Jolly hugs from me and John.

Okay, so you guys keep asking why Texas is so crazy.   Hell, where else could Louie Gohmert get elected and Rick Perry be considered a hot presidential prospect?

Well, customer Rick may have found the answer.  He was thumbing though old Life Magazines from the 1950’s and found this.

It seems that central Texas had uranium in the dirt and sold that stuff as snake oil.  They claimed uranium could cure your ills better than pills and made a small fortune by selling the opportunity to be covered in Texas dirt.

As if that wasn’t weird enough, along comes some “scientific” dudes who started claiming horse hockey because  people were getting short-changed on their exposure to radioactivity.

State soil engineers claim that dirt samples they have tested are less radioactive than the granite walls of the state capitol.

Well, there ya go.

So, Texas crazy is not in the water.  It’s the foundation on which our state is built.

And only in Texas would state bureaucrats claim that the problem wasn’t that uranium would kill ya, the problem was that people weren’t getting enough of it.

I love yew, Texas.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.

Sant Singh Chatwal is a multi millionaire convicted felon.  He made his money in the hotel business.

Chatwal used straw donors to violate campaign finance laws.  He gave more than $180,000 to Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd and former Florida congressman Kendrick Meek.  There is no evidence that the recipients knew the money was coming from made-up donors.

A government informant secretly taped Chatwal explaining his views on politics: “Without money nobody will ever talk to you.”

No shoot, Sherlock.  That is the American way, thanks to the Supreme Court.

The prosecutors wanted 56 months jail time.  But, the judge gave him a year’s probation.  Nice, right?

His friends wrote letters to the judge pleading his case.  I’m not saying that all of them were paid to write the letters, but they probably were.

My personal favorite?

Chatwal’s 43-year-old son Vikram, who frequently appears in gossip columns for dating models, wrote a letter to the judge admitting that he is an addict who has been in rehab 10 times.

“I am not ready to go it alone without the encouragement and guidance of my father,” Vikram Chatwal wrote under the letterhead from the Soho Mews condo.

Ahhhhh, so your Dad’s guidance didn’t help the first ten times but the 11th time will be the charm?  You’re 43 years old – go it alone dammit.

Dog shoots man.  Seriously.  Up in Wyoming a dog “jumping around” in the backseat of a pickup “accidentally” discharged the rifle and shot his owner.

That’s the story and they’re sticking to it.  Personally, I think the dog aimed.

The incident happened as Fipps and two of his employees were trying to use chains to free another pickup truck stuck in the road. Fipps ordered the pooch — described as a “ranch dog” — from the front seat of the parked pickup to the back, …

Well, it sounds to me like somebody didn’t like being called “a ranch dog”.

Thanks to Tina for the heads up.

Marco Rubio is covering all his bases betting on an afterlife.  He hasn’t been Jewish yet but it’s not for a lack of trying.

While growing up initially Catholic, Rubio then became a Mormon, then switched back to Catholicism, then became a Southern Baptist and a Catholic, then left the Baptists and simply became a Catholic, then he became a Baptist again, then a Catholic again, all the while technically remaining a Mormon.

It think maybe he’s a Baptolicmon.  Which sounds vaguely Jamaican.

So, anyway, he’s all hacked off at the Pope right now because Rubio says the Pope isn’t for “freedom.”

Get a load of this theology, geography, and logic talk —

“I think the people of Cuba deserve the same chances to have democracy as the people of Argentina have had, where he comes from; as the people of Italy have, where he now lives. Obviously the Vatican’s its own state, but very nearby. My point is I hope that people with that sort of prestige on the world stage will take up the cause of freedom and democracy.”

The Vatican is “very nearby” Italy?  Well, I suspect you can say that.  You’d look like an idiot but you can say it.

You know how effective the embargo has been bringing Cuba toward democracy?  Zero.  Nada.

Hell, according to Rubio, we don’t even have a democracy here.  We have socialism with a Kenyan leader.

Hey Rubio, you wanna be President?  Shuddup about the Pope.  He has a much higher approval rating than you do.  But then again, so does paper cuts.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

What’s Santa bringing you?

Thanks to John for the extremely cool wreath.