Killeen, Texas, is in central Texas and, according to the last census, is home to about 126,000 souls and some terribly confused city council folks.

It’s city budget time in Killeen, a time of rejoicing and the cutting of the taxes.  Trump supporter and loud Republican councilman Dick Young, is claiming that cutting one third of the city library’s budget ain’t no big thing.

“I don’t think the level of service is going to dramatically change,” Young said, if funding cuts are made.

He also contends that there’s no plans to close down the town’s only branch library.  See, that would give me comfort except for the fact that here it is right here on the city council memorandum.

I know I’m taking a big leap of faith here to suspect that city council members in Killeen can read, but maybe they could get somebody at the library to read the memorandum to them before they start holding press conferences.

Honey, it ain’t like Killeen has several branch libraries.  They do not.  They have one.  They’re gonna try to close it.

Now I am not saying that Republicans are a bunch of book burners, but they are a bunch of library closers.

Look, I don’t want to be mean, but Killeen needs all the damn libraries it can get.

A group of citizens have started to raise a stink.  Good on ‘um.  There are some fabulous folks in Killeen.  Some of them are willing to pay a users fee to keep the library. Those folks deserve a city council that reads more, not less.

Thanks to Joe for the heads up.

Remember last week when I told you about the FEC saying that Newt Gingrich can’t skip out on his debts.

I know, I know, shame on anybody who would do business with Newt, knowing what a self-serving jerk he is, but this guy is so danged pissed-off that his letter to the FEC about Newt is well worth reading.

In order for all the creditors to be paid in full, a robust campaign will be necessary under the direction of Newt and Callista Gingrich.

They have the ability to raise and with their own resources pay off the debt. They need to act with the same virtues they publicly promote.

In Newt’s defense, virtues isn’t in his dictionary.

I guess all I can say is, “Sorry, dude, your money went to Tiffany’s.

Thanks to Alfredo for the heads up.

You gotta see this because you would not believe me if I told you.

Trump gives his own personal testimony about the big guy in the sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJIqoaPRATw

And to think, some people go to school for years to get a theology degree.

Thanks to Brad for the heads up.

Phyllis Schlafly – when America was great again.

It appears that her final act was endorsing Donald Trump.

“Phyllis endorsed me at a time when it was not necessarily the thing to do, even the popular thing to do, and I will never forget that that had a great, great impact,” Trump said. “I look forward to being with her family tomorrow.”

So then ….

If this is the great Trump wants to take America back to, I hope he brings clubs and caves and Phyllis’ funeral.

Thanks to Carl in Cheboygan for the heads up.

Donald Trump wants you to know that if elected, he will not kill journalists.  However, journalists are definitely on his hit list.

During a campaign rally in Walker, Michigan Monday, Donald Trump discussed his praise of Vladimir Putin, addressing critics who say the Russian president is responsible for the murder of journalists in his country.

“Then they said, ‘You know, he’s killed reporters,’” Trump said to a crowd of 7,500 people. “And I don’t like that. I’m totally against that.”

“But I do hate them,” Trump said. “I hate some of these people, but I’ll be honest, I would never kill them.”

“Some of them are such lying, disgusting people, it’s true,” Trump continued, repeating he “would never kill them.”

Reminder to journalist: he also said he would never lie.

So … make sure your passport is up to date just in case.

It has long been a Republican practice to accuse your opponent of your own weakness.  Louie Gohmert perfected it today.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Hillary Clinton is “mentally impaired” during a speech at the Values Voter Summit on Friday.

Gohmert said that he didn’t want to make fun of Clinton, then went on to do just that.

“You don’t make fun of people who are impaired, have special needs, and whether you like her or not, Hillary Clinton has made clear that she is mentally impaired and this is not somebody you should be making fun of,” Gohmert said to laughter in the audience.

Louie went on to say that Hillary might have been smart when she went to law school but something has happened since then.  “A concussion,” he innocently asks.

I used to work in a news room with an uptight Republican woman – she wrote the style section, of course – and I learned about Christian gossip.  I would hear her on the phone telling one of her friends, “We need to pray for Betty Ann.  Her husband is running around with that floozy woman again so she needs our love and our prayers.”  Next one, “Bless her sweet heart, Brandi’s liposuction didn’t go well so please remember her in your prayers.”  Then, “Add David to your prayer list because he got another DWI and Lauren is fixing to kill him.  We need to do a lot a praying for them.”

Sometimes she would say, “Please pray for Mary Lou,” and not say why, leaving her friend the necessary task of having to call everyone in her Sunday School class to find out what the hell is going on with Mary Lou and if they don’t know, they start calling other people, all the while claiming that they are just trying to find out what they should be praying for.

I began to call that, “Prayer List Adding,” and questioned her about how that was different from gossip.  She replied, “Oh Susan, prayer is powerful and we all need to pray for people in need.” I asked why not just pray for everybody?  Her answer, “I don’t know everybody.” I could not argue with that.

I’m pretty sure she called all her friends at night asking them to pray for me because I cuss, drink, and once made a county commissioner cry.  If she did, it didn’t work.

So Louie was simply Prayer list Adding, a popular sport with Super DeLux Brand Christians.

Thanks to every and their Aunt Matilda for the heads up. Love you guys.