It's bad enough having this ass clown, Ted Cruz as a Congressman, but Rep Gohmert (also from Texas) takes the f-ing cake.   What a dick.......

         REALLY?

I'm sharing what Steve Benen recently wrote and sent to me...

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) went after the Obama administration's handling of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation in a radio interview Thursday -- and along the way he claimed that Muslim Brotherhood members are in the administration and influencing its decisions.

"It's very clear to everybody but this administration that radical Islam is at war against us," Gohmert told WND Radio. "And I'm hoping either this administration will wake up or a new one will come in at the next election before irreparable damage is done. Because radical Islam is at war with us. Thank God for the moderates who don't approve of what's being done. But this administration has so many Muslim Brotherhood members that have influence that they just are making wrong decisions for America."

Let's put aside, at least for now, how ridiculous it is for members of Congress to be chatting with a radio show belonging to a fringe website like World Net Daily, which peddles silly conspiracy theories. I suppose we should also put aside the elusive point Gohmert never got around to making (does he think the Obama administration, which killed Osama bin Laden and has largely crushed al Qaeda, is indifferent to threat posed by violent radicals?).

Instead, let's note that Gohmert believes "many" members of the Muslim Brotherhood have secretly infiltrated the administration and, in turn, are making U.S. foreign policy decisions.

For proof, Gohmert offers nothing but his own strange beliefs based on nothing.

You'll recall last summer that Gohmert attacked a Hillary Clinton aide of being a secret Muslim Brotherhood member, and the effort was condemned by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Soon after, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) characterized the accusations as "pretty dangerous." Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), one of the House's most conservative members, offered criticism of his own.

Given this, maybe it's time for the House GOP leadership to remove Gohmert from his seat on the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security?

Pakistani Drone Strike!

Pakistani drone prototype

Pakistan’s drone program is still in the developmental stages.  It was reported by The Rachel Maddow Show that they actually did NOT fly the 2004 drone strike:

"Also, the first drone strike that was conducted in Pakistan to kill somebody was announced by the Pakistani government as their own military operation. Now, it wasn't their own military operation. It was the CIA who did it with a drone. It was apparent before now that the two governments had lied about who is responsible for actually killing that guy in Pakistan in 2004. It was pretty clear that Pakistan hadn't actually done it, that we had done it.

But what was not known until now is that that first ever guy we killed in Pakistan with a drone strike was not somebody that we were really after. And it wasn't like he was killed by mistake. He was not a senior al Qaeda figure. He was not somebody that the United States had grand designs on and really desperately wanted to go kill.

He was somebody who Pakistan wanted dead for their own reasons. Pakistan was mad at him for their own reasons. But the deal was, if the United States killed him, we thought maybe Pakistan's government would let us fly our drones over their country to do stuff that we wanted to do.

So, the first guy that we killed with the drone in Pakistan in 2004, Mark Mazzetti reports, that he was essentially killed as a favor to Pakistan so that they would hook us up and let us kill more people there that we wanted to kill. It's like with a drug dealer, first one's free."

It’s always something….

Toddler launched into space

Retired NASA engineer Floyd ‘rockets’ Dickman accidentally launched his grandson into space yesterday.  Dickman was left home alone to tend the toddler in the backyard of their south Florida home while his wife Ethel and their daughter went shopping.

“Well, it was the darndest thing,”  Dickman explained,  “I must have hit the wrong switch and the little fella was nothing but a con trail in less than a second.”

Apparently Floyd has been working on a propane-fired grass blower invention for several months.  The toddler was anchored in his “Johnny-jump-up” swing next to where his grandfather had his work set up, including a large grass catcher bag, next to the propane tank.  The catcher bag somehow inflated with propane, was inadvertently ignited, and off the little guy went.

The toddler’s father had a camera attached to the swing for some playtime videos for his upcoming birthday party.  Now it’s sending a NASA quality live feed from the swing’s orbit.

“Boy, that was really something…”  Dickman said, still a bit bewildered.

It’s always something…

A Jayhawk Tradition and History...

Found this shirt online, with a little history box next to it.  Thought I'd pass it along.  Seems a bit harsh. I'm guessing these aren't for sale in Larrytown...

Jay•hawk•er (ˈdʒeɪˌhɔ kər)

n.

1. a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).

2. (sometimes l.c.) a plundering marauder, esp. one of the antislavery guerrillas in Kansas and Missouri before and during the Civil War.

jay·hawk·er  (jhôkr) n. 1. One of the free-soil guerrillas in Kansas and Missouri during the border disputes of 1854 to 1859 to 1859. 2. A Unionist guerrilla. 3. Jayhawker Informal A native or resident of Kansas. [From jayhawk, a fictitious bird.]

The origin of the term "Jayhawker" is uncertain. The term was adopted as a nickname by a group of emigrants traveling to California in 1849. The origin of the term may go back as far as the Revolutionary War, when it was reportedly used to describe a group associated with American patriot John Jay.

The term became part of the lexicon of the Missouri-Kansas border in about 1858, during the Kansas territorial period. The term was used to describe militant bands nominally associated with the free-state cause. One early Kansas history contained this succinct characterization of the jayhawkers:

A newspaper reporter traveling through Kansas in 1863 provided definitions of jayhawker and associated terms:

"Jayhawkers, Red Legs, and Bushwhackers are everyday terms in Kansas and Western Missouri. A Jayhawker is a Unionist who professes to rob, burn out and murder only rebels in arms against the government. A Red Leg is a Jayhawker originally distinguished by the uniform of red leggings. A Red Leg, however, is regarded as more purely an indiscriminate thief and murderer than the Jayhawker or Bushwhacker. A Bushwhacker is a rebel Jayhawker, or a rebel who bands with others for the purpose of preying upon the lives and property of Union citizens. They are all lawless and indiscriminate in their iniquities." …the jayhawk is said to be a combination of two birds, "the blue jay, a noisy, quarrelsome thing known to rob other nests, and the sparrow hawk, a stealthy hunter." 

It's always something....