Okay, so in Lancaster, Ohio, a volunteer decided that it was his duty to guard the military recruiting station.

Christopher A. Reed is 28 years old so you gotta wonder why he didn’t just join the Marines if he wanted to play with guns.  Reed was standing in front of the recruiting station at 12:01 pm and something predictable happened.

Reed told the officer who responded that he was standing, holding his AR-15 rifle in front of the military recruiting station to guard the personnel inside when someone approached him and asked if he could take a look at the weapon. Reed agreed to show him, and while he was trying to clear the ammunition from the weapon, he accidentally fired into the asphalt pavement.

Luckily, no one was hurt.

You’d think Reed would feel crummy about the irony of this situation but you’d be wrong.

Reed said he is not a military veteran. He described himself as an active gun enthusiast who makes a living working side jobs.

He downplayed the accidental shot fired.

“It is what it is,” he said. “Nobody got hurt.”

I dunno.  Aren’t side jobs something you do if you have a job?

This guy could have gotten extra points if he’d had missed the pavement and shot himself in the foot.

Thanks to Don for the heads up.

Please feel free to steal this for Facebook, Twitter, or Email.  Please give credit to John A. Kwitkoski.

Okay, this is true.  In north Texas, there’s a swarm of bugs so big that radar is picking them up.

Weather radar has picked up thousands of insects flying over Knox County, Texas, according to the National Weather Service of Norman, Oklahoma.

Rangers at Copper Breaks State Park in Quanah, Texas confirmed that the radar is picking up a large swarm of both grasshoppers and beetles.

I was glad they cleared that up.  I thought it was a horde of hate spewing from Rick Perry and Ted Cruz’s mouth.

Or that Donald Trump’s hair had just crossed into Texas.

Thanks to Michael for the heads up.

Hey, heads up.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that accidental phone calls [butt dialing] aren’t private. You might not have intended for the recipient of the call to hear what you were saying, but you still called, and that means the recipient is entitled to listen—and even to record the call, the court said.

Two things:

1.  Check your cell phone before making whoopee.

2.  If Donald Trump butt dials you, you flip that phone on record as fast as you can.

 Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.

Jeb!’s lips were moving on July 17th, 2015, at a townhall in Nevada, so of course, idiot juice poured forth from his mouth …

“A law was passed, apparently in the Clinton administration, about whether, in recruiting offices … Marines or other military should be able to have guns. Apparently it is prohibited.”

That is so wrong.  First off, it wasn’t a law, it was a military directive. Second off, the directive took place under Jeb!’s dad, who is named – unlike Jeb! – Bush.

The military, who knows a thing or two about guns, is opposed to military personal working on a military base to carry firearms.  Some Air Force mechanic fixing an airplane, a member of the army cooking for the troops, a Navy guy on a nuclear submarine, or a Marine doing pushups should not be required to have a gun on them.  They have base security personal for that.

The military, who knows a thing or two about guns, does not buy into the false good-guy-with-a-gun claim.  The military knows for a damn fact that arming everyone is asking for problems.

Even Jeb!’s dad thought that allowing the military to run the military is  good idea.

Lindsey Graham, a United States Senator —

Y’all, that is one step below ….

Well, it’s a well-run campaign.
Midget and broom and whatnot.
Devil his due.
Hell of an organisation.
Say, I got an idea.
What’s that, Junior?
We can hire us a little fella even smaller than Stokes’s.
You slump-shouldered sack of nuts!
Why, we’d look like a bunch of johnny-come-latelys.
Bringin’ out our own midget.
Don’t matter how stumpy!

This is a damn freak show.