Okay, so here’s the deal.

Forty seven Republican Senators are pen pals with Iran.  And they threatened them if they deal with President Barack Obama.

But the letter takes an even more outrageous approach when the group reminds the Iranians that “the president may serve only two 4-year terms, whereas senators may serve an unlimited number of 6-year terms.” Later adding: “President Obama will leave office in January 2017, while most of us will remain in office well beyond then – perhaps decades.”

The message is clear: Don’t you dare think about dealing with the president, because we will spend the rest of our lives (in some cases, quite literally) destroying you, if only out of spite.

Talk me down, people.  Why is this not treason?

They are damn and determined to start another war.

Thanks to everybody for the hollering.

I live in Texas so I have never said a kind word about OU in my entire life.

That changes today.

Here is the letter the President of the University of Oklahoma issued.  Click the little one to see the bigger one.

I’ll say amen to that and pass the plate.

Remember when Republican Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock decorated his office to look like he just signed the Magna Carta?  Yeah well, he illegally accepted the decorator’s series for free, so there was that.

Now there’s this.

Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., took at least 10 of his House staffers on a $10,053 taxpayer-funded trip to New York last September, where most of them had few official duties, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

He’s all entourage traveling and looking mighty cool with the Indian Prime Minister.

Okay, first of all, imagine the reaction if a Democratic congressman had shown up dressed like a rock star to represent our country?  I can hear Rush Limbaugh’s heavy breathing from here.

Second of all, three other congressmen from Illinois attended this same event and none of them brought staff, much less ten staff members.

He charged his campaign account for their food, where he also has expensive tastes.

$554.15 at Bergdorf Goodman, which has a restaurant. It was called a “JFC meeting expense” on the FEC report.

$1,272.84 at Mercer Kitchen, called “JFC event catering” on the FEC report.

$816.45 at the Delta Grill, called “JFC event catering” on the FEC report.The are no other related New York fundraising costs listed on Schock FEC records.

They are listed as fundraising costs.  His congressional staff cannot be used as fundraisers.

Such a fancy pants!

Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.

So Florida has a cure for climate change.

Officials in Florida have been banned from using the terms “climate change” and “global warming” in official communications, according to a report published by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting on Sunday.

Former officials and employees from the state Department of Environmental Protection told FCIR that they were warned not to used the terms in their work after Gov. Rick Scott (R) took office in 2011.

And it’s worked because everywhere else in the world there’s climate change, but in Florida there’s no climate change.  Just ask any official.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Take a deep breath —

Yeah, we’ll find some poor people to screw over, some kids who don’t need to eat, some grandmas who are getting way too much health care, and some steel workers who don’t need OSHA.

Ole Mitch and his boys are figuring just as hard as they can which people to hurt the most.

I hate Republicans.  I do.  They are evil.  Lord, forgive me, I know that I’m not supposed to hate the sinner but just the sin, but dammit, Lord, these people are brimming over with sin.

I told you last week about my own damn personal State Representative, Rick Miller, who wrote and introduced a bill wanting the State of Texas to do away with local ordinances protecting gay rights.  It was kinda weird because his son is a highly respected Houston lawyer and gay rights activist.  He is also a proud gay man.

When stuff like this happens, it is almost always followed by something like this.

Family Research Council BFF and US House Rep. Tim Huelskamp is best known around here for his attempts to block marriage equality and LGBT rights. But the “family rights” advocate now has a major in-house problem. Via Topeka’s CBS affiliate:

A staffer for a Kansas congressman is in jail charged with 17 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Matthew P. Pennell was arrested on Thursday. Pennell was arrested following an investigation by the Dodge City Police Department and members of the Internet Crimes Against Children task force.

There are two lessons here.  (1) Quit being mean, and (2) Don’t be cocky.  There’s probably three lessons to be learned but you’ll have to ask Rick Perry what the third one is.

I take comfort in knowing that any day now something perverted will come out of Rick Miller’s office or close friends.  Overly self-righteous people are always hiding something.  It usually their low IQ’s but many times it’s their winkies.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.