Louie Gohmert is refusing to do town halls out in east Texas.  Do you want to know why?  He doesn’t want you to get shot.

“At this time there are groups from the more violent strains of the leftist ideology, some even being paid, who are preying on public town halls to wreak havoc and threaten public safety,” Gohmert said in a statement.

“Threats are nothing new to me and I have gotten my share as a felony judge. However, the House Sergeant at Arms advised us after former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot at a public appearance, that civilian attendees at Congressional public events stand the most chance of being harmed or killed—just as happened there.”

There’s a couple of bean dip dumb things about that statement.

First off, Gohmert has voted against every sensible piece of gun legislation in the seven years since Giffords was shot.  If he is concerned about your safety, ‘plain that.

Second off, Gohmert has attended every damn gun fetish and Come-And-Take-It flag waving tea party demonstration in this whole country.  And he’s scared of some kale-eating liberals?

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Yeah, these really look like some bad hombres.

Third off, how come it’s perfectly safe for Louie to speak at the country club but not the high school cafeteria?

Y’all, Louie was not a “felony judge.” There is no such thing as a felony judge in Texas. So, if you see him, please refer to him as a so-called felony judge.  However, I admit it was a felony for his jerk to ever be a judge.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up. 

I do not want your irony skills to get rusty while we’re living in the Land of Alt Truth, so here ya go —

Now lemme see, who would that be?

Thanks to Mike for the heads up.

Well, let’s mosey on up to Canada, where you’d expect gun people to have learned science, but no, it’s the same as here.

An Ontario man is recovering from surgery after he shot himself in the leg while making a necklace out of a bullet.

Durham Regional Police say a 50-year-old Oshawa, Ont., man tried to pull apart a bullet with vise grips around 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

They say the powder inside the bullet ignited, which caused an explosion and propelled the bullet into the man’s thigh.

He had to have surgery to take his necklace out of his thigh.  And his head out of his butt.

Thanks to James for the heads up.

Customer John sent me this earlier today and I just now found the time to check to see if it’s real.  It is.

This Dr. Seuss cartoon, published in the early 1940’s.

The cartoon, which mocks an apparent blithe naiveté about the dangers posed by Nazi Germany, as well as a callousness regarding the lives of children who aren’t American citizens, makes it a striking accompaniment to modern protests, not least of which is that Trump has named one of his own official platforms “America First.” As a collection, Geisel’s war cartoons target isolationism, anti-Semitism, and racism.

Note the America First on the Momma’s blouse.

Everything old is new again.

Thanks to John for the heads up.

There’s good news:  This morning, in a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court reversed the punishment phase of a death row inmate because the judge allowed testimony that the convicted man was more likely to commit future crimes simply because he’s black.  Of course, of damn course, it’s a Texas case.

“But our holding on prejudice makes clear that Buck may have been sentenced to death in part because of his race. As an initial matter, this is a disturbing departure from a basic premise of our criminal justice system: Our law punishes people for what they do, not who they are,” Roberts wrote.

Now, that’s the good news.  In America, the color of your skin doesn’t determine the punishment you receive.

Here’s the bad news: It was a 6-2 decision.  That means that two Supreme Court justices think it’s okay to base punishment on skin color.  Of course, of damn course, one is Alito.

And the other one ….. Clarence Thomas, the one man on the court know who knows diddle squat about racial profiling or knows and doesn’t give a damn.  That rumbling noise you hear under your feet is Thurgood Marshall.

Those of you who have been around here for a while know that occasionally former State Representative Glen Maxey is my partner in crime.  Glen and I get together and raise money for sending ballot by mail applications to Texans who are over 65 or disabled.  It has been a highly successful program thanks in large part to you guys.  You guys cover the small counties in Texas where the Democratic party can’t carry the financial burden of this program on their own.

The Maxey Happy Dance

Every two years I come and ask you to donated and you send us thousands of dollars in return for our everlasting devotion and generally very late thank you notes.  And a picture of Glen’s happy dance. You have never let us down.

Now to Glen. As soon as Glen gets back from the DNC meeting in Atlanta (he’s on the DNC), Glen is having heart surgery.  As we were cleaning Glen’s apartment for him to have a neat, nice, and clean place to recover, we discovered that Glen’s life of bachelorhood has taken a heavy toll. Oh dear God. There was not a spatula in his kitchen that had a handle and his towels looked like he stole them from the doggy bed.

Coincidentally, today is Glen’s 65th birthday and he’s having a small party in Austin weekend after next, the day before his surgery is scheduled.  His friends got together and registered him at Target for all new crap.  His crap is in desperate shape.

If you would like to send Glen a birthday present click right here.  You can buy him a dishtowel for $2.25 or if you’re a big spender, there’s a perfectly hideous kitchen rug for $10.49.  There is no delivery charge because it will all be delivered to his birthday party. If everything gets sold out, you can give him a gift card for $5 up.

I’m gonna send this link to Glen so if you want to just wish him “Happy Birthday, You Old Cooter,” the comments is the place to do it.

Thank you, guys.  I love Glen.