Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel is a Tea Party guy so that puts him at direct opposition against another Republican branch – the Libertarians.

A Libertarian is just a Tea Party member with a bong.

So, anyway, a libertarian ran for Governor and Chris got kinda excited about that.  But not excited in the good way.

McDaniel said of Nall, “It’s so interesting to see this woman, basically using her boobies, I shouldn’t have said that, to using her breasts to run for office. If that’s not the most typical Libertarian platform I don’t know what is. The only thing that could probably make the campaign more Libertarian is a heroin needle in her arm.”

And he thought the most offensive thing about that was the use of the term “boobies”?  Oh dear.

Republican in-fighting is such fun to watch because you can play word bingo with it.  They aren’t very creative so it’s just the same 15 insults over and over.

Dude, heroine needle?  Okay, okay, I admit, that’s a new one.

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South Carolina has a novel idea.  You won’t believe me when I tell you this because whoever came us with it is probably too drunk to fish.

The Stand Your Ground worked so week for Trevon Martin and George Zimmerman that the state legs wants to extend it to fetuses.

On Thursday, a Senate committee in South Carolinavoted to expand the state’s so-called “Stand Your Ground” law to approve the use of deadly force to protect a fetus. The proposal would grant pregnant women protection from prosecution if they were defending their “unborn children,” defined as “the offspring of human beings from conception until birth.”

This is clear and plain an end run around abortion.  I’m just waiting for it to be used on women’s health physicians.

I hate these people.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.

Florida is known for its quantity of retirees.  There’s one thing all retirees need and some of them need it more quickly than others.

A bathroom.

Not so, says Florida.  In Miami-Dade county, no voters will be allowed to use the restroom on election day even if the election is held in a building owned by the taxpayers.

Why, you ask?

Because it’s damn Florida.

A Feb. 14, 2014 email from Assistant County Attorney Shanika Graves states that “the [Elections] the Department’s policy is not to permit access to restrooms at polling sites on election days. Restrooms are open to voters during early voting because early voting is held at public facilities. However, public and private facilities are used as polling sites on election days. Private facilities are governed by private landlords, not the County. This policy was implemented to avoid situations where accessible restrooms would be available to some, but not all voters.”

I quoted that because I knew you would not believe me.

In my semi-rural county one of our election sites is Carlos’ Upholstery Shop.  I’m not making that up.  You can drop off your couch cushions and vote at the same time.  Carlos is a nice guy but I am certain that he’d rather a voter use his restroom than tinkle on his floor.  I’d call him and check on that policy but I’m afraid he’d think I’d finally dived head first into the shallow end.

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This story starts with a bright young woman deciding that along with having an official state bird and state tree, South Carolina needed an official state fossil.  Because fossils are cool.

She picked the wooly mammoth because some of the first wooly mammoth bones were discovered in South Carolina in 1725.  This third grader wrote letters to her two legislators at the state house.  They are both Democrats and she figured that meant they can read, whereas that is questionable among South Carolina Republicans.

Anyway, they like her idea and introduce a bill in the South Carolina House requesting that the wooly mammoth be named the official state fossil.  They thought it was a dandy way to teach kids how bills get passed.

Ridgeway and Johnson both have filed bills — H.4482 and S.854 — to make the wooly mammoth, an extinct genus of hairy elephant, the official state fossil. McConnell said she faithfully is following the bills’ progress online, where both are in committee.

Oh hell no.  The House passes it as is, no problem.  Then the steeple people get involved and everything goes to crap.

Sen. Kevin Bryant, a pharmacist and self-described born-again Christian who has compared President Obama with Osama bin Laden, voted to sustain a veto by Governor Nikki Haley of funding for a rape crisis center, and called climate change a “hoax,” proposed amending the bill to include three verses from the Book of Genesis detailing God’s creation of the Earth and its living inhabitants—including mammoths.

Yeah, mammoths and damn snakes … like Bryant.

The official state tree is the palmetto but I looked it up and there isn’t one damn word about God creating the palmetto tree in the legislation.  The state waltz is the Richardson Waltz but you do not see a stinkin’ word about God creating it in that legislation either.

Personally, I think they’re just picking on the wooly mammoth because Jesus didn’t ride one.

By the way, if South Carolina doesn’t have an official state tool, I’d like to nominate Kevin Bryant.

Thanks to Abigail for the heads up.

Mena, Arkansas, ain’t exactly your bastion of liberalism.  And neither is the First Baptist Church there.  So, when this showed up the newspaper, I damn near burned myself with the curling iron.

It was announced last week that 9th Street Ministries will be concluding their medical clinic mission, which had been ongoing monthly to offer free medical services to those in need since first starting in 1998. The final day for the medical clinic will be Thursday, April 24, and that will conclude the mission that has been in place for almost 16 years.

“Because people are qualifying for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, our free medical clinic will not be needed anymore,” Stacey Bowser RN, 9th Street Ministries Clinic Director, stated. “We’ve gone from seeing around 300 people a month on a regular basis, but as people were enrolling in Obamacare, the numbers we were seeing have dropped. We were down to 80 people that came through the medical clinic in February, all the way down to three people at the medical clinic in March. Our services won’t be needed anymore, and this will conclude our mission.”

They will keep open their help with food and paying utility bills, but now people have insurance to pay for a doctor and nurses and medical clinics and that means jobs in the area to fulfill those needs.

So just shuddup, Republicans.  Just shut the hell up.

Thanks to Robert for the heads up.