You know, when he was doing all the brain surgery maybe he accidentally became a donor.

He just referred to slaves as immigrants.

“That’s what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity,” Carson said. “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, great-granddaughters, might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.”

Ben!  The only dream they had was that they survived the trip.

Good Lord, did he sleep through Black History Month?  I mean, it’s only March 6th. You’d think he could remember.

Thanks to Bill for the heads up.

Late Sunday evening, Khizr Khan, who has been an American citizen for 30 years, was notified that his travel privileges are being reviewed.

He cancelled a trip to Toronto, where he was scheduled to speak.

I do not know whether to cry or to hit somebody.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

To the numerous members of the Semi-Official Glen Maxey Fan Club.

He’s out of surgery for a triple bypass and doing fine.  He’ll be in intensive care for 24 hours but everything went very well during the surgery.

Late last week a former Arkansas State Senator and a Bible College President were both indicted by the feds for money laundering and mail fraud.

Jon Woods

Jonathan E. Woods, 39, was Republican state senator who calls himself a “Christian conservative.”  However, his wikipedia page focuses more on his rock band than his legislating.

Oren Paris III, and since with a name like that he’s either got to be a teevee preacher or a porn star, he picked the preacher and took over from his father as president of Ecclesia College in Arkansas.  Here’s what you can major in there.  It appears that they have an enrollment of about 200.

These two fine, Christian men got together and came up with a plan.  In Arkansas, state legislators can give money – called GIFs for General Improvement Funds – to non-profits.  In a web of secrecy worthy of invisible ink and and a Dick Tracy badge, Woods gave a hunk of money to Paris, who then hid it from the board of directors of Ecclesia by sending it to a consultant friend of Woods.  The consultant then split the money between Wood and Paris and then took a little for himself.

They, of course, got caught.

But there’s more.

The indictment also quotes liberally from text messages between Paris and Woods, including what Paris called a “good selling point” when Woods encouraged other legislators to direct GIF money to Ecclesia: the small Christian college “produces graduates that are conservative voters. All state and secular colleges produce vast majority liberal voters.” According to the indictment, Woods replied: “Agreed.”

Yeah, that’s a good selling point for your theft of taxpayer funds – it’ll produce more people who want to steal from the taxpayers.

And, there’s this.

Woods, the legislator, was a big Donald Trump fan, but the crooked preacher man favored Ted Cruz.

We’ll keep you updated because it looks like there might be a girlfriend involved.

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

I know you often say to yourself, “I wonder how the Texas Tea Party Super PAC is doing?”

Darlin’, they are broke.

I mean, not in pieces. They are overdrawn at the bank broke. $18,402.60 worth.  Here’s a PDF of the statement from the Federal Elections Commission.

Or, if you don’t want to read it all, here’s the good part.

There are very few things that can make me smile on a dreary Monday morning, but thinking about members of the Tea Party having to mow lawns all summer in the Texas heat to make enough money to pay off their debt is one of them.

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

I told you last week how Texas Republican Cogressvarmint Michael Burgess asked his supporters to gird up their loins and come help him fight the evil of liberals.

Well, you probably want to know how that turned out.

Some folks had some concerns about the Affordable Health Care Act.

Sally Ortega-Haynes, a human resources manager from Highland Village, said millions of Americans have access to health care because of the Affordable Care Act. She also pointed out that nearly half of Burgess’ campaign contributions in recent years come from the health insurance industry.

“How can we be assured you’re going to be working for our best interest?” she asked.

Burgess countered that he was independent of his political donors.

Yeah and his pants are independent of his belt but if he takes his belt off, his pants are hitting the floor. Burgess wants us to think that it is merely coincidence that he always votes he exact same way his major donors want him to vote.

Here’s a picture from the town hall.  He don’t look one bit happy.

Another person asked about the Russia connection, explaining that she didn’t believe it was fake new.

Burgess didn’t comment about the controversy facing the Trump administration, choosing instead to refer to the past.

“I was concerned about it during the previous administration as well,” he said.

(Heavy sigh.)  And that settles it.

Thanks to Rob for the heads up.