s the letter residents got.  Click the little one to get the big one.

Notice how they made the coupon expire on May 1st because, let’s face it, you might not live that long.  But, hey, they just went all out and even threw in a 2-liter drink!

The pizza place says that Chevron bought 100 of these gift certificates.  That’s nice.  Maybe it’s all they could afford.

The nation’s second-largest oil company saw another strong year on better performance from its refining business. Chevron’s 2012 earnings of $26.2 billion are the second highest result in company history, behind $26.9 billion in 2011.

Screw it.  Elizabeth Warren for President!

Thanks to Robert for the heads up.

Okay, don’t get overly excited, but the best damn thing that could happened to us in a month of Sundays, might happen.

Crazzzy Steve Stockman might be in a run-off with the rhinestone cowboy Senator John Cornyn.  Hell, yeah.

John Cornyn

The No.2 Republican in the Senate is polling below the 50 percent threshold in the party’s March 4 primary that he needs to clear in order to avoid a May 10 runoff, according to a Feb. 10-12 Human Events/Gravis poll of 729 registered Republicans. Sen. John Cornyn… has the approval [of] 49 percent of those questioned and 43 percent preferred him to main challenger Rep. Stephen E. Stockman (R.-Texas), who polled 28 percent.

It’s highly unlikely this will happen, but a girl can dream, can’t she?  I would buy a ticket to watch that race.  Cornyn and his corporate overlords vs. Stockman and his clique of crazies.  (I had a hard time deciding if they were Cliques of Crazies or Hoards of Honkeys.)

With both the Lt. Governor’s race and the Senate race fighting until May, the blood will spatter all over the entire ticket.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Guys, this was flat stolen off of Facebook.  It’s a local Republican candidate forum.

Please note the beer sign on the candidate’s right.

As one of my friends said, “In Fort Bend County these things write themselves.”

You know how the NRA says that the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun?

If you’re keeping score, the bad guys are winning.

A new study has found that around 60 more people have been murdered each year since the state of Missouri made it easier to buy a handguns without going through a background check.

And that shocks who?

The Show-Me state, huh?

“Coincident exactly with the policy change, there was an immediate upward trajectory to the homicide rates in Missouri,”Webster told BBC. “That upward trajectory did not happen with homicides that did not involve guns; it did not occur to any neighbouring state; the national trend was doing the opposite – it was trending downward; and it was not specific to one or two localities – it was, for the most part, state-wide.”

Researchers concluded that repealing the permit-to-purchase (PTP) law had given more murderers access to guns.

Ya think that might happen?

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.

I told you about a local Republican we have around here named Rick Forlano.  The last time he ran for office, he got 37% of the vote which gives him the distinction of coming in third in a two man race.

So, he decided that the reason he wasn’t winning is that not enough solid Democrats were voting for him the the Republican primary.  In Texas, you don’t register to vote by party.  You just vote in a party’s primary and you become a member of that party.  You can either vote in the Republican or the Democratic primary, but not both.

You can get lists of which primary people voted in.  So, when you’re running for office in a primary, if you’re smart, you only mail to those people in your party.

First, Rick sends ole Bubba and me a vote by mail application.  Those suckers ain’t cheap.  They run almost $1 a piece.  We got three at our house – and we are all Democrats.  Then, I’ll be damned, we got this on Saturday.

Three.  Count them – three.  We actually got four – we got our neighbor’s by accident – and she’s also a Democrat.

Candidates who want to demonstrate that they are fiscal conservatives would mail just one per household, but they also don’t mail to people who would rather eat an RCA radio than vote in a Republican primary.

Then there’s this —

No, you cannot read the stuff written in white italics at the top.  It could be a Satanic prayer for all I know.

His campaign manager must own a print shop or something, because that man just wasted $5 cash American money and all he’s getting out of it is ridicule.

We folks in the south know all about tent revivals, foot washing, speaking in tongues, and snaking handling.

The theory is this:  you can handle dangerous snakes if you trust in the Lord and ask God to protect you.

The problem with that theory is that snakes rarely have religion and they aren’t a damn bit ashamed about that.

Jamie Coots’ death appears to be the first from a snakebite in a Kentucky church service since November 2006, when a woman died after being bitten while worshipping at a Laurel County church.

Coots, a third-generation snake handler, was the pastor of a small church in Middlesboro, Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name.

The Steeple People who snake handle says they are commanded by the book of Mark to do so.  That book, however, also says to drink poison but you don’t see them doing that.  Not near the glamour.

Coot’s family refused to take him to the hospital after he passed out so I guess they were a bit tired of him being a damfool, too.

Just a heads up:  you should never handle a Republican for the same reason.  They will bite you.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.