Okay, well this one is a doozy.

Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn his name to be defense secretary.  It’s kinda a shame because it appears that this family has been at war for years so he’s probably pretty good at it.

You can read this long, long list of all the things his family has done to each other which includes hitting one in the head with a baseball bat, throwing clothes out the window and then attempting to barbecue them, throwing Christmas dinner on the floor, sucker punching one while he’s asleep, oh honey, this is not Ozzie and Harriet.

Shanahan has no military experience but he did serve as a high level executive at Boeing, making him a defense contractor in charge of the military.

As Melania says, “Be best!”

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Trump got all beside himself and couldn’t contain the good news.

President Trump said in a tweet Monday night that U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests starting “next week,” an apparent reference to a plan in preparation for months that aims to round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation across major U.S. cities.

The economic impact of this is deeply troubling, but the inhumanity of it is immeasurable.

However, it was certainly nice of Trump to announce it early so that those who need to can seek sanctuary until it passes.

Usually these raids are kept very quiet because the element of surprise is what makes them work.  Trump fixed that.

ICE officials said late Monday night that they were not aware that the president planned to divulge their enforcement plans on Twitter.

Well, I suspect not.

And that’s why the deep state truly is taking over.  They do things without telling him.  Can’t blame ’em.

Remember how I told you that Paul Manafort had been charged in New York and would soon be going to Rikers?

Little did I know about the powers of Trump. Manafort was scheduled to be transferred this month, but then last week …

Manhattan prosecutors were surprised to receive a letter from the second-highest law enforcement official in the country inquiring about Mr. Manafort’s case. The letter, from Jeffrey A. Rosen, Attorney General William P. Barr’s new top deputy, indicated that he was monitoring where Mr. Manafort would be held in New York.

And yesterday, prosecutors heard from federal prison officials telling them that Manafort would not be going to Rikers.

He will either stay in a federal facility in New York or remain in Pennsylvania and be brought back and forth for his hearings.

Maybe he could just stay in Trump Tower. They have room service and everything.

Okay, there’s all manner of crazy on the internet machine about Alex Jones and child pornography.

A lawyer in the Connecticut case received some child pornography buried within electronic documents Jones turned over in response to a discovery order.  Right now, it is unknown if the pornography was purposefully or even accidentally put there by Jones or something the people who assembled the discovery materials put there.

Discovery in this case is massive with thousands of emails and documents.

My son is still investigating if he got any in his discovery.

Jones had a frightening conniption fit over it and while Jones’ lawyer was sitting next to him, Jones threatened the Connecticut attorney’s life.

“You’re trying to set me up with child porn, I’ll get your ass,” Jones states on the broadcast. “One million dollars, you little gang members. One million dollars to put your head on a pike.” Jones then pounds a photograph of Mattei and goes into a rant at one point stating, “I’m gonna kill…”

Meanwhile, here is the most gosh-awful interview filled with the most vile language, racist hate and total insanity.

https://www.infowars.com/watch/?video=5d043508848c210017aafefc

The freak out is 2 hr 34 min – 2 hr 39 min.  

The Connecticut lawyer Attorney Christopher Mattei responds to Jones’ outburst by filing this with the court (opens in PDF) today.

There this Tweet:

I heard he’s going to try to go against Semi-Professional Monkey Bowling and Thelma Sue’s Cooking On The Hood Of Your Car with special guest Guy Fieri in a Speedo.

My money is on Thelma and the monkeys.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Houston’s own pastor Stephen Bratton of Grace Family Baptist Church was a loud and outspoken critic of any attempt in Texas to following the constitutional right of a woman to have an abortion.

Honey, that man practically stalked the capitol building and any pulpit he could find to save the lives of “the unborn.”  He was zealot and a Christian soldier.

Bratton recently testified in support of failed House Bill 896 that would have abolished abortions in Texas and opened up the possibility that prosecutors could charge a woman who undergoes the procedure with criminal homicide. The offense can be punishable by the death penalty under current Texas law.

So, as you would suspect, he was abusing children.

Bratton told his wife about the abuse in May, and admitted to his co-pastors at Grace Family Baptist Church that same day that he had “sinned in grievous ways,” according to court documents.

This guy joins a long string of hypocrites hiding behind rightwing theology.