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Nine more women say that Alex Kozinski — a high-profile judge who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit — subjected them to sexual comments or other conduct, including four who say he touched them inappropriately.

And what’s this guy doing now?

And ….

Well, of course he is.

You know Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen is back.

So, just for weekend fun, here’s how Marjorie Taylor Green spends here campaign money.  You’ll notice right off the bat that her car needs a lot of maintenance and that she still spends a lot at the Trump hotel.

Senator Susan Collins is either the most wimpy woman on the planet or maybe deaf.  I dunno.

She called the police and filed a report because somebody, probably a transgender hooligan socialist, wrote a message on her sidewalk that she obviously felt was threatening.

The chalk art, described in the police report as “intricately drawn” and non-threatening, read: “Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA —–> vote yes, clean up your mess.” WHPA refers to the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify abortion rights.

Yeah, you read that right.  It was in chalk and it said please. Oh, the pearl clutching at the Collins house!

The police said it wasn’t a crime, but somebody from the public works department went over to clean Collins’ sidewalk – I imagine with a garden hose.

She didn’t back down.

“We are grateful to the Bangor police officers and the city public works employee who responded to the defacement of public property in front of our home.”

Look, I am not in favor of demonstrating in front of the justices’ homes, but damn, woman.  It’s chalk. I don’t call the police when the kids of Republicans on my block draw a hopscotch game on my sidewalk because it’s shady there. I give them cookies.

Honey, you need to get a hobby besides believing lying men.

She’s got less class than beanie-weenie night at the bowling alley, but she got herself a pimpmobile, Honey.

Majorie Taylor Greene just purchased herself a $92,000 “campaign car” using her political donations, a significant amount of which come from retired people.

It’s kinda hard to figure out which Russian tank she bought, but here’s a general idea.   This appears to be the  dealership’s most expensive car.

As of the time of writing, the website of the dealership in question shows no vehicles for sale with a sticker price above $81,860. That would get you a brand spanking new 2022 GMC Sierra 2500 HD AT4 truck complete with leather upholstery, two first row LCD monitors, a Premium GMC Infotainment System, and six speakers. So whatever MTG bought, it’s swankier than this.

Here’s my reckoning:  add another $10,000 for an ammo storage compartment, a hair dryer and mounted hair spray station, a tattoo equipment board, a fully equipped S&M dungeon, and small but tidy personal abortion clinic, and there’s your $10,000 in add ons.

Ain’t she dandy! If you can think of any other “add -ons” she’d need on her truck like maybe an animated  neon pop-up middle finger with “Eat This!” signage to flash at any vehicle with a Go Beto bumper sticker – just let me know in the comments.

The last week has demonstrated so much about the battle lines in America. In many ways, I suppose it makes so little sense to those outside of the United States. It barely makes sense to those of us here. We are simultaneously becoming more open and more tolerant of activities that might be considered on the edges of societal norms while others desperately pass laws to prevent those things.

Some people call these things victimless crimes. That designation obviously depends on multiple perspectives. Often times there are victims but they are not necessarily a victim of the crime itself, but all of the danger surrounding the so-called crime.

As everyone knows, we were settled by Puritans. I liken them to the Southern Baptists and non-denominational Evangelical Christians of today. Nearly everything pleasurable was a sin. Therefore, it was strictly prohibited. I don’t think most people have thought about how this played on our collective psyche even to the present day.

You cannot drink. You cannot dance. You cannot read strange books. You cannot partake of other substances. You certainly cannot have sex outside of marriage or participate in any activity that might nudge you down that road. Since this is the case, you cannot have access to anything that would promote safe sex, access to safe drugs, or allow anyone to make responsible choices.

What we understand today (and I imagine even then) is that when you deny someone anything pleasurable and tell them that doing that thing is a sin they will begin to crave it. They always joked that the best way to keep a Baptist from drinking your beer is to invite a second Baptist. As silly as the notion is, some people still think that if no one sees them do it then they never did it.

This has produced some widespread problems. I’m not sure how one measures such a thing, but it has been reported that the United States sits behind only Russia in the rate of alcoholics in society. That’s not total alcohol consumed. It’s not even alcohol consumed per capita. It is the percentage of people that have a problem with the amount of alcohol they consume.

We can extend this to other situations. One of my daughter’s friends nearly died from an overdose. It seems she bought some marijuana and still is not sure what it was laced with. Some dealers love to do that. I suppose that even if it were legal universally, some people would still try to find it cheaper or without the hassles of acquiring it legally.

