Dan Chiasson lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and the city council is after him.  It seems that Dan put a sign on his house.

And the city is going to fine him $300 a day until he takes it down.  They say it’s in violation of city codes.  They say the sign hung at Dan Chiasson’s house “is too big and hung too high.”  Well, damn, that’s kinda how I like my men – too big and hung high.

The problem, as I see it, is not that we have an Impeach Trump sign on a house.  The problem is that we should have at least a couple million more.

Thanks to Rip for the heads up.

There’s definitely some negatives about living dangerously close to Houston. Traffic, OMG traffic. Humidity, OMG humidity. Did I mention traffic and humidity?

But there are some sterling things, too. It’s a liberal city and always has been in my lifetime. We elected a lesbian mayor when it was a thing. We are diverse. We are generally friendly unless you whine. We have gorgeous parks scattered everywhere. We have a world class medical center and Rice University. We have a gorgeous skyline and a world champion baseball team. Our food draws on all cultures but you can generally get better Mexican food here than in Mexico City.  There’s a lot to love about Houston.

Especially, this:  there is a Saturday afternoon activity for Houston children at one of the neighborhood libraries.  It’s called the Drag Queen Storytime and it’s delicious!  It is so popular that they keep having to move it to larger locations and you have to get there long before it starts to get in line for a ticket.

So, of course, somebody wants to ruin the fun.  James “Doc” Green is a host for a radio show called “Raging Elephants.”  He has already been warned to stay away from the library where Drag Queen Storytime puts on a show. He’s even been banned by the library from even being on the premises, but he just can’t help himself.

So, he “was detained, disarmed, and escorted out by police on Saturday, Jan. 26, for entering the building and refusing to leave.” It took seven police officers to remove him.  He yelled at the librarian,“We have a bunch of homosexuals that are molesting children. They are doing it with your help.”

I don’t think he understands the whole drag queen thing.  My 5 year old grandson has been to Drag Queen Storytime and he told me it was “cool, because they wear costumes.” I’m proud to tell you that he “gets it.” Maybe he could explain that to Doc.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Y’all, he wants that damn wall.

The White House is finalizing details of a potential national emergency declaration to secure President Donald Trump’s border wall, even as lawmakers are trying to broker an immigration deal that could avert another shutdown in just over two weeks.

He truly doesn’t understand that the biggest hurdle is gonna be Texas ranchers and farmers in the Rio Grande valley who do not want to have their property or their access to the river confiscated by the goldarn guvmint.  There’s gonna be shooting – and worse yet, lawyers – involved.

I have a vision of Speaker Pelosi standing in the desert with a bunch of ranchers behind her facing off against Donald Trump and Matthew Whitaker, the guy who sweats so much they ought to keep him down there to water the crops.

Trump is backed against the wall.  McConnell isn’t going to let him shut down the government again and Democrats are not going to let him have a wall.

I gotta be honest, I am looking forward to the SOTU to hear him threaten the entire freekin’ country.

Some times things are just wizardry.

Like this:

A plant in Kentucky is moving all their operations to Mexico.

The Louisville plant, at 11225 Bluegrass Parkway, makes aluminum ladders, wood attic ladders and fall-protection products like ropes and harnesses.

Ladders.  They’re moving their ladder making company to Mexico.

The owner of the company “did not address whether the aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year by President Trump were a factor in the plant closure.”

Probably did, though.

Thanks to Wyatt for the heads up.

The Texas Secretary of State, who is appointed by the Governor, made a big announcement that 95,000 people in Texas were registered to vote who were not citizens.  And, holy mackerel, they could prove it.

They looked at Texas driver’s license applications and pulled out the names of people who applied for licenses while non-citizens from 1996 to 2018.  They matched that with currently registered voters and came up with 95,000 “possible” non-citizens, which they later revised to 98,000.

The state then sent the county election officials a list of those names and asked them to contact each voter asking them to prove they are citizens.

And Donald Trump retweeted this great discovery.

But then, revisions were revised some more yesterday.

Texas naturalizes about 50,000 people a year.  So, there’s a pretty good chance that some of these people became naturalized after applying for a driver’s license and then didn’t bother to notify the Department of Public Safety because they are not required to.

So, on the third revision, things like this happened.

The state initially told Cameron County that about 1,500 of the nearly 1,600 names on their list had been placed there in error. The state then called Cameron County and said they had given them the wrong number, Garza said.

In all, about 300 of the names on Cameron County’s list were put there in error, Garza said.

Are you starting to get the idea that the state doesn’t know what they are doing?  Cameron County was initially told 1,600, then told 100, and next was told 1,200. And it’s only Wednesday.

Additionally, many of the names have been found of citizens who registered to vote at the naturalization ceremony.

Needless to say, LULAC, the Texas Civil Rights Project, the ACLU and damn near everybody else is on this like green on grass.

Kentucky Republican Governor Matt Bevin ain’t puttin’ up with all this weakness in America.  No, siree.

He went on the electric radio to preach good old American hardness.

Bevin was disdainful of several school districts in Kentucky closing school today during the polar votex.  He kept saying over and over, “We’re getting soft,” and wondered out loud, “What’s happening to America?”

I dunno, Matt, the worst weather in a generation?

“Now we cancel school for cold,” he said.

“It’s deep freeze!” the host replied. “This is serious business.”

Bevin scoffed at the forecasts. “Come on, now,” he said. “I mean, there’s no ice going with it, or any snow.”

Actually, there was snow in parts of Kentucky. Oh, but he wasn’t finished.

… it does concern me a little bit that in America — on this and any number of other fronts — we’re sending messages to our young people that if life is hard, you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard,” he said.

I looked for pictures of Bevin out standing at a bus stop this morning when it was zero degrees with a heavy wind.  It’s a shame I couldn’t find any.

By the way, “Bevin, who was born in Colorado and grew up in New Hampshire, attended the Gould Academy, a college preparatory school in Bethel, Maine, where annual tuition for boarding students is now $61,350.”

Isn’t that nice?  And soft?  And a place to curl up?