Some times things are just wizardry.

Like this:

A plant in Kentucky is moving all their operations to Mexico.

The Louisville plant, at 11225 Bluegrass Parkway, makes aluminum ladders, wood attic ladders and fall-protection products like ropes and harnesses.

Ladders.  They’re moving their ladder making company to Mexico.

The owner of the company “did not address whether the aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year by President Trump were a factor in the plant closure.”

Probably did, though.

Thanks to Wyatt for the heads up.

The Texas Secretary of State, who is appointed by the Governor, made a big announcement that 95,000 people in Texas were registered to vote who were not citizens.  And, holy mackerel, they could prove it.

They looked at Texas driver’s license applications and pulled out the names of people who applied for licenses while non-citizens from 1996 to 2018.  They matched that with currently registered voters and came up with 95,000 “possible” non-citizens, which they later revised to 98,000.

The state then sent the county election officials a list of those names and asked them to contact each voter asking them to prove they are citizens.

And Donald Trump retweeted this great discovery.

But then, revisions were revised some more yesterday.

Texas naturalizes about 50,000 people a year.  So, there’s a pretty good chance that some of these people became naturalized after applying for a driver’s license and then didn’t bother to notify the Department of Public Safety because they are not required to.

So, on the third revision, things like this happened.

The state initially told Cameron County that about 1,500 of the nearly 1,600 names on their list had been placed there in error. The state then called Cameron County and said they had given them the wrong number, Garza said.

In all, about 300 of the names on Cameron County’s list were put there in error, Garza said.

Are you starting to get the idea that the state doesn’t know what they are doing?  Cameron County was initially told 1,600, then told 100, and next was told 1,200. And it’s only Wednesday.

Additionally, many of the names have been found of citizens who registered to vote at the naturalization ceremony.

Needless to say, LULAC, the Texas Civil Rights Project, the ACLU and damn near everybody else is on this like green on grass.

Kentucky Republican Governor Matt Bevin ain’t puttin’ up with all this weakness in America.  No, siree.

He went on the electric radio to preach good old American hardness.

Bevin was disdainful of several school districts in Kentucky closing school today during the polar votex.  He kept saying over and over, “We’re getting soft,” and wondered out loud, “What’s happening to America?”

I dunno, Matt, the worst weather in a generation?

“Now we cancel school for cold,” he said.

“It’s deep freeze!” the host replied. “This is serious business.”

Bevin scoffed at the forecasts. “Come on, now,” he said. “I mean, there’s no ice going with it, or any snow.”

Actually, there was snow in parts of Kentucky. Oh, but he wasn’t finished.

… it does concern me a little bit that in America — on this and any number of other fronts — we’re sending messages to our young people that if life is hard, you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard,” he said.

I looked for pictures of Bevin out standing at a bus stop this morning when it was zero degrees with a heavy wind.  It’s a shame I couldn’t find any.

By the way, “Bevin, who was born in Colorado and grew up in New Hampshire, attended the Gould Academy, a college preparatory school in Bethel, Maine, where annual tuition for boarding students is now $61,350.”

Isn’t that nice?  And soft?  And a place to curl up?

Republican North Carolina Congressman Mark Walker has a damm good idea.

He introduced a bill “to save the US from seeing any more former members of Congress taking up congressional lobbying, if they have not paid back taxpayer money used to settle sexual harassment settlements.”

I’m not joking.

The legislation to be introduced on Wednesday will reportedly be called The Bad Lawmakers Accountability and Key Emends or, or the BLAKE Act, named after the former Texas congressman.

Yes, that would be named after Blake Farenthold, and man who settled a sexual harassment suit with taxpayer money he refuses to give back, resigned, and then had a friend at a governmental agency give him a government job paying more than he made as a congressman to be a lobbyist in a secret and illegal deal.

This man deserves his own bill, and bygawd, it looks like he’s gonna get it.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I have something for you to look at.

Okay, okay, that’s assuming that Trump is still the nominee in 2020, but even if not, he’s a sinker the size of Dallas tied around every Republican candidate in the state.

Chris Homan is a GOP activist in Houston …

“Because of what happened organically on the Democrat side, Republicans in Texas have a large organizational gap that exists. In 2018, we simply did not have the kind of people and activists at the scale the Democrats enjoyed. This is a significant advantage the Democrats have going into this cycle,” Homan said.

Yo Cowboy Chris – that’s because you guys are old, hateful, and dying of meanness.  Democrats can still walk and rarely have to get to the cafeteria by 4:00 for dinner. Plus, they don’t run the opposite direction when they see someone darker than a paper sack.

Do you realize that once Texas turns blue, you will never see another Republican in the White House?  The Electoral College may have bought them this election, but then they are screwed to eternity.

Whoa, I watched Matthew Whitaker say of the Mueller investigation:  “is, I think, close to being completed, and I hope that we can get the report from Director Mueller as soon as possible.”

Oh, so he thinks and hopes?  Well Honey, I think Dennis Quaid is really dreamy and I hope he asks me out to dinner.  That ain’t gonna happen either.

And did you notice how he started sweating like a sinner in church?  Holy cow – I’ve seen glasses of ice tea on a humid day sweat less than that.  I hope he didn’t leave a little sweat ring on the floor there in the press room.

Whitaker had an audience of one – Trump. This is a desperate scream from Trump.  But forcing people to say that it’s soon to be over doesn’t make it soon to be over.  It only makes them sweat.  And that, my friends, is really unattractive.

I hope they had a shower and a change of clothes for this guy.