Christen Reece, 23, was out drinking with his friends in Phoenix.  When the bars closed, he suggested they all go shoot guns.  On the side of the damn road.

Reece told his friends of the feature on his gun which had a double-safety making it impossible to ever go off unexpectedly, so he decided to demonstrate this for his buddies.

“He held the gun up to head, a little behind the temple area, and fired,” Molesa said of the Sept 2nd incident. “He immediately dropped to the ground, and his acquaintances started freaking out, not sure what to do.”

Reece’s friends are apparently part of the same brain trust as Reece.  They loaded his unconscious body into the car and took him to the fire station, where paramedics were on duty.

Then they ran.

Seriously, they ran off.

I guess they were afraid that Reece would wake up and want to test the safety device on them.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I’m sitting here rocking my grandbaby while he naps and watching the Kim Davis / Mike Huckabee Narcissism Rally.  Some dude took the microphone and said something like they don’t answer to the Supreme Court, they answer to God.

Yeah, just like Isis.

Matthew 22:21, you jerks.

ON EDIT: Oh Jesus Help Us, Ted Cruz is coming push Huckabee off the stage.  I hate that because Huckabee is trying to explain checks and balances, which he totally does not understand.  He’s using words like “judicial tyranny.”  He just said, “We will not surrender from the tyranny of one branch of government.”  Look, Bozo, let’s pretend that you could get the congress to support you.  Our side still has the presidency and the court.  That’s 2 to 1.  Go home, you’re drunk and stoopid.

Well hell, yeah.

Williamson County – north of Austin – is one of the reddest places in Texas, so they get away with crap you wouldn’t believe even if you saw it with your own eyes.

When Robert Lloyd applied for a job at the Williamson County Precinct 3 Constable’s Office, he was quizzed about his stand on gay marriage and abortion. Yeah. Constables serve civil lawsuit papers. They do not perform weddings or abortions.

Robert Lloyd was plenty pissed off.

“I was shocked,” Lloyd said, according to KVUE. “I was sick to my stomach when I left because I had never believed that things like this in government would go on.”

Lloyd’s lawyer, Wayne Krause Yang, asserted at the press conference that the commissioners refused to hire applicants who were not Baptists.

“If you don’t go to the church that they go to, you can’t have a job as a public employee in Williamson County,” Yang noted.

The commissioners have already spent $200,000 fighting for their right to hire only Baptist because, well, you know, Presbyterians are so notoriously sinful.

They are trying to deny that’s what happened.

It’s on damn tape.  And one of them is proudly admitting it.

Video depositions obtained by KVUE show Williamson County Commissioner Lisa Birkman and other commissioners admitting that applicants were asked about abortion and marriage.

“I asked a question on their view on gay marriage to all the applicants for Precinct 3 Constable and their view on abortion,” Birkman says in her deposition.

I was kinda glad to see this made the news today because I made plans yesterday to go help the Williamson County Democratic Party raise money next month.  Drop by if you want to.  My friend Dr. Karen Carter, the Party chairman, is relentless fighting Republicans.

Thanks to Laurel for the heads up.

Remember back not too long ago when every Republican huckster (where Huckabee got his name) was trying to get you to buy gold?

You’ve got Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and everybody on Fox News trying to scare the bejabbers out of all their listeners so they could make a kickback from the gold merchants. They were told that their Yankee dollars would be worthless as half a haircut once Obama killed ‘Merica, but you can always eat gold. No, wait.

Rightwingers were taking every penny they had to buy gold.

Predictably, most of the dealers were as crooked as a corkscrew.

Some more than others.

Here’s a long story about one such organization in Austin. Their deal was that they would buy you gold and for a small fee they would also be kind enough to store it for you in an old bank vault at their offices.

By the time auditors and lawyers got access to Bullion Direct’s 14th-floor offices six weeks ago, there were only a handful of gold and silver coins in an office safe. A second vault it had recently rented held only slightly more.

An estimated $30 million in cash, metal bullion and valuable coins, meanwhile, had vanished.

They hadn’t paid taxes since 2010.

The irony of all this is that the folks buying the gold were also pulling a scam.

Indeed, for a certain percentage of investors, hoarding gold is as much a political statement as an investment. “The beauty of bullion is that it cannot be tracked; it cannot be accounted for,” said Barbala. “It’s called subversive investing. You are subverting the entire U.S. economy. It’s the only, last investment vehicle outside of government control.”

Bullion Direct promoted such light-handed regulation. The company “is not, nor required to be, registered with the SEC since we are not trading securities,” its website promised. “Furthermore, we are not required to register with any other regulatory body.”

Thirty million dollars gone, vanished, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of guys.

Thanks to John for the heads up.

There’s a guy running for mayor of Houston who claims to be a Democrat.  His name is Ben Hall and he was defeated for that position two years ago by Annise Parker, a wildly popular three term mayor who is LGBT.  If she wasn’t termed-out, she’d win by a landslide again.

Hall, a rich lawyer, likes to flash his Democratic credentials.  He’s not considered to be a top tier candidate in this election.  Democratic State Representative Sylvester Turner and former sheriff and Democrat Adrian Garcia are the top candidates.  However, there are a dozen candidates for mayor, and some of them are progressive Republicans.

In the November election, Houston has HERO, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, on the ballot.  HERO insures nondiscriminatory practices based on gender, ethnicity, age, marital status, religion,  disability, age, and sexual orientation and gender identification.

Hall, who is not doing well in the polls, has decided to make HERO his issue.  He’s the only serious candidate who has come out against it.

He invited my momma to come hear him speak.

DO NOT MISS OUT ON THIS DISCUSSION. Join me as I explain the details of one the most important issues in this election. I’ll discuss why you should vote NO to the “Houston Equal Rights Ordinance” (HERO), also known as the “Bathroom Ordinance”. This ordinance will be identified on the November 3 ballot as Proposition 1 a/k/a Prop 1.

The “Bathroom Ordinance?”  Yeah.

Hall contends that this ordinance will allow transgendered people to dress like the opposite sex and come into the bathroom to stare at your little girl.

He’s completely serious.

What keeps that from happening now is pretty much anybody’s guess.  And what will make it happen after everybody has the frightening horror of equal rights is also crystal ball stuff.

I don’t think Hall understands how women’s bathrooms work.  I really don’t.  Does he know there are no urinals in there?

Of course, his hope is to pick up rightwing votes because he’s the only candidate who opposes the ordinance.  This has got to be troubling for right-wingers: the only way they can vote against the gays is to vote for a black man.  Thats a damn quandary.

Ben Hall can kiss my big blue butt.  I hope he gets embarrassed again at the polls.  Trust me, his ego needs it.

Here ya go.

“I think I’d rather have a President who is tough and puts America first than can win a game of Trivial Pursuit. I don’t think the public gives a flying flip who, today, is a specific leader of a specific region because that leader will change of course.”

Sarah Palin, a woman who knows what America wants, on why America should vote for a big dumb bully.

Yeah, why should Tump know the names of all those people anyway?  He’ll just name them all “Loser.”

You know, Loser, like Palin.