I guess the Fun With Guns guys have stepped up their conquests.

Michael O’Neill is a 45 year old former New York corrections officer.  He is also a white supremacist and …

Pictures of the KKK, Nazi imagery and the Confederate flag were found inside his home …

He built seven bombs at the home his stepfather, and all was going well until one of the bombs did what bombs are designed to do and blew off his damn leg.

Oh hell yeah.

The explosives he created contained nails and BB pellets, according to reports. One was labeled “powder with nails.”

His attorney said O’Neill was just planning to blow up some tree stumps.

Yeah, shrapnel works really good on tree stumps.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

by Primo Encarnación y Hachecristo

Much is being made of the President’s speech laying out his foreign policy vision at American University, and a similar speech by President Kennedy, at the same venue. Both men excoriated those who disparage diplomacy by pointing out that the only other alternative is war. And I might add further that diplomacy is meaningless if it’s only engaged in with your friends. If that’s all we did, the State Department could just open a Facebook page and have Britain and Israel “like” our pictures of nukes and kittens.

But I think the discussion could profit by examining a piece of another JFK speech, one made in September, 1960, to a group of Protestant ministers in Houston, as he sought to become the first Roman Catholic President, addressing fears that his Administration would be directed by the Pope. (emphases mine)

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no […] minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference […]

I believe in an America […] where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice;[…]

This is the caliber of discourse that true patriots hold. It makes the case that it doesn’t matter if the President is a Catholic, Protestant, Jew or (gasp!) Muslim, even. It makes the case that superstition should NEVER drive US policy. It makes the devastating case against Mike Huckabee, for whom, apparently, the “P” in “POTUS” means “pastor.”

How can anyone listen to the soaring, lyrical rhetoric of a Kennedy, or an Obama, and then vote for a Huckabee, or a Trump, or a Cruz? Whither the grandeur of the Presidency, gracefully riding the scend of history, in a smarmy dogwhistle symphony called “Machine Gun Bacon?”

I believe in the America of the Enlightenment.  Rage, RAGE against the dying of the light!

Hey guys, what ya doing tonight?

We are having my family over for wine and popcorn.  We will also provide Nerf balls to throw at the teevee.

I, of course, will sit merrily watching the little kid’s debate at 4:00, Texas time.  I hope they put Lindsey Graham and Rick Perry next to each other.  It’d be great if they start slapping each other.  In my mind, the early debate is the best one because the only thing to watch in the big debate is Donald Trump.  In the early debate, all the contestants are crazy.  And there’s nothing more fun than crazy desperate people trying to make a name for themselves.

Y’all, Bubba calls the 4:00 debate The Happy Hour Debate.

Then there’s the big debate.  The contestants in that one are fun, too.  The ones who ain’t crazy and/or stoopid are downright mean.

Okay, I gotta go start popping the corn.

There’s an old guy in my neighborhood who put a homemade Donald Trump sign in his yard.  I went back last night to get a picture of it to show you, but he had taken it down.

I guess he had heard about this —

Donald Trump’s support from Republican voters tends to come from men, seniors and those having a high school education or less, according to results from an online NBC News/SurveyMonkey survey of more than 3,000 GOP primary voters. Trump also has widespread ideological backing from Republicans – as he gets the most support of any candidate from moderate, conservative and very conservative GOP primary voters.

So Trump’s supporters are old dumb guys.

Whoa, wait!  So does the GOP’s.

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is now in more trouble.  More.  Seriously.

His butt may be headed to the pokey for contempt.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a top state health official were ordered to appear before a federal judge in San Antonio next week to determine if they should be held in contempt for violating a court order prohibiting enforcement of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

So, h’s going to court to show why he should not go to damn jail for violating a court order.

Y’all,this smug old goat neeeeeds to go to jail.

This could not be happening to a nicer guy.

Top staff members from Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign have been indicted in the culmination of a long investigation into Paul campaign’s alleged payments to an Iowa state senator to endorse the former Texas congressman for president and the hiding of those payments.

Here’s what went down:

The Department of Justice indicted Jesse Benton, who is the grandson-son-in-law of Ron Paul and ran his 2012 Presidential campaign.  Benton is also head of Rand Paul’s super PAC.  Busy little bag man.

They can prove that in 2012 , Ron Paul staffers offered to pay Iowa state senator Ken Sorenson salary to switch from Bachmann to Paul. Then held back the $25k payment when it became public. Paul staffers then concealed  payments to Sorenson by sending it labeled “Audio/Visual Expenses”

There’s a word for that — illegal.

And then there’s this —

Craig Robinson, a longtime Iowa Republican activist whose website the Iowa Republican played a crucial role in revealing the scandal, said the indictments should have a big impact on the 2016 GOP primary.

“If I was Rand Paul, I’d be sweating bullets,” Robinson told the Guardian. He added that the news raised big questions about the role of money of politics and “it would be a crime if Fox News doesn’t ask [Rand Paul] a question about” the indictments in Thursday’s presidential debate.

The price of a ticket just went up.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.