Okay, I have to admit that I read this headline on a story that Carl sent me totally wrong.

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I mean, shooting the finger is rarely accidental.  It could happen, I guess, and that would surely make headlines but that wasn’t the case here.

It’s out of Minnesota where 66 year old Fred Peterson was showing his wife a new .38 special handgun.

Ole Fred, a firearms instructor, holstered the weapon, whereupon his wife asked if he could pull the trigger while the gun was holstered.  Fred tried while he held the holstered gun in his left hand.  Shot his damn finger, he did.

He explained, “The gun was pointed in a safe direction, but my finger was not in a good spot.”

It rarely is, Fred. It rarely is.

Petersen is an NRA-certified instructor for classes required to qualify for a Minnesota concealed-carry handgun permit, apparently a job that requires a double digit IQ.  Kinda makes you wonder how Fred lived this long.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Even before my first sip of coffee, I glanced at Huffington Post and saw this.  I quickly closed the window on my computer.  I am not going back.  I am not.

If you have the nerve and are wearing biochemical gear, click on the little one to see it full size.

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Hey, don’t holler at me that scared you.  I warned you.

While every single quote was anonymous because people generally don’t like to be seen as totally goofy with a cherry on top, my favorite part is where it says …

His supporters argue that he’d be a Barry Goldwater type — a nominee who would rattle the Republican establishment and reconnect the party with its base – but with better electoral results.

Wait a minute!  Hold on!  That makes as much sense as a screendoor on a submarine.  That’s why Goldwater lost – he reconnected the party with its 34% base and was thereby seen as a kook.  And hell, Barry Goldwater was a likeable guy and had a few friends in his own party.  Cruz is neither.

Somebody rattled Louie’s cage this morning.

You know all those Muslim Brotherhood people who have taken over President Obama’s mind?  Well, damn, now they have Eric Holder. It appears that they only eat black people.

Think about it, when your attorney general spent more of his legal career helping terrorists than defending the country, then you know we all have certain biases and lean certain ways.

Well, of course.  I mean he has all the signs of being in the Muslim Brotherhood.  He’s black and he’s …. uh, black.  Yep, he’s still black and he’s ….

And next they’re going to take over the Department of Transportation because the President has nominated Anthony Foxx, a black man.

Louie said all this on the Glenn Beck show.  And I do mean show!  Honey, that combination resulted in an IQ so low that there was a Chinese golf course two miles down.

Thanks to Fran for the heads up.

What could possibly go wrong?

Sen. Glenn Hegar said it is unfair for students with concealed handgun licenses to be prohibited from keeping a firearm in their cars while they go into class.

That’s why Hegar, R-Katy, proposed SB 1907, which passed out of the Senate on Tuesday and into the House for further debate. But there’s a caveat: Campus carry cannot be attached as an amendment.

Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, asked Hegar for his assurance that an amendment to allow students to bring firearms into college buildings would not be smuggled into the final bill.

First off, I would not trust Glen Hegat as far as I can throw him.  Hegar is so crooked that he has to screw on his socks in the morning.  I can almost promise you that once this gets to the floor, Hegar’s recall will need an overhaul and he’ll work himself into a verbal lather and holler that it’s unfair, unfair I tell you, that students have to keep their guns in their cars where people can steal them.  What English 305 really needs is a couple of hidden handguns to keep the nerds from breaking the voting curve.

You can dance this all over the floor but it’s still a bad idea.

You’ll notice that Hegar cannot give one example where a gun in a school  parking lot has done something good.  I can promise you that all you’re doing is arming drug dealers in parking lots.

Texas has 99 problems but getting more guns in the hands of kids ain’t one of them.

Thanks to Raphael for the heads up.

Happy 80th birthday to
Willie Nelson.

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Love is real indeed.

And I want you to note that Barack Obama has to wear an ID pass but Willie Nelson doesn’t.

Republicans created Ted Cruz, knew he was a snake, and are now acting all shocked that he’s biting them with venom strong enough to jump start a nuclear submarine.

Take Romney hack Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post today.  She calls him a jerk for his narcissistic attack on his fellow Republicans, recounting how he baffled them all with one simple word:  squishes.

Ted Cruz is the only person I know who can strut sitting down.

Rubin says Cruz shows a lack of maturity and sophistication.   No shoot, Sherlock.  And those are his good qualities.

She continues —

For starters, it’s just not smart to annoy colleagues whose cooperation and support you’ll need in the future. Second, as a conservative he should understand humility and grace are not incompatible with “standing on principle”; the absence of these qualities doesn’t make him more principled or more effective. Third, for a guy who lacks manners (see his condescending questioning of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) he comes across as whiny. They yelled at me! Boo hoo, senator.

I’d like to say one thing to Rubin, the Republican political hack:  you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.  He’s yours.  You built him, Dr. Frankenstein.

Ted Cruz wants to be Mr. Republican.  That’s fine with me.  He doesn’t care whose ox he gores, just so long he draws blood and gets credit for it.  That’s why he’s a Republican.

Thanks to Steve for the heads up.