Okay, we have another weird political PAC today.  It’s name is Graduate America and it is owned by a man named Malcolm Allen.  His address is at a UPS Store in Dallas.

Malcolm fancies himself a famous author, businessman and all around Hey Look At Me! guy.  His website is fascinating and I’d be impressed if those weren’t for-sale clips.

But the best part is that Malcolm is not registered to vote in Dallas, Texas.  So his interest in a political PAC would be ….

Look, I’m telling you.  We need to start one of these get rich schemes.

Haley Barbour, the whitest man on earth, decided it was high time that he end all this controversy over the Confederate Battle Flag.

“I am not offended at all by our flag or the Confederate flag for that matter but some people are,” Barbour said.

There ya go.  It’s over.  Go about your business.  Haley is not offended.

In all seriousness, I am a white person and it offends the hell outta me.

Here’s what I think.  That damn flag became offensive on April 12, 1861 when a group of people decided to commit treason against the United States of America.  It is the flag of traitors, slave holders, and bigots.

Texas Governor Sam Houston refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.  He fought secession as long and as hard as he could, and when he lost the fight, he resigned as Governor instead of committing treason. You can take down that damn flag and replace it with a picture of a real Texan and a great American,  General Sam Houston.  That flag is not part of my history.  I stand with General Sam.

And here’s my worry.  The flag is a symbol.  No heart or minds are changed by removing that flag.  My greatest fear will be when equality doesn’t happen, when no major conversations and actions happen to help us relieve this great country from the scourge of racism, Haley Barbour and his friends will say, “We took down the flag, dammit.  What else do you people want?”

We cannot let this be enough.  We cannot.

I want to give you words to relay to people when they tell you that the civil war was about states’ rights.  That is a lie.

We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

—Texas Secession Convention (February 1861), “A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union”

If that doesn’t break your heart and make you feel ashamed, something is deeply wrong with you.

Do not let it stop with the flag.  Do not.

Thanks to Lydia for the heads up.

Texas Congressvarmint extraordinary Louie Gohmert has given the Supreme Court fair warning should they rule that all Americans are equal.

“It is a matter of a constitutional crisis when the Highest Court in the land not merely strikes down and says that their opinion is more important than Moses’, depicted up there in the center point of this room, more important than Moses’, depicted in the marble wall over the Supreme Court, holding the Ten Commandments,” the congressman said on the House floor.

You know, that read-between-the-lines-commandment that says “Thou Shalt Not Gay”.

Louie is convinced that Freedom of Religion means you are free to be a Baptist, a Southern Baptist, a Freewill Baptist, a Missionary Baptist, or maybe a Methodist.  Episcopalians  are highly suspect.

He explains it.

“The great thing is that, if a nation is established on Judeo-Christian beliefs, it allows anybody to live here and to function here and to do so without impediment to one’s beliefs because one can be an atheist, an agnostic, a Buddhist, a Muslim, Gohmert said, according to a transcript of his speech. “You can be any of those things, as long as you are not trying to take over the country like some would like to do.”

You mean take over the country like would like to Christians do?

He’s nuts.  Gotta love that about him.

Thanks to Auntie BFly for the heads up.

Remember several years ago when Sarah Palin was doing an interview on teevee and some guy right behind her was slaughtering turkeys in a mess of blood, feather, and squawks?

The first rule in politics is always look to see what’s behind you before the camera comes on.  Big time politicians have advance people who do that for a living.  I know.  I have worked with them to arrange American flags or bunches of little children behind the candidate before the candidate even arrives.

Ted Cruz’s advance team had one job and …

Now let me tell you why this would never happen to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or Martin O’Malley.  They would never the hell speak to a room full of people who view handguns as art.

The rightwing is outraged, outraged I tell you, that the Associated Press would use this picture.  Ted Cruz chose the backdrop of his picture.  Ted Cruz is the one who chose to tell gun jokes immediately after the horror of Charleston.  Ted Cruz made is bed and now he want to sleep in mine.

Ted Cruz wanted guns in the background and he got guns in the background.  So, the rightwing needs to shut the hell up.

Thank you for the giggles.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Billy Graham’s grandson is pastor at a Florida megachurch that “focuses on God’s grace and the forgiveness of sin.”

But, he didn’t give so I guess he wasn’t looking to receive.

He says his wife had an affair and while he was looking for comfort, he also did the dirty.  So, you know, it was really her fault.  If she hadn’t had that affair, he wouldn’t have been forced to have one, too.

Damn wimmen.

Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.

Okay, so apparently all good things come in threes.

Apparently, Texas does not have enough damn fools in the presidential race to form a triumvirate.

We have a guy making his second bid who thinks that a guy can take a gun into a church and accidentally murder nine people.  We have another guy who makes is so nuts that even his friends think he’s a little nuts.  What’s lacking?

Louie Gohmert.

That’s what.

First he says he will and then he says he won’t.

“Ted is a good friend and would be an outstanding President; however, I haven’t ruled out an exploratory committee myself,” Gohmert said in a statement emailed to The Hill from a spokeswoman.

Okay, guys, it’s up to us to get Louie in this race.  We’re not having near enough fun yet.

Urge Louie to run, dammit!  Texas deserves it.