Harris County (think: Houston) County Commissioner Steve Radack can kiss my big blue butt.  Yeah, he’s a big ole Republican who for the last 30 years has been feeding himself quite well at the public trough.  A county commissioner in Harris County makes $166,000 a year, plus amazing benefits and expenses.  They waddle in campaign donations.

If you recall, Noah needs to come to Houston and offer some pontoon building lessons because Houston floods when when there’s a heavy mist.

And Houston floods are nondiscriminatory.  They flood rich and poor alike.  Around the first part of June, the flood waters were a damn mess.  I have a close friend who ended up with 3 feet of water in her house.  She had lived there for 40 years and never flooded before.  As of today, she is still living in a local hotel room with her husband (who is being treated for cancer) and their cat.  They were able to save some precious family keepsakes, but lost everything else.  It’ll be at least another month before their house will be ready to moved back in.  At least.

And it won’t be as good as before because insurance doesn’t pay worth crap and she has to argue over every damn light fixture and drawer pull because she has nothing but free time while caring for a husband with cancer in a hotel room.

Commissioner Steve Radack had kind words for her and others in her position …

Precinct 3 Commissioner Steve Radack recently said some people want to get flooded so they can cash in, and he’s not backing down from his comments.

… they frankly enjoy floods. They’d like to see a flood about every 7 years, because they want new cars, they want their homes redone,” Radack said at the meeting.

And there, my friends, you have a glimpse into the mind of a Republican.  I think that’s what he likes, so he’s assuming everyone else does, too.

So please don’t ever start thinking that Republicans care more about flood victims than they do insurance companies.

In Commissioner Radack’s world the message to flood victims is Let Them Eat Some Damn Cake.

Thanks to Elizabeth for the heads up.

Hillary Clinton has a tendency to “short-circuit” a lot, meaning that her thoughts are running so fast that her mouth doesn’t exactly catch up.  She says things that are actually from the middle of an internal conversation, or a short-hand statement that, in her head, is tied to a lot of other facts, but sits there naked and alone when it has left her mouth and sounds plain stupid.

Donald Trump does a lot of the same thing, except he has no accompanying thoughts.  It’s why he always trails off in the middle of a sentence, or comes up with little nicknames, or speaks in disjointed phrases.  His mini-chunks of verbiage actually sound like the notes you’d put on a 3×5 card for a speech, except all he knows is what he memorized on the card.  With Hillary, you know that there’s a lot of meat behind the shorthand.

Case in point: a few years back, Hillary was running behind in the primaries to Barack, but she wasn’t ready to back out, yet.  She was making the point that a lot of stuff was still ahead, including California, which is in June, and the reason she will always remember that is that Bobby Kennedy was killed in June of 1968 on the night of the California Primary.  Even 5-year-old Primo would always remember where he was when he heard about it: outside a HoJo in Dallas, on his way from Chicago to the HemisFair in SA in a two-door Dodge crammed full of Hachecristos.

But that’s not what she said.   All that came out was the part about Bobby, and then everyone went nuts, thinking that she had said, “Of course I will stay in the race.  Maybe Barack will die.”  Clearly, not what she meant.  Still…

Cut to Donald J Trump today:

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I dunno…”

I also dunno: is he advocating that someone shoot Hillary?  Or that someone shoot a Supreme Court Justice after Hillary picks him or her?

How do you top asking an unfriendly nation to cyberspy on your opponent in order to win an election?  Ask some nutjob ammosexual to win it for you instead.

Y’all all know about James O’Keefe, the two bit agent provocateur for the Republican party.

He tried a new scam.  And failed.  Again.

He wanted to prove that we need Voter ID laws.  So, he marched into a primary voting precinct in Michigan and pretended to be someone he was not.  He said he’d lost his driver’s license and gave the voting clerk a name.  She replied that Michigan law allows someone to vote a provisional ballot if they are willing to sign a sworn affidavit attesting that they are who they say they are.  He handed him the affidavit but he didn’t sign it.

Good thing, because the name he was using is a guy on the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press, Brian Dickerson, who just so happens to be a friend of the election clerk.  She just wanted to see if O’Keefe would be willing to commit a felony by signing it.

The guy on the editorial board writes —

But instead of forging the affidavit — a felony punishable by imprisonment — O’Keefe aborts and heads to Birmingham City Hall, where he confronts City Clerk Laura Pierce (on camera, of course) with the somewhat exaggerated claim that one of her volunteer poll workers has just offered him my ballot in return for a forged signature.

Well, see, that never happened.  The system worked.  He was never offered a ballot. He was offered an affidavit and a golden opportunity to commit a felony.

Additionally, the city election clerk would have informed law enforcement that the real Brian Dickerson voted by mail two days earlier.

The system worked.  Sadly, O’Keefe never has.

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

Donald Trump’s response to the 50 – count ‘um, fifty – Republican national security experts who calls him reckless was a really good one.

Donald Trump responded to a letter signed by fifty national security experts and advisors who won’t vote for the GOP nominee by saying that he “hadn’t planned on using any of these people.”

Yeah, he wasn’t going to hire them anyway.  So there.

“They don’t feel relevant because of that and they form a group and they go out and try to get some publicity for themselves and they hope that somebody else other than Trump wins because that way they can get a job,” he said.

Oh yeah, that’s the deal.  They wanted a job because Hillary will certainly hire Republican national security advisers.

So now all of them will be poor people and unable to afford dinner.  Please send them some canned goods, y’all.

Y’all, this reality show politics has taken a turn for the worse.

Former World Series pitcher Curt Schilling is a great pitcher but he’s got a kink in his thinking mechanic.  He also can’t get along with anybody and is semi-famous for whining a lot.

Schilling, whose computer game business went belly-up and he was forced to sell his home to pay bills, thinks his bad business decisions are the Democrats fault.  He got a job doing color commentary for ESPN but got fired from that because his rightwing jabbering bothered the ever-livin’ daylights out of everybody.

He hates Hillary Clinton.  I mean, purple rage hate.  He said that she should be buried under a jail somewhere.  He said that.  I’m pretty sure he knew he was talking out loud when he said it.

Poor Ole Curt is a major supporter of Donald Trump and, bless his double digit IQ heart, that got Curt to thinking.

Curt is going to run for president.  Yeah, of the United States.  Well, maybe not so much the United part because Curt believes that states should have all the rights.

“I am going to run, soon,” Schilling wrote back.

When asked for details, Schilling replied, “state office first, white house in 8 years :)”

And then he added: “or 4 if by some amazing illegal event this country elects another clinton.”

Well, look at this way – a bankrupt businessman with a chip on his shoulder who can’t seem to get along with anybody.  That’s the Republican paragon.

Okay, so there’s a probate judge in Alabama who refused to perform marriage ceremonies for LGBTQ people because … Jesus.

He just got caught sexting a former bride in his court who married a much older man … you know, about the same age as the judge.

The complaint said Archer met a woman in 2013 when she was 34 and went to the probate office to wed a 68-year-old man. Archer performed the ceremony and noted the large age difference between the two, the complaint said.

The wedding was soon annulled, according to the complaint. In January, Archer began sending the woman sexually explicit messages and nude photos on Facebook, investigators alleged.

So, he’s sending naked pictures of himself on Facebook because … horny.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.