It is flat out no secret that the Voter ID bill in Texas is nothing more than a cheap trick to keep the elderly, disabled, and poor from voting.

However, now we might get to see the emails between members of the Lege about the Voter ID bill.

Any legislators’ emails that reveal a discriminatory motive for passing a 2011 Texas voter ID law, signed by Gov. Rick Perry (R), could soon come to light thanks to a federal judge’s recent ruling.

U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos issued an order late last weekdirecting the state of Texas to turn over legislators’ communications about the bill to the U.S. plaintiffs, on a confidential basis, by Tuesday. According to Texas, 189 state legislators had asserted legislative privilege over the documents to try to prevent this outcome.

Now, I know what “on a confidential basis” means.  However, you can bet your best pair of pink boots that the really juicy ones will find their way into court records and then be read aloud on the corner of Main and Capitol in downtown Houston with a bullhorn during the Go Texan  parade because, bygawd, I’m gonna do it.

Hell, those emails might as well plan to make the Book of the Month Club because they will making cahooting an Olympic sport.

Today is Equal Pay Day in Texas.  It marks the day where women’s salaries finally equal men’s from the previous year.  In Texas, women doing the same job with the same experience and the same education make 79 cents for every dollar a man makes.

During the last legislative session, State Representative Senfronia Thompson got bi-partisan support for the Texas version of the Lilly Ledbetter Act.  It passed overwhelmingly.

Rick Perry vetoed it.  He said that Macy’s and Kroger’s asked him to, and Rick always does what his corporate overlords ask of him.  That’s because we have scientific proof that Rick Perry is an idiot.

Join Senfronia Thompson and a boatload of women in Houston today to kick some dirt and cause a storm.  My county will be marking the day with a press conference at 6:00pm

A woman in Texas should not have to pay a ta-ta tax.  This crap is gonna stop.

He’s from Louisiana and they have movies.

Fifth District Congressman Vance McAllister, who campaigned for office last fall as a devout Christian and devoted husband and father, was caught in video surveillance two days before Christmas passionately embracing and kissing one of his congressional aides.

It happened on December 23rd of last year.  Yeah, two days before the birth of little baby Jesus.

Oh, but this one has an extra added treat.

Mega churches may not be a hell hole of adultery but they sure have real bad luck with having pastors who can keep their zippers up.

The latest is in Florida —

The senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale has resigned after confessing to cheating on his wife, according to WPLG Miami.

Calvary is one of the largest churches in Florida, with some 20,000 members who worship in 10 locations across the state.

Bob Coy, who is 58 years old and should know better, had no statement, thank goodness.

Ya know, there are some damn crazy people in Texas who think they are characters in a Zane Gray novel.

C.J. Grisham is the leader of Open Carry Texas.  He organized the protest at the San Antonio Police Department in favor of open carry.  The vast majority of Texas police chiefs oppose open carry.

If you will click on the little picture to get the big one and then click again to get the holy cow that’s big picture, you will notice that Ole C.J. has deputized himself and got a badge of some sort.  They say that you cannot judge a man by the clothes, but in this case I think you safely can.

What pickles my nose the most, though, is the young man on the left with his pants tucked in his boots.  My best guess is that he couldn’t afford a car so he bought expensive boots to impress the girls.  A cowboy once told me that when a drugstore cowboy tucks his pants in his boots its so that he can wet his pants without a making a tell-tell puddle the first time he sees an actual bull.

If this young man wants to carry a military grade weapon, why the hell ain’t he in the military?  And if he wants to carry a confederate flag, why the hell ain’t he dead and buried on a battlefield in Virginia?

I have a real problem with this.  This isn’t even within shouting distance of how people in a civilized society ought to act.  That kid doesn’t appear to be … I dunno, educable material?  He has no business carrying two guns.  He looks like somebody who could win a grudge carrying contest.

This morning, Texas Senate Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs & Homeland Security is holding a hearing that will take up three charges, two of which are related to border security, the third is rather vague, it reads: “Study and make recommendations on removing barriers to Second Amendment Rights, including but not limited to open carry legislation. Consider other state laws related to open carry.”

C.J. and his buddies are scheduled to testify and so is the NRA.  Some folks got wind of this and the Texas Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America demanded to be allowed to testify.

Kick ass, Moms.

Thanks to Stephanie for the heads up.

So People Magazine ran a contest featuring people who are beautiful at any age (Real Beauty At Any Age) and Bob Farris is plenty upset that his lovely bride did not win.

Bob is pitchin’ himself a wall eyed snot nosed hissy fit because he says his wife was rejected for posing with a firearm.

That is ridiculous.  Take it from a professional – she got rejected because Perky Plum lipstick never goes with Jasmine Wine blush.  You cannot mix food groups in your makeup application.  That’s the first lesson they teach you at Mary Kay.

Yeah, Thelma didn’t win either.  I think it may have been the size 26 leopard leotards or the fact that by the time we got her hair in the picture there wasn’t room for much else.

Thanks to Charles for the heads up.