Okay, so about a hundred of you sent this to me and since I’ve been busy lately I didn’t have time to look at it to see if you were lying when you said it wasn’t The Onion.

To be honest, I don’t trust you guys all that much.

I still would not bet my best pair of pink boots on this, but for the life of me I cannot find any reason not to believe it – especially since I have been to Woodland, North Carolina, to do politics. I had a couple of fights.

Putting in solar panels failed in Woodland by a vote of city council.  They do not believe in abusing the sun in North Carolina.  During the public comment section of the meeting, it got interesting.

[Jane Mann] is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where the plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight.

That could happen.  In fact, I saw it happen myself surrounding a rightwing tea party yard sign just 40 miles away from Woodland.

But Jane ain’t done.

She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer.

Yo, Jane! Over here!  Look over here.  Solar panels don’t cause cancer. You live in tobacco country. People openly smoke in public buildings.

Next comes Bobby Mann, who I suspect is related to Jane.

Bobby Mann said he watched communities dry up when I-95 came along and warned that would happen to Woodland because of the solar farms.

“You’re killing your town,” he said. “All the young people are going to move out.”

He said the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland.

Yeah, you know, kinda like windmills use up all the wind.

Yep, those youngsters today just hate solar panels like the damn plague. They will pack their bags and leave the charming city of Woodland, with its vast intellectual and artistic opportunities.

I’ve been keeping score, y’all.  The crazies are winning.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Democrat Sylvester Turner, endorsed by President Barak Obama, is the new mayor of Houston.

I’m going to dance on the table, take a swig of tequila, and go to bed.

Houston is safe.

Ted Cruz is such a patriot that he wrapped himself so tightly in the flag that it cut off circulation to brain.

In his very best robot voice, he called for FREEDOM!  Religious Freedom!

He even prayed for it.

And hired some people to pray with him, and called Hollywood to make a little halo thingy hang over his head.  And there fairy dust on his shoulders, no wait, that’s dandruff.

And he gave a speech.

“If I’m elected president,” Cruz shouted, “I will instruct the Department of Justice and the IRS and every other federal agency that the persecution of religious liberty ends today!”

Or maybe next week.

Two days later, this happened.

In a rebuke of Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-4 Thursday on an amendment that confirms that the U.S. should not block people from the country because of their religion.

The four “no” votes were Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, David Vitter, R-Louisiana and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

See, I told you he ain’t getting enough blood to his brain.

In Ted’s mind, freedom of religion means you’re free to be a Baptist, a Methodist, a Church of Christ, an Evangelical Lutheran, or a Presbyterian.  He’s a little leery of Catholics because … well, they’re not Baptists.

Thanks to Bryan and Larry for the heads up.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is faux-Christian who will steal your Christmas presents and claim he didn’t notice that it wasn’t his for a full year.

He’s under indictment for stock fraud. You know, taking other’s people’s money under false pretense,  the Republican national sport. You know how we have sport’s bars where people go watch football, baseball, and basketball? Instead of that, Republicans have board rooms where they go defraud people out of their money.

Bless his heart, he’s got a legal team who are louder than they are smart. They were pretty sure that since Paxton got his trial moved to his home county, one of the special prosecutor was Tom DeLay’s lawyer, and the judge is a Republican, that they could get this case dismissed without ever going to trial.

It’s a swing and a miss.

The judge denied the motion to dismiss the case.

Yahoo!

I feel sure his lawyers will appeal because that’s what lawyers do.  Instead of spears, they throw paper at each other.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Houston is the most diverse city in America.  I’m proud of that.  The payback has been a world-class medical center, ethnic foods to fit your soul, an emerging art collection, city parks with diverse programs, and music to tickle your ears.

But, there are still people in Houston who are so mean that your clothes wrinkle when they walk by.

Houston’s public schools offer magnet programs.  They are hugely popular with fierce competition to get into any one of them.

And then you have this crapola called “Stop the Magnet.”

Houston ISD’s Arabic Immersion Magnet School Places Children in the Crosshairs of Civilizational Jihad

Placing PK-K aged children in the front lines among those who are seeking to undermine the United States is negligent, inexcusable and reckless.

They are going to protest.  Intelligence.  They want to protest intelligence.

Hellfire, he’s just shut down all the schools. Schools teach all manner of dangerous things and ideas.

Thanks to Mark for the heads up.

Guys, we’re in the midst of a very close election for the city of Houston and looking dead solid at the distinct possibly that Houston may have a Republican mayor for the first time in 50 years.  Not only that, but he’s a gay-hating, racist, Tea Party jerk who may win on voter turnout alone. Today is election day and it’s raining.  Crap.

I worked the ballot board all day yesterday.  We certify the mail ballots and open them to be counted.  I don’t mind losing elections but I hate getting one stolen from me.

If you live in Houston, go vote for Sylvester Turner.  Right damn now.

I’m going to be phone banking today because my momma and grandchild both live in Houston.

There have been a few requests for pictures of Ben.  This one was taken last month at his second birthday party with his Grandpa.

That’s why you need to go vote.

Thanks for your patience and indulging me once a year for pictures of Ben.