Most of you people – even those from foreign states – know about Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.  He’s the guy running for Governor against Wendy Davis.  He’s a nincompoop.

He brags that every day he gets up, has breakfast, and then sues Washington.  It’s kinda not a joke because he really does that.  The good part for us is that he’s a bad, bad lawyer and he loses every damn time.

So, he filed another request for an extension today on cases that are the business of the people of Texas who are not running for Governor.  Do you want to know they needed an extension?  Of course you do.

“Mr. Mitchell,” who is Jonathan Mitchell, is just one of about 10 very high level lawyers in the office.  If you go here, you can see that there are 74 pages of employees of the Texas Attorney General’s office with about 30 names per page.  You have to get to page 10 before you start running out of writ twits.

I do not want to hear whining.

According to this document, Mr. Mitchell has 4 other cases.  That’s all he can do for $146,000 a year plus expenses, travel, and overhead?

Damn wussy.

If Greg Abbott doesn’t have time to take care of the people’s business because he’s too busy grandstanding in his quest to be the dumbest governor since Rick Perry, then somebody needs to holler at him and remind him that he has a job.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

If you request that I approve a comment that contains a cuss word stronger than damn, hell, crap, poopie del pollo, or an occasional sumbitch, it’s not going to get approved.  My Momma would chase me down and wash my mouth out with soap and then hit me with a dictionary.  Then she’d get a second wind and come after you.

But, here’s the deal.  I cannot check with you to see if an edit to your comment would be okay if you don’t give me a valid damn email address when you comment.

Look, I’m not going to publish your email address or sell it to some guy in Hong Kong.  It’s just a damn email address.  Whaddya think I’m going to do with it?  Beg to become your pen pal?  Advertise it on the Vegas strip in neon?  Make fun that your email address is pinkypoo@aol.com?

That’s the deal.

Okay, here’s the deal:

– Darrell Issa acted all weird at his committee hearing yesterday.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, seemed to catch everyone off guard Wednesday when he suddenly pulled the plug on his committee hearing before witnesses could even testify.

– And, there’s an unexplained giant hole in Siberia.

Coincidence?  I think not.  What other plugs are you pulling, Issa?

Just sayin’.

Yep.  Good Ole WalMart in South Carolina.

A Smith and Wesson revolver with five live rounds was discovered on the toilet paper dispenser in the last stall of the men’s restroom at WalMart.

But here’s the best part:

Some time later, a man called police about the gun, the report states. He described the gun to officers and explained he left it in the bathroom. Police instructed him to report to the police department on Monday to pick up his firearm.

They’re going to give him the damn gun back.

What?  Were Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey eating spaghetti in the WalMart dining room or something?

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

One of our customers, Jan, read the story about the voter registration receipt.  She sent me a copy of her poll tax in Travis County – that’s Austin – from 1963.  It cost her $1.75 to vote.  That was when gas was 30 cents a gallon and milk was 49 cents.  Click the little one to get the big one.

Jan, who now has a different last name and doesn’t live at that address, says …… speaking of poll taxes, I still have mine from 1964 which I have saved for half a century because I knew it was important.

I paid it at Travis Cty courthouse on Jan 31, 1965, which was 8 days after the 24th amendment outlawing poll taxes was ratified. I had to present it 9 months later when I went to the polls to cast my first nat’l election vote (for LBJ of course). The old lady who filled it in could not spell the state of my birth (Illinois) although I remember trying to tell her how to do it. Luckily Texas no longer had a literacy test then or I doubt that she could have passed it.

Jan and I both wonder how many people would pay the equivalent of $13.41 to vote.

Thanks to Jan for the heads up.

Congressman Phil Gingrey from the state of Georgia, is powerfully concerned about all these children streaming into our country with all manner of horrible diseases, like swine flu, ebola, dengue fever, and some of them might even be gay.  Okay, I made up the gay part but it does seem likely he’d say that if he’d thought about it.

He is a medical doctor so he is also very concerned about preventable diseases they bring:

“Many of the children who are coming across the border also lack basic vaccinations such as those to prevent chicken pox or measles.”

Okay, first off, that’s not true.

As the Texas Observer points out, when it comes to measles, children in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras are more likely to be vaccinated than children in the United States. None of those countries have recorded an outbreak of measles in 24 years. Kids in Marin County are more at risk.

But even more fun, the congressman/doctor “has long-standing ties to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a far-right medical group that opposes all mandatory vaccines. The organization touts access to Gingrey as one of its membership perks.”

So, let me get this straight — you don’t believe in vaccinations but you don’t want to be around kids who don’t have them?  No, there’s gotta be more than that.  You think kids with vaccinations are bad but those without who are even badder?  No, no, that can’t be it.  You think kids who speak Spanish need vaccinating but kids who … jeepers, this is hard to figure out.  Hummm … You are a total jerk who will say anything to get attention.  Bingo!

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.