This story gets exciting sometime last month, when the Oklahoma Republican Legislature accepted a privately funded enormous tombstone-looking thing and put it on the grounds of the state capitol building.  The tombstone had the ten commandments chiseled into it.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court said that amounted to the state promoting religion and that it had to be removed. So in the middle of the night, some guys came and moved it a few blocks away to the front yard of a conservative think tank. I know that conservative think tank is an oxymoron, but now they are a conservative think tank that covets not their neighbor’s wife, which is even harder to believe.

Anyway, a couple of Texas steeple people with horses and unkept hair decide it would be a mess of fun to get a make-believe stone tablet with the ten commandments on it and ride their horses to Oklahoma to present it to the Governor, Mary Fallin, a woman with also unkept hair.

They invited all the Christian people of Texas and Oklahoma to join them in front of the Oklahoma Capitol building to present Governor Fallin’ with a one foot by two foot ten commandment tombstone.  Hordes of 40 people showed up.

I do not know if their horses crapped all over the grounds of the state capitol but, face it, that’s what horses do.  Bulls, of course, would have left a more appropriate offering.

Governor Fallin says she’s gonna hang the tombstone thingy in her office. I suspect right beside her velvet Elvis painting.

Yeah, Texas really hates Oklahoma.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

They have not released his name, probably because he was too drunk to know it, but he obviously does not read the newspapers.

In East Texas a guy went out his backdoor at 3:00 am and spotted an armadillo.

He went outside and took his .38 revolver and shot three times at the armadillo,” Rowe said.

The animal’s hard shell deflected at least one of three bullets, which then struck the man’s jaw, he said.

The man was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where his jaw was wired shut, according to Rowe.

First off, that armadillo didn’t do a damn thing to that guy and probably didn’t even draw first. They are a nuisance for sure, but not a .38 caliber revolver at 3:00 am nuisance.

Second off, how many times do we need to tell you that armadillos do not make good target practice?

Thanks to Al for the heads up.

Donald Trump is having way too much fun poking at Jeb! Bush. There needs to be a legal limit to the amount of times you can kick sand in a guy’s face.

Trump threw a little spoiled rich boy punch —

“So Bush has no money, he’s cutting, he’s meeting today with mommy and daddy.”

It’s true.  That did happen.  In all fairness, his brother was also there, which in my mind is even more emasculating.

So Bush picked himself up off the playground, wiped blood from his nose, and stuck out his lower lip.

I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that.” — at a town hall in Charleston, SC

Hey Jeb!, you have no cool stuff to do. Your brother already did it all. Unless you’re planning on starting a war with Canada or Australia, there’s no cool stuff left to do.

Jeb!, Honey, your net worth is $27 million. Asking your campaign workers to take a 40% cut in pay looks a little … well, Republican.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

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Thanks to Eykis for the heads up and cool graphic.

As Primo let you know below, the climate is going to hell in a hand basket.

I need y’all to send all your good thoughts to Houston, the second most liberal city in Texas.

Look here.  The hype-free weather guys says, “damn.”  (Click the little one to get the big one.)

See that little white spot in the middle that says 11 – 15 inches?  If you can enlarge it real big, you will be able to see me waving at you.  Holy crap, the rain is a’comin’.

Bubba is up at his office, moving all his files to the tops of tables.  I am at home pulling out every flashlight we have because I just got a text from Centerpoint Energy saying that it’s highly probable we won’t have any electricity and they don’t know when the hell they can get it fixed.  Thank God we have some Ben and Jerry’s ice cream in the freezer that will have to be eaten.

Bubba has charcoal and wood for the barbeque house out back so we’ll eat – probably even better than normal.  We have a second floor in case it gets real bad.   We’d leave but look at that map and tell me where the hell we’d go.

So, I suspect I should get an airplane ticket to DeeCee and go stand outside the Benghazi hearing room yelling like a banshee.

To my fellow Texans:  hunker down and take it like an old bull in a blue norther.

I’ll check in every now and then in the comment section.