Rick Perry in New Hampshire.  Honestly, I didn’t know there were that many old white people anywhere.

Live free or die, Mofo!

And here’s the one where he claims that he grew up without running water in his house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCWxhpkICS4

Rick Perry’s father was a county commissioner.  He probably made enough in kickbacks to dig three damn wells.  I ain’t buying that story.

You cannot even imagine how much fun it will be to watch Rick Perry fall on his face.  Again.

The boys and girls at the Texas Observer re-wrote the Gettysburg Address after Perry claims that Abe Lincoln was a big states rights guy.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new loose federal compact, conceived in joint appreciation for family values and corporate power, and dedicated to the proposition that the states, the laboratories of Democracy, know how to create jobs better than some bureaucrat in D.C., I tell you what.

Now we are engaged in a problematic period in which both sides are at fault, testing whether that loose federal compact, or any loose federal compact so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of this unfortunate mutual dispute. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation may continue to create jobs long into the future.

You can read it all right here.  Scroll a little more than half way down.

Thanks to Pamela for the heads up.

You know the sound of a whining bigoted hypocrite Canadian born prissy man?  You know, like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Senator Ted Cruz is just bent out of shape that PolitiFact knows that he’s a pubic servant.  He announced that he’s “not a big fan” of it.

Well, I guess not.

In fact, Ted Cruz has an absolutely abysmal record on Politifact for telling the truth. Out of the 36 comments they’ve fact-checked on Cruz, an astonishing 67 percent of them have been rated as “Mostly False” all the way down to “Pants on Fire.” And out of all 36 of those comments, only one has been rated as “True.”

I kinda suspect they’re not a big fan of his either.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

This is what a Texas blue norther looks like.

84 today, 32 tomorrow.  That’s when I wear socks with my flip flops.

GOP king maker Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam were invited to hear Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech.  Miriam dropped her purple alligator Hermes clutch from the balcony and hit Nebraska Democratic Congressman Brad Ashford.

Ironically, Adelson supported Ashford’s opponent.

I imagine that it would have hurt had there been money in it, but according to reports, there were business cards, Apple earphones, and lipstick in the $12,000 purse.

I have no sympathy for Ashford.  That’s exactly what he gets for being there.  Smarter Democrats stayed away.

Thanks to everyone for the heads up.

Florida Republican State Representative Frank Artiles has been accused of cold-cocking a college student in Tallahassee on Monday night.

Three eye witnesses have come forward.  Additionally, this is not the first time Artiles has been in a brawl.  He kinda has a reputation for that.

His defense?  It didn’t happen.

And how do you know that.  Because Artiles preened and explained.

A former Marine, Artiles suggested Tuesday he would only deliver the kind of blow that would result in serious pain.

“If I had hit somebody, they’d be in the hospital,” he said.

Great defense, dude.  “I put people in the hospital,” ain’t exactly the attitude called for in this situation.

Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.

Republican State Representative Rick Miller is a man well-known to me.  He is a neighbor of mine.

I had occasion to watch him and a few of his thugs “wreck” a local Democratic press conference.  He stood by while air horns were blown into children’s ears and a 72 year old woman was pushed to the ground because somebody dared to run against Miller’s idol, Tom DeLay.  Miller, who claims to be a veteran, stood by, smiled, and did nothing.

He was linked to an anonymous hate mail piece about a Republican Muslim candidate running for school board.  He can deny it all he wants but everybody in town knows he did it.

And he does all this because he is a Super DeLux Brand Christian.

Yesterday he gored the bull. He introduced legislation to undo LGBT protections enacted by cities.  That’s right, the man who bellows “local control” wants big state government to overrule local folks.

As a result, state Rep. Rick Miller’s House Bill 1556 would undo LGBT protections passed by numerous cities, including Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston and Plano. Altogether more than 7.5 million Texas are covered by such ordinances.

But, it gets far worse.  

Miller’s 41 year old son, Beau, who is a respected lawyer in Houston, is a proud openly gay man.

Holy crap.  I mean, think about that.

Beau Miller said he was “extremely disappointed” to hear about his father’s bill.

Boy, ain’t that an understatement? I cannot imagine how it feels to have your own father of this.  It’s one thing if Miller had simply and quietly vote for the bill, but he wrote and introduced the damn thing.

Which brings us to: what kind of father doesn’t want to protect his son?

Hell, even God told Abraham not to kill Issac.  You’d think a Super DeLux Brand Christian would know that.

Miller says his motivations were economic.

“Competing and inconsistent local ordinances interfere with economic liberty and discourage business expansion. By promoting instead of restricting business growth, this bill is about job creation and an improved state economy, both of which have a direct, positive impact on Texas citizens.”

Dammit!  Even the Mafia kept family out of business.

And you know that statement is hogwash because that would also mean that “inconsistent and competing” state laws should be overruled by the federal government.  Right, Rick?

Even Darth Vader couldn’t bring himself to kill his son.

Jerk.  There’s no job creation about this.  This is just mean.  To your own damn child.  And that, my friends, is breathtakingly sad.

I just don’t understand that much hate.