Yes, indeed, it is Halloween and you do not have a costume as cool as this.

Please allow me to introduce Ruth Vader Ginsburg.

Thanks to Rob for the heads up.

Oh dear Lord, y’all.  Pete Olson is talking again.  This was recorded a week ago at a Meet the Congressman event.

I want you to see how a Democrat confronted Olson and never lost her cool.  I also want you to see how to leave a congressman speechless.

Keep in mind that his Democratic opponent was born in Louisiana, moved to Texas at age 2, was raised in this congressional district until age 18 when he left to attend the University of Texas.  His father was born in India and taught at Rice University.  His mother is a sixth generation Texan and related to Sam Houston.

It’s short.  Be amazed.

Sorry I am AWOL today.  I finished making call lists for some of our local candidates to call on rainy days between now and election day Tuesday.

I know you’ve heard about the voting machines in Texas being screwed up. I really don’t think there’s a grand conspiracy or anything.  Our machines are old and they expect voters to be slow.  We’ve all gotten a little speedier on the computer stuff and some people click next page when the whole page hasn’t downloaded yet. We just need to remind people that the last page is a final check of how you are voting.  If it’s wrong, it’s easy to fix.

Yes, I think Beto still has a chance to win.

I also think we’ll pick up several Texas House seats, which would be amazing.  I do not think we’ll take a majority in the Texas House, but we’ll take enough to slow this damn train down.

I hope to be back on the internet machine tomorrow.

Y’all, really?  I just don’t get it.

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Okay, all of us can list the vulgar and violent things that Trump has said.  He glorifies violence. We can all give specific examples of that.

I think we should ask Trump for one example where “fake news” has encouraged violence.  He claims he doesn’t watch the fake news yet he magically knows everything they say.

Politico has a story about Trump’s “Executive Time.”

President Donald Trump had about three times as much free time planned for last Tuesday as work time, according to his private schedule. The president was slated for more than nine hours of “Executive Time,” a euphemism for the unstructured time Trump spends tweeting, phoning friends and watching television. Official meetings, policy briefings and public appearances — typically the daily work of being president — consumed barely more than three hours of his day.

Spending time watching teevee, playing on the iPhone and jacking around talking to your friends is anything but executive time.

And, is it just me or do his random capitalizations show a deteriorating mind?

Poor Trump.  He’s losing sleep.

At 2:00 am this morning, he tweeted this about CNN, a teevee station he claims that he never watches.

He’s up at 2:00 in the morning, watching CNN?

And then, after sleeping late this morning, he’s back on the Twitter.

Okay, first of all – bomb stuff?  Was 911 airplane stuff?

And since the bombs just went to Democrats, it’s “very unfortunate.”  Had the bombs gone to Republicans it would have been “an act of war.”  And even the “unfortunate” part isn’t about homegrown terrorism, it’s that it might hurt the momentum.

Go to sleep, Trump.

Oh yeah, voting machine troubles.

The Secretary of State has issued a rare announcement that the Hart eSlate voting machines in Texas are screwy.

Here’s what happens, when you vote a straight Democratic ticket and then go through the rest of the ballot to get to the screen to cast your vote, sometimes the first race on the ballot rolls over and overrides your straight ticket.  So, you vote for Cruz instead of O’Rourke.

We’ve had three people catch it in my county.  No telling how many more didn’t catch it.

Specifically, the Hart eSlate system uses a keyboard with an “Enter” button and a selection wheel button. The “Enter” button on a Hart eSlate selects a voter’s choice. The selection wheel button on a Hart eSlate allows the voter to move up and down the ballot. It is important when voting on a Hart eSlate machine for the voter to use one button or the other and not both simultaneously, and for the voter to not hit the “Enter” button or use the selection wheel button until a page is fully rendered. A voter should note the response to the voter’s action on the keyboard prior to taking another keyboard action. It is also important for the voter to verify their selections are correct before casting their ballot.

Seems to me like they should fix that.