Let’s start out with an 18 year old high school student in Saluda, Virginia, who came to school with an armory in the trunk of his car.

To make matters even more fun …

… perhaps the most unnerving thing is that police are working under the assumption that they haven’t even found all the weapons. Much of the ammunition found in his car does not match the guns he was caught with.

Thankfully, the guns were found before anyone got hurt.

And then there’s the I Love Jesus Gun Brigade.

In Memphis, a 4 year old girl was shot in the face by her older brother using their grandmother’s gun.

Boylan says her grandsons found the weapon in her bed.

“I got up to go to church and I forgot to put it up. They came over, and I just forgot.”

The girl is still in the hospital undergoing several surgeries to her jaw.

Well done, NRA.

Thanks to Larry and Jeff for the heads up.

Okay, so here’s the deal.

On December 12th the Regents at Texas A&M University decided to name the main academic building at A&M after Governor Rick Perry.  On December 16th, they announced it to the public.

On December 17th, Rick Perry said it was “a great honor.”

Sometime during those 2 days, somebody realized that Perry barely graduated and had a 2.5 grade point average.

On December 18, students spoke up.

More than 7,000 signatures have been gathered on a petition circulated by the Texas A&M University student Senate asking the board of regents not to change the name of the historic Academic Building for Gov. Rick Perry.

At 12:12 pm on December 18th …

The Texas A&M University Board of Regents meeting has been cancelled. The only agenda item on the special meeting was honoring Gov. Rick Perry with a resolution and the proposed renaming of the Academic Building.

The cancellation follows days of push-back on social media by thousands of current and former students. Many have expressed anger that the proposal was not made public until the meeting agenda was posted on Tuesday and that the public and student body had no opportunity to comment.

Okay, now here’s the reason why Perry had a 2.5 GPA.  At 12:44 pm, 32 minutes after the Board of Regents pulled back on naming the building after him …

Gov. Rick Perry is urging the board of regents now not to rename the Academic Building in his honor.

No, no, Honey.  You can’t give it back if they decided not to give it to you.

I’m kinda sad.  I think “Double Digit IQ Hall” would have been a great name for an academic building.

And, yes, Perry appointed the Board of Regents.

And, yes, they missed a chance to be the only university to have their academic building named after a probable convicted felon.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Like most real Americans, I said goodbye to The Colbert Report last night along with Willie Nelson, YoYo Ma and some other lesser known people.

If it was passed your bedtime …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHoLEEQSy7c

I hope they all growled at Grover Norquist and told him that he is not one of the cool kids!

Okay, I have a theory that President Obama agreed to recognize Cuba just to piss off Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

It worked like a fifty dollar hammer on a  greased nail.

They both swooned, clutched their chests, and little spittle things came out of the sides of their mouths.  It was adorable!

Hell, we forgave Japan in less time than we forgave Cuba.

But, the one I enjoyed the most is Good Ole Tom DeLay.  We have surrendered!

“This is surrender,” DeLay said. “This is a president who is a socialist to begin with reaching out to his socialist friends and opening up relationships with one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. The only worse one I can think of right now is North Korea.”

Really?  North Korea?  That’s the best you can do?

Now, I wouldn’t find this such a big deal if not for this.

2005, Time Magazine —

Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro “will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro’s blood-thirsty hands…. American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor.”

Tom DeLay / Honor.  That right there is the only time you will ever see those words together.

So, let’s start this Christmas tour in the Bible Belt, where the The Born Again Independent Baptist Church in Harlem, Georgia, got oh so clever with their church sign.

… or vice versa.  Verdelia, who loves word scramble games, says you can also almost make NASTY our of that.  Almost.

Edward Carothers, pastor at Born Again Baptist, told The Christian Post that the decision to post the message on the church sign came by decision of the congregation.

Carothers cited a 1996 work by James L. Melton titled “Santa Claus and Satan’s Cause”, which argued that, by having several similar characteristics to Jesus Christ, Santa was being crafted by secular culture as a false god to worship.

Plus, the jolly fat man breaks into my house and eats my damn cookies.

In his comments to CP, Pastor Carothers said that the overall feedback his church had gotten over the message was “40 percent positive.”

I don’t think he understands math.

And since we’re on the subject of not understanding …

The Reverend Pat Robertson says we should quit worrying about The Gays because they will soon be extinct.  Wanna know why?  They don’t reproduce.

You know, those who are homosexual will die out because they don’t reproduce,” the TV preacher opined. “You know, you have to have heterosexual sex to reproduce.”

I wonder how he thinks the current crop of homosexuals got here?  Magic?  Santa Satan left them as gifts under the tree?

Thanks to Rick and Deb for the heads up.

GQ named the 20 craziest politicians and only 5 of them are from Texas.

I suspect they have not visited the Texas Legislature.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.