… 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.

The Boston Globe carried a story that gave me indigestion.

President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact.

You know how Republicans always want to turn over the duties of the federal government to the states? Well, that’s only if the states are allowing women to control their own bodies or the states are doing a poop-poor job of intimidating voters. I mean, like California or Massachusetts. Texas is handing voter intimidation and suppression quite well because they are very good at it.

What the damn hell does the Secret Service have to do with an election in my hometown?  Hell, why don’t they just pull an ICE and a White Citizen’s Council for Heavy Artillery Van up to the front of every polling place?

Look, Trump is convinced that illegal voting cost him the popular vote in 2016.  I would not put it passed this idiot to hold a nationwide parade of armed federal agents under his command to every polling location in America.

Damn terrorist.  He’s just a damn terrorist.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

The Democratic National Committee is meeting this weekend.  Members of the DNC are elected from each state and are tasked with setting policy and direction for the Democratic Party. I have friends on the DNC so I will probably be a lot nicer than I normally would be when talking about this.

The DNC is total caca del toro when it comes to Super Delegates.  That’s the nicest I can be.

Super Delegates are those party insiders who get a free ride to the Democratic National Convention as voting delegates because they are members of the DNC, elected officials, past party officers, former elected officials, friends of friends of past party officers, and God only knows how many are blood related or the product of political incest.  They comprise about 15% of the delegates and can sway a party presidential nomination.

It’s just not fair and it’s just not how democracy is supposed to work.

Every delegate to the national convention should be elected by their presidential preference.  The DNC said this weekend that they would “limit super delegates” but they won’t say how.  They formed another damn committee to look into it.  They kicked the can down the road – again.

I’m just about sick of them. Please let your DNC members know that you are made about this.  Also find out who the super delegates are in your state and ask them what makes them so damn special.

Thank you for some good old fashioned hell raising.

(I’m off the LaGrange, Texas, today to attend a planning session for my friend Cecil Webster who is running in a special election. I’ll be back tonight.)

They are having a lottery.

I hope none of them get attacked by a guy with an AR-15. I really do.

It was posted on Facebook two weeks after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Katy Police Officer’s Association main goal is to make the officers tasks easier and safer by purchasing those items that are not normally budgeted, fund crime prevention events, and youth sponsorships for the Katy area.

Maybe the best way to keep cops and kids safe is to ban assault rifles.  Just maybe.

Thanks to Sue for the heads up.