I’m not saying that Donald Trump is responsible for this, but he sure didn’t help any at damn all.

A sorority in Alabama apologized on Friday for a T-shirt that it made depicting a racially offensive image of an African-American person eating a piece of watermelon.

Stacy Bruton, the international president of Alpha Delta Pi, issued a public apology and said the organization will investigate how its chapter at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama was able to commission the making of the T-shirt.

Okay, so here we are, where people in the dirty South think it’s really okay to put pictures of African Americans eating watermelon on a sorority shirt.

Yeah.

These women.

By the way, Samford is 81% white and 6% African American.

Now, here’s where we are with stuff like this.  The newspaper felt the need to include this:

African-Americans liking watermelon is considered a racial stereotype and is generally regarded as offensive.

Really?  “Generally?” Still?  Gee, that wasn’t repealed by the Republican congress?  You know, to avoid political correctness and speak your mind?

Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.

There is a saying that in politics Republicans want to fall in line and Democrats want to fall in love.

I have no idea who said it first but it is true, true, triple true.

Example.

Paul Ryan and Donald Trump issued a joint statement this morning.

“While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground,” Trump and Ryan said in a joint statement. “We will be having additional discussions, but remain confident there’s a great opportunity to unify our party and win this fall, and we are totally committed to working together to achieve that goal.”

Damn.  “Few” differences?  Really?  I suspect that the idea that Washington insiders are what is wrong with this country might be one.

Add this:

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And Twitter went wild —

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Hey, guess who is still alive?  And talking?

Former Vice President Dan Quayle is calling for the GOP to unite behind Donald Trump, even as prominent Republicans on past presidential tickets distance themselves from the party nominee.

“The party has to unite around him,” Quayle told CNN’s Jamie Gangel in an interview airing Thursday, predicting nevertheless that “holdouts” would remain. “But by and large, I think the party will rally around him.”

Yes, because the major question of the year was, “But who will Dan Quayle support?”

Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.

A lot of my friends are going to be there.  A lot of great bands are going to be there.  A lot of pushy religionists will not be there.  But I’ve decided to give up my front seat on my Ride to Hell to this guy.

George Zimmerman is auctioning off the gun he used to murder Trayvon Martin.

It has recently been returned to me by the Department of Justice. The pistol currently has the case number written on it in silver permanent marker. Many have expressed interest in owning and displaying the firearm including The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. This is a piece of American History […] The firearm is fully functional as the attempts by the Department of Justice on behalf of B. Hussein Obama to render the firearm inoperable were thwarted by my phenomenal Defense Attorney.

Apparently, no amount of toilet paper is going to be able to wipe the George Zimmerman stain from the collective backside of our national consciousness.  In a year when absolutely every bad thing could be trotted out with impunity as snacilbupeR “policy,” in a year when Sarah Palin suddenly fancies herself a power broker at the head of a hostile takeover of the GOP, in a year when genitalia dominate the news, either as a measure of reactionary bigotry or as a measure of presidential gravitas…

This guy still can embody all of that in one big “look-at-me-I-lynched-a-[n-word]” moment of ultimate loathsomeness.  If there is a Hell, he is most certainly on his way there, and if that happened in 10 minutes from now, it couldn’t be soon enough.

But now he’s ruined Eternal Perdition for me, and I’m going to have to start leading a goodly, godly existence in this life in order to avoid rubbing elbows with this human skid mark in the next.

Damn you, George Zimmerman.

Okay, so in Jerome, Idaho, police thought they had themselves a drive-by shooting incident when people called them with a 1:23 am gunfire incident in the parking lot of the Jerome County Judicial Annex parking lot.

Come to find out —-

Soon, the Idaho State Police notified the Jerome authorities they had stopped the vehicle along Washington Street in Twin Falls.

When Jerome police arrived in Twin Falls, they soon discovered the person in the vehicle who was actually the victim and had a gunshot wound to the leg.

Hall said it’s believed the victim had accidentally discharged the gun when he was attempting to put it away.

What the perp/victim didn’t explain is why he was playing with his gun in the Jerome County Judicial Annex parking lot at 2:23 am.  Or, maybe he did and the newspaper wanted to spare us the gross details.

Here’s the headline in Mother Jones.

Well, I do not see a problem here.  Let them.

I wonder where they are going?

On Wednesday, the Platform Committee of the Texas Republican Party voted to put a Texas independence resolution up for a vote at this week’s GOP convention, according to a press release from the pro-secession Texas Nationalist Movement. The resolution calls for allowing voters to decide whether the Lone Star State should become an independent nation.

Oh wait, they want to make me join them and quit singing God Bless America and give back my social security?

That ain’t damn happening.   Ever.

They reckon that it has very little chance of passing.  That’s what they also reckoned about about Donald Trump winning the nomination and Dan Patrick being taken seriously.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.