Mike Pompeo may be the first Secretary of State nominee to go down in committee.

Don’t get too excited.

The full senate will vote next week and he’ll win because of Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly, and Joe Manchin, three Democrats who are obviously looking forward to watch the world go up in flames.

In the second ring of this circus, Republicans are threatening Joe, Joe, and Heidi that if they vote No, they will “face the consequences.”  Who the hell believes that crap, you little weak kneed wimps?  They are coming after you no matter what you do and no matter how much you whimper and beg.  And you know what the irony is, they will call you weak.  Because you are.

If one of these senators is yours, call them and let them know The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. says they are cowards, and we will all face the consequences of that.

What the hell kind of people are we?

We dumped a 23 year old Dreamer with traumatic brain injury from childhood at the Mexican border where he had no one to meet him and promptly got beat up.  He has lived in the United States since he was 9 years old.

We have far too many ICE agents if this is what they are doing.

DACA status is not handed out like candy.  If you’ve never seen what it is before, take a look here.

We made a deal with these kids when we took their paperwork and their $495.  We made a deal.

And then we became Trump bullies, afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable.

Bring Juan Montez home.

When Trump said he would hire “all the best people,” he neglected to say what they would be best at.

Apparently, unknown to us, John Bolton was the best at … Muslim bashing.

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, chaired a nonprofit that has promoted misleading and false anti-Muslim news, some of which was amplified by a Russian troll factory, an NBC News review found.

From 2013 until last month, Bolton was chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a New York-based advocacy group that warns of a looming “jihadist takeover” of Europe leading to a “Great White Death.”

See, as promised, he’s really, really good at stuff.

Shawnee, Kansas, Where guns don’t shoot your penis off, people have a do-it-yourself kit.

Yeah, some unnamed man was being a badass when the gun in his pocket took care of that.

Police were called to an apartment in the Fox Run apartments, 10300 block of West 77th Street, just after 12:10 a.m.

Johnson County Med-Act transported the man to an area trauma center reporting he had shot his penis.

The man’s injury was described as serious, but not immediately life-threatening.

Sgt. Wilburn said police are still investigating exactly what happened and where it happened. The man did not tell police much about the incident.

Yeah, I suspect that after, “I shot myself in the winkie,” there’s just not much else to say.

Thanks to Jan for the heads up.

Remember when political disputes were settle by having a duel?

It’s back.  And it’s in Georgia.

Two political rivals in the Republican lieutenant governor primary are damn and determined to get the NRA endorsement.

Last week the NRA endorsed state senator David Shafer, saying he is “a voice for freedom and faithful friend to Georgia’s law-abiding gun owners” who offers “unwavering support for the Second Amendment.”

Well, that just pissed off former state Sen. Rick Jeffares, who says his family has been shooting things for generations and won international shooting contests and what not.  Hell fire, his family “even made a baby gender announcement by firing an AR-15 through a pink balloon.”  Okay, that’s just too creepy to think about for long, so let’s just move on to the duel part.

So Jeffares challenged Shafer to a shooting contest.  Sadly, it isn’t a Hamilton – Burr type of duel, but a clay pigeon-shooting competition because everybody knows the test of a true gun lover is about aim.

I am not kidding you.

According to Jeffares’ challenge, the loser of the clay shoot would bow out of the race. And it just so happens both candidates will be speaking at a fundraiser luncheon Friday at the Cherokee Rose Gun Club.

Shafer hasn’t agreed to the challenge, but that isn’t stopping Jeffares. “Let’s save the people of Georgia the hassle of wading through political TV ads and mail pieces and settle this contest today,” Jeffares said. “I’ll bring an extra 12 gauge in case he doesn’t have one.”

Sounds like a plan to me.  Can Dick Cheney come?  I ask because it’s obvious that both these guys need shooting in the face. I hear Cheney is good at that.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Here’s the start of good news …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the US government’s top consumer watchdog, hit Wells Fargo with a $1 billion fine on Friday for improperly charging thousands of customers for auto insurance they didn’t need — it’s the agency’s second-largest fine in its history …

… that quickly turns to stink worse than a goat on a crawfish diet because the Republican’s tax “reform” bill, but corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%.

According to a Goldman Sachs report from December, the tax cut will boost Wells Fargo’s profits by $3.7 billion this year.

We fine Wells Fargo a billion dollars so the Republicans wink and give them $3.7 billion for the trouble.

When you make ripping off consumers so damn profitable, we’re not gonna stop crooks.

Which may be the whole point.