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No kidding, y’all, a new planet has been discovered.

No, no, wait. It was just Marco Rubio’s boots being hurled out of Florida.

Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen found us a sassy little Super PAC this morning.

It’s called Stop & Think, Inc. and offers no clue who they plan on supporting with their big Dallas dollars or who even hides behind the post office box where they receive their campaign donations and pornography.

Or so they think …

But if you look closely, you’ll see that there treasurer is a whole different can of worms.

That address comes back to an attorney at Clark Hill, PLC. –  the same law firm running all of Bush’s Right to Rise political committees.

So yeah, they named it very properly.  You need to Stop & Think before you send these guys any money.  They are a real piece of work.  And, they got pretty famous for out-and-out lying about Bush.

But most merry-making of all is that they have spent $39 million dollars of Republican money and can’t get Jeb! above 7%.

You know, whoever named Bush’s PAC “Right to Rise” which strongly insinuates that Bush has a birthright to the office, probably also came up with Stop & Think, which reminds you what a waste it would be to give him any more money.  Way to go, Vultures!

Thanks to Alfredo for the very cool heads up.

South Carolina Republican State Representative (Shiver!) Mike Pitts has himself a dandy idea.

We need to register journalists, not firearms.

And he’s perfectly serious.

State Rep. Mike Pitts, R-Laurens, on Tuesday introduced a bill called the “South Carolina Responsible Journalism Registry Law.”

The bill would create requirements for people wanting to work as a journalist for a media outlet, and also before that outlet could hire anyone for a reporting position.

Pitts told The Post and Courier his bill is not a reaction to any news story featuring him and that he is “not a press hater.” Rather, it’s to stimulate discussion over how he sees Second Amendment rights being treated by the printed press and television news.

There ya go.

Pitts says the press is “demonizing” firearms.  So his solution is to protect the second amendment by destroying the first amendment.

Under the bill, the Secretary of State’s Office would be tasked with keeping a “responsible journalism registry” and creating the criteria with the help of a panel on what qualifies a person as a journalist — similar to doctors and lawyers, Pitts said.

Whoa, cowboy.  Government does not regulate who can be a lawyer or a doctor; their own regulatory bodies to that.  So having government regulate who can be a journalist seems a little … I dunno … indamnsane.

“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

That seems pretty easy to understand.

To be honest, Wild Mike knows this will never pass.  He just wanted to make “a statement.”  And that statement is, “I am an idiot.”

Okay, so here’s Jeb!, the Republican, and he has this teen sex thing all figured out.

One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior.

You mean like Sarah Palin and Bristol?

Goodness sake, I haven’t heard that argument since Dan Quayle tried it against Murphy Brown.  It didn’t work then and it probably won’t work now.

Yeah, what this country needs is more shaming girls.  And children.  Those illegitimate children need to be rounded-up and have a Bush finger shook in their little faces.  Maybe Jeb! could hire his brother to do the little “tsk, tsk” thing.  I mean, face it, he’s had lots of experience with ridicule.

I guess sex education and the availability of contraceptives are second rate compared to public humiliation, or Jeb! would have suggested that.

Thanks to Rocky for the heads up.

Okay, so last year was the hottest year in recorded history.

Scientists reported Wednesday that 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history by far, breaking a record set only the year before — a burst of heat that has continued into the new year and is roiling weather patterns all over the world.

This explains a whole bunch of crazy stuff that went on last year.  People get too hot, they do crazy crap.

However, it does not even come close to covering Sarah Palin’s endorsement speech for Donald Trump.

Holy Sweet Mother of Thesaurus Manuals.  That was one crazy speech.  I heard someone call it “word salad.”  I disagree.  Salads are good.  This speech was not.  This speech meandered over to the rejected appetizer table and selected cabbage in a beet fondue with broccoli bits scattered around.

The New York Times tried to figure it out with the The Most Mystifying Lines.  ABC News called it Memorable Lines.  The Guardian does it as only the British can —

The New Republic calls it a “bonkers speech,” and actually starts feeling a bit sorry for her.

My favorite part, of course, was her dress.  It was pure Las Vegas, or maybe biker chick, I dunno.  It definitely was not take-me-seriously wear.

This is gonna be fun so get yourself prepared for a great time.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.