Y’all, here’s the problem.

While the U.S. and South Carolina state flags that fly above the South Carolina state house were lowered to half-mast today in mourning for the nine victims of last night’s shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, the Confederate flag on display outside the building is still flying high and proud. Why? Because the bizarre display of racist symbolism is so closely protected that it would be impossible to move it without a legislative vote.

I put a quote because I didn’t think you’d believe me if I explained it myself.

Holy damn.  The State Flag and the US Flag are at half-mast at the capitol building in South Carolina today but the confederate flag flies victriously above both them.

The “explanation” is that the confederate flag is permanently affixed to the top of the flagpole and can’t be lowered unless there’s a vote of the legislature to do so.  The reason I put the word explanation in quotation marks is because this is not an explanation – it’s a excuse.

Dylann Roof had help becoming who he is – he lived in a society who made the flag of racial oppression untouchable, flying above all others.

That flag needs to come down all the damn way.

We always kinda knew why Governor Rick Perry wasn’t big on education.  After all, he was not burden with intellectual curiosity.

But apparently Governor Greg Abbott hates, hates, hates education.

He just named the new State Board of Education Chairman.  Her name is Donna Bahorich and she home schooled her kids.  That wouldn’t be so terribly weird if the State Board of Education didn’t approve curriculum and textbooks for public schools.

It also is kinda weird that Bahorich didn’t get the job because of her expertise in education.  She’s a political hack, plain, simple, and worthless.

She was the campaign manager for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a man who is so mean that flowers wilt when he walks by.

On Bahorich’s own website, all of her volunteer work and Awards are rightwing political.

So, a woman who doesn’t believe in public education is gonna head up public education.

Welcome to Texas, y’all.

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This is not the first gun attack on a house of worship in America, but let us pray it will be the last.

Just in case the Supremes rule today …

Glen Maxey says you should go here real quick.  There’s gonna be a damn party.

Some wonderful person made an open records request to see the correspondences sent to Governor Greg Abbott about Jade Helm.  They got 419 pieces of of mail, including at least two written on tin foil hat-making material.

Click the little ones to see the big ones.

And there were some from our team.

You can read the whole mess of them here and even see the scans of the tin foil ones.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.