So … putting pencil to paper, the Trump administration is trying to make a new law that says he does not have to disclose how much it has cost the taxpayers for him to travel about like the Prince of Siam  (I have no idea what that means but my grandmother used to say it all the time.) until after the 2020 election.

Let me give you an idea about how awful this is.

The government spent about $96 million on travel by Obama over eight years, according to documents obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch. A report by the Government Accountability Office, which serves as the congressional watchdog on federal spending, estimated that Trump’s travel cost $13.6 million in just one month in early 2017. That total included the costs of travel for Secret Service and Defense Department personnel, and the costs of renting space and operating equipment such as boats and planes. If spending continued at that pace, Trump would have exceeded Obama’s total expenses before the end of his first year in office.

I added some stuff up for 8 years of this crap and – voila! – that’s one billion, three hundred and five million and some change. We could move the whole Trump family to Mars for that, which ain’t a bad idea.

And then you consider that most of that money goes directly to Trump for his hotels and golf courses and Mara Lago, and hair spray and what not, then steam starts coming out your ears.

And he’s still blaming Obama for everything.

Trump looked like a pavement princess in church or the guy at the bar who looks like he’s been there three hours and ten drinks too long.

All this is Obama’s fault?

Trump can’t pronunciate words right – was that tolerate or toilirite? – and somebody please give him a Kleenex.

The only thing that keeps you awake during his speeches is the total terror that he’s going to declare war on Hawaii because … Obama.

If Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is not tottering on the verge of paranoid hysteria, he’s sleeping or has passed out at the dinner table.

Get this:

Oh silver plated rodeo with mother of pearl inlay!  Texas must be the highest bastion of anti-Persian power on earth and neighboring planets and that’s why they are going after us.  But Texas, fully armed, loaded, and ready to fight a damn war with Bubba and Melvin over at the shooting range leading the troops currently housed at trailer parks in Grimes County (and I have proof of that), are holding off them damn hackers.

Okay, proof about the trailer parks in Grimes County:

If you’ve never heard of Confederate Heroes Day, neither have people in Iran.  And they made it tricky because they put it on Martin Luther King Day.

Back to the idea of 10,000 Iranian computer hacks per minute on the Texas state computer system.

One hack did get the job done, though.  Our big doofus agriculture commissioner, Sid Miller, got his website hacked.

However, even Miller says it was probably the work of kids.

It’s not clear how the hackers got into the website. Officials don’t think it was Iran, but they suspect it may have been youth participating in some type of cyber challenge, Miller said.

Good Lord, he got that figured out and he’s an idiot.

Yeah, and I don’t think Iranians would name themselves #theloserteam.

Just a guess on my part though, just like every official statement from Greg Abbott.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

I’m not buying the engine fire causes plane to crash explanation being given the media.  The Boeing 737-800 is highly reliable with sophisticated fire detection and fire suppression systems.  Also, this particular aircraft is only three years old.  An engine fire would not cause a loss of control of the aircraft unless an explosion would rupture the firewall between the engine itself and the wing structure.  The fire suppression systems on the 737 includes fuel and air shutoffs AND onboard fire extinguishers.  And the plane is designed to be flyable on one engine, which should have allowed it to return safely to Tehran or other nearby airport.

Watching the video, the plane was on fire all the way to the ground, which tells me that it was a serious explosion on board that got around the fire containment design.  This is very suspicious and I’m suspecting onboard sabotage or a shootdown.  Know what was going on at the time, I won’t be a bit surprised that Iran’s own anti-aircraft defense systems shot this one down.

Curiouser and curiouser – A Ukrainian airliner is reported down in a suburb in Tehran shortly after take-off .  180 people were onboard.