Ted Cruz formally renounced his Canadian citizenship.

They say that he was notified by letter, but I suspect there were balloons and a fruit basket involved.

The sky can get frightfully dark at night in Arizona.  And sometimes the moon draws first.

Police arrested an Arizona man after he apparently tried to shoot the moon.

Cameron Read was taken into custody Friday after his girlfriend told police he fired several shots from the window of their home, reported KPHO-TV.

Officers said the 39-year-old Read told police he had smoked marijuana and admitted trying to shoot the celestial body which orbits the earth.

Personally, I think the moon was just asking for it.

Thanks to Mike for the heads up.

My local Democratic Party, where Bubba is the county chair, has the most amazing field director.

Her name is Sarah Slamen and she is also a teevee star.   You can get to know her right here and even leave a comment after her appearance.

She will be on The Ed Show at 4:00 today on MSNBC to talk about this.

If you want to know about her future appearances, we put them on Facebook as soon as we know about it.  Go here and LIKE the Fort Bend County Democratic Party.  We’ll keep you up to date.

Okay, I had to check around to see if this one is a parody.  Apparently, it’s not.

A West Virginia hospital is having a fundraiser, where the door prize is a matched set of Rugers — a .357 and a .44.  A set.  You know, His and Hers.  Bank robber, get away driver.

The theme is “Building a Healthy Future … One Bullet At a Time?”

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Okay, let me start this by saying that Rick Perry is not gay.  Not at all. Not even a little bit.  Not gay.  Rick = no gay. Nada gayito.

He was asked yesterday about the Texas Republican Party’s platform wanting reparative therapy for gay people because, obviously, they need repairing.

(Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry, seen as a potential Republican presidential candidate in the 2016 election, compared homosexuality to alcoholism in remarks in San Francisco.

“I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that,” Perry said in remarks broadcast on the local CBS affiliate. “And I look at the homosexual issue in the same way.”

A few people in the audience gasped in response, according to the CBS report.

Yeah, just say no.  You know, it worked so well with the drug thing that it just has to work with The Gay.  Hell, that doesn’t even work with alcoholism.

Rick, dude, take off your not gay cowboy hat and put on your thinking cap:  you were in San Francisco.  Even the most conservative Republican in the entire city believes gay is okay.

Reminder:  Rick Perry is not gay.

Thanks to everybody and Aunt Mildred for the heads up.  I love you guys.

You’ve probably heard the name of Jeb Hensarling being tossed about to replace Cantor.  Hensarling says he is “prayerfully weighing” a run for Majority Leader.

What, Me Worry Hensarling

The best that can be said of Hensaling is that he’s not Louie Gohmert.  But, he comes close.  You have to give him points for trying.

I can help you learn a few things about Hensarling.  Let’s take a trip down Juanita’s Memory Lane.

He doesn’t think much of President Obama.

The feeling is mutual.

His favorite kind of money is the dirty kind.

He was chairman of the oversight committee of Credit Suisse.

He blocked legislation that could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008.

Paul Krugman can poke him with a stick.

He’s Phil Gramm’s link to congress.

Boehner thinks he’s better than Bachmann.

If you want the 1% to flourish and politicians to get kickbacks from it, then Hensarling is your man.

UPDATED:  Just now from The Hill —

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) will not run to replace Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) as majority leader.

The conservative favorite said in a statement Thursday he was not going to challenge Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) or Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) for the No. 2 spot in House GOP leadership.

Oh great, Pistol Pete Sessions, who eats bullets for breakfast so he can shoot off his mouth all day.  We just left the frying pan – look out fire!