I dunno.  Every time after one of these events, I wonder if maybe now is the time we’ve reached deadend and something will get done.  I live a life of major disappointments.

For me, the war was over when we decided that massacring a classroom of precious children was tolerable.  Once we made that decision, more death is just more death.

There’s only one glimmer of hope.  The Rupert Murdoch owned New York Post has an editorial —

I know that the gun nuts won’t give up their guns because they have the right to defend themselves from the government coming and putting Americans in prisons and taking their children away.  Well, that’s happening right now on the border and I don’t see any of those assholes fighting the government on that.

I don’t know if we can confiscate all the military style weapons.  But we can start right now to quit making ammo for them.  You can make the ammo go away before you can gather all the guns.

If this results in a lot of cold, dead hands, at least it’s the hands of people who made a choice to die.

Screw ’em.

Y’all, Mitch McConnell fell at home in Kentucky yesterday and broke his shoulder.  Now he doesn’t even have a shoulder for the victims to cry on.

I did not know until this very day that getting hit by lightning could break your shoulder.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Domestic terrorist Cesar Sayoc faces sentencing today for sending mail bombs to:

*Barack Obama

*Hillary Clinton

*Joe Biden

*Kamala Harris

*George Soros

*Tom Steyer

*Robert De Niro

*Eric Holder

*Maxine Waters

*Cory Booker

*John Brennan

*James Clapper

*CNN

Defense lawyers urge leniency, saying Cesar Sayoc, burdened as a child by severe learning disabilities, was living alone in a cramped van and working as a strip club DJ and a pizza deliveryman in West Palm Beach when he became “increasingly obsessive, paranoid and angry” and believed enemies of President Donald Trump were trying to hurt him and other Trump supporters.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Well, pretty late last night, Texas Congressman Kenny Marchant snuck out his backdoor, stood on the porch drinking some iced tea and, “you can’t fire me ‘cuz I quit.”

This is the fourth Texas Republican Congressman to throw in the towel in a couple of weeks. After always winning his seat by double digits, he only carried it by three last year.

Kenny was a high school graduate and completed studies at the Southern Nazarene Theological Seminary in Oklahoma, where books are pretty cheap because there’s only one.  He was one of the founding members of the Tea Party.

So, it looks like Dallas is gonna go totally blue.  I’m ready to fight for it.

Y’all, one of my girlfriends and favorite lunch dates, Kim Olson, is running against Marchant. See her movie and drop $5 in her flash funding.

I am babysitting night so we don’t have on the tv.  If you want to comment on the new American way of life, please feel free to do so.

If you ever entertained a nice thought about Texas Congressman Will Hurd, take it from your head and stomp on it.  Until this week, we thought Hurd was a Republican, but a fairly decent man who wasn’t one of those crazy Republicans.

We were wrong with a big red X.  We are lucky he’s leaving office.

Here’s his thoughts:

“While Hurd told The Post he objected to Trump’s racist tweets (“When you imply that because someone doesn’t look like you, in telling them to go back to Africa or wherever, you’re implying that they’re not an American and you’re implying that they have less worth than you”), he insists that he will still vote for him, the perfect pathetic encapsulation of Republicans’ moral vacuousness. They know he’s a racist, they know racism is despicable and anti-American, but, by gosh, he’s their man for president.”

So what Will is saying is that it’s okay if I’m an active raving racist just so long I also sell your vote to Russia, lie to the American people, steal the taxpayers blind with personal greed, and grab women by the pussy, you’ll vote for me.

“Perfect pathetic encapsulation of Republicans’ moral vacuousness.”  Indeed.