Jeb, y’all.  Not the brightest light on the Christmas tree.

He released every damn email ever to sent to him and posted them online for “transparency.”

“In the spirit of transparency, I am posting the emails of my governorship here,” a note on Bush’s website says. “Some are funny; some are serious; some I wrote in frustration.” Some also contain the email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, and social security numbers of Florida residents. The emails are available in Outlook format, and can be searched on the web at Bush’s website.

Some of the other information was personal.  No wait, not some, a lot.

I guess we know where he stands on privacy rights.

Latest update:

Researchers are now poring over the email dump for personal information. It appears Bush’s team, and perhaps Florida state government, will have lots of work to do if they want to purge the data from the records — and some explaining about how this happened. It’s more than a few bits of personal information.

Oh dear, that couldn’t be cheap.

Thanks to Elizabeth for the heads up.

So now folks in Arizona who are on a state senate panel have decided that there’s part of the United States that they don’t like and it’s the United part.

Declaring state law to be above all others, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to both block federal gun laws they believe violate the Second Amendment and punish the city of Tucson for enacting its own restrictions.

They also agreed to bar state and local governments from helping any federal agency that collects metadata like phone and email records without a warrant. Any official who cooperated would be forever barred from holding public office.

I think they just seceded.

But, for God’s sake, let’s not stop there.

And if that isn’t enough, the same committee declared that county sheriffs are supreme, meaning they can arrest federal officials — including police — who try to arrest someone or seize property without first getting their consent. And county attorneys who refuse to bring charges of kidnapping for arrests done without the sheriff’s permission would be subject to prosecution themselves by the state attorney general for “official misconduct.”

Oh yeah, because they don’t have no crazy damn sheriff’s in Arizona, right?  Hell, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is smarter than any of those cotton-pickin’ G-men.

The folks who are trying to pass this claim that they should be allowed to pass laws that their constituents want.  Yeah, well, I think George Wallace tried it.  Didn’t work.

Here’s what I think.  As long as President Obama is in office they want state rule.  The minute they have a Democratic governor in Arizona, they’ll want city rule.  The minute they get a Democratic mayor, they’ll want … get off my damn lawn rule.

Thanks to Bunny for the heads up.

Congressional Republicans didn’t know how to repeal Obamacare.  Lord knows they get extra points for trying, though.

Manly Mike Moon

Along comes Missouri Republican State Rep. Mike Moon.  Mr. Moon has a new tactic to try to repeal Obamacare.

A resolution now pending in the Missouri House, calling on the state’s congressional delegation to “endeavor with `manly firmness’ and resolve to totally and completely repeal the Affordable Care Act . . . ”

Moon says that the “manly firmness” line comes from the Declaration of Independence.  Funny how that stuck out in Moon’s mind.

Apparently, no one took the shovel away from Moon so he kept digging.

“It is just like going to war,” Moon told the Columbia Tribune. “You want a soldier to fight like a man. If a woman is in the trenches, you want them to fight like a man, too.

“It was not meant to downplay their womanhood at all,” he added. “We just want them to know, every man and lady who is representing us, that we are demanding, as citizens of Missouri, that Obamacare be repealed and make it clear we don’t want a replacement.”

Honey, the hole he dug is so deep that you can hear Chinese people talking on the other end.

I have been told that they’re having a ball with it on Twitter but I’m afraid to look.  But, someone sent me Missouri Senator Clair McCaskill’s tweet.

She also added that there’s nothing manly about taking away health care from people.

Thanks to Mike for the heads up.

Michigan.

A 61 year old guy who is not being named until his court appearance, which is a shame because I figure his name is Machine Gun Kelley, got into a minor accident where sideview mirrors bumped each other.

Monore County sheriff’s deputies said the man got out of his vehicle and fired at the other driver’s vehicle around 6:15 p.m. The incident occurred about a mile west of Luna Pier, a community 8 miles north of Toledo.

None of the shots struck the other driver or his vehicle, deputies said.

Deputy Ryan Sottile said the alleged shooter admitted being involved in a minor traffic crash minutes earlier and fired his handgun to get the other driver’s attention.

Well, I imagine it worked.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

One of my favorite people, Judge Susan Criss, is on HBO. Seriously.

That’s her in the background from the first episode in a series called The Jinx.  She was the judge in a trial where a millionaire named Robert Durst chopped a guy up and dumped him in Galveston Bay.  I know how the story ends so I won’t spoil it for you but I can guarantee you that it’s worth your time to watch.  She’ll have a speaking role in upcoming episodes.

You can catch the first episode for free on You Tube.  If you don’t have HBO, bake some cookies and then bribe a friend who does.  You won’t be sorry.

Mike Huckabee is filling the crazy void left by Michele Bachmann.  The Republicans have a deep bench in this area.

When President Obama suggested that Christians should not finger point when it comes to violence in the name of religion, the rightwing went nuts. The President suggested that Christians should get off their high horse, thinking they are all la-te-da and casting the first stone with sin all over themselves.

Holy cow on a sausage stick.  Mike Huckabee spake thusly ….

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said Monday that Barack Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech proved that Muslims are only religious group that has the President’s “undying” support.

“Everything he does is against what Christians stand for, and he’s against the Jews in Israel,” he said on “Fox and Friends.” “The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the radical Muslim community or the more moderate Muslim community.”

And that’s why he killed Osama bin Laden.  Amen.

Wow, Huckabee’s horse is so tall that the angels have to brush his hair.