Montana.  Big Sky Country.  Mean people.

A guy goes into a bar.  He orders a Red Beer – beer with tomato juice.

The 29 year old bartender mixes the beer with Clamato, a tomato juice and clam mixture.  The guy, 59 year old Monte Hanson, is livid.

After the bar closed, Hanson reportedly went to the home of Joe Lewis, the 29-year old bartender. Hanson says it’s against his religious beliefs – he is Jewish – to drink Clamato, so he allegedly shot Lewis.

The bartender was hospitalized but will recover.

And as you would expect, the recipe for a red beer is beer and Clamato.

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.

Texas State Senator Joan Huffman, Republican from Crap, Texas, says that the Texas Senate is going to go ahead and approve loosening of gun laws and open carry despite the bloodbath the day before in Waco.

“This bill does not have anything to do with what went on yesterday,” said state Sen. Joan Huffman, a Houston Republican who leads the Senate State Affairs Committee, during a previously scheduled hearing on gun legislation.

Yeah, and rain has nothing to do with flooding.

Huffman’s comments came after several witnesses, including Austin Assistant Police Chief Troy Gay, brought up the shootout during their testimony on the bill.

Gay told senators that the “chaotic situation” in Waco could have been made much worse by the confusion an open carry law would bring to responding police officers.

Can you even imagine what would have happened if every yahoo in Waco joined  in that gunfight?  And you need to consider that 95% of the population of Waco carries the yahoo gene.

Appropriately enough, the head yahoo had something to say.

Later, gun rights activist CJ Grisham said that attempts to link the violence in Waco to open carry “really kind of falls on deaf ears.”

What doesn’t mention is that they’re deaf because they’re brain dead.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.

This morning, Governor Greg Abbott made it very clear that he intends to sign HB40, a screamingly horrible bill that says local governments cannot ban fracking in their jurisdiction.

And God answered —

The U.S. Geological Survey reports an earthquake rattled North Texas early Monday afternoon.
The USGS reports a 3.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded at 1:14 p.m.

Friends reported a few broken windows and a jolt.  And this follows a 4.0 earthquake in Dallas on May 7th.

I need to add that some Democrats supported HB40.  I hope they walked away with a suitcase full of money because everybody thinks they did.

Thanks to Paul for the heads up.

By using arithmetic, it turns out that the Republican Party is dying off.  Same deal with Fox News viewership.

Since the average Republican is significantly older than the average Democrat, far more Republicans than Democrats have died since the 2012 elections.

Turns out that young people aren’t as attracted to 1950 as Republicans thought.

So the people who are actually paying off college loans, making marriage decisions, having or not having children, looking for job, and paying for grandpa’s war ain’t all that thrilled about what a bunch of old white guys have to offer.

The last GOP convention I saw looked like every person in the room owed Noah a dime.  You’d have to carbon date them to figure out how many candles to put on their birthday cake.

And for those  of you in love with numbers, there’s this.

In 2012, there were about 13 million in the 15-to-17 year-old demo who will be eligible to vote in 2016. The previous few presidential election cycles indicate that about 45 percent of these youngsters will actually vote, meaning that there will about 6 million new voters total. Exit polling indicates that age bracket has split about 65-35 in favor of the Dems in the past two elections. If that split holds true in 2016, Democrats will have picked up a two million vote advantage among first-time voters. These numbers combined with the voter death data puts Republicans at an almost 2.5 million voter disadvantage going into 2016.

Phew!  Go kids!

The sheriff in my county is pretty much an idiot.  He has a “degree” from Jerry Faldwell’s Liberty University and pretty much Peter Principled out as a constable.

He does have a military background but not any combat experience, which makes him hungry, hungry, caterpillar hungry for things that go Boom!

He talked our commissioners court into a military helicopter and a big SWAT Team mobile home, but only because he promised to give them rides in it.

So, you cannot even imagine my relief when …

The Obama administration plans to prohibit federal agencies from providing to local cops certain kinds of military equipment such as grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and bayonets, in the wake of controversy over a “militarized” police response to unrest last summer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Imagine President Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio doing that.  Hell, they’d give the police nukes.