The Texas Lege went into special session yesterday.  For you folks from outta town, the Lege only meets every other year for a few months.  That’s all the punishment we can take.

The purpose of the special session is redistricting.  Michael Li explains all the foreign language involved in redistricting – including CVAP, preclearance, and coalition district.  For the average citizen in Texas, redistricting is like God – nobody understands it, you can’t see it, and you have to accept it on faith.

Redistricting is supposed to be the only topic in the special session but rumor has it that 60 GOP Legers have written a letter to the Gov wanting to have more anti-choice on abortion bills during the special session.  It seems that Democrats – although in the minority – did surprisingly well during the regular session on women’s issues.  Republicans just now noticed it.  When ya hit them on the head with a hammer, it’s at least two days before they say ouch.

Pray for us because by law Rick Perry determines what issues can be discussed in special session.  The downside is that he’s crazy.  The upside is that he can’t remember more than two things at once.

And, for those of you keeping score, Rick Perry has now hacked off his own party and made money laundering legal in Texas politics.

The measure, SB 346, would have required 501(c)4 social welfare groups that spend more than $25,000 in a calendar year on political expenditures to disclose contributions above $1,000.

Even fellow Texas Republicans are calling it shameful and it passed overwhelmingly in both the House and the Senate.  We can only guess when and where Rick Perry wants dirty money.

I don’t know about your neck of the woods, but Memorial Day weekend in Texas involves shootin’ people.

A son accidentally shot himself and his mother.  His mother.  His damn mother.  And what were they doing?

Around 10:15, police responded to reports of a shooting on Prior Park near Palcio Real.  When they arrived at the scene, they found a man with a gunshot wound to his hand, and a woman who had been shot in the stomach.

According to reports, a group of family and friends was gathered together drinking in the garage of a home on Prior Park.  Police said one man pulled out his gun to show it off, when he accidentally fired it.

We don’t have basements in Texas so we use our garages as rec rooms.  It generally involves a barbeque pit on the driveway.

And, of course, next there comes young love.  A 16 year old boy was shot in the neck as he opened the front door.  He is being called “an innocent bystander.”

[Uncle Joe] Moreno told Local 2 the 14-year-old sister’s ex-boyfriend was angry at her and either came to the house or sent a friend there to retaliate. But it was the girl’s 16-year-old brother who was home alone when he answered the door and was shot.

Because nothing says I love your little underage sister like a gun.

And one that involves far amusement, a Marine from Camp Lejeune came to Texas and began randomly shooting people from his pick up truck.

Firing randomly from his pickup truck on Sunday, Smith killed a 41-year-old woman and wounded five people, including the county sheriff, in Concho County, about 250 miles southwest of Dallas, authorities said.

The gunman was killed in a shootout with a Highway Patrol trooper and a game warden who arrived to assist the sheriff, the statement said.

Damn.

Sometimes I admit to feeling very blessed.  The gods of political yummy prepare a feast for me almost daily.

And some days there’s desert.

Oh, yes, please, more whipped cream on top.

Last week Trump, who turns 67 next month, spoke in front of what’s being touted as a record crowd at the Oakland County, Michigan Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner.

“Everybody tells me, ‘Please run for president. Please run for president.’ I would be much happier if a great and competent person came along,” Trump told attendees, according to local press reports.

So, he spent one million dollars to see if he can win.

Donald Trump has spent $1 million on “electoral research,” according to a report.

“The electoral research was commissioned. We did not spend $1 million on this research for it just to sit on my bookshelf,” Trump’s executive vice president and counsel Michael Cohen told The New York Post.

Honey, for a buck fifty, I can tell you how everybody loves you and you can be President.  That’s all you wanted to hear anyway.

We’d invite him to Texas but his ego won’t fit.

Thanks to David for the heads up.

I am indeed grateful that my soldier came home to me.

The sacrifice of those who didn’t and the families they left to grieve humbles me and makes me aware that war is never an act of God but a failure of man.

Please be safe and love each other today.

You people from foreign states need to know that there someone who creeps me out worse that Rick Perry and Ted Cruz combined.  Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.  I have never seen him barefoot but it would not surprise me if he had cloven hooves.

He makes Dick Cheeny and rattlesnakes look cuddly.

To soften his imagine, his stylists put him on Facebook.

Here’s what he did:

It is Memorial Day.  We are honoring our war dead.  And by “we” I mean everybody but Greg Abbott, who cannot give it one day of damn rest from attacking Barack Obama.

Vote on the scandals?  Are you freekin’ kidding me?  Like this is for high school prom king?

Write it down and don’t forget it.  Do not let this man be Governor.  If Rick Perry is the frying pan, Greg Abbott is the fire.

Alex Jones has become my new favorite Republican.  He’s like Ann Coulter without the Adam’s Apple.  No less crazy but at least he owns more than one dress.

Alex Jones: NOT an intellectual snob

He believes that the government – yes, the same people be believes are inefficient and can’t even run the post office – can now make tornadoes happen.

You know, with helicopters and stuff.  And spray.  You gotta have spray.

Alex is not real sure how it works but he’s damn sure it’s happening.

I don’t know if this is a weather-weapon or not, but they can, with the right weather conditions, they can create and steer groups of tornadoes. The question is, were helicopters, cuz they use those up close, and small fixed-wing aircraft seen in and around the weather patterns.

Like if people fifty miles out of these storm systems, they see aircraft in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things. If you saw that, you’d better bet your bottom dollar that they did this. But, who knows if they did. That’s the thing, we don’t know.

And if we don’t know, then it has to be true.

Dude, did you ever notice how Wolf Blitzer is always around almost too quickly after these tornadoes happen?  Did you ever consider that he’s doing it?

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.