NO more lawyer jokes for a while, okay?  Democratic lawyers led the Resistance tonight.

Hug a lawyer, dammit.

We are not home free yet.  This was just pressing the pause button. But we won the first round, so I am pretty damn sure we can win the last round.

Trump only likes the best. Terrific. Well, Honey, here’s you a gold-plated scam artist straight from Texas.

Let me tell you a little something sweet about Gregg Phillips.

First off, he owes over $100,000 in taxes.  Phillips contests that and says he “only” owes $50,000 – which, according to TASB, is more than a starting teacher’s yearly salary in Texas.

Gregg Phillips is well known in Texas scam circles.  Under Pay-to-Play Governor Rick Perry, an investigation of Gregg landed the Houston Chronicle some awards for investigative journalism.

When Deputy Health and Human Services Commissioner Gregg Phillips and private consultant Chris Britton helped write the $1 billion legislation to privatize Texas’ human services system, they apparently did so partly with an eye on profit — their own.

A Houston Chronicle investigation into the activities of Britton, Phillips and Texas Workforce Commission Executive Director Larry Temple found weaknesses in Texas ethics laws concerning conflicts of interests and cronyism.

Nothing Gregg did, even hustling taxpayer dollars over and over, got him in trouble.  He just kept getting state jobs in both Texas and Mississippi.

I’m not saying that Phillips and Trump are two peas in a pod, but, Honey, you couldn’t tell them apart in the dark.

Thanks to Bud for the heads up.

Okay, there’s this.

The owner, stylist, and customers of The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. are proud to announce that we have found a solution:

All immigrants should pretend to be Christians.  You know, like Republicans do.

Victoria, Texas, is about an hour’s drive from where I live.  I have a lot of good friends there and by friends, I mean Democrats I know and love.

This is not a good morning in Victoria.

Flames engulfed the Islamic Center of Victoria, destroying the building in the predawn hours Saturday as congregation members watched from the curb, overcome with emotion.

“It’s a house of worship,” Shahid Hashmi, president of the center, said as he watched the flames from across the street.

Morning prayers were held on the sidewalk in front of the mosque.

The cause of the fire has not been determined, but I recall a couple of years ago that someone plead guilty to spray painting H8 on the side of the mosque.

If the spirit moves you, they are determined to rebuild.  You can pitch in a couple of dollars if you want to send a message of love.

Thanks to Laura for the heads up.

Last night an Iraqi citizen, who is highly praised by US military troops for his work with them, was detained at Kennedy Airport in New York.  His wife and child waited in Houston.

I am without words because there are no words.  Except NO.

This used to be America, land of the free and home of the brave.

The New York Times asks itself where this horrifying fear of Muslims came from.  They found the answer.   Rightwing fake news.  So Steve Bannon, who made up most of these stories, is running our country now and is going to make this a religious war, playing right into the hands of Isis.

I’m putting on my marching shoes.

So, to all you Republicans who asked me to give Donald Trump a chance, I did.  Look at the mess he has made.

This in from Deb —-

The Trump Administration, which has cause to understand the power of the Twitter, has shut down access to all social media accounts for Govt. Agencies. They are banned from releasing reports, or commenting on factual information before it has been personally approved by the Trump Administration. When The Badlands NPS Twitter account tweeted out climate change information relative to the park it was quickly shut down.

This has caused a number of Alternative Federal Agency Twitter Accounts to pop up. They are doing what real agencies can’t do, speak truth to power. Today, this one came through.