Head on down to Steak ‘n Shake in Fort Mills, South Carolina, where you can shoot yourself in the butt and get free medical attention.

And not get arrested.

Around 8 a.m. Tuesday, the 29-year-old man was getting his jacket when he accidentally discharged his 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. The round struck him in his backside then went through the seat and struck the floor, according to a Rock Hill police report.

The man said he would pay for the damages.

Ho Boy, will he ever pay.

What a way to start the day!

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

“I am shocked, just shocked that Ted Cruz wants to run for President,” said no one.  Ever.

So they’ve run it up the flagpole.

And some in the conservative movement are already talking him up as a potential 2016 presidential candidate.

“It is an undercurrent and growing,” said Texas GOP consultant Bill Miller. “Most observers believe he is moving very fast toward a much higher visibility. The presidential buzz has begun in earnest.”

Jeff Judson, a major tea party figure in the Lone Star State and a Cruz booster, said the movement is totally organic and not emanating from Cruz or his staff.

Yeah, totally organic.  Completely organic.  You know what an organic fertilizer is, right?  Hey, Cruz has a whole lot of that.

Birthers?  Hummm … where are the birthers?  Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.  I guess Kenya is like a whole different “foreign country” than Canada.  If Barack Obama was born in Kenya to an American mother, he cannot be President, but there’s  one of those Papal dispensation for Canada?

Good Lord, a Fidel shirt and a hockey stick  in the White House?  I am certain that rightwing will be mortified at the thought.

Thanks to Andrea for the heads up.

Term limits.  I would prefer campaign finance reform.  If you limit the money and gifts coming into politics, you don’t need term limits, because bad incumbents become much easier to beat.  And, some people have served for a lifetime and done an excellent job.

I see term limits in the city of Houston come to mean they play musical office holders chairs and they just scamper around seeking each others jobs when their term is up.

On the other hand, with this Supreme Court, campaign finance reform ain’t gonna happen.

The Texas Senate today voted 28 – 3 for HJR13, which would limit non-judicial statewide officeholders to two consecutive terms in office.  The starting point would be 2014 – the next election.  This means that officeholders can serve more than two terms if they sit out one term.  Humm … that seems like something that could be become a family full employment act pretty quickly.

I have not made up my mind about this term limits stuff.

You might have.  Let’s hear it.

I love two things today:  People with a sense of humor and rainbows.

Somebody bought the house next to Westboro Baptist Church and painted it rainbow colors.

For too long, the Westboro Baptist Church has been targeting the LGBTQ community with messages of hate and discrimination. Often, protesting American soldiers’ funerals and organizations that support equality. This faction preaches extremism in our communities and directly targets our youth. To combat their messages of hate and to support equality and anti-bullying initiatives in schools and in our community, Planting Peace has established the Equality House in Topeka, KS.

Located directly across from the Westboro Baptist Church, the House is a symbol of equality, peace, and positive change. The house, which is painted the colors of the Pride flag, will serve as the resource center for all Planting Peace equality and anti-bullying initiatives and will stand as a visual reminder of our commitment, as global citizens, to equality for all.

There ya go.  That’s how you make a difference in people’s minds.  Except the Westboro people, who have no mind.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I want you customers to see Screwy Louie Gohmert in action. You need to see Louie sneer about the “simpletons that sometimes write for Huffington Post.”

He was quickly informed by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner that his son writes for the Huffington Post.  By the way, Frank Sensenbrenner is a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Click right here and be perfectly delighted at Louie mumbling “PhD…well…” as he gathers his papers.

That is pure Louie Gohmert.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Ole Bubba, attorney at law, ended himself up on the front page of the Houston Chronicle newspaper today.

Lisa Falkenberg, one of the few remaining investigative reporters in Houston and certainly one of the smartest, discovered a problem in Fort Bend County, where Ole Bubba and I live.

The story starts with a Department of Public Safety lab worker who got caught red-handed falsifying lab reports on drug tests.  He handled 5,000 cases in Texas since 2006.  They fired him.  However, the 5,000 cases he handled may have included more than a smattering of lies, lies, and double lies that put innocent people in prison.

Ole Bubba gets peeved about stuff like that.  He’s just an old country lawyer but he genuinely cares about justice and almost always sides with the underdog.

So, when Bubba discovered that some of his clients may have been convicted on false evidence, he was mad enough to squeeze mud out of a rock.  But is the Fort Bend County District Attorney doing something about it?    Is the Pope pregnant?

Other District Attorneys in other counties did the right thing.

Former Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos requested re-testing from DPS, but also sent notices in October to attorneys for former defendants whose cases may have been affected, and referred them to the public defender’s office for help.

Galveston District Attorney Jack Roady’s office sent letters, too. He also asked judges to appoint a panel of defense attorneys to represent former defendants in drug cases touched by Salvador. Of the 700 such cases in the Galveston area, the panel began filing appeals first in the 26 cases where people were still behind bars.

Even Texas’ highest court, which ain’t no bastion of liberalism,  said that evidence handled by this guy at DPS should “be considered tainted.”

John Healey

But people in Fort Bend County are sitting in prison who in all likelihood were convicted with false evidence.  I just don’t know how a man could sleep with himself at night knowing that and not giving a flip.  But, John Healey thinks he knows more than the court does and what’s a little prison time for an innocent person?  It ain’t like we executed them.

Bubba knew Momma would be reading the front page of the newspaper, so he couldn’t say “too damn little too damn late,” when Healey said he’d notified a few of the lawyers about it verbally.

… Healey says he now feels compelled to send notices to those who may be affected: “We would have liked to have waited until the rest (of the test results) came back to give a more complete picture to the defense counsel,” he told me.

Some defense lawyers may appreciate that gesture. But Don Bankston, for one, did not: “If they’d just sent out a letter, instead of having their eyes checking it, we could have had the eyes of 150 defense lawyers checking it.”

If you can read the whole story, you’ll like it.

I am told that you can read the whole story here.

Thanks to Ole Bubba for the heads up and not saying damn on the front page of Momma’s newspaper.