Okay, today I’m going to tell you a story.

We Democrats have a caucus system in Texas.  You attend your state senatorial district convention where you get elected to the state Democratic convention.  Once you are at the state convention, you elect members of the State Democratic Executive Committee, the governing body of the state party.   You do other stuff, too, like elect national delegates in Presidential years.

So, in years past, people signed-in at their senatorial convention on sheets of paper that made two copies.  One stayed with the  chairman of the senatorial convention, another one went to the state party to make up the delegate list.  The state party’s copy was so messed up that you could hardly read it.

In order to achieve a balance of all voices, we have “add-on” members to the State Democratic Executive Committee.  For example, Young Democrats get a male and a female member of the SDEC.  LGBT, Disabled Democrats, Veterans, African American, Hispanic, etc. get two seats each.  For the most part, these people are also elected at the state convention.  If you don’t have a readable list of people of who is disabled, LGBT, young, etc, that makes things as messy as a two year old with finger paints.

So, since we live in the technology era, it was decided by some really bright people that Democrats could sign up online for their senatorial conventions and then the Excel sheet from each senatorial convention could be sent back down to each convention.  It made perfect sense and it worked like a $20 hammer on a greased nail.  We could finally read email addresses and phone numbers!

Except for one thing.

This morning I looked at the list of disabled people attending the state convention and holy cow! there was like 450 of them.  We usually have about 30 people at our caucus.  Then I kept looking and some people I knew for damn fact weren’t disabled, were listed as being disabled.

So, I email my friend Glen Maxey who is generally knowledgeable about this stuff and I say, “Since when is Joe Smith, Sally Jones, David Frontage, and a whole mess of other people, including a couple of State Representatives, become disabled?”  He emailed back, “Look at the LGBT list!  75% of the people coming are LGBT.”  He was right.

When Glen first noticed this odd thing, he called a couple of the people he knew weren’t LGBT and asked why they checked the box for the LGBT caucus.

Come to find out, we’re damn Democrats.  We are accustomed to checking the boxes of things we support.  So some people just checked boxes.  Veterans caucus?  Hell, you support veterans whether you’re a veteran or not.  You support disabled people, check that box!  LGBT Caucus?  Hell, I’ll watch them get married and throw a party for them afterwards!  I’m a damn Democrat.  I support everybody!

And that is Reason #4,519 why I love Democrats. We pretty much just wanna hug ya.

New Hampshire for once.

Glenn Ranfos is 57 years old and has more lead in him than fishing sinker factory.

Glenn Ranfos

He was shot by his hunting partner of 40 years, his own cousin Kenneth Ranfos, who was about 30 yards away in some deep woods and armed with a shotgun.

He saw Glenn remove his hat, and the quick movement combined with Glenn’s bald head, may have thrown Kenny off.

“I instantly started bleeding from the forehead,” said Glenn. “And I could feel penetration on my side and I stood up and said to Kenny ‘you shot me’ and he was in disbelief. He really thought he shot a turkey.”

You know, maybe he did.  I’m not saying that’s impossible.   Pretty close, though.

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.

So, those of you who have heard Sam Brownback’s name tossed around as presidential timber don’t even need to sharpen your axe.  He’s bringing himself down.

Tax revenue in April dropped 45 percent from a year ago, the Kansas Department of Revenue announced Wednesday.

The state’s revenue for the year is $92.9 million less than projected earlier this month….

Okay, so what caused this completely predictable turn of events?  Tax cuts, of course.

Despite all crushing evidence that it doesn’t work, the mush for brains Republicans believe that tax cuts on the rich, like Brownback’s crazy scheme, will gleefully trickle down and everybody wins.  Okay, so rich people win.  Hey, they do have that part right.  As always happens, the tax burden shifted to the middle class.

And do you want to know who Brownback blames for this loss of $93 million?  If you guessed Benghazi, you’re close.  He blames Barack Obama.

Yes, the state of Kansas has a faulty economic plan and it’s Barack Obama’s fault.

Oddly, the Congressional Budget office reports that the U.S. Treasury Department booked a $114 billion surplus in April because Barack Obama raised taxes on the rich.

So, wait, it’s a damn miracle.  You raise taxes on the rich and cut taxes on the middle class and your revenues go up.  You lower taxes on the rich and shift the burden to the middle class and … it’s Barack Obama’s damn fault.

Brownback, you broke it, you own it.

Thanks to Larry at the airport in far away places for the heads up.

I think we’re going to start having Pitiful Tuesday, where we all look at the most pitiful Republican and say, “Bless his heart.”

This week is Karl Rove.  He’s pitiful because he keeps saying that Hillary Clinton has brain damage.  Here’s the pitiful part:  even if she does, that just proves that even people with brain damage are smarter than Karl Rove.

The official diagnosis was a blood clot. Rove told the conference near LA Thursday, “Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.”

And here’s the other pitiful part:  he thinks he’s a doctor.  Dumb and delusional is not a winning combination.  Even in Texas.  Okay, sometimes in Texas.  Just not always.

Y’all, that’s pitiful.  Bless his heart.

Come on, everybody – bless. his. heart.

State Senator Dan Patrick, who is knuckle dragging conservative, is leading in his internal polls.

Every Democrat in Texas is kicking up their heels, because a Dan Patrick candidacy means lots of Republicans will vote for Leticia Van De Putte because Dan Patrick even scares Texas Republicans.

He’s edging up on being Louie Gohmert crazy.

Fourteen points! Boy howdy, that there is some fancy polling numbers.

I’ll be sleeping with a grin tonight.

Good Golly Almighty.  Louie has done busted a brain fart.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) linked LGBT activism to female genital mutilation and claimed that “intolerant fascist liberals” want to ban women from owning property.

The lawmaker told Congress on Friday that “intellectual fascism” violated the civil rights of conservative Christians.

There appears to be no Rosetta Stone to translate what Louie means when he gets to going on rants like these.  I guess he’s grown tired of Nazis and has moved on to female genital mutilation.

He then compared the cancellation of the cable TV reality show to genital mutilation, forced marriage, and other indignities imposed upon women in other nations.

“It is not tolerance that becomes intolerant and says a woman who was tortured — I don’t know what else you would call some of the procedures that were done to her most private areas in the name of religion,” Gohmert said. “It was not voluntary.”

I really don’t know what that means, but I think he’s spun himself into a ball and bouncing around talking about women’s private parts keeps him aloft.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.