You know how the Russians (and not some 44 pound guy in bed) have this  cyber crime thing down pat?

Well, they improved on it.

WASHINGTON: A U.S. Republican Party website selling campaign stickers and other political gear is among thousands of websites infected with a credit-card stealing virus that sent data to a server in Russia, according to a Dutch security researcher.

A page on the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s website selling stickers, T-shirts and baseball caps was infected with a hard-to-detect virus that collected all information entered on orders, including buyers’ names and addresses, credit card numbers and merchandise ordered, according to the researcher, Willem de Groot.

The NRSC was advised of the crime and responded quick as a turtle in tar.

The NRSC took down the website on Thursday and acknowledged that it had been targeted by a “skimming operation”.

Boy, the Russians are going to be surprised when the party of rich Republicans has been taken over by the trailer park Trump supporters.  The party of greed has been replaced by the party of need.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

People in Kentucky are very scared of clowns.  You’d think they’d be more scared of their state legislature, but apparently they aren’t.

A man used his AR-15 to scare a woman wearing a white afghan Monday after mistaking her for clown, according to a citation from the Bardstown Police Department.

Wait a minute.  Just wait one damn minute. It takes an AR-15 to fire a warning shot? What the hell does he have in reserved to scare zombies?

Oh, it gets better.  It always does.

The man, Adam Tingle, said his wife was outside when she thought she saw a clown, so Tingle came out and yelled at the individual, according to the citation. The woman did not move after being yelled at, so Tingle fired one shot from his AR-15 rifle in an attempt to scare her. Tingle’s wife then called 911 to report the incident.

According to the citation, Tingle said he was scared for his family because of recent criminal activities involving clowns.

Okay, I’ve been doing a little research on how far an AR-15 round travels and the answer appears to be that if you aim it at an upward angle, it’ll go further than 400 yards.  So, if we assume that’s about a 1/4 of a mile, in a residential neighborhood, with people all over the damn place, then he certainly succeeded in scaring people.  However, if you shoot it straight up, you can puncture the moon and that’s not good.

The police took his rifle until his court date.  Forever sound better to me.

Thanks to Ron S for the heads up.

Okay, folks in the path of Matthew, please check in.

Admission: one of my favorite places on earth is the coast and the barrier islands off the Carolina’s coast.  From Tybee Island to Okrakoke to Kitty Hawk, I love those islands.  I love seafood in Morehead City.  I love taking the boat to Shackleford Island to see the horses and the amazing seashells.  There’s a coffee shop on the square in New Bern in an old building that welcomes your body and your soul.

I have friends in Florida that I’m fretting about.

So, check in.  Be safe and get the hell outta Dodge, my friends.

Now if we could just get Mike Pence to do the same.

Bless Bill Weld’s heart, he realized that he’s on a ticket with a goofy guy who smokes too much weed.

I do, however, admire Weld’s courage.

Weld, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts, said he is focusing on Trump because, while he disagrees with Hillary Clinton on fiscal and military issues, Trump’s agenda is so objectionable it’s “in a class by itself.”

“I think Mr. Trump’s proposals in the foreign policy area, including nuclear proliferation, tariffs, and free trade, would be so hurtful, domestically and in the world, that he has my full attention,” Weld said.

It’s a good day in the neighborhood.

I am pretty darn sure that Mike Pence has never heard of Donald Trump.  Huff Post agrees.

Somebody should introduce them.  Seriously.

Let’s pretend that Mike Pence is not a raging homophobe, anti-choice, and on the verge of being defeated in his own state.  Even if Pence was a genius, a missionary, a popular governor, and a graduate of Harvard law school, Trump still would not listen to his Vice-Presidential running mate.

This breaks my heart.  I have an acquaintance who is a Facebook Republican. She is a sweet woman and claims to be a Christian, but this is what the cult of Donald Trump is doing to people. I sent her a note this morning that I was going to turn off her feed on my Facebook page until after the election because this crap is unforgivable.

Her response to a friend pointing out that it’s untrue?  Well, he “looks and acts like a perv”, and that Snopes is run by Hillary supporters.  Yes, truth does have a liberal bias.

It is totally amazing to me that there are women in my world who think that Tim Kaine is a perv but Trump is a fine Christian man who has never done a perverted thing in his life.

But, what bothers me most is that she went after Tim Kaine’s lovely and brilliant wife, Anne Bright Holton, who also attended Harvard Law, has been a Juvenile Court Judge, and has three children including a son who is currently a Marine.

She is a smart and accomplished woman.  I’m pretty certain that Donald Trump would purposefully insult her appearance but he can never insult her heart and mind, so his minions spread the rumor that she has sex with other men.

That is disgusting and deplorable, so Hillary can add another one to the basket.

I have pretty much ignored all the other lies the woman has posted on Facebook.  But this is the end of this crap.  It’s a cult thing, y’all.  I swear it’s a cult.  People will turn their backs on their own moral code and see real live monsters under the bed if Trump tells them to.

Sorry for the rant, but this break my heart.

This summer the Tea Party Leadership Fund PAC sent a very sweet and generous check to Louie Gohmert. Five grand ain’t nothing to sniff at.

Nice, right?

Louie didn’t think so.

He didn’t ever cash the check.

It ain’t like he doesn’t need it.  In 2010, of the 435 members of the house, Louie ranks 435th in terms of wealth.  That year he showed that he had debt of between $100,000 and $200,000.  It has not improved since then.

Maybe he lost the check or something.  Let’s be honest, he doesn’t appear to be very good wth money.

So the Tea Party Leadership PAC gave Louie’s money to a non-profit.

Wave bye-bye to your money once again, Louie.

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