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.

Okay, Okay, after the whole snot-nosed hissy fit he pitched in the Oval Office and the Obama-tapped-his-wires episode, Trump has now decided that Congress must investigate any wild-ass paranoid scene-stealing dream he has.

But, here’s the deal:

Spicer announced in a statement that “neither the White House nor the President will comment further” until Congress investigates the explosive allegation as part of its existing probe into Russia’s interference in the election.

Well, I guess that’s an easy choice.  Congress refuses to investigate and Trump shuts up about his dreams.  Sounds like one of those win-win deals to me.

Then this morning, after Spicer decided to spend the morning getting right with his God after lying for Trump for six weeks, they send out the deputy press woman who says …

During an appearance Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” White House deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders said that Trump “is going off of information that he’s saying has led him to believe that this is a very real potential.”

Oh Sean, take this woman with you next Sunday.  She’ll also have to get right with the grammar gods, the spin gods, the distance yourself gods, the three levels of denial gods, and the holy crap why did I let a man talk me into this god.

UPDATE:  I have just been told that Sarah Sanders is the daughter and former campaign manager of Mike Huckabee, the snake oil salesman preacher and former Arkansas governor.  So, Honey, she’s got a whole mess of god gettin’right with to do. I imagine that poor woman is done to her last diety, having already pissed the hell off with all the rest.

So he said he wanted to play with the big boys.  He was ready to kick some butt and would make us tired of winning.  He said we weren’t respected around the world and he could fix that.

But he didn’t know it would be this complicated.  No one knew. You know, except people who can see lightning or hear thunder.

BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has passed a nonbinding resolution calling for the reintroduction of visa requirements for American citizens, raising the stakes in a long-running battle over the United States’ refusal to grant visa-free access to citizens of five European Union countries.

Claude Moraes is a British lawmaker who leads the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs in the European Parliament.  He says our policy is making people in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania feel it gives them second-class treatment.

He adds  —-

“There’s no denying heightened concern about the current administration, but that’s more about uncertainty about who’s in charge and how the State Department is working.”

Honey, here’s the deal: the state department doesn’t work. Rex Tillerson was appointed Secretary of State as a favor to Vladimir Putin. Trump had never met Tillerson before he was appointed.

And by the way, European Union, if you think you’re being treated like a second class person, just think how we feel!

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.