Today Ken Paxton was in court to be arraigned after he plead not guilty to felony securities fraud on Monday.

Then something weird happened.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton left his arraignment hearing Thursday in Fort Worth in need of new counsel.

State District Judge George Gallagher granted a motion by defense attorney Joe Kendall to withdraw from the case.

I mean, it can’t be good if your lawyer quits in the middle of an arraignment.

The judge says Paxton has until September 3rd to find a lawyer.

We can assume that Paxton either stole his lawyer’s fountain pen, or just flat embarrassed himself so badly that even a lawyer was ashamed.

Gees.  You’d think he’d know that much from watching teevee.

But, when arrogance meets haughty, bad things happen.

“Shockingly, Paxton’s deceit against the public and record of demanding the white collar treatment continued today. Paxton attempted to move all further hearings to Collin County, his home county, and ban all cameras from the courtroom. Once again, Paxton is trying to keep the public in the dark about his crimes and dodge the press. This is unacceptable.

You know, I’d almost feel sorry for Paxton if he hadn’t already admitted that the committed the felony.  Nah, I wouldn’t.  He’s the creepiest guy in Texas.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Governor Greg Abbott knows what’s wrong with America.

It’s that whole separation of church and state thing.

Greg and Ted Nugent, Christians

In an exclusive interview with The Brody File in Austin, Texas Governor Greg Abbott says America will continue to deteriorate unless pastors get involved in the cultural issues of the day. “The people who attend these congregations or pastor these congregations do not turn out and vote and we are dealing with the consequences by the failure of Christians to go vote.”

Yeah, not enough politicking from the pulpit.

What this country needs are more preachers willing to tell their congregation that Democrats are hell bound infidels who want to give your tax money to little crippled children but you should give it to me instead so I can buy another mansion.

Religious liberty from the Bible is in the issues that Christians believe in have become hostile in the mainstream politics and there is one key reason for it and that’s because the people who attend these congregations or pastor these congregations do not turn out and vote and we are dealing with the consequences by the failure of Christians to go vote.”

Hey Tootles, it got your butt elected.

And, Greg, where does your good buddy, Ted Nugent, fit into all this?

Greg can kiss my big blue butt.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Okay, here’s the deal:  there is no such thing as anchor babies.

It doesn’t work the way Republicans want you to think it does.  You do not get a home free card because you give birth in the United States.

If you’re born in this country to undocumented immigrants, there’s nothing you can do to help your parents or other family members stay here until you’re 21 years old.

All during that intervening time, the undocumented family members are subject to deportation, and many have been.

Furthermore, the success of the petition to get U.S. green cards relies on the ability of that 21-year-old former “anchor baby” to support his or her family members financially without receiving any welfare or other need-based government assistance for them.

And in order to be eligible for legal status, the undocumented relatives have to return to their home country, and then petition the U.S. for re-entry. If it is determined that they had been living in the U.S. illegally for more than a year, a 10-year wait is imposed on their request to return.

So this anchor is more like a fishing line sinker.

I guess I got all bent out of shape over this yesterday when a Donald Trump supporter yelled at Jorge Ramos, “Get out of my country!”

You know what, this is my country, too.  And it is Jorge Ramos’ country.  He is a United States citizen.  But he’s not white.

If you haven’t seen it ….

It also bothers me that the young woman treats Ramos like a child.  “Do you want to come back in?  You have to be called on,” in her best kindergarten teacher voice.

Is that the way Walter Cronkite would have been treated?  Hell, no.

Jorge Ramos loves conflict and he will confront it without flinching. Donald Trump can dish out conflict but he sure can’t take it.  He’s not man enough to be challenged.

There, I said it.

Donald Trump has tied up that racist vote.  David Duke just endorsed him.

David Duke, the anti-Semitic former Ku Klux Klan leader, praised Republican front-runner Donald Trump for his immigration policy proposals and said Trump is “the best of the lot.”

This tops off a week where Trump sneered “Go back to Univision” to Jorge Ramos, the Hispanic Walter Cronkite, and then had Ramos thrown out of the press conference by what appeared to be bouncers at a strip club.

“My job as a journalist is to ask questions from the powerful, and that’s what we tried to do,” Ramos said, adding that he had on various previous occasions tried to set up an interview with the presidential candidate. (Trump posted a picture of a handwritten note from Ramos to his Instagram account. The note included Ramos’ phone number.)

In an interview with ABC, Ramos said that another responsibility of being a journalist is to “denounce” the “dangerous words and extreme behavior of Donald Trump.”

You go, Jorge!

Thanks to Brian and Craig for the heads up.

Jan Castellano was preparing a simple breakfast of buttered toast in her Missouri home Saturday morning when she was confronted by a familiar, unwanted face.

It puckered, mouth agape with lifeless yellow eyes. It appeared to be caught mid-sentence, flagrantly dispelling angry epithets through fermented cream.

It was the face of Donald Trump in her butter.

Check your food for traces of Donald Trump before you eat.  I say this for your own good.