A snide chuckle for you.

I was talking to an Austin political advisor last night who told me, “Now that we’re seeing the polling in Texas and the results from around the country, I cannot tell you the number of people who are horribly upset that they did not sign up last December to run for office in Texas.  And they are all named Castro.”

To my horror, I read this earlier today —

The nine-time Wimbledon singles champion and tennis commentator [Martina Navratilova] says the BBC pays her 10 times less than fellow commentator John McEnroe for doing Wimbledon broadcasts. And she’s angry because she fears what’s happening to her happens to women everywhere.

Okay, let’s face it, not only does she have 9 championships compared to his 3, but her job is much, much harder than his, because she has to work with  … John McEnroe.

Of course this happened in Texas, where men are men and Baptists are hateful.

The Olton Enterprise newspaper is owned by Phillip Hamilton, who is a Baptist minister. I glanced over a few copies of it online and my goodness, that is the whitest town I’ve ever seen.  The closest big town is Amarillo, which means that Olton is in Texas and not Oklahoma only by geographic accident.

This issue lists a lovely lady named Brenda Light in the obituary section.  Brenda’s son, Barry Giles, placed the obituary in the newspaper.  Here’s the problem:

The obituary submitted to the Olton Enterprise included the line “Those left to cherish her memory include her son, Barry Giles, and his husband, John Gambill of Dallas”. But there was no mention of Gambill or the union in the published version.

“It wiped John completely off the picture like he didn’t exist,” Giles told local news.

It was not a mistake.  The aforementioned Publisher Phillip Hamilton would not abide such mortifying sin and iniquity as same sex marriage.  The Publisher/Pastor explains:

“It is my religious conviction that a male cannot have a husband. It is also my belief that to publish anything contrary to God’s Word on this issue would be to publish something in the newspaper that is not true.

“The newspaper respects the first amendment rights of those who express such opinions. The newspaper’s decision to edit the obituary is both ethical and lawful. It would be unethical to publish a news item that is known by the editor to be false. Based on the truth found in the Word of God, I could not in good conscience identify Mr Gambill as the husband of Mr Giles.”

That statement about the First Amendment is so twisted that Chubby Checkers could sing it.

I can’t understand why the newspaper isn’t renamed The Baptist Church Sunday Morning Bulletin.

I also can’t understand why Baptists are so damn hateful and so damn certain how everyone should behave.

Thanks to Sam and Kary for the heads up.

Well, crap on a cracker, it’s Aladamnbama. What the fool tarnation did you expect?

Wondering if arming teachers is a dandy idea, Alabama Republican State Representative Harry Shiver (no kidding, that’s his name) had this to say:

… guns should not be placed in the hands of “our ladies” — meaning female teachers — many of whom he believes are “scared” of firearms.

“I’m not saying all [women], but in most schools, women are [the majority] of the teachers,” Shiver, a lawmaker representing a district northeast of Mobile, told AL.com in an interview published Thursday.

We can’t arm teachers because they are mostly girls and girls get all creeped out about guns.

Hey Harry, you bet your sweet misogynistic butt we do.  If it takes misogynistic crapola to stop this bad idea of arming teachers, I’m gonna let it slide this time.  And I hope some woman doesn’t get real pissed off at you and hit you upside the head with our weapon of choice – a frying pan.  Or strangle you with our apron strings.  Or give birth right in front of you and make you faint and hit your head on a rock.

Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.

Trump is so crazy that he has to have a lawyer go around behind him saying, “That’s not what he meant.  What he really meant to say is ….”

This morning, Trump’s apologist trainer guide dog writ twit lawyer Ty Cobb issued the following statement.

In response to media speculation and related questions being posed to the Administration, the White House yet again confirms that the President is not considering or discussing the firing of the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.

Oh, I dunno if “speculation” is the right word.  I mean, spending the weekend trashing the guy on Twitter might be an indication that Trump is priming for a fight he can’t win.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Trump has an interpreter.  I just wish his interpreter spoke Trumpese.

Last week with great fanfare, the Republicans gleefully announced that House Intelligence Committee was ending its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and that it had “found no evidence” of the Trump campaign colluding with the Russians.  Congressional Dems howled, calling foul and saying that the committee concluded no such thing.  Trump, of course, took to Twitter gloating that he was completely vindicated.

Today, on Meet the Press, Mike Conaway, who chaired the committee after Devin Nunes was forced out, clarified the committee Republicans conclusion – they found no evidence of collusion because…wait for it…they didn’t look.  That’s right, Conaway got on national television and defended his conclusion that there was no evidence of collusion because they didn’t bother to look for it.

House Republicans are blatantly lying to the American people to give cover to Trump.  The longer this goes on, the more I’m convinced that this is going to end really badly.