Well, who could have predicted this calamity?

Top 1% incomes grew by 31.4% while bottom 99% incomes grew only by 0.4% from 2009 to 2012. Hence, the top 1% captured 95% of the income gains in the first three years of the recovery.

So if you started with enough money to burn a wet elephant, you now have enough to air condition hell.

And that trickle down thing?  No, the rich people’s swimming pool ain’t leaking.  That means you’re still so poor that your kids have a tumbleweed as a pet.  And the 1% have just decided that tumbleweed is a delicacy.

Thanks to Mike for the heads up.

Oh crap.  Let’s hope this doesn’t have legs.

Colorado voters ousted two Democratic lawmakers, including the state senate president, in a historic recall vote on Tuesday over their support for tougher gun control laws, handing a major victory to gun rights supporters.

The recall races, the first in Colorado history, are at the epicenter of the national fight over gun control in the aftermath of a series of mass shootings last year, and were seen as a test of the sway of lobbyists on both sides of the debate.

Let’s put a little more butter on this biscuit.  Why even have elections?  Just let the NRA run the country.  I mean, they seem to have everything under control.  You know, except for this innocent bystander thing.

Thanks to UmptyDump for the heads up.

I was sleeping in that morning when my son called me on the phone, woke me up and said, “Momma, you need to turn on the tv.  I think we are at war or something.”  The second airplane had just hit the World Trade Center.

My oldest son was in the Air Force and I knew he had some very big and important war games that day.  On that morning everyone was worried about a strike against all the military.  (By the way, he has some very interesting stories about the airmen being confused about the real world terror threat level and the war games threat level.  The vast majority of them thought they were still playing war games when the change in threat level occurred.)

Like all Americans, I was scared, confused, and just kept thinking, “The idiot son is President.”   Turns out, I was right.

If you feel the spirit move you, share your memories of that day.

Fox Newsvarmint Neil Cavuto took to the public airways and dropped his drawers.

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto on Monday devoted an entire segment to the possibility that a United States attack on Syria could be a sign of the End Times, a period in which Christians believe that Jesus Christ will return to face the emergence of the Antichrist.

“This Syria stuff is way old,” Cavuto explained. “I mean Old Testament old. That’s how old I’m talking about. Don’t laugh. Some biblical scholars say it’s all there in black and white.”

No, Neil, we’re not laughing.  We’re really not.  Batting our heads against the wall, yes.

Honey, if George Bush being elected for a second term was not a sign of the end times, then there are no end times.

Syria is way old.  Yes, indeed.  At least he knew that.

Rick Perry was down in the Rio Grande Valley yesterday touting his sell-out to really bad doctors and really greedy insurance companies.  He calls it tort reform, but what is really is should be called “If a drunk doctor amputates the wrong foot, you’re just totally screwed.  Hell, we’ll probably make you pay him money and double your insurance rates because now you still have that other foot that needs amputating.”

Ten years ago, we were promised lower insurance rates and better medical care with hot and cold running doctors if we just passes tort reform.  So we did.

Ten years later and what do we have?  Texas REALLY sucks at health care.

A new federal government report card on health care quality rates Texas as “weak” overall and gives it the lowest score in the nation.

The lowest score in the nation.  Ho boy, but we have some happy doctors and insurance companies with no incentive to provide good health care.

Brian Nieves is a Missouri State Senator.  He’s a 2nd Amendment fanatic and a Tea Party devotee.

He needs money to run for re-election and comes up with an idea.  A skeet-shooting party.

That on its own isn’t the worst idea in the world, but it’s what else the voices in his head tell him to do that jump ship.

Brian decided to raffle off a new Sig Sauer 516 Patrol AR-15, which ain’t exactly used to shoot skeet.

But, let’s not stop there.  Let’s see what levels of sponsorship Brian has.  According to his Facebook page for the event, there’s an eyecatcher.

In sponsorship categories, there’s Sharpshooter, Marksman, and for the most expensive level of sponsorship  — Sniper.

Click the little one to get the big one.

In the general sense of the term, I guess a sniper is a hunter, but probably not of deer or ducks.

Now just so you know, Brian is not some Republican crazy outcast or anything.  He is the Senate Majority Whip.

Holy crap.

Thanks to Chloe for the heads up.