Y’all, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a petition of discretionary review to review the reversal of Tom DeLay criminal conviction.

Honey, I have been paying the right preacher!

This means that the fat lady ain’t sang yet, and Tom DeLay’s pronouncements that he’s “been found innocent” is wrong, wrong, wrong.  It could be overturned.

Now, here’s the fun part.  There are 9 judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.   Six months ago, all 9 of them were Republicans but one judge, Lawrence Meyers, just switched to being a Democrat because Republicans make his skin crawl.  For the court to grant this petition, at least 5 of them, or maybe all nine, voted that this reversal needs some attention.  And that means some of the 8 Republicans is probably pretty sick of seeing Tom DeLay strut around like he’s never done anything wrong.

The state’s highest court on criminal matters announced that it would accept a petition asking it to consider whether a 2-1 decision by the Third Court of Appeals overturning DeLay’s criminal case conviction was appropriate.

The appellate court in September 2013 tossed a high-profile jury verdict, ruling that “the evidence was legally insufficient to sustain DeLay’s convictions.” In a dissent, the lone Democrat on the three-judge panel argued the evidence for a conviction was sufficient enough to convince a rational jury that criminal conduct had taken place.

This is great news for the State of Texas, the Travis County DA’s office, and Lady Justice.

And me.  This is great news for me because I think Tom DeLay is a bigger crook than we’ll ever know.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Check the address. (Click the little one to get the big one.)

My friend Brazos County Chair Maggie Charlton is still laughing.

Just when you’re wondering why Louie Gohmert hasn’t been heard from in a while, your dreams come true.

He’s speaking and – oh cherry on top! – he’s praising Sarah Palin!

Remember when Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house?  So does Louie.  And, what with all this stuff going on in the Crimea, Louie thinks Sarah had a crystal ball when she said that thing about seeing Russia.

Although all Sarah really said is that you could see Russia from some islands in Alaska, Tina Fey made it famous with the joke on Saturday Night Live.  Louie admits he laughed at the joke, but he is oh holy crap serious about making a record of it.  He wants it put in the damn Congressional Record.

Now get this!

“I just wanted to set the record straight so people will understand and the Congressional Record will properly reflect how prescient that Sarah Palin has been in the past,” Gohmert explained on the House floor.

Prescient?  Does he know what that means?  Is he calling Sarah a clairvoyant?  Ain’t that unchristian?

You know, Sarah said that Russia stuff 5 years ago.  Hell, watch this:  Italy.  There, I said Italy.  Sometime in the next 5 years, Italy is going to be in the news.

Honey, do you want to talk prescient?  John A. Kwitkoski sent me this about an hour ago:

Thanks to Lorraine In Spring and, of course, John, for the heads up.

Welcome to Georgia, where 29 year old Maurice Brown is the talk of the town.  It seems that Maurice went to the hospital to get a bullet taken out of his butt.  The police were called and Maurice reported that he was a victim of a horrible crime and had been shot in the hiney.

After police were called to check on a shooting victim, Brown told officers he heard a gunshot as he stepped from his vehicle in the yard. Brown said he didn’t see the gunman but there was a man dressed in all black riding a bicycle when the shooting occurred.

An investigation determined that Brown accidentally shot himself with a pistol in his back, right pant pocket.

Ohmygosh, Johnny Cash was riding a ten speed Schwinn  and doing roll-by shootings!

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

Okay, so Republicans decided that saying women are far “too busy” for equal pay for equal work wasn’t good golly goofy enough, so ….

They find another woman who says that it’s women’s own fault if they aren’t paid equal to a man in the same job.

No, seriously.  I have it on tape.  It will be the most surreal 25 seconds of your day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHKGVOvjCz8

Do these Republicans ever talk to each other?  Yesterday women were too damn busy to get equal pay but today they need to add some schooling in their busy day and feel real bad about themselves if they don’t have time to learn a new set of life skills because they were so busy yesterday.

So what Republicans are telling us is that if they are re-elected, women are totally screwed.

Okay, I’m pretty sure we already knew that but we appreciate Republicans reinforcing it.

Thanks to Steve for the heads up.

Just when you think that there’s a slight possibility that maybe, just maybe, Pope Francis might be the first Christian Pope, he sends his notes to Pope Benedict for an opinion.

Here’s the scary part:

“‘Bring this to Pope Benedict; you will see that the first page after the contents is empty,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “Pope Benedict should write there everything that he has in the way of critiques when he has read it and give it back to me.'”

“Three days later, he said to me, ‘I have four pages here … in a letter, and please give this letter to Pope Francis,'” Gaenswein recalled of Benedict.

Four damn pages?  Really?  You ask for one page of critique and you get back four?  What?  You don’t like his shoes or something?  Heck, Benedict, I don’t like you worth diddle squat but even I couldn’t write four pages criticizing you.

He must be bored.