Rick Perry compares the Boy Scouts resisting gay members to Sam Houston opposing slavery.

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Rick, honey, gay is here to stay.

And yes, Rick did not listen in Texas history.  Sam Houston did not oppose slavery; he opposed secession.

And Rick was also absent from school the day they taught metaphors.  There is a big ole hairy difference between oppressing people through slavery and then standing up to keep people oppressed. It’s like saying, “Jesus had the courage to feed the hungry so we should be like Jesus by having the courage not to feed the hungry.”

Y’all, this man wants to be the President.  Of the country.  Somebody, please, make him read a book.  Any book.  Mostly, this one.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Rush Limbaugh says he may not renew his contract Cumulus Media.  He’s upset with the “repeated criticism from the network’s CEO over Limbaugh’s offensive comments about Sandra Fluke, which allegedly lost the company millions of dollars in advertising revenue.”

Way to stinkin’ go, y’all!  I’m really proud of you.

Limbaugh and his ego say that he’s not the cause of the company losing money.

The news of Limbaugh’s possible departure comes one day ahead of Cumulus’s Tuesday earnings call, at which Dickey Is once again likely to address the impact the Fluke controversy has had on advertising. The source close to the show described Dickey’s remarks about advertising revenue as unjustified, and said such “criticism” of Limbaugh had resulted in the consideration to leave the company.

Yeah, leave before you’re tossed out on your ample hiney, Rush.

Did I mention that over 100 advertisers have now left Rush?

Thanks to Kellbee for the heads up.

Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has a big damn mouth, thank God.  Speaking about the defeat of background checks, Toomey spilled the beans.

“In the end it didn’t pass because we’re so politicized. There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it,” Toomey said.

So, if Obama were to find a cure for cancer and it costs a buck fifty a shot, Republicans would vote it down because it would make Obama look good?

We really missed the boat here.  We should have started the rumor that Obama invented the 3-D printed guns.  Republicans would ban them so fast they’d leave a trail of smoke getting to the House chamber.

Thanks to Miemaw for the heads up.

Angus Monk, in his 50s, is understood to have fired his rifle at vermin in the outdoor loo when a bullet rebounded and hit him in the chest.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

In 20 years of having a website, this has never happened to me.

The last half of the long story I wrote about local politics yesterday has disappeared.  The entire last half is gone.  I don’t have a copy of it.

If you do, you are my best friend.  If you have a cached copy, please let me know.

NEVER MIND.  Hal found a cached copy!

I don’t think we’re gotten near the end of the explosion in West, Texas.  This explosion was not an act of God and we’d be damfools not to keep our eye on it to insure it never happens again.

If you own a home a Texas, you’re apt to have an insurance policy on that home with a one million dollar liability limit if someone gets hurt on your property.  That, my friends, is the same amount of insurance that the West Fertilizer Company had.

“If you want to drive a truck down the interstate, you’ve got to have $750,000 in coverage, even if you’re just carrying eggs,” Roberts said. “But if you want to put this ammonium nitrate into this town next to that school and that nursing home and those houses, you’re not required to carry insurance.”

The property damage alone in West could reach $100 million.  That’s not counting the death and injury bills.

In my mind, what happened in West and what happened in Bangladesh are different only in the the number of people killed.  The owners of that plant knew – or should have known – full well that those volunteer firefighters were walking into a death trap.

The owner of the business in Bangladesh was arrested.  The ones here are called job creators and given tax breaks.

The Dallas Morning News has a map of where the fertilizer plants are in Texas.  See if there’s one near you.

Thanks to Ken for the heads up.