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Real picture.  Real Sign.  Real confused facial expression.

And what are they upset about enough to secdee?

Furious parents and citizens of Oklahoma took to the streets early Thursday, protesting against Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos.  Protesters allege the show is blatantly promoting an anti-Creationist agenda and is ‘standing against the Judeo-Christian moors and values of the Saddleback Township community and others nationwide.”

So, they are going to secdee if Neil DeGrasse Tyson isn’t taken off teevee.  Wouldn’t it be cheaper and a lot less spelling required if you just didn’t turn on the teevee?

I dunno.  I still say that outrage is Republican foreplay.

Well, lookie who is lawyering up!  Rick Perry, that’s who.

Gov. Rick Perry has retained a high-profile Austin defense lawyer to represent him in a criminal investigation into whether he illegally withheld money from the Travis County district attorney’s office, the American-Statesman and KVUE-TV confirmed Sunday.

Rick, Darlin’, Matlock couldn’t get you off.

You can check some background here, but it appears that Governor Perry might be in some manner of trouble and whatnot over threatening a public official when he got all “Me jogger.  You Coyote.” on District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg.

The bottom line is that Perry threatened to withhold funding from the DA’s office unless the Lehmberg resigned.  And, yes, that is a whole lot like what Chris Christi threatened to do with withholding Sandy relief funding, but poor dumb Rick didn’t get somebody to do the threatening for him under the table.  Nope, this cowboy drew a crowd and threatened her on the steps of the capitol and in the damn newspaper.   He is that macho and dumb.

Honey, be kind to both Christi and Perry because they can’t help it.  It is some kind of strange chemical reaction between testosterone and Axe Body Spray that causes them to act that way.

The only reason this isn’t drawing as much attention as the Christi deal is that nobody – including coyotes – takes Rick Perry seriously any more.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

A Nevada rancher has been grazing his cattle for 21 years on land the government owns without paying for it.  Other ranchers pay but this guy thinks he’s real special.  He hates the government but loves our land.

He was under a court order to pay up, almost one million dollars. Cliven Bundy is 68 years old and the father of 14 children.  His theory is that his family used that land before there was a Bureau of Land Management for he’s entitled to graze his cattle there.  Note that his family didn’t own the land, we do and always have, but they used it.

Come to find out, Cliven says he think he only owes $300,000 but he has shown no interest in parting with that either.

Since 16,000 ranchers play by the rules and pay to graze federal lands, it just doesn’t seem fair that Cliven doesn’t have to follow the rules.  Republicans are all about following the rules, right?

Here’s where the story gets odd.

After spending a week whisking away nearly 400 cattle they said were illegally grazing on federal land in the Nevada desert, officials facing a battalion of protesters with horses and guns decided to free those cattle in a stunning reversal Saturday afternoon.

A line of cattle calmly filtered out of a federal holding area at about 3 p.m. as protesters and law enforcement watched from alongside Interstate 15 near the Nevada-Arizona state line.

“Due to escalating tensions, the cattle have been released from the enclosures in order to avoid violence and help restore order,” the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said in a short statement.

And what caused them to leave?  Well, this guy

And several more like him …

A militia came out to keep the Bureau of Land Management from removing the illegal cattle.  They are there to defend this guy’s right to violate the law.

So, fearing a shoot out, the BLM backed down and released the 400 head of cattle it was holding.  Cliven gets to continue to flaunt the law.

Hummm ….

So here’s an idea.  I’m a yellow dog Democrat and I believe in a sane immigration policy. Since taking office, the Obama Administration has deported over 2,000,000 people in an aggressive policy.

What if a bunch of Hispanics were to arm themselves and stand at the detention facility demanding the release of people “not following the rules.”  Do you think INS would quietly back down and release them to keep the peace?

I don’t think so.

Thanks to Stan for the heads up.

If they have a Meanest Man Alive contest today, this dude wins.

Virginia GOP state delegate and congressional candidate Bob Marshall is standing by his claim that disabled children are God’s punishment for women who have an abortion.

“Nature takes its vengeance on subsequent children,” Marshall said in 2010. “It’s a special punishment, Christians would suggest.”

So, the mother of every disabled child has had a previous abortion?  Is that what he’s saying?  So God is really that mean?  Is that what he’s saying?  No, I think he’s saying, “Lookie here.  I’m batcrap insane and hate women!”

This proud Republican also believes that Justice Anthony Kennedy is secretly gay and that abortion should be banned in cases of incest because it could be “voluntary.”

I do not know what goes on at his house, but I think child welfare needs to make a visit.  With a hungry pit bull and a cannon.

By the way, he’s big with the NRA.  Big.  Major.  They let this man have a gun.

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.