A friend sent me this from a small town newspaper near Austin.  Click the little one to get the big one.

I’m here to tell you that property near Round Top is expensive and I think I don’t need to tell you that a six bedroom house with a two bedroom “carriage house” ain’t  gonna be cheap to build.

So, here’s my question:  how can a man who has never once in his whole adult life held a public sector job get that damn rich?  That man has drawn a government paycheck his entire adult life.

Second, if he’s running for President, why would he want to remind people of the Bush ranch?

Third, he running for President?  Really?  Has he learned to read or something?

Thanks to Cecil for the heads up.

Katy, Texas, which is within spittin’ distance of where I live, is a growing mini-mansion area filled with rich Republicans and poor Republicans who think the rich Republicans are going to make them rich, too, any day now.

If you wonder why the poor Republicans are so delusional, I have an instructional video.

Eugene Thompson says he got into a fight with his live-in girlfriend.  Her estranged husband shows up.  We’re real lax about all the niceties concerning how many husbands and boyfriends you can live with in Texas.

So the estranged husband comes barging in to protect his wife, even though he doesn’t like her much.  And here’s where the story starts.

Thompson pulled out his replica sword from the “Legend of Zelda” Nintendo game.

“And I pulled it out and I stood in the doorway and he was just coming down that hall at me while I was yelling ‘Go away you don’t live here.’ And he just walked right into the point. I don’t know if he thought it was a toy,” Thompson said.

The estranged husband was stabbed in the chest and leg during the brawl. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

Thompson was allegedly hit with a flower pot and treated for a head gash. The woman was not injured.

Eugene Thompson: What do you mean allegedly hit with a flower pot. That ain’t no alleged bump on my head.

Now here’s the best part of the story:

No word on if any charges were filed.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Most of you know that Texas Congressfool Steve Stockman is running against Senator John Cornyn for the highly undistinguished honor of being the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas.

Cornyn’s people dug up an old mug shot of Stockman and started putting it all over town.

Stockman was arrested in 1977 for felony possession of valium.  The case was dismissed and Stockman says the record was expunged.

I didn’t say anything about it because I know plenty folks who made some mistakes and then turned themselves around and have lived a distinguished and honorable life.  I figured it would backfire on Cornyn.

But, noooooooo.  Stockman couldn’t just explain and let it be.  He had to threaten someone.

Stockman probably needs that valium now.

He’s gone batcrap crazy and is threatening to file criminal charges against anyone who posts his mug shot on the internet machine.  You know, this one.

Oh yeah, batcrap crazy.

Michigan’s 43rd Judicial District Clerk stated Stockman was never convicted of any charge and the documents were supposed to have been destroyed in 1978. Another Michigan official has advised Stockman he has grounds to file criminal complaints against any person or media organization that published the documents.

Well, that does it.  I will not publish his mugshot on my internet page.  Not me.  I kinda figure this picture isn’t worth actual criminal charges being filed against me.

So, you know, I will not post it.

Now, if I knew some lawyers, I might just start putting it in women’s restrooms all over Michigan.  And by “it”, I mean this.

But, since I do not know any lawyers, at least not any who would go to Michigan for me, I will have to be content with just looking at other people’s internet page with this picture.  You know, this one.

I’m sorry that Steve Stockman got in my face and issued a challenge to have me arrested in Michigan and I backed down.  I know you’re disappointed in me.  But, I just figure the picture isn’t worth going to jail over.  You know, this one.

Y’all, am I so cynical and jaded that I have deep suspicions about the minute that we start talking about major cuts to the defense budget, another Cold War breaks out?

Is this just coincidence?  Or do we live in a world where war is always damn breaking out?

I dunno.  It’s probably just me.

Guys, is this satire trying to make the Tea Party look dumb or is Victoria Jackson guilty of smoking some dope with a low IQ.  Or is this just a career move?

I mean, you gotta admit, it’s hard to tell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5splvdHGxA#t=103

There’s a communist living in the White House?  Hell, Honey, there ain’t even a communist living in the Kremlin.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Y’all, tomorrow will end the great fun I have had watching the Republican Lt. Gov’s race in the GOP primary.  It is rare when you get three seriously crazy people and one incompetent incumbent running for the same office.

I admit that I should have paid for a ticket to that show because I enjoyed it thoroughly.  I was sad that it will over Tuesday.  Until I thought about Wednesday.

There is not soul in Texas who thinks it’ll be over tomorrow.  Wednesday morning will bring us a run-off.  Madam Swami Juanita and Her Shiny Crystal Ball predicts it’ll be a a fun-filled run-off between incumbent David Dewhurst and Oh My God He’s Nuts Dan Patrick.  It not only will be a GOP bloodbath, but will include witty quips like this.

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Snap!  That’s a doozy.

If you’re in Texas and you haven’t voted yet (which I really do not want to hear because you should have voted early), go vote.  Remember:  Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat.