Y’all, if you’re a Republican elected official and you haven’t been caught in a sex scandal, you’re just not trying hard enough.

The top leader in the Iowa Senate resigned Monday after a website published video and photos allegedly showing the married lawmaker kissing a statehouse lobbyist.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix is married with three children.

And this ain’t his first rodeo.

Last year, Iowa settled a $1.75 million lawsuit for sexual harassment and retaliation with a former employee of the Iowa Senate Republicans, Kirsten Anderson. Anderson said that she was fired as communications director for the Republican caucus in 2013 after reporting a toxic work environment due to sexual harassment.

Dix denied the woman’s testimony and said the woman was fired for incompetence. Republican definition of incompetence in women: the ability to say no.

Yeah, there’s a video.

Thanks to Phyllis for the heads up.

It’s over, y’all.

It has to be true. It’s in all caps. That’s how you know true things from false things – true things are in all caps.

You also know it’s true because Devin Nunes said it and he worked very hard to cover Trump’s enormous ass.

Rex Tillerson went out with a blaze of glory.

On Friday, Trump asked Tillerson to step aside.  Early this morning, Tillerson made this headline.

Tillerson calls the poisoning “a really egregious act” and says it’s “almost beyond comprehension” that a state actor would use such a dangerous substance in a public place.

I guess Tillerson’s non-disclosure document did not include Russia.

Bye, bye, Rex.  I hope this public humiliation loosens your jaw a little.

UPDATED:  Now that I’ve had my second cup of coffee, I am beginning to understand that Tillerson’s jaw wasn’t loosened by being fired.  He committed suicide.

Tillerson claims that he’s not even spoken to the president, but apparently Putin has.  Tillerson made the statement before the firing.

… you can be dumb as a stump.  Ted Lieu won the internet today speaking about Betsy DeVos.

Here’s the link to was talking about.

I have a question – are Betsy’s teeth as fake as Trump’s hair.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

In Austin this morning, two people have been killed – both African Americans – at their homes from packages left on their front porches during the night.  They took the packages inside and opened them.

Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said the two incidents displayed enough similarities to investigate them together. Since both victims were African-Americans, Manley said investigators are also viewing the attacks as potential hate crimes.

 

The two houses are 11 miles apart.

Thanks to Yvonne for the heads up.

I have Alexa – mainly for baseball scores, recipe conversions, and weather reports.

Last week, I unplugged it, put it in a plastic baggie, put the whole thing in a shed in the backyard, locked the door to the shed, and blame the damn Russians.

Owners of Amazon Echo devices with the voice-enabled assistant Alexa have been pretty much creeped out of their damn minds recently. People are reporting that the bot sometimes spontaneously starts laughing — which is basically a bloodcurdling nightmare.

It happened one time. I was home alone. Not talking to myself. It was creepy as hell.

It’s the Russians, I tell you.  They are letting us know that they own the White House.