What a better way to enjoy guns than to let your 7 year old have target practice in the backyard on a damn homemade target!

Despite the fact that no one noticed any ricochets and the guns were always pointed down-range, the 7-year-old at one point grabbed his chest and complained of pain, deputies said.

The boy’s father checked the son and noticed the child’s T-shirt had a small hole in it, where he was bleeding from his chest.

A preliminary investigation shows pieces of a bullet did indeed ricochet, hitting the child, investigators told KCRA 3.

The child will be okay but will probably never forget the time Dad didn’t understand how guns work.

In Detroit a 73 year man got grumpy over a dentist bill so he pulled a gun on the dentist and his assistant.

According to police, the man drew a pistol and threatened the dentist when another employee grabbed the gun. The employee and others in the office helped subdue the man, but during the struggle, the gun went off.

No injuries were reported.

But, that’s just the beginning.

Meanwhile, in Orlando, two friends were at the Shoot Straight Gun Range and didn’t.  One of them jammed his 9 mm semi automatic Smith and Wesson and the other one tried to help.  The helper shot himself in the finger and his friend in the thigh.

Quote of the day —

“One of them, I guess, thought he could teach the other he could shoot,” [police sergeant Mark] Stein said.

Obviously neither could.

Thanks to Carl and Brian of the heads up.

I know it’s become trite to say “Oops” everydamntime that Rick Perry’s name is mentioned, but the reason it’s become trite is because he’s The Oopsy Candidate.  He Oops for a living.  It was his college major.  He’s an Oops machine set on overdrive during an Oops storm in Oppsville during the month of Oopstober.

Take for example his recent rough and ready decision to send the Texas National Guard to South Texas.  Two weeks later, fifty guard members show up at food banks because Rick Perry forgot that they don’t get paid until September 5th.  Oops.  They also had to beg gas money to get from their living quarters to their duty station.  Oops.

Sweet Jesus in heaven above, do not let this man be commander in chief. We’d have troops landing on the beach in Normandy with no pants on.

And today we add another to the list.  Perry tweeted a Photoshopped picture of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmburg, claiming that she indicted him.  This tweet did come from the one that his staff writes.  It was his own personal Twitter account.

Stay classy, Rick.

The Houston Chronicle  pointed out —

Lehmberg did not indict Perry. She and other officials in solidly Democratic Travis County recused themselves from the case against Perry. Bert Richardson, a Republican judge from Bexar County, appointed San Antonio lawyer Michael McCrum to serve as a special prosecutor.

An hour later, Perry tweeted again.

Oops.

It was your personal Twitter account, Skippy.

Sometimes I think that Rick Perry was shot out of a cannon and missed the net.

Additionally, being “the most drunk Democrat in Texas” is a hotly contested title.  I think they retired the jersey when Sam Houston died.  They say he was the best politician in Texas drunk or sober.

Does Rick Perry really want to talk about drunk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf3u25PHCqc

Yeah, right.

Okay, so some guys in Dallas who look like they would not know Gouda from Gruyère up and decide to picket Whole Foods because Whole Foods has signs asking you not to come into the store with open carry weapons.

Thankfully, a great American got pictures of it all because it was pretty damn funny.

First off the guys show up with lawn chairs because – and I’m judging only by appearance here – they probably don’t intend on doing much walking or shopping in the Fit Foods section.

Now the guy in the middle is carrying a “Remember Luby’s” sign.  As you might recall, a man in Killeen, Texas, killed 43 people inside a Luby’s cafeteria.  Responding police could not stop him even though they exchanged fire.  The reason you might not remember this is that it happened in 1991.  That was 23 years ago.  I have no idea how many people have been accidentally killed with guns in the past 23 years but it’s probably – and I’m just guessing here because I ran out of fingers and toes to count on by 1992 – a whole bunch.

The guy walking beside him is a real law and order type, right?  Wrong.

Let’s mosey on over to the Texas Penal Code.

Sec. 42.11. DESTRUCTION OF FLAG. (a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly damages, defaces, mutilates, or burns the flag of the United States or the State of Texas.

Dude, you not only defaced the Texas flag, you’re dragging it on the ground, Moses Rose.

Note the Ron Paul giantass lettering on his back windows. Really?  You’re still dating with that crazy old man?  Oh Honey, just go home and get drunk on the couch in your underwear.

So, they have this giant gun protest in Dallas, Texas.  Five guys show up and it last 30 minutes before they got distracted by a beer sign.

Thanks to the great people at Liberaland for the pictures and the fun.

I think Ted Cruz meant well with his back-to-school newsletter.  I do.  I think the poor man is just so disconnected from reality that he has no idea what he sounds like.  He sounds like a rich Canadian man totally disconnected from reality.

You can read his whole newsletter here, but if you can only take Ted Cruz in small doses, I’ve provided a picture of what he tells students that they can become if they study hard enough.

So, if you’re a girl you can start a cosmetic company and exploit women in some pyramid scheme where the best thing in the world is a pink Cadillac.  If you’re a boy you can be pot smoking country star, or a guy who invented a way to destroy the environment.

Please note that all three of these people are white.  Whites are a minority in Texas public schools.   None are disabled.  8.4% of Texas students are disabled.

However, at least one of them is a Democrat.

Thanks to Lucy for the heads up.

Okay, there’s this conservative think tank (which seems like an oxymoron) in Dallas called the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). It is run by a 68 year old guy named John Goodman, but not the famous John Goodman.  This one is only semi-famous.  He thought up the Republican plan to counteract Obamacare and basically keeps Texas Republicans riled up enough to send money to Republicans.  He is paid $587,000 a year to think.  But not wisely.

John got ousted for “sexual misconduct and breach of fiduciary duty.”

Of course you want to know the back story.  You know there’s gotta be a great backstory.  It’s Republicans.  It’s money.  It’s power.  There’s gotta be some perverted hoochy koochy involved and this story does not disappoint.

The Players:

The Plot:

The NCPA hired a part time clerk named Sherri Collins from a temp agency without doing a background check on her.  Come to find out a tad too late, she “had multiple brushes with the law for theft, assault and criminal mischief.”  Then last June she assaulted her current boyfriend with a fake plant.  In my mind, that’s just kinda dumb.  Fake plants rarely make good weapons and I’ve never known anyone who had to go to an emergency room with a silk spathiphyllum protruding from any part of their torso.  However, I suspect if that does happen, it will happen in Texas.

Anyway, the minute Sherri arrives she catches the eye of John Goodman.  In 2011, things got weird between the two.  A former employee says,“He would rub her leg. She would smile. It seemed like two people in a relationship.”  You know, I have the same relationship with my dog.  I only said that to let you know that this could be a platonic thing.  It could be.  It wasn’t.

In 2012, John divorced his wife.

By 2013, however, things had gone sour enough between the pair that an apparent physical confrontation erupted between them in the California hotel room. Goodman reportedly choked Collins in the course of a violent argument that left the hotel room “torn up.”

You know what happens next, right?  Sherri gets a big promotion.  She went from a temporary clerk to director of Human Relations, which is kinda funny if you think about it.  See what he did there?  Relations?  Human?  Yeah, which is why I brought up the whole dog thing in the first place.

Next, someone points out that Sherri might be good at a certain kind of relations, but business ain’t one of them.  She is accused by other employees of being “hostile, combative, and disrespectful.”

Trying to get rid of her was not easy.  Sherri is not the kind of woman who goes away quietly.  She blows the top off the place and both of them get fired by the board of director.  She’s hired lawyers so now all this Republican money is going to pay writ twits.

See, there’s always a happy ending.

Thanks to Deb B. for the heads up.