Wally says he was the first vote for President Barack Obama in Iowa this morning.   He got up real early, and apparently brought a date.  My kind of guy.

Thank you, Wally, for sharing.

I would also like to mention that Wally has on a jacket and it’s 93 degrees in my part of Texas today.  I will vote in flip flops.

Thanks to The Mudflats for the great visual.

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.

You know how when your 87 year old grandmother is in intensive care and the doctor comes out and says, “It’s in God’s hands?”  Or hell, anytime a doctor says, “it’s in God’s hands?”

That means the doctor doesn’t know what else to do because she’s tried everything she knows and nothing worked.

Welcome to the crazy world of Republicans right now.

Mormons are afraid that mitt Romney is going to screw up the debates.

Mormon supporters of Mitt Romney are promoting a day of mass fasting and prayer to seek divine help for the Republican candidate in the debates.

The plan — which is not endorsed by the politically neutral Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — is laid out in an email inviting like-minded Mormons to fast on September 30th with the purpose of bringing God’s blessings to Romney as he heads into the presidential debates.

And since this is just 3 days before the debate, God has a very short time to decide what to do with Mitt during the debates:  flip-flopping Romney or Lying Mitt?  That’s a tough decision.  I guess that’s why God has to make it.  Lord knows Mitt can’t.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.

The New Yorker magazine takes on the GOP version of history, including some wonderful history lessons from some of your favorite Texans.

1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.”—Rick Perry

1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.”—Dick Armey

2009: Michigan diversifies its legal system: “The judges in Dearborn are using, and allowing to be used, Shariah law.”—Representative Leo Berman

2010: Flying Jihad Terror Babies invade America: “It appeared they would have young women who became pregnant. They would get them into the United States to have a baby, they wouldn’t even have to pay anything for the baby, and then they would return back where they could be raised and coddled as future terrorists.”—Representative Louie Gohmert

Yes, Texas appears to be the most represented state when it comes to dog dump dumb Republicans.

Check them all out right about here.

Thanks to Rip for the heads up.

Customer Elizabeth Moon reports that it took her doing seven backflips and a couple of cartwheels to ensure that she is listed as a registered voter on the Texas Secretary of State “Am I Registered to Vote?” website.

You might want to check it yourself because, dammit, I do not trust anybody appointed by Rick Perry.

And I especially do not trust Republicans with this election!

Thanks to Elizabeth for the heads up.

Y’all, you know that it’s gutter dredging time when Newt Gingrich is giving debate advice to Mitt Romney.

And Newt’s advice:  be assertive.  Yeah, Mitt, be the manly man that is the Newtie.

Okay, let’s be honest about this.  Those two boys are all lime and salt, no tequila.

Imagine either one of them in this picture.

I’m not saying that Mitt and Newt are kinda wimpy, but neither of them could pull this off, Honey.  I’m from Texas, I would know.

So Mitt should get all up in the President’s face and stomp his feet? Y’all I would pay $100 cash American money to see that.  But, luckily, I’ll get to see it for free.  On the teevee.  In one week.

I can hardly wait, y’all.