How the hell did rednecks get to North Dakota?

Craig Cobb, a self-described white supremacist who is wanted in Canada on hate crimes charges, has been slowly buying up land in the tiny town of Leith, N.D., with the sole intention of building a haven for white nationalists. Would-be residents could feel free to fly “racialist” flags on their homes and interact exclusively with other “responsible hardcore” white nationalists, Cobb writes of his vision.

Hey, Greg Abbott, herd up the people in your commercial.  I have a bus ticket for them!

Thanks to David for the heads up.

Actual Tea Party tweet.

And here’s the picture —

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Proof once again that outrage passes for foreplay in most Republican homes.

Yes, of course, there of pictures of George Dubya Bush doing the same thing.

Thanks to Star for the heads up.

The Texas National Guard is refusing to process same-gender benefits, even through they have a directive from the pentagon to do so.  The reason?  Texas doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage.

Well hell, we don’t recognize literacy either but that doesn’t keep me from going to the bookstore and buying a book.

Last count, there are 50 states.  Only two of them are violating federal law – Texas and Mississippi.  What a pair!  Two places that lead the country in everything you’d like to keep a secret.

Thanks to Al and Sherry for the heads up.

Okay, Greg Abbott made his first YouTube commercial.

Go look at it.  And then come back for a test.

1.  Do you see any faces in that commercial that aren’t white and pretty damn old?

2.  Whose bright idea was the wall of cuckoo clocks?  They need to be fired.  I intend on using that wall every time I talk about Greg.

3.  German?  Really?

One of my customers watched it and was pretty darn sure that they were trying to make Abbott look like a wounded veteran.  He was never in the military.  A tree feel (more commonly known as fell in non-typo world) on him.  He turned it into a multi million dollar judgement.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Arkansas (thank you, thank you, thank you) State Senator Jason Rapert, the guy who pushed the 12 week abortion ban in Arkansas, has some news for you.

He doesn’t serve his constituents; he serves only God.  Which, I suspect, makes him infallible and kinda edging in on the Pope’s territory.

“It’s more important to do what is right by God,” Rapert told an audience at the Faith2Action banquet in Columbus, Ohio, “than it is to please those that would rather have me talk about pro-life but not really do much about pro-life.”

I’m  wondering if God has weighed in on cheesy porn-star Fu Machu’s.

Thanks to Norma for the heads up.

Most of you probably remember the explosion in West, Texas, that pretty much leveled the entire town.

Texas is truly business friendly on the issue of explosions.

There is no state fire code in Texas. The state fire marshal’s office lacks the power to make unannounced inspections of local businesses, nor does the office have the authority to compel local facilities to open its doors.

Explosions count as fires so if you’re apt to blow up, we just trust you not to.

And we are powerfully trusting.

Five facilities in Texas with large quantities of the same fertilizer chemical that fueled the deadly plant explosion in West have turned away state fire marshal inspectors since the blast, investigators said Monday.

A railway operator that hauls hazardous materials across Texas was also said to have rebuffed a state request to share data since the April explosion at West Fertilizer Co. that killed 15 people and injured 200 others.

Cheeezzz … even Saddam Hussein allowed more inspection than that.

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You not only can build an unregulated bomb factory in Texas, you can have a portable one you drive all over the state.  Because we are not gonna interfere in your bidness.   Unless you want to build one in your uterus.  Then we’re on top of that, regulating the hell out of it.

Thanks to John for the heads up.