Poor Ted Cruz, everybody’s always picking on him.   Now they’ve found he’s buying copies of his worst-selling book and paying for it from his campaign account.  Wanna know what’s not allowed?  Hummm … buying your book from money in your campaign account, thereby enriching yourself.

Ted Cruz published a book in September 2020.

In the next three months, @tedcruz’s campaign spent more than $150,000 on books at Books-a-Million. https://t.co/hbVR3rPV4n pic.twitter.com/uhIFN93gZq

— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) January 30, 2021

And you can see if for yourself here.

I gotta admit something, when I first saw this, I thought Ted was paying people to read his book.  Honey, it’s that bad.

When the Georgia Bar comes calling.

“The State Bar of Georgia told me today they would demand a mental health exam from me if I wanted to keep my law license,” Trump conspiracy lawyer L. Lin Wood posted. “My mind is sound.”

Honey, the only sound his mind knows are those voices he keeps hearing.

The Georgia State Bar thinks you’re nuts? You’re nuts. In case you haven’t noticed, they’ve got a real low bar on sanity in Georgia. You can ice skate right over that bar and never even wobble.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up. 

The Cleveland Plain Dealer announces this afternoon –

There was speculation that he’d run for the seat Rob Portman is vacating.

That was a close call.

If he was in the senate, he and Ted Cruz would have a Being a Dick Death Match that none of us want to see.

Remember Michele Bachmann?  Well, she’s still around. And not in a good way.

Last November, she went on a rightwing evangelical teevee show and proclaimed that she knew for a dead solid guaranteed fact who was going to overthrow the government —

“These are transgender Marxists — transgender Black Marxists — who are seeking the overthrow of the United States and the dissolution of the traditional family,” Bachmann said in the interview on The Victory Channel,

I think finding three hate words for what might on a good day comprise half a dozen people in America is a real special talent. And if you think about it, she wasn’t far from wrong. And by think about it, I mean believing that everybody at the January 6th insurrection was a transgender black Marxist.

And speaking of January 6th, Bachmann says she was at the White House that very day,

“We had our hands raised. We were worshipping the Lord on the South Lawn of the White House,” she said. “Before too long, the mob started. … All of a sudden, I sense the Holy Spirit just speaking to me. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, ‘It’s time to leave.'”

No, No, Honey. If that was the Holy Spirit, it would have told you to leave four years ago.

Anyway, the reason all this came up for me is that Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen gave me Michele’s FEC report. She is sitting on $1.6 million in her account.  She, did, however, spend some of it.

The Minnesota Voters Alliance seems to spend most of their time keeping people from voting.

The Leyden Preservation Group protects and serves old statues so there’s got to be some Civil War crap in there.

The Justice League of America is comic books and cartoons.  GiveSendGo, who got the money, is a Christian Fundraising site.  And … they were raising money to investigate “voting irregularities in Minnesota’s 2020 election.”

The Child Protection League seems most concerned with “experimental vaccines”, racial quotas in schools, and critical race theory.

So, during the worst pandemic in our lifetime, Michele found a way to make charitable contributions amounting to less than $12,000 that helped nobody whatsoever.  Not one mouth was fed or one rent paid. Not one sick child got to see a doctor or one grandma got a vaccine.

She’s got $1.6 million and that’s what she does to help.

You’re gonna love this.

Oh yeah.  

They’ve got themselves a $2 million stockpile of a dandy malaria drug. So if malaria ever hits Arkansas, guess who is going to make a killing by jacking up their prices and selling on the border. 

The Governor, Kevin Stitt, purchased this stuff just a few days after Trump first said it cures Covid. While most people said he was just kissing up to Trump and the rightwing, the Gov defended it saying it was better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.  

The Attorney General has tried to return it to wherever they bought it and to make a long boring story short, nope. So, they are trying to sell it to some other fools. But, come to find out, there are no fools around better than Oklahoma fools.  What keeps Texas from falling into the Gulf of Mexico? Oklahoma sucks.

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.

Written by Nick Carraway

My alter ego has published four books about baseball. The last two have been about the baseball Hall of Fame. So, imagine my surprise when my two biggest passions collided this week when Curt Schilling failed to get into the Hall of Fame. He is taking his ball and going home.

Schilling’s case for the Hall of Fame is a challenging one. He won more than 200 games and had more than 3000 strikeouts with the Phillies, Diamondbacks, and Red Sox. He also dominated in the bright lights of the playoffs.Unfortunately, he also has made a ton of news off the field primarily by being a conservative you know what.

Dozens of voters asked to be able to rescind their yes vote this year when Schilling spoke out in favor of the attack on the capitol. This brings us to an impossibly hard scenario. Proponents of Schlling correctly point out that the Hall of Fame has unrepentant racists, wife beaters, and drug users. It even has one accused of murder and one convicted of drug trafficking charges.

Yet, all of those players were selected years ago when morals and sensibilities were different. Can the current voters really be held to the standard of voters up to 80 years ago? The Hall of Fame has a character clause, but it isn’t clear whether they mean anything that happens this far off the field. Voters that pulled the lever for him knew what he was before the attack on the capitol. His support shouldn’t have been a surprise.

Schilling is taking his ball and going home. He doesn’t want to give the writers the satisfaction of saying no again. He wants the Veterans Committee to decide his fate. My guess is he gets in eventually when all of this dies down. The playing credentials definitely warrant it, but some opinions are just too toxic to overlook.

Nick