This has some promise of being fun.

Once the Oklahoma Lege approved putting the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the State Capitol, that opened the door big and wide for other “religions” to have tributes to their beliefs.  The first to apply?  The New York based Satanic Temple, of course.

They are submitting a plan for a $20,000 designs.  The Ten Commandments tribute was only $10,000, the but Satanic one will include “an interactive display for children.”  That alone caused three semi-serious cases of the heart flutters in Oklahoma and one suicide attempt.

And while I will enjoy this process, I think it would have been so much more fun if the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster had applied.

By the way, you’ll love this.

A Ten Commandments monument erected outside the Oklahoma state Capitol is shown on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. After the 6-foot-tall monument was put in place, the Oklahoma lawmaker who paid for it acknowledged the misspelling of the words Sabbath as “Sabbeth” and maidservant as “maidseruant.”

Those wacky Oklahomans!

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

In a convergence of events that may or may not be related …

Ted Cruz is attending Nelson Mandela’s funeral as the only United States senator in attendance.  (I suspect none of the others were all that sure of God’s aim with lightning bolts.)

And …

He now has his own coloring book.

Same day.  Coincidence or something for him to do on the airplane?

Thanks to everybody and their Aunt Bea for the heads up.

Okay, I think you people from foreign states know that my momma lives in a city with a great Mayor – Houston’s Annise Parker.  She just ran for her third term and won 57% against 8 opponents.  She’s as popular as a lottery winner and so hot that you can cook chili on her head.

Last month, she extended spousal benefits to same gender couples married in other states and working for the city of Houston.

The Republicans wet their pants.  Harris County GOP chairman, a fastidious man named Jared Woodfill, went bonkers and accused the Houston Mayor of being … well, something very bad.  You know, like evil bad.  Very.

“If that is what Mayor Parker thinks of law and order, how can she effectively serve as the chief executive officer of a large municipality, whose first duty is to ensure law and order?”

He said that if the city loses “the rule of law, we give into to mob rule and crony politics, aptly described once as the ‘Chicago way.’”

“Texas and Houston will not permit would-be anarchy to become the default standard of government in this city,” he said.

You cannot have spousal benefits and law and order.  You just can’t.  Mob rule will ensue and mobs of married gay people will take to the streets and there will anarchy.

I told you it was bad.

I mean, look at this woman.  You can tell by looking at her that she’s itching to start a mob and head over to Jared’s house and tell him that Alec Baldwin called – he wants his hairdo back.

Admittedly, it’s the first time I’ve seen an anarchist in a gold silk jacket.  But there you have it.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

James Abney, 64, of Forney, Texas, was at the Greyhound Bus Station in Las Vegas last Friday and got perturbed when a security guard asked him to leave.

So, being from Texas, Abney did what Rick Perry would want him to do – stand his ground.

Abney told detectives he was going to make an example of the security guard for trying to make him leave. He said he pulled out the gun to scare him, fired one shot in the air and smoked a cigarette before further pursuing the guard and firing several more shots.

Nobody was hurt and the police got there in time to make an arrest just as Abney ran out of ammo.  Yah, he’s an ex-felon. With a gun.  Luckily, very little ammo.

Thanks to Frank for the heads up.

So Ted Cruz has a newsletter and our customer Marge subscribes to it to send me the good stuff because, honestly, if I did it myself there would be claw marks on my computer screen.

I’ve been busy and I let this one get by me.  But, it’s never too late to say, “And you thought Rick Perry was dumb?”

Click the little one to get the big one.

Well, I checked it out and the only faithful thing that happened on December 7, 1932, was —

First gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in New York

I mean, that’s cool and everything but, let’s face it, Ted Cruz is not stabilized in any manner, much less gyro.

He issued a correction a bit later.    No mention of stabilized.

Thanks to Marge for this thankless task.

Smokey Joe Barton, the guy who apologized to BP for getting our sand all over its oil, says that the minimum wage is oh so yesterday.

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) told the National Journal that he thinks the country should get rid of the minimum wage. “I think it’s outlived its usefulness,” he said. “It may have been of some value back in the Great Depression. I would vote to repeal the minimum wage.”

You know, because slavery wasn’t all that bad.  Okay, so it had a few minor downsides, but the cotton got picked and Missy Barton and I oh so loved our afternoon tea on the veranda.

And the Great Depression?  Not that bad, you know.  Come to think of it, it would be a sure fire cure for obesity epidemic in this country.

Thanks to Warner for the heads up.