Please meet Richard Tatum, owner of Associated Marine & Industrial Staffing Inc. (AMI), which a temporary staffing company.  Richard lives in Humble, which is dangerously close to Houston.

Everybody thought AMI was very successful because Ole Richard was living pretty high on the hog.

Then the cover came off —

Tatum withheld from his employees approximately $12 million in payroll taxes from March 2008 through December 2012, but did not pay over any of this money to the IRS. Tatum also failed to pay $6 million of AMI’s required share of social security and Medicare taxes during the same quarters. Instead, he used the money for his personal benefit, including making payments on his ranch and traveling to Las Vegas, Hawaii and France. Tatum admitted that he caused a tax loss of more than $18 million.

So, Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen just had a hunch and check campaign finance records.  Sure as the nose on your face.

Right smack dab in the middle of all his stealing taxpayer money, Alfredo found:

So, if you check the Handbook and Guide to Being a Dick, it says that you should start stealing money from little children’s healthcare and grandma social security check, and step 2 is to joint Republican Party.

Tatum is going to jail for three years and then has to figure out a way to pay back all the money he stole from us.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

One of our customers, Jim, sent this charming German animated video about our president and the G20.  It’s about 3 minutes long.  Sit down, pour a cup of afternoon coffee or a bottle of cheap wine.  Enjoy!

I have long believed that it takes some sort of genetic screw-up to make someone a Republican.  I also think that more than likely, most of it is caused by a preoccupation with s-e-x.

Marlett’s Mugshot

There’s lots of example of that, you know.

We have a new one.  Oklahoma Republican State Senator (those are some cringe-worthy words, right?) Bryce Marlatt is a dandy.

In December of 2015, Bryce was found passed out in his car.  The discovering police officer asked Bryce how many beers he imbibed, Bryce woke up to answer.

Marlatt was asleep in the vehicle and smelled heavily of alcohol, according to the arrest report. Police say the first comprehensible thing the man said when asked how much he had to drink tonight was, “No more than anybody else.”

When asked how many beers he had, Marlatt said, “None. I had what you would call a bourbon and Coke,” police say.

Oh hell, the boy’s a real rocket surgeon.

And he learned diddle squat since then.

State Sen. Bryce Marlatt (R-OK) on Wednesday was named as a suspect in a case involving lewd acts against a female Uber driver, News Channel 4 reports.

The driver approached an officer on Monday, explaining that she “was transporting a customer when he made advances on her during transit,” according to the police report. The suspect allegedly began “grabbing her forcefully and kissing [her] on the neck while she was driving.”

Appropriately enough, Marlett is Vice-Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has made up a new rule that only applies to women – they cannot enter the Speaker’s Lobby wearing anything sleeveless.

What the damn hell?  What is wrong with sleeveless?  Do women’s upper arms sexually arouse the Speaker?  Has he started calling his wife “mother” and can’t have a snack with a women unless his wife is there?

What the hell is he?  A fashion guru?

Look, I just ran a Google search of Paul Ryan’s wife and, God love her, I don’t think she owns sleeves.

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I think she looks perfectly lovely.

Paul Ryan can kiss my big blue butt.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Y’all, Rick Perry is not just an average idiot – he’s a nuclear powered, lightning bolt, steam driven idiot.

So he trots off to speak at a coal plant in West Virginia, promising to get those poor people their crappy jobs in the coal mines back.

Then he opens his mouth.

Demand follows supply?  Oh, okay, if you say so.  On the other hand, this pretty much explains Republican economics for the past 50 years.

Honey, this news just thrills Thelma’s cousin, Betty Lynn Bodacious, whose collection of Beanie Babies fills two warehouses and a Hoarders episode.  She’s finally gonna make that big killing in the Beanie Baby market ’cause she’s got a mess of ‘um.

Somebody tell Rick that nobody is buying coal because (1) it’s too expensive, (2) it’s freekin’ sooty, and (3) it’s heavy to transport.  Hell, even when Donald Trump promoted “clean, beautiful coal,” people giggled.

Here, think about this.  If you’re a real bad kid, what does Santa Claus leave in your stocking? There ya go.

Thanks to Brian C for the heads up.

Trump, who claims to be a successful hotel developer, planned a trip to Germany without thinking about hotel reservations.

President Donald Trump nearly missed out on staying in Hamburg, Germany — site of this week’s G20 summit — because his staff waited too long to book a hotel.

The summit, which was scheduled in February, requires 9,000 hotel rooms to accommodate world leaders, their aides and security details, but White House staffers didn’t immediately make reservations, reported Buzzfeed.

He almost had to stay 180 miles away.  Now, just try to tell me that Angela Merkel didn’t do this on purpose.

Germans have a sense of humor and offered him another hotel room on Ebay.

I’m betting he would stolen that coffee table.

Ah….. they don’t look happy to see each other.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.