Okay, so after Ted Cruz bet his bottom dollar that if elected Beto O’Rourke was going to outlaw barbeque in Texas. Now contending that what he said was in jest, Cruz said that if Democrats win, we’d band barbeque and make everybody eat tofu.

So John Cornyn tries to distract by going after Beto himself on the new Republican newspaper of record – Twitter.

Cornyn Twitters the not-so-new-news that O’Rourke said  “I don’t think we should be selling AR-15s in this country.”

Cornyn asks, “Not for self defense?”

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, who also has a subscription to Twitter, jumps up and responds to Cornyn.

“In 32 years policing I’ve yet [to] encounter a case of a community member using an AR-15 for self-defense,” Acevedo tweeted. “I’m not saying it hasn’t happened, but I’d bet the house they’ve been used many, many times to slaughter innocent Americans as opposed to self-defense.”

Cornyn suddenly remembers that guns don’t kill people, but sometimes United States Senators use their mouths to shoot themselves in the foot.

“Chief, it isn’t the gun it is the shooter. Let’s focus on mental health, background checks and information sharing that can save lives.”

Like catching fish in a barrel …

Acevedo doubles down and Cornyn shuts up.

Acevedo says he didn’t enter the Twit-Off to defend O’Rourke, but …

“I’m weighing in as a practitioner on behalf of the people we are sworn to protect,” Acevedo said, adding that he is part of a group of 69 police chiefs from major cities advocating for gun law reforms.

Members of the Major Cities Chiefs Association have called for a new assault weapons ban and stiffer penalties for illegal guns.

So Cornyn went back to staying in his own lane and tending to his areas of expertise – Republican greed, corruption, and getting rich off the taxpayers.

It appears that the Republican Party under Donald Trump has declared rape to be mark of a fine man. You know, good people on both sides – the man who rapes and the women who get raped.

Orrin Hatch speaks —

No, he’s not.  He’s committed perjury in his hearing, he’s abused a woman, his finances are a damn mess, and he probably has a gambling problem.  He’s Trump with a law degree.

First you say he didn’t do it and now you say but even if he did …. he’s a good man.

I believe in redemption. I believe that passed sins can be forgiven and that people can change.  I do not believe a man who continues to deny and does not seek redemption or forgiveness can be trusted.

So … FEMA has decided that what this country really needs is a Presidential Alert dohicky on your phone so that the president can text everydamnbody in the USA in case there’s any emergency.

Oh, that’s probably not a good idea.

What if Twitter goes down for 15 minutes and the president needs to say something about Robert Mueller’s illegal witch hunt and 17 angry Democrats?

Here’s the deal.  This access to my phone and the message is decided by the president and president alone.

Remember when President Obama wanted to speak to the school children of America over the television system and Republicans went nuts and kept their children home from school because they didn’t want their children exposed to Barack Obama?  Now, imagine if President Obama had asked for something like this.

You know what?  I’d feel a lot more comfortable if we gave this emergency system to Bill Nye the Science Guy, or Neil deGrasse Tyson, or maybe any person who isn’t batcrap crazy.

Thursday at 2:18pm ET.  Be there or be … I dunno, whatever you are when you are totally dumbfounded.

There’s an 88 year old woman in Austin who got this in the mail.

She thought she got a Travis County Summons.  She thought that because the upper left hand corner says so.

But look closely.  It’s from Ted Cruz and it’s asking for money.

He has no shame, no class, and no money.

In an attempt to “streamline” the Texas social studies curriculum, the Texas State Board of Education decided to cut some people from Texas history.  Namely, Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.

Members of the volunteer work group that made such recommendations to the board said the state requires children to learn about too many historical figures.

Clinton, as the first presidential nominee of ether major party to have ta-tas and the largest vote getter of the 2016 election, has been taught to high schoolers.  Helen Keller was taught to third graders as an example that handicapped people have made great contributions to society.

Neither statement is true now in Texas, so these women hit the trash can.  Besides, that Keller woman was a socialist.

In what reality can you learn too much about historical figures? Does learning too much turn you into a Democrat or some damn thing?

Texas ranks 43rd in education among the states because – obviously – we are teaching too damn much.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Well, I’m out of pocket but you guys feel free to to get me up to date when I get a break.