Texas lawmaker shoots would-be thief, police say

A state lawmaker who opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force pulled a gun and shot a man he says was trying to steal copper wiring from a construction site, police said Monday.

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Miles, a Democrat, voted against a bill that gives Texