A mom in Iowa, who works in a gun store, has decided to teach a class on how to wear a gun while also wearing a baby.

Picture of the actual pistol packin’ momma

What could possibly go wrong?

I’ve coslept with my babies, I’ve been wearing my babies, I’ve loved them, and I’ve worn a gun the whole time.

Melody Lauer wants to teach you how to do that.  Why would you possibly want to do that?

“The idea for the class came out of hearing about the kid in Idaho who shot his mom recently. That touched me in a very deep way because my daughter was 2 at the time,” Lauer, 30, with kids ages nine months, 3, and 6, tells Yahoo Parenting. “I thought, there’s no reason this should happen. We are adults and can be responsible.”

So she wants to shoot her kid before the kid shoots her?

You know, call me unprepared for child rearing but I think the solution is not the have a stinkin’ gun laying around for your kids to find.  The OK Corral idea might work, too.  I dunno.

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.

Vice President Joe Biden is riled up and filled with piss and vinegar over the treasonous letter that 47 senators sent to Iran.

The senator’s letter, in the guise of a constitutional lesson, ignores two centuries of precedent and threatens to undermine the ability of any future American President, whether Democrat or Republican, to negotiate with other nations on behalf of the United States. Honorable people can disagree over policy. But this is no way to make America safer or stronger…

And that’s just the beginning of Joe’s anger and disbelief at the dangerous behavior of senate Republicans.

And what was the GOP response to Biden’s comments?

So people with military service can undermine the United States and get a pass?

Jindal, I didn’t see you defending Tammy Duckworth when she was under assault from your party.  How about John Kerry?  How about hundreds of other Democrats who served?  They don’t get a pass.

Jindal, you’re an idiot.  But Cotton, well Honey, he’s dangerous.  He’s demanding a war.

A man fired a gun at a gun show.

An Alexandria man was arrested for the reckless handling of a firearm Saturday after he fired a gun in the midst of a local gun show, according to Fredericksburg police.

Y’all, I think they need to make the rules clearer.  I mean, think about it.  They said “Gun Show.”  There’s noting about just looking at the guns, now is there?

Thanks to Maggie for the heads up.

When I write about local stuff, you can bet your best pair of pink boots that the same damn thing is happening in your town.

I’ve told you before about the sheriff we had who was so old that we had to carbon date him to decide how many candles to put on his birthday cake.  Well, he retired about a decade ago but didn’t leave office until two years ago.  The new sheriff we elected is younger but he’s so slow that we have to put out markers to see if he’s moving.

Last September 11, Bernice Barclay, a Republican precinct chair and a county employee who works at the Jail Information switchboard, sent an email to all the elected officials in the county asking them to chip in to pay for the Republican Party Christmas Party, which was held at – prepare yourself – The Redneck Country Club.  Hey, that’s an improvement.  They used to hold it at a bank, you know, where they worship.

Here’s the email.  Click the little one to see the big one.

Orignal Email

So, a Democrat, Dr. Oto Cantu, got steamed about this.  He filed a complaint because you cannot use a county employee on county time in a county building to raise money for a political purpose.  The next day, he files a complaint at the sheriff’s department against Ms. Barclay.

In February, after hearing diddle squat about this complaint, Dr. Cantu sent an email to the sheriff’s office asking what happened with his complaint.  He got an answer.  It ain’t pretty.

Upon seeing the complaint, Barclay’s superior, David Marcaurele, sent her an email at 10:57 AM.

Marcaurele’s email to Barclay

At 2:54 PM, she answers.

Barclay’s answer

At 3:03 PM, she gets her punishment.  Do the click thing again.

Marcaurele’s “written counseling” of Barclay

Ouch!  That’s tough.

On September 24th, the county attorney’s office issues an opinion that Mrs. Barclay did not violate the law because it was a Christmas party and that’s not political.  You don’t believe me, do you?

Here ya go – from county attorney Matthew Grove.

Matthew Grove’s lawyering

Grove also finds that Barclay did not intend to benefit from this activity.  We do not know what he did with the money his momma gave him to go to law school.

Now, do I need to add that the only Democrat in this whole episode was Dr. Oto Cantu?

And the case was closed with “written counseling.”

Closure of the case.

Now if Hillary Clinton had done this ….

Pat Robertson is plowing in the pond.

Christian Broadcasting Network host Pat Robertson told viewers on Monday that Buddhism was like a “disease” and that Christians could get “infected” if their coworkers practiced it.

Yeah, it’s contagious.  You can get infected.

Robertson replied by noting that “healthy” people might not contract a “mild contagion.”

“But if you put yourself in the middle of a hospital ward where everybody has the disease except you, sooner or later, you will be infected by it,” the TV preacher warned.

And he knows this is true because he caught the dumb from Franklin Graham.

Rick Perry is prancing all over the country saying that he knows stuff, like how to bottom out an educational system and wreck a state university and keep folks from getting health care.  So, if that’s what you’re looking for, Rick is your man.

He’s also real good at oops.

He spoke at a Virginia Republican fundraiser.

“Thomas Paine wrote that ‘the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government,’” Perry said, drawing applause from the crowd during his Feb. 24 event at the Richmond Marriott.

Well, that’s real spiffy but Thomas Paine never said that.

Saying that the quote doesn’t even sound like Paine, Gary Berton says it doesn’t appear in any of Paine’s writings, adding that Paine was oops to the English rule of the states, but …

But in the meantime, he was for a strong central government with redistribution of wealth,” added Berton, who is also the coordinator of the Institute of Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College in New Rochelle.

Best anybody can figure, the quote came from Edward Abbey, an American anarchist, environmentalist and novelist.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Thanks to David for the heads up.