Texas Attorney General and wannabe Wendy Wacker, Greg Abbott, made Politico’s List of the Most Embarrassing Tweets of the year. (Click the little one to get the big one.)
I need to let you know that is not the first nor will be the last time that Greg Abbott embarrasses himself or the State of Texas. The guy’s a natural.
Dalles, Oregon, is a good place not to lie to your Momma.
Last Saturday a woman called the police and said some fool had entered her home at 2:45 in the morning and fired a gun into her son’s room. The gunman ran out the backdoor. He didn’t take anything or cause any problems.
The Dalles police officer arrived and noted in the police log that “it was clear the [son] was not being honest.”
The son then admitted he was actually cleaning a gun and it went off. He told police he then stashed the gun and lied to his mother about a person entering the house. Officers seized the gun and were forwarding their report to the district attorney’s office for review.
If you’re going to shoot a gun in the house at 2:45 a.m., you damn well better make sure it includes you bleeding in some manner because, trust me on this, when Momma gets finished with you, you’re gonna be bleeding anyway.
By the way, while I was looking around to see if I could find out anything else about this story, I found a great thing. The police reports in a small Oregon town on Christmas Day. The Dalles City reports are wonderful reading. Here’s a sample. Remember: it’s Christmas Day.
A woman in the 900 block of Pomona Street reported seeing two people walk through her carport and ring the doorbell, then go on to the neighbors behind her. They both appeared to have Santa suits on. Police checked the area and were unable to find anyone matching the description.
A man in the 5200 block of Cherry Heights called early Wednesday morning to report a strange dog had been sitting near his driveway for the last 12 hours and it was weird the dog hadn’t left the area. A deputy found two dogs were eating a deer carcass.
I will save the woman who ran out of gas story for you to discover.
Thanks to TexasTrailerParkTrash for the heads up.
If you’re like me, and Lord help you if you are, you are probably wondering how they plan on stopping that.
I mean, let’s face it, That’s a mighty tall order there. I’d be more willing to try to get a drink out of a firehose than find the fools in the GOP and line them up in a row. The only shot I’d have at doing it is waiting for them to need to be watered and sneak up on them with a circus tent. Even that sounds kinda risky since so many of them need watering once a week.
The Chamber means the Tea Partiers. They think the Tea Partiers are fools because they not only want people to starve like the Chamber does, they also want people to not be gay when they starve.
I operate under the “you broke it; you bought it” theory here. The Chamber endorsed some of these fools.
To me, this is kinda like standing at the picnic table in Texas in July and saying, “Okay, no ants on this table, dammit,” and expecting the ants to pay heed.
Hey, Chamber of Commerce, you don’t have a “ticket,” Honey. You have a mess. A helluva mess.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
Okay, there’s a list of the 29 Stupidest Things That Happened in 2013.
By my math, 6 of them were Texans. That kinda gives us the lead in the Holy Cow That’s Dumb state olympics.
Louie even got his own division:
The only amazing thing was that Randy Neugebauer, Joe Barton and Blake Farenthold did NOT make the list. But I’ve heard that they’re all working on next year.
Thanks to Steve for the heads up.
Y’all, anytime I get to talk about Sarah Palin is a good time.
She finally admitted that she had not actually read the interview with the Duck Dynasty dude before she defended it.
Really? Sarah Palin not read? Add that to my Shocked, Shocked I Tell You list.
According to Palin’s reasoning, she didn’t have to read the interview to defend Robertson in the first place because the substance of his comments didn’t matter. He was invoking the Bible, she said, so his critics are actually taking issue with Scripture itself.
Sarah claims that even though Duck Dude spoke out against homosexuals …
“… he has said over and over again he doesn’t hate the person engaging in a lifestyle he disagrees with.”
I dunno. While the rightwing seems holds the patent on hating people, I kinda think Duck Dude hates them.
New poll released today.
… a CNN/ORC International poll released Thursday also indicates that nearly three-quarters of the public say that this has been a “do-nothing” Congress.
Two-thirds of those questioned said the current Congress is the worst in their lifetime, with 28% disagreeing.
This is just a guess, but I’m suspecting that those 28% could not define “congress” or “crap.”
