There are 37 states with online voter registration.  Texas, of course, is not one of them.

Voter registration cards in Texas arrive looking like a bushel basket of wire coat hangers because most voter registration happen in the summer and people sweat all over the cards.  You mostly can’t read the handwriting on them and it takes a magician, a priest, and a Magic 8 Ball to decipher them.

But our legislature doesn’t want to change. Change hurts. It’s not good.

Ever since I can remember, our buddy Glen Maxey has gone to the legislature to lobby for online voting.  Hell, even our secretary of state supports it and he’s appointed by the Governor.  Every year, the County Clerk in Harris County (think Houston) rejects it because he can’t send an email without a teenager sitting beside him holding his hand and four phone calls to Bill Gates.  So, we don’t get online voter registration.

However, there is hope. Texas allows people to renew their licenses online, but doesn’t allow them to register to vote at the same time. Last week, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia told the state to fix that.

I am certain that our state attorney general will appeal it because he spends more money needlessly than Scott Pruitt.

But it’s a glimmer of hope to pull people screaming into these new-fangled fads.

If you are watching the bloody festivities in Jerusalem today signifying that Donald Trump is kowtowing to the religious right’s attempt to bring about Armageddon, there’s one thing you might want to watch.

Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, a man you can calibrate your gaydar by, is accompanying Trump so he can lead the prayer.

Jeffress – note the halo in his official picture

Pastor Jeffress, in a now infamous 2011 interview, also said that “every other religion in the world is wrong: Islam is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of Hell; Mormonism is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of Hell, and, “Judaism, you can’t be saved being a Jew.”

If you don’t know what dispensationalism is, go Goggle it. Right-wingers are trying like hell to rush the end times so they can watch God throw your sorry butt into the pits of hell.  They think they’re gonna get a ringside seat as an award for waiting to draw a crowd before they pray.

This is gonna be a damn smokin’ mess. It’s not gonna bring Jesus back any sooner, but watching Jews and Palestinians die is almost as much fun for them.

I turned off the damn teevee.  What they are doing to Sweet Jesus is obscene.

John Kelly, who often refers to himself as “the adult in the room,” was answering NPR’s questions about separating mothers from their children when they come to American seeking political asylum.

Interviewer: Family separation stands as a pretty tough deterrent.

Kelly: It could be a tough deterrent — would be a tough deterrent. A much faster turnaround on asylum seekers.

Interviewer: Even though people say that’s cruel and heartless to take a mother away from her children?

Kelly: I wouldn’t put it quite that way. The children will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever.

Sumbitch.

Yeah, lookie here.  Georgia’s got it coming to them.

Senator Chuck Grassley is terrified.

He is so afraid that Democrats are going to win the mid terms that he’s asking members of the Supreme Court even considering retiring to step down now while Republicans still control stuff.

“I just hope that if there is going to be a nominee, I hope it’s now or within two or three weeks, because we’ve got to get this done before the election,“ he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “So my message to any one of the nine Supreme Court justices, if you’re thinking about quitting this year, do it yesterday.“

I don’t know why he just didn’t say, “Anthony Kennedy, please let Donald Trump replace you.  Pulleeesssse.”

This is coming from the party who held up replacing a Supreme Court Justice for a full damn year.

And for the first time in 30 years, the senate confirmed a federal judicial nominee without the support of both the home states’ senators.  Senator Tammy Baldwin’s objection to a nominee was ignored, although “Wisconsin’s other senator, Republican Ron Johnson, single-handedly blocked Obama from filling this vacancy for more than six years.  Johnson did that by ― wait for it ― not turning in a blue slip.”

Set that to music and dance.

They says a dog is a man’s best friend.  Offer void in Iowa.

Richard Remme says he was on the couch horsing around with his dog while he was fully armed.  And then  ….

“And I carry in a belly band, under my bib overalls. And apparently he bumped the safety one time, and when he bounded back over one of his toes went right down into the trigger guard.

“It has a trigger safety as well as a thumb safety, and he managed to hit both of them, and it discharged and went into my leg, did no major damage to anything.”

Remme is going to be fine and the dog was awarded a blue ribbon at the smart dog show.

Maybe he needs to get a holster for the gun so his cat can’t get to it.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.