I rarely talk about my personal life here except, of course, that I have the damn cutest grandson ever, but I guess I need to let you know why I have been awol for a while.

My Bubba is running for re-election as Democratic County Chair.  He’s having to campaign hard because Democrats will vote for a woman over a man almost every time and his opponent is female.  She’s also a minority in a race that will be decided by minorities because that’s where there are other contested primaries.

The good news is that he’s been endorsed by every Democratic elected official in the entire county, about 95% of precinct chairs, and labor.  However, there are about 40,000 people who will vote without knowing anything about this race or having any idea what a party chairman does.  His opponent is completely unqualified for the job but she and her friends are on the phone day and night spreading false rumors about Don.

I love this man and I have loved him for 46 years, so I have been helping him day and night.  Early voting starts the middle of next month and March 1 is election day.  So, don’t expect a lot of work out of me during this time.  Forgive me if I just put up a topic and leave y’all to discuss it.

If you know any Democrats in my county, ask them to vote March 1st for my Bubba – Don Bankston for Democratic Party Chair.

Thank you, guys.

Okay, so Republicans in Washington State appointed a woman to fill the seat of a Republican in the state legislature who had to step down over ethics charges.

Come to find out, the woman they appointed is plenty enough weird.

While visiting lawmakers’ offices in Olympia with representatives from Planned Parenthood during Teen Lobbying Days, the group of Eastern Washington teens were stunned when State Rep. Mary Dye (R-Pomeroy) quizzed them over whether they had ever had sex.

Rachel Todd, a Planned Parenthood worker accompanying the kids, said that Dye asked them if they were virgins and indicated that one of them might not be.

“After she made the statement about virginity, all of my teens looked at me,” said Todd. “And I said, ‘You don’t have to answer that. You don’t have to answer that.’”

So what was she planning on doing with the virgins?  Sacrificing them to the Gun Gods?  Maybe giving Donald Trump their names for future wives?

Sarah Palin just endorsed Donald Trump.

That’s all I can say.

Seriously.

Rick Santorum has come up with a good way to feel good about being bad.

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum says the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants would be a “blessing” to impoverished Latin American countries that would benefit from skills they have learned in the United States.

You wanna know the only good thing about that?  The word “former.”

He said many undocumented immigrants are from poor countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, all of which he described as a “mess,” and would benefit from a large influx of people with American work skills and a knowledge of democracy.

Yeah, and they love America for kicking them out.  So, you know, there’s that, too.

My friend Evelyn Burleson says that conservative is just a political excuse for being greedy. Now Christianity is just an excuse to treat people like trash.

Most of you have heard by now that Blue Bell Ice Cream has found “the potential” of more listeria in their Texas factory.   This is after they killed three people and made ten people horribly sick.  And after their employees told some pretty disgusting stuff about the sanitary conditions at their factories.

But, do you want to know what’s not dirty at their company?  Money.  Their money is still very desirable.

Yeah, that’s $5,000 to Governor Greg Abbott at the height of the last shameful listeria outbreak at Blue Bell.

And here’s $500 to Joe Straus, the Republican Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

I wish they’d spent that money on handiwipes or something.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

Headed up to the cold in New Hampshire.

A civilian student suffered an accidental gunshot wound to the leg during firearms training at Sig Sauer Academy Wednesday night, police said.

Police Chief Michael Wallace said police were called to the facility on Route 27 around 7:15 p.m. after the student accidentally shot himself in the leg.

Ya gotta wonder where the target was.

I think maybe the need to scratch out that bottom line.

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