Tampa Bay.

A deputy’s gun fired accidentally in a restroom at Tampa Bay Downs Friday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said.

The deputy was working an off-duty job at Tampa Bay Downs Friday around 3:30 p.m. Authorities said he went into the restroom and his gun went off after he removed his gun belt to set it down. No one else was in the restroom at the time, and no one was injured, officials said.

However, three urinals and the soap machine confessed to major crimes.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

I think this is my favorite poll ever simply because it proves that the dumber you are, the more likely you want to go to war.  It’s called “The Republican Redneck and Proud” theorem.

So researchers at Dartmouth, Princeton, and Harvard asked Americans to locate Ukraine on a world map.  One in six got it right.  But, here’s the catchy part.  The further off they were to it’s location on a map, the more likely they were to want to invade it.

Two people thought it was in Memphis.  I can understand that.  I’ve been that drunk in Memphis before.  Iceland?  Seriously?

… the further our respondents thought that Ukraine was from its actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene militarily. Even controlling for a series of demographic characteristics and participants’ general foreign policy attitudes, we found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force …

That’s kinda the way it always is, ain’t it?

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

From the Dallas Morning News.

Protesters lined both sides of Elm Street on Friday, in dueling downtown demonstrations over plans to house unaccompanied Central American children in Dallas County.

At their peak, the crowds together swelled to about 100 people. The two groups gathered to voice support for, and opposition to, a plan to establish temporary shelters in the county for thousands of children now being detained at the border.

Here is the Christian side of the argument.

How loving and reasonable.

Should have let him shoot an apple off your head.  He aims high.

A man faced murder charges on Friday after accidentally shooting his friend while testing a bulletproof vest, the Baltimore police said. Mark Ramiro, 30, was arrested in the shooting of Darnell Mitchell, 28, late on Wednesday. The Baltimore Sun reported on Friday the shooting was recorded on a video camera by a third person. In it, Mr. Mitchell brags that he is about to take a “deuce deuce in the chest” — a shot from a .22-caliber bullet — before he is struck just above the vest.

Ya think alcohol was involved or just copious amounts of dumb?

Thanks to Sandy for the heads up.

I really don’t think this piece of polling information fits under the category of news.

It’s more like things we already knew but now have proof.

A new Public Policy Polling survey found that 37 percent of Republicans who voted in the Mississippi primary runoff election between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) said they would back the Confederate side if there was another Civil War.

The other 63% have already seceded.

I wonder when they’re going to realize that they are admitting to treason?

 Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

Republican Rep. Tom Marino, said to be the most conservative congressman from Pennsylvania, has a press secretary.

No, scratch that. Had a press secretary.

Ryan Shucard had a rotten morning.  He’s been charged with a felony.

Shucard entered the southeast door of Cannon with the weapon. The Smith & Wesson 9mm and magazine were found during the search required for entry into the building, according to Schneider. People entering Cannon, including those with staff identification badges, like Shucard, are required to step through metal detectors and place bags on the belt of an X-Ray machine.

Yeah, Marino is not a fan of gun control.

Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.