Mostly the Rocks Are In His Head, Though.
Texas Republican Representative John Culberson represents a large area of Houston. Hillary carried his district two years ago and he knows he’s vulnerable.
He also has learned that he ain’t bulletproof.
Culberson is a big military memorabilia collector. They figure that he’s bought and sold more than $1.3 million in antiques an collectables since 2010. Democrats see the opportunity for hanky-panky here, because personal collections are exempt from congressional financial reporting. What if he’s buying a rock for $5 and then selling it to a supporter who has already maxed-out donations to Culberson? What if he’s selling that rock for $10,000?
Additionally, there’s $33,000 in weird charges to Culberson’s campaign account.
In all, they document $32,981 in expenses reported as “books” and “research materials” since 2009, as well as $17,000 on gifts, including antiques and military collectibles, since 2004. More than $5,000 was spent on Civil War memorabilia since 2010.
My personal favorite was the $309 purchase at a place that sells fossils. Yeah, rocks. Other than throwing them at some other old fossils to see if they stick, it’s hard to see how buying rocks is a legitimate campaign expense. Culberson’s staff has an answer.
Culberson’s aides explained the purchase as research material on paleo-climatology, a subject that would help him understand climate science for his position on an appropriations subcommittee that oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Culberson does not believe in climate change. How’s a rock gonna help that? The rocks in his brain don’t help much at all.
He’s a mess.
“Ya see, this here rock is tellin’ us “don’t believe them librtards ’bout climate change”… Listen… what’s that Rocky? You say, the libtards are lying about climate change to allow Communist China to force men to use the ladies rooms? Thank you for your service Rocky!”
1If you’re a geochemist, a rock can help you understand paleoclimatology. Culberson is not a geochemist. I’d also wager he does not know how to do scientific research.
2Bad Karma.
I have spent a long holiday week-end in the company of family heathens who voted for the current president and support him and his maladministration. I also need industrial strength Listerine to remove the taste of some bad chicken fajitas eaten at the SA restaurant that hosted our multi-generational multi-family thing this week-end. As I recover from all this familial familiarity, I’m thinking how bad I need tasty chicken fajitas and a re-incarnated Judge Roy Bean. Of course Judge Bean would have to work 16 hours a day to process the capital complaints I’d provide and order the local sheriff to lead snacilbupeR out to some remote spot, swing them by the neck from a nodding bough of some sturdy oak, and let them hang until they are dead.
Several snacilbupeR felons on the Judicial committee spring to mind immediately.
3The rocky cliffs of the Grand Canyon, and several damn big canyons in this country, do tell a story about climate. However — you knew that coming, didn’t you? — looking at the rocks is one thing. Having the brains to understand it all is quite another. As an example, I give you Senator Inhofe who brought a snowball onto the Senate floor, bad mouthed both the snow ball and climate science, before throwing said snowball at somebody. What you bring onto the Senate floor is rigorously limited. How he got a snowball past security has always made me wonder.
4Fossils? I find that encouraging (it’s the age of grasping at teeny tiny straws) because maybe it means he at least believes in evolution.
5Buttermilk Sky, if he doesn’t accept (let’s quit using the words “believe in,” as if you can “believe in” gravity) climate change and thinks looking at a fossil will help him understand it, I don’t think it’s going to help him accept evolution either. He just looks evangelical to me– that big smug grin that says “I got all the answers.” (Scientists don’t have all the answers, but we know what it would take to make us change our minds.)
6” The rocks in his brain don’t help much at all.” Maybe he was a quartz low. (Sorry.)
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