I set about writing about the frightening event in Washington, DeeCee, involving fake news, a gun, pizza, a crazy dude, and totally innocent people.  

Honestly, I didn’t even know where to start. 

But Barb came to the rescue.  For many years Barb has been our foreign correspondent in The Washington place because she lives in the heart of the city.  She sent me this last night and gave me permission to share it with you.    

Susan,

I don’t know how much you’ve heard or been paying attention to this awful bit of fallout from the campaign; but, I thought you might be a little bit interested.

Somehow, for some unknown reason, some alt-right website decided that Hillary and John Podesta were running a pedophile ring out of a neighborhood pizza restaurant. I’m not at all sure that either of them has ever even been to this place. It certainly isn’t easily accessed by HRC’s house in DC. Here’s some background:

And this was today’s result.

I have NO IDEA how to counteract any of this. I just hope a lawsuit will be filed immediately and the same thing that happened to Gawker will happen to these bozos. Except, I hope somebody besides this fool also goes to jail. We are certainly living in interesting times. Poor us.

This isn’t Texas, but, GEEZ!

(As an aside, that 1950s “Comet” sign hung on a liquor store just down the street from me for, like, forever. The couple that bought the store from the previous owners were a fixture here until the old man died suddenly and his elderly wife wasn’t able to keep the store going by herself. Their children were all well educated and had lives and careers elsewhere (although one of them died of AIDS in Florida). So, they closed the liquor store and the folks who were going to open up a restaurant a few miles up on Connecticut Avenue bought the sign and immediately had a name for the new place. The initial controversy was that they put ping-pong tables on the the sidewalk out in front and people were concerned about balls landing in traffic. The tables were moved inside. During this incident today, the businesses on both sides of the place were locked down, too, including the bookstore “Politics and Prose” which is where everybody wants to have a reading/signing session. Every journalist you’ve ever heard of who has published a book has been there. I could go on, but you get the drift.)

You can use this if you want; but, I thought you’d want to know about the latest scourge that has descended on us all since Dat Guy got elected. I’m just praying for “faithless” electors at this point.

Barbara

Thanks, Barbara.  

As soon as our good friend and beauty shoppe raconteur and bon vivant PKM marched to the frozen wastelands with thousands of his fellow vets, tyranny blinked!

Celebrate good tribes Come ON!

We’re proud of him and you, Jane (married to him)!  Get him back safe and let’s hear the tale.  You two are ready to lead.

Texas Senator John Cornyn, who to his benefit is best known for keeping his mouth shut because at least he knows he’s dumb as a sack of hammers, has spoken out loud so I listened.

The so-called 21st Century Cures Bill is a Republican is a Christmas gift to drug companies. Honey, it’s got tinsel and bells and crap hanging all over it.  Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke out against one particular portion of the bill in particular.

And finally, Warren criticized provisions designed to speed approval for stem cell therapies. Referring to a major Republican donor who would stand to benefit from the provisions, “This megadonor has poured millions of dollars into Mitch McConnell’s personal campaign coffers and into his Republican super PAC, and now he wants his reward. So the Cures act offers to sell government favors.”

The story then describes this —

After Warren ended her speech, a stunned-looking Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) rose and protested the senator’s language and tone. Cornyn called for more civility.

Numero Uno:  John Cornyn always has a stunned look on his face. That’s his base line – stunned and confused. Words stun him and bygawd most of them confuse him.

Numero Twooh: More civility? Oh, so NOW you want damn civility.

So the suspension of civility is only for Republicans?

Thanks to Bunny for the heads up.

Texas Republican Congressvarmint Louie Gohmert is fighting for liberty, y’all.  And Freedom and crap.

Louie took to the House floor to make a speech about the federal government interfering with his barbequing rights.  Holy hell, y’all, this is serious.  We’re talking barbeque.

“About seven years ago, the Architect of the Capitol, who works for the House and Senate, had decided that we all work for him and started making demands. One of which was, I could not cook ribs and share them with other members of Congress,” Gohmert said.

Liberty!  Gohmert wants some damn Liberty!

Gohmert says he cooked ribs on his office balcony “quarterly” up until seven years ago.  Then some government agent came along and said that an open fire the House hasn’t always ended up very well.  Now what’s he supposed to do?  Cook somewhere else?  You know, like people who don’t have an office balcony?

I ain’t saying that Louie seems to be having a plenty easy time buying barbeque.  And I wonder if his congressional friends know he ain’t doing the cooking of these “great” ribs.  Or his $6668 barbeque?

Our friend John says there are only four balconies in the House Office building and none of them appear to belong to Louie Gohmert.  I am under the assumption that they all belong to us. And in my mind, they should be used properly – to roast weenies.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

As you know, Texas Ag Commish Sid Miller is a bubble off plumb.

He has the Texas Regional Distributorship of fake news, including announcing that both Barack and Michelle Obama lost their law degrees due to ethics charges, calling Hillary Clinton the C word, and comparing refugees to venomous snakes.

But now he’s changed his mind about all that.

Because … yeah, it’s gotten personal.

It seems that Miller went out to dinner at an Amarillo restaurant and was not happy with his meal.

Insulted by the food, Miller left a note for OHMS staff on the back of his receipt: “Terrible steak not a rib eye more like prime rib which I hate and I paid 34.00 for mac and cheese,” he wrote. Instead of his name, Miller signed the bill “Terrible meal!”

The restaurant, which generally gets good reviews, has a different side.

Guy came in and didn’t like the steak. We offered him something different, and he declined and then left his business card in his plate of food and then left his business card again and guest checkbook with a note in it and said he was unhappy with his meal,” said Josh Fuller, OHMS Cafe and Bar Chef and Manager.

Okay, so here’s what I think.  I think Ole Sid refused a replacement meal and dropped his business card everydamnwhere because he wanted them to comp the meal.  He didn’t want to be happy, he wanted to be cheap. I bet he ate the steak anyway.

So, Ole Sid, who admits he did this, then took to Facebook and called this “fake news.”  He also said that his note was “private” and “constructive criticism.”  Sid said that he himself “appreciates” constructive criticism.  You know, except when he gets caught stealing from taxpayers or using his campaign contributions illegally.

No, Sid, fake news would be if someone said you are an honorable gentleman and a great public servant.

Fake news, my patootie.  This is just a day in the life of pathetic Sid.

I am back from two weeks without much of an internet machine connection.  Yes, it was fabulous.

First of all, I deeply and sincerely thank Primo and El Jefe for keeping the beauty salon open and the floors swept.

It is my desire that they continue to blog here whenever the spirit moves them – as much or as little as they want to.

I’m back.  It’s the holidays.  I am merry and filled with mischief.

Let’s play ball!