All that being said, we can’t help but wonder how much making it legal and available through traditional means would prevent things like that. We can’t help but wonder how many fewer people would have addiction issues if our attitudes towards alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana were healthier. We can’t help but wonder how many fewer people would need abortions if they had access to birth control measures and helpful education about sexual activity in general.

Unfortunately, we can’t have these things because we are still stuck mentally in 17th century New England. These things are bad. You cannot have those things and we certainly can’t talk about them. Furthermore, if we allow those things then the slippery slope comes in and we would then see an increase in those other things that all of us find abhorrent.

Instead, we could discuss things like adults. Legalizing marijuana doesn’t necessarily mean a sharp increase in the use of harder drugs we all agree should be illegal. Allowing for and helping children understand safe sex doesn’t mean a sharp increase will definitely occur. If you give someone a bowl of ice cream they won’t devour the carton. If you show it to them and them tell them they can’t have any, you might wake up to find the carton empty. This is our collective American experience.

Texas felony indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton bared his teeth and growled that he’s “investigating” the Texas Bar Foundation. He claims that they are “potentially using taxpayer dollars” to funnel money to “entities that encourage, participate in, and fund illegal immigration at the Texas-Mexico border.”

Paxton’s mug shot

Paxton says this came from a tip from my congressvarmint Troy Nehls.  Nehls, who touts his degree from Liberty University and personal acquaintance with now-disgraced Jerry Falwell, Jr., probably heard it from his new buddy, Trump.

Now, keep in mind that Paxton is currently under indictment for stock fraud, had his entire top staff walk out of his office on the same day for unspecified “criminal behavior,” and now has criminal allegations floating about favors he performed for his mistress.

But, he’s going after the Texas Bar Foundation.

I don’t think they’re sweating it.  They literally have hot and cold running lawyers.

Soon after he announced the probe, the attorney general also made public that he is being investigated by the bar association for his role in pursuing a legal case to challenge the Electoral College vote count that delivered victory to President Biden in 2020.

I dunno.  I’ve got really strong eyeballs. I live in Texas so I roll them about 150 times a day.

Steven F. Hotze is a medical doctor in Houston who makes Ron Paul look liberal and sane.  He’s the evangelical minister of medicine. He practices a kind of magic medicine where no actual science is involved.  When the COVID epidemic started he announced it was no worse than the flu and if you’d come to his wellness clinic you won’t get it.

When people staring dying, he countered with the well known and highly understated fact that some people die of the flu.  He sells books and lotions and cures and all manner of crazy. But he keeps his medical license.  He is a major rightwing political activist, too.

He was totally convince that Democrats were stealing elections. So, he started his own investigation. First he hires a retired cop named Mark Aguirre to snoop around.

Aguirre becomes convinced that there’s a guy hauling off ballots in an air conditioning repairman van.  So, in mid December of 2020, he purposefully rear ends the guy at 5:00 am one morning, pulls a gun on him, makes a citizens arrest, and then proceeds to search the back of his van where, tada!, he finds air conditioning repairman tools.

Hotze funded the operation through his group called Liberty Center for God and Country, paying Aguirre — a disgraced former police captain fired in 2003 — more than $266,000 for his efforts.

Aguirre had arranged for some of his friends to drive up and witness this moment of rightwing glory, when an HPD officer pulled over to see what was going on. The driver is fine and most of the city almost drank every bar in town down to the last drop with spectacular schadenfreude.  Of course the guy is suing and criminal charges were filed against Aguirre. You can read about the whole horrifying event here.

Hotze’s attorneys long have claimed Hotze was unaware of the encounter between Aguirre and the repairman until he saw it on the news after the episode.

But then, something pretty cool happened earlier this week. It became known that —

Two days before a private investigator looking into a voter fraud conspiracy theory smashed into an air conditioning repairman’s truck and pulled a gun on him, far-right activist Steven Hotze called then-U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick and told him about the plans to have “a wreck,” court documents show.

The US Attorney recorded the call.  Hotze was asking for US Marshalls to help with the stop. Hotze then went into detail about the rear ending and the US Attorney said he had another call and hung up.

Last Friday, a Harris County Grand Jury indicted Hotze on charges of unlawful restraint and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Another damning piece of information?  Hotze wrote the check for $266,000 two days after this incident. So, ya know, he had to know about the rear ending when he wrote the check, right? Hell, it was all over the news.