Trump is selling tee-shirts for $99.

Okay, so they are jerseys, but they are familiar …

Hummmm …. Stand up for America?  That sounds familiar …

Oh well, like we didn’t know before now.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Okay, a Catholic church school, where there are bells, incense, exorcists, and could easily change their name to Our Lady of Perpetual Ritual and nobody would complain, is all scared of Harry Potter.

They are more scared of Harry Potter than they are of illiteracy.

“These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception,” he explained. “The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.”

That’s pretend.  Make believe. Like Santa Claus and the Easter bunny. Like wine turning into the blood of Christ.

Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas with vice presidential aspirations, has finally made a statement after the Odessa slaughter.

Greg agrees that thoughts and prayers aren’t enough.

He has a solution, my friends, and he took a strong and meaningful stand on it.

He says we should expedite executions for mass murderers.

No, I am not freekin’ kidding.

Following the second Texas mass shooting in a month, Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted on Monday night that Texas is “working on a legislative package” and that “expedited executions for mass murderers would be a nice addition.”

It’s unclear whether that legislation will wait until 2021 — the next time the Texas Legislature convenes — or if Abbott is considering calling a special legislative session.

Uh, and how many of them have been taken alive?  Good Lord, Governor, haven’t you noticed that we execute the vast majority of them on the damn spot?

And, “nice” is an odd word to use, don’t you think?  He didn’t say effective or meaningful or helpful.  He said nice. That’s just weird.

He’s just weird, y’all.

Please meet Louisiana Republican gubernatorial candidate and current congressman Ralph Abraham. He’s a medical doctor and a punk.

There’s a story this week showing the opioid blood on his hands.

Over the course of seven years, from 2006 to 2012, two pharmacies in rural northeast Louisiana, owned Ralph Abraham, Clinic Pharmacy of Mangham and Adams Clinic Pharmacy of Winnsboro, doled out 1,478,236 doses of powerful opioids, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration database recently published by the Washington Post.

The pharmacies are 12.5 miles away from one another, and the two communities have a combined population of approximately 6,000 people. Despite the surge in opioid prescriptions, the region’s population has actually decreased during the previous twenty years.

Couple this horror with Abraham’s strong stand against marijunana.

Again, as a physician, let me tell you. What I see in my practice, from any level of marijuana use, is bad,” Abraham stated. “I’m against recreational, I’m against medical. In the medical profession, for these chronic pain, poor cancer patients that need help, we have other alternatives that work better, Dilaudid, OxyContin, you name it, Oxycodone, we have several options that do a much better job for chronic pain.

Yeah, he doesn’t make a profit from marijunana.

He was buying all his opioid supply from one pharmacy, Morris and Dickson Co. – a family business also located in Louisiana.  Dickson is a big political donor in Louisiana. and was Abraham’s guest at the State of the Union.  You know, because scum attracts scum.

In May of this year, his [Dickson’s] company agreed to pay $22 million in civil penalties to settle charges it had violated the Controlled Substances Act.

Ralph Abraham has repeatedly expressed his opposition to lawsuits filed against opioid distributors and manufacturers, arguing that these pharmaceutical companies are merely meeting the market’s demand.

Y’all, it’s a long article but it’s stunning. I want to hold his head in a bowl of gumbo.  He’s a pusher, plain and simple.  And he’s a congressman who wants to be governor.

Very useful when a certain someone is not familiar with hurricane categories:

I would just like to say —

Justin Verlander pitched his 3rd no hitter last night.  And a big high-five to rookie Abraham Toro, who not only hit the winning two run homer, but also played third base like his name was on it.  It was only his 8th major league game and he was not scheduled to start until an hour before the game.

I will be at the game Thursday night to welcome the boys back to town.  I just love this game.