A couple in Minnesota have fun by writing political messages on a piece of plywood and standing on the corner holding it up.  It seems like as good a hobby as any.

So the other day, they took their new sign to the corner.  It said, “Trumpers — thank God in greyhound he is gone.” I think that’s supposed to be God and Greyhound, after the Roy Acuff song.  It doesn’t matter. I get it and I think it’s funny.

Well, that apparently was the final straw for fifty year old Mark A. Ulsaker. He drove by in his pickup truck and then came back and attacked them from behind.  With a damn golf club. He kept swinging it at their heads.

Under questioning by police, Ulsaker said he is a “Trump supporter” who was angry about the couple’s sign.

He said he made an obscene gesture, swung a golf club at them and kicked over the sign.

Ulsaker said he punched the man because he was coming after him. He also said he drove his pickup over the curb toward the woman, but only to scare her.

So basically, like Trump, he didn’t do anything wrong. He missed with the golf club and only punched the man to defend himself. And there’s no laws against trying to scare people. People do that on Halloween all the time.

But, Ulsaker made one mistake because when the police came to his home to arrest him, he took a swing at one of them. They say he calmed down quite a lot when the police pulled a taser on him.

I wish they had released the names of the victims so I could send them money for more damn plywood and paint.  What this world needs is more 80 year olds with funny signs at street corners. That would improve all our lives greatly.

Of all the people reelected to congress from Texas, my personal least favorite is Dan Crenshaw.

He is just creepy.  I knew him when he was a legislative assistant to Pistol Pete Sessions. Maybe that’s where he learned his bluster and brag.  He’s one of those guys who makes your skin crawl before he even opens his mouth, and after he does open his mouth, your damn skin has already crawled to the next room.

To this day, Crenshaw will defend Trump’s response to the Corona Virus.  He refuses to wear a mask even after Gov. Abbott mandated it.  Dan Crenshaw thinks he is real damn special.

So, it did not surprise me that Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen found some real interesting campaign finance no-nos in Crenshaw’s latest filings.  He keeps forgetting that there’s a legal limit on donations to your congressman.

His October quarterly report has 8 pages of excessive donations. His 12 Day General Election Report has 6 additional pages.

This ain’t pencil and paper high math.  If you simply enter contributions into a spreadsheet, you can see which ones cross the limit of what can be donated.  He’s just trying to see what he can get away with. He’s just that kind of guy.

James Lankford, the junior senator from Oklahoma is as Super DeLux Brand Christian as you can get.  He’s a graduate of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a member of the Southern Baptist Church – which split with the Baptist Church during the civil war and then split again with Southern Baptist churches in the 1990’s, when Baptist were watching up with the 1960’s.

He opposes gay people. But, he makes up for that with how much he loves guns. He’s against any form of federally funded healthcare and thinks medicare should be a choice. In short, he is Trump’s dream child.

So, everybody was pretty much stunned when he announced —

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told KRMG that if President-elect Joe Biden doesn’t have access to intelligence briefings by Friday then he will get involved.

Said Lankford: “I can assure you there will be a peaceful transition of power in the United States.”

Holy cow.

Holy damn cow. Maybe it’s happening.

Nick Carraway is speaking:

If you read my introductory piece, you know I ply my craft as a teacher. I am what is called a case manager and support facilitator. That means I have a case load of special education students I am responsible for and I also support other students in their general education classes (primarily English).

As you might suspect, our particular campus has about 50 percent of the student body learning virtually. That might be coming to an end. If you are failing and working from home, the TEA is allowing districts to force you to return. 

This is the proverbial double edged sword. On the one hand, contacting parents and trying to get virtual students to do their work takes up a good part of my day. We have to keep a parent contact log along with every other teacher in the building. I am happy to report that I have more entries than any other teacher in our group. I don’t know if that means I have actually done more contacts. I’ve just reported more than anyone else.

So, I more than anyone else see the value of forcing these kiddos to come to school. We also had our first faculty member test positive this week. We have also had five students test positive up until now. So, any significant change by the state and local districts have to be taken in context with the national and local trends of the virus. Any gains in academic performance have to be leveraged against the probability that a return of more students would likely mean an increase in positive tests.

I think what is more maddening than the decision itself is the way it is worded. It does not tell districts that they have to bring those students back. It does not tell them to bring all students back. It says that they MAY bring those students back. In other words, they are passing the buck. Leadership has a way of filtering down. Lack of leadership does the same thing.

Donny Deutsch, a former Trump friend, was on MSNBC’s Nicolle today giving his perspective on Trump’s inexplicable claims of massive non-existent voter fraud.  His take?  Business. Business, plain and simple.  And it makes perfect sense.  Deutsch says that the “Trump Revolution Network“, a new subscription channel, is in preproduction preparing to launch as soon as Trump storms out of the White House claiming that the election was stolen from him.  He also asserted that Trump has already trademarked the term”Telerally” and is trying to set himself up as Republican kingmaker, demanding that future candidates kiss his ring to avoid his Omniscient Twitter Attacks that would sink the campaign of anyone who dares cross him.  Later on The Beat with Ari Melber, guest and confessed felon, Michael Cohen, pretty much confirmed the same theory, that this is all staging for the next step in Trump’s toxic career.  Cohen claims that Trump has no remaining revenue left, and is going to attempt to establish himself as the gatekeeper to Republican Nirvana.

This makes more sense to me that any other theory for his idiotic claims of voter fraud, even going so far as sending out Trump Humper Mike Pompeo to assert that there will be a “peaceful transition of power to a second Trump administration.”  With all the opacity of current events, one thing is clear…Trump and all of his enablers, including Pompeo, Barr, Trump Jr, Ivanka, Jared, Eric, Miller, and other Trumpists MUST be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.  It’s hard to overthrow democracy from a prison cell.  It might, though, be a good setting for Trump’s new reality series, Celebrity Felon, Cell Block C Edition.

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