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.

The Texas Democratic Party’s lawyer, Chad Dunne, would hunt the devil with a stick and give the devil three whacks headstart.

He won another one.

Texas’ voter identification law violates the Voting Rights Act, a federal appeals panel ruled Wednesday, tossing a controversial law enacted by the state’s Republican majority in 2011.

 
In a 3-0 decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law, touted as one of the toughest voter ID measures in the country, does not amount to a poll tax but it does have a discriminatory effect that infringes on Section 2 of the landmark civil rights law.

The State of Texas will appeal to the Supremes.  I suspect, however, that we won’t be hearing much about it from our attorney general because he kinda has his hands full right now.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Those marginally sane people all a titter about Jade Helm are rolling with the big guns.

North Carolina is not taking this unarmed.

…   three men from Gaston County were charged with conspiring to arm themselves with illegal explosive devices to combat what they saw as a potential military takeover, according to court documents unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Charlotte.

The documents alleged Walter Eugene Litteral, 50, Christopher James Barker, 42, and Christopher Todd Campbell, 30, stockpiled weapons and discussed how to build homemade explosive devices. Litteral also allegedly tried to purchase a firearm for Barker, who is a convicted felon.

 

hummm…

It’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart.

Thanks to Huey for the heads up.