A Russian oligarch just bought BiteGrid, the company that manages Maryland’s voter registration database and candidate management operations.

I mean, what can you say except that you doubt that he’s up to no bad?  You don’t think this is something that ought to raise temperatures enough to boil blue crabs?

Republican do not appears to be concerned.  Democrats has issued a strong foot stomp.

“We also recently asked Treasury Secretary [Steven] Mnuchin to review the acquisition of ByteGrid in his role as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States,” the Maryland Democrats wrote.

They’re counting on Mnuchin, who is obviously out shopping with his wife?

Find me a senator who can say, “Oh Hell No.”

Thanks to Chloe Bear for the heads up.

Shake your heads, Honey, because it’s time to snicker right here at the beauty salon.

Snicker #1: A Florida congressional candidate says she’s been abducted by aliens in a damn spaceship. Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she was abducted by “three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was 7 years old and have communicated telepathically with her several times in her life, she says.”

You know, like Toni Orlando and Dawn except Norwegian.

Snicker #2:  The Miami Herald has endorsed her, calling her “a strong candidate in the race with plausible conservative ideas.”

Maybe plausible is not plausible.

The newspaper says that her ideas about spaceships and stuff do not interfere with what kind of congresswoman she’d be. Yeah, she’ll hardly even stand out among the other Republican wackos in congress.  It’s like, “Hey, voters, pay no mind that she hears voices in her head. She supports Trump, who also hears voices in his head and that’s worked out just fine.”

There are nine candidates in the Republican primary and this was the best they had. That, little buddies, is what the Republican Party has become.

Thanks to Louis N. for the heads up.

As most of you know, our Attorney General is a damn crook who just hasn’t been convicted yet.

So, I was glad to see somebody up and form a PAC to help defeat him.

And a website to match.  Click here.

Justin Nelson is the Democrat running and he’s far more qualified than Paxton.

The nice thing about Justin Nelson is that he won’t try to steal your $1,000 pen.

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Good Ole Boyism just won’t die.

The Victoria Advocate, a small town newspaper, has done a helluva job keeping up with this story.

Now it appears that the disgraced Republican congressvarmint used his political clout to help a campaign donor get federal contracts. And then the donor repaid Farenthold with a lucrative job at taxpayer expense after Farenthold  was forced to resign his congressional seat.

Since 2011, Boyd [chairman of the Calhoun Port Authority] has donated $17,800 to Farenthold. He had never donated to a federal political candidate before. And Boyd donated $5,000 to Farenthold’s campaign a day after the congressman’s office began arranging a meeting for him with the Corps, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Boyd also gave $3,250 to Brighter Future PAC, which lists Farenthold’s wife, Debbie, as the treasurer, on Oct. 13, 2016. Federal Elections Commission records show that the next day, the Brighter Futures PAC gave $2,500 to Bill Shuster for Congress [chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee], $2,500 to Issa for Congress.

Now that all the old white men’s palms have been greased, we can all celebrate what the old white men are calling “coincidence.”

In an interview Thursday with the Victoria Advocate, Boyd said his donation to Farenthold after his office arranged a meeting with the Corps was “coincidental.”

And by the way, dredging companies are hired by the port authority. The chairman of this port authority owns … a dredging company.  Nobody seemed to notice that until the newspaper got on the case.

Yeah, and Farenthold still owes us $84,000.

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

Y’all, if truth isn’t truth then what the fool tarnation is it? Macaroni? Wooly mammoth? A round-trip ticket to Franklin Graham’s sexual fantasies?

Oh, dear heavens, it’s kinda fun watching a guy come to pieces on the electric television.

And to make you feel even worse, Peter Wehner, who worked for the Reagan and both Bushes administrations, send his greetings.

Hey, we’ve got nuts governing us.  Have a nice Sunday!

Thanks to Deb T and SGray for the heads up!