Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller, is all about Facebook.  Okay, maybe not all. And I say that because he makes a fool of himself in person, too.

Sid’s latest tongue tangle is with The Texas Tribune over a story they did researching all the false information and fake news on Sid’s Facebook page.  The problem Sid was facing is that Tribune documented it all with real screen shots.

But Sid has a response anyway!  He phoned a call-in radio show in Austin and explained why their was so much false and made-up information on his Facebook site.

“I’m not a news organization,” Miller told reporter Nathan Bernier. “Y’all are holding me to the same standards as you would a news organization, and it’s just Facebook.”

On his Facebook page, according to the Tribune article, Miller has warned that terrorists are preparing “for their jihad against the state and our nation” in a compound outside Houston. Another post claimed President Obama had held up a T-shirt printed with a likeness of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara during a trip to Cuba.

He said much of what he posted on Facebook was “satire, or comedy” and that his Facebook page wasn’t a reliable source for “factual news.”

“I shouldn’t be held to that standard,” he said. “It’s like Fox News: I report, you decide if it’s true or not.”

I’m sure that Fox News is thrilled to hear that Sid changed their motto.

Sid Miller: More Unreliable Than Fox News.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

In an unprecedented breach of Constitutional rights (get used to hearing that phrase) Dat Guy’s Inaugural Committee has requested that the National Park Service withhold all permits from any other group but themselves in Washington DC from January 6 thru Januray 30^th.

You may recall the story last week of the Women’s March, scheduled for the day after the Swearing, that had run into permitting problems. User Merry very penetratingly asked in the comments: “I’d be interested in who the other requests are from. Are they from ringers? Did their requests predate this one?”

Why, yes, Merry. It turns out they are; they very much are.

Every public space traditionally used for protests, including the sidewalk outside the White House, has been put on hold pending decisions by Dat Guy’s committee on Pompous Puffery and Pageantry Killing Dissent as to whether or not they “need” them.

In recent days, Day Guy has bullied a labor president who dared to call him on his bullshit, he’s viciously thrown Boeing stock into panic for the same reason, and now we find he’s proactively clearing the Capital City of any signs of dissent during his Assendancy to the Residency.

Meanwhile, he’s staffing the government with billionaires and generals.  Corporatism and militarism, hand in hand, crushing dissent, lionizing the Leader, and demonizing the Other in the name of the Homeland.  Trying to to think what that reminds me of…  Begins with an F…

Sounds like “ass-ism.”

The Wall Street Journal, where rarely you find fake news because they mostly print all that in their editorial section, breaks the news that Trump is going to name his labor secretary.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, according to people familiar with the decision.

Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, has been a vocal advocate for cutting back regulations he says have stifled growth in the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the American workforce.

Needless to say, he hates the Affordable Care Act.  He also hates raising the minimum wage higher than $9 an hour.

He’s not what you would call a people-person.

“They’re always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case,” says Puzder of swapping employees for machines.

Remember when Rick Perry wanted to eliminate three federal agencies?  It appears that Trump wants to turn them all into Darth Vader.

“Voters in high dudgeon against Wall Street manipulators and the Washington aristocracy vote for the billionaire populist who puts tycoons in power … If Billy the Kid had been smart, he’d’ve run for sheriff.”
— Garrison Keillor

I hate these people.  I can’t help it.

This makes perfect sense and you guys need to quit making fun of Ben Carson for confusing hummus with Hamas.

The soft-spoken conservative mispronounced the name of terrorist organization Hamas several times in a speech to Jewish Republicans. Instead he called the group “hummus” – the name of a popular Middle Eastern chickpea dish (also available and delicious at your local Texas grocery store).

Reporters at the event said Carson’s distortions of Hamas drew chuckles from the crowd. Those following along on social media also poked fun at the malapropism. (Does Barack Obama have a plan to defeat hummus? Does it involve pita bread?)

Well, Mr. Smartypants reporter, surely you know that there’s been a big recall of hummus recently.

Hummus can now officially kill you.  Ben Carson is a medical doctor and this is his expertise.

So, do you have a plan?  I mean, other than the recall. American cannot be great again until there’s a hummus plan.

Out in Fresno, California, just three days after a deputy was accidentally killed when he grabbed a gun that he or a fellow officer had dropped (the case is still open), there has developed a habit.

This time a deputy shot himself in the leg while trying to put on his holster.  It has been revealed that the sheriffs department handguns do not have an external safety.

For example, some guns have an external safety, a little switch on the side that must be pushed to unlock the trigger before the gun can fire. The guns used by the Sheriff’s Department will fire by simply squeezing the trigger so deputies can be quicker.

This shooting prompted a headline in local media.

Reviewing safety procedures did not include even the slightest hint of the possibility of adding a safety to the gun, even though the lack thereof has killed and injured 100% more deputies than the bad guys have.

Nope. Not gonna do it.

Here’s the result of the safety procedures changes.

So for now, deputies will be warned to be careful with their guns, and when putting on their holsters.

“Just visually look down and check where your strap is, because if you are having trouble with it, don’t just yank on it,” said Harlow.

Don’t just yank on it? Well hell, in my mind that’s a pretty good piece of advice for everyone for everything.

Holy cow.

WE. ARE. DOOMED.