I have a strongly held religious belief against stealing and/or smuggling ancient artifacts.

But, I guess that’s just me, you know.

Shame on you, self-righteous Hobby Lobby.

Birth control = sin

Smuggling = okay!

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

… Republicans had used up their allotment of crazy, they go and have a tweet storm.

They tweet pictures of Democrats lambasting the Republican heathcare plan and ask, “Where’s YOUR plan,” Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, Democrats?

Okay, see, these are the same Republicans who tried to repeal Obamacare about a 100 times for the past seven years, and now that they’re the dog who finally caught the car … they have no plan.

These are the same Republicans who control both houses of congress and the presidency, but can’t come up with a damn plan.

Okay, they want to see the Democratic plan?

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Oh dear, I miss the good-ole-days when Republicans took Democratic surpluses and used it to give tax cuts to their rich friends instead of taking healthcare away from helpless little children.

They are crazy, y’all.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Paper ballots are back in the news again.

I vote a paper ballot because Texas law says a person who is over 65, disabled, or is going to be out of the county during the voting period can vote by mail.  I also serve on the ballot board, where mail ballots are tediously verified by signature with both a Democrat and a Republican present, then opened and laid flat for the voting machine to count them.  It’s a tedious two-week job but it restores my faith in democracy and in voting.

I do not like electronic voting.  My county’s voting machines are radial dial, which are difficult to use, and that causes voter suppression. I don’t like them and you can’t make me.

Denton, Texas, just north of Dallas – or, as the locals say, “if Oklahoma sucked just a little more, they’d pull Denton out of Texas.” – has decided to go back to paper ballots.  Their last election was a damn mess.  The people who make voting machines claim it was a human mistake, the humans say no the hell not.

I dunno for sure, but I think it would be harder for the Russians to steal an election with paper ballots, especially since you can hand-count paper ballots for a recount.

I damn well hope the rest of Texas falls in the paper ballot box before too long.  Yeah, they can be stolen and messed with, but it just damn harder to do if you have a metal box and good lock.

Thanks to Marc for the heads up.

Okay, I will admit that I have gone upstairs and then stood there wondering why I came up there.  But, to my credit, I can generally see a limo when it’s directly in front of me and I only rarely don’t know how to work the damn thing.

Old man wanders off and has to be shown the way back.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Ted Cruz decided to spend the 4th of July in McAllen, Texas.  McAllen is home to about 130,000 people and is 85% Hispanic.

Cruz did not have fun at the parade.  He, of course, was met by protesters.  When you go to a highly Hispanic and Democratic city along the border and you favor sending half of most family back to Mexico, it’s kinda unlikely that they want you to be Grand Marshall of the parade.

Y’all, seriously, I think the boy was lost.  Or dunk.  I dunno.

“Ted Wants Us Dead,” was a favorite chant.  My personal favorite sign? “No transfer of wealth 4 our health.”

Cruz referred to the protesters as a “small group of people on the left who right now are very angry.”  Small?  Did he say small?  Honey, only 12% approve of the senate healthcare bill.  Who looks small now?

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

This is the new cover going on the walls of Trump’s golf clubs.  LOL.

Favorite headline: “Trump’s hands too big for gloves.”