Remember the Department of Public Safety in Texas saying they found bags of feces at the Capitol during the demonstrations against restricting Texas women’s constitutional rights?  And now nobody can find the feces or that it ever even happened or exisited?

Well, Baby, they ain’t finished yet.

Now they want your Twitter account.

AUSTIN — State police have demanded Twitter records from two users that officials allege made “terroristic threats” against lawmakers who pushed for abortion restrictions.

One targeted user, Denise Romano, an Austin woman with a private Twitter account, explains on her page that posts are “satirical.” The second user’s account is anonymous and was unused for more than a year before a string of tweets specified in the Texas Department of Public Safety probe.

In what appears to be an unprecedented move in Texas, law enforcement officials subpoenaed the Twitter users’ information in a criminal investigation.

“I haven’t heard of a tweet being used for the basis of a criminal case,” said Paul Watler, a Dallas-based First Amendment lawyer and a former president of the Texas Freedom of Information Foundation.

And who reported these tweets to the DPS?  Oh, none other than Kristen Vander-Plas, former legislative director for College Republicans.  She said the users’ tweets “made me nervous.”  Woman, have your constitutional rights taken away ought to make you nervous, not some tweeter saying saying some sarcastic thing.

At least once a week I say that Ted Cruz  needs to sneeze because his brain is dusty or needs a good whack upside the head.   Get all nervous, Kristen.

I guess DPS is still looking for the crap.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

You know what? Republicans can kiss my big blue butt.

They are blaming Wendy Davis for the 3rd special session and demanding that she should pay for it.

Dudes, quit attacking women. Just quit it.

Everything is her fault

After spending their first special session watching State Sen Wendy Davis’ (D) marathon filibuster and their second passing the abortion restrictions Davis was fighting against, the Texas legislature is back for a third session. Now, they need to handle the transportation measure that was the motivation for the original special session, before they got sidetracked with anti-abortion legislation.

Unfortunately for the state’s taxpayers, the extra time will cost them an additional $2.4 million. But one lawmaker has an idea for who should foot part of that bill: Davis herself.

Both the special sessions are because Lt. Governor David Dewhurst didn’t put the transportation bill before the filibuster. So if Republicans say that Dewhurst’s lack of planning and intelligence are Wendy Davis’ fault, they better be prepared to prove that she’s his Momma.

Everybody out there, go find something orange to wear today and if somebody asks you why the fool tarnation you’re wearing an orange scarf with a pink shirt, tell them, “Because Republicans in the Texas Legislature need a good thump upside the head and since I ain’t close enough to do it myself I’m passing along the message.”

Maybe.

Tea Party Misspelling – It’s not just for signs anymore.

Congressman Chuck Fleischmann of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area released a postcard he sent to President Obama to un-welcome him to Chattanooga on Tuesday.

It went like this —

Mr. President,

Welcome to beautiful Chattanooga.  We appreciate you are in town, celebriting the businesses that have come to Tennessee thanks to our low regulation, low taxes, and right to work policies.  While here, I invite you to visist a few historical natural attractions like Ruby Falls, a true Chattanooga treasure.  However, Obamacare is making it difficult to maintain or grow businesses of this size.  Even though Tennessee’s strong leadership has put us in a better position than most we’re not immune to the burdens this policy is placing on Americans across the country.
Best,

Chuck Fleischmann

Chuck also misspelled 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by writing 1600 Pensylvannia Avenue.

It should be noted that “fewer than half of Hamilton County students in grades 3 through 8 can read at their grade level, according to standardized test results.”  Ole Chuck just fits right in.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

It appears that speeding is legal in Forney, Texas, if you’re George Zimmerman.  Forney, Texas, is right outside of Dallas.

Zimmerman was speeding in Forney, Texas on Sunday, just after noon, when he was stopped by police.  Zimmerman told cops he was headed “nowhere in particular,” and informed them he had a firearm in his glove compartment.

Zimmerman was given a warning, after cops determined he was free of warrants.  He was sent on his way with a polite goodbye, “Have a safe trip.”

The stop lasted around 5 minutes.

BTW … law enforcement tells TMZ … he was NOT wearing a disguise … it was full blown George Zimmerman.

Dashboard camera video is here.

No Particular Place To Go was made famous by Chuck Berry.  And George Zimmerman.  Doesn’t he know it’s too hot to wear hoodies in Texas this time of year?

Thanks to Peter and Steve for the heads up.

Oh dear Lord how awful can this get?

Ted Cruz’s logic twisting machine has got it floored in neutral and pumping propane.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday argued that President Barack Obama and Democrats, not Republicans, were the ones trying to shut down the federal government because he insisted on funding a health care reform law that was passed in 2010.

No, he’s serious.  It’s President Obama who is causing them to shut down the government because he’s insisting that the votes were counted and Obamacare won.  Who died and made him President?

“We have voted to fund the federal government. We want to fund the federal government. Why is President Obama threatening to shut down the federal government? Because he wants force Obamacare down people’s throats.’”

One reporter pointed out to Cruz that polls showed that most people thought that defunding a law and shutting down the government was not the proper way to govern.

The Texas senator, however, argued that some polls had been crafted as tools of advocacy.

Actually, he wanted to say that polls are tools of the devil as are the electorate.

Y’all, this is where we’ve come to.  It’s Ted in Wonderland.  You could have one eye tied behind your back and still see that this man is nuts.

Thanks to Steve for the heads up and John for the graphic.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott can puff himself up better than any man I know.

The latest is outlined by Houston Chronicle reporter Lisa Falkenberg on the danged top front page of the Texas section of the Chronicle this morning.  The Chronicle ain’t a bastion of liberalism so it was nice to see the Attorney General Wanna Be Governor take to task over clams that his office obtained Medicaid  fraud settlements.

Although the government agencies were required to sign off on the settlement, there’s no evidence of Abbott’s claim that he alone “obtained” the settlement.

and …

As for Abbott’s own investigation, it doesn’t appear to have generated much of a paper trail.

When I asked for memorandums, emails or any kind of documents that would show the Planned Parenthood affiliate intended to defraud the Medicaid program, Abbott’s spokesman Jerry Strickland told me the whistle-blower’s attorney “would have that information” and “we do not have those documents with us right now.”

Yeah, right, they were too busy writing press releases to actually do any investigating.

Now you people from foreign states need to listen to me.  Greg Abbott makes Rick Perry look like Mary Poppins.  He is an entitled, bitter, and dangerous man.  I ain’t saying he’s Hitler but Hitler is saving him a seat in hell.

Thanks to a whole mess of people for the heads up.