Here’s lovely photo of the royal family at the baptism of Prince Louis.

Comment when you see it.

Well, come to find out, Texas congressvarmint Randy Weber met with Maria Butana’s partner in espionage, Alexander Torshin, in April 0f 2015 while Torshin was Russian Central Bank deputy governor. Torshin and Vladimir Putin are closer than skin on a sausage.

Torshin and Butana were Boris and Natasha.

Randy Weber, a Republican U.S. congressman from Texas, also met with Torshin during the April trip, according to the think tank’s documents. A spokeswoman for Weber did not respond to multiple calls or emails seeking comment.

So, was Weber the Moose or the Squirrel? He ain’t sayin’.

Reuter’s has the story.

Weber has an A rating with the NRA, just in case you were wondering. He’s also kind of an idiot.

In January 2014, during President Obama’s State of the Union address, Weber in a tweet referred to the President as “Kommandant-In-Chef” [sic] and “the Socialist dictator.”

Hey, I’m also boss of the kitchen, just in case you were wondering.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

Yet another GOP leader has stepped up, this time in a strong way.  Christie Todd Whitman, former EPA administrator under and former governor of New Jersey.  In a LA Times op-ed this morning, Whitman called for other Republican leaders to call enough and demand Trump step down.  Fat chance yet, but cracks in the wall are getting bigger.

There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.

Texas is where we take hot seriously.  I’m sure you’ve heard that Dallas reached 110 today, but it’s really gonna get hot tomorrow.

I told my son we bought some steaks today and if he would come over and grill them tomorrow, he could have one.  “Oh, cool,” he replied, “I won’t even have to light the grill.”

But that ain’t nothing.

Wanna see tortilla chips spontaneously combust?

Gotta come to Texas for that.

Charles Cantwell, one of the Charlottesville Tiki Torch Tough Guys who started the violence last year during a white supremacist demonstration, pleaded guilty this week in plea bargain.  He got time served in jail, and was ordered to leave Virginia and not return for 5 years.  He’s the moron who was really tough during the demonstration and dissolved into tears when he realized the cops were after him for assaulting innocent counter protestors.  Clearly a Trumpist.

There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.

File under You Can’t Make This Up:

It started a few days ago in RW Nutjob Land (I never link to RW Nutjob sites, so you’ll have to find it yourself), but this story has legs and deserves covering.  This story is about Tad Devine who was…wait for it…Bernie Sanders chief strategist during the 2016 election.  Devine is a long-time advisor and strategist for Democratic candidates, even being senior advisor to both Al Gore and John Kerry for their presidential runs.  He’s also been an international political consultant, (and this is where it gets weird), he partnered with Paul Manafort to advise Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian backed strongman who is now in exile in Russia after being removed from power in 2014 for corruption and suppression of protests and the press.

What’s really bad for Devine (and us) is that Mueller’s most recent indictment contains many exhibits of communication between Devine and Manafort, and even Russian-born Konstantin Kilimnik, who is under indictment by Mueller.  This association feeds the rumors that Sanders was part of a vast conspiracy by the Russians to get Hillary.  No one knows yet if that storyline is true, but it damn sure looks bad;  it’s unknown if the Russians had some inroad into Sanders campaign, but there is certainly a possible onramp.  This one will be interesting to follow.

There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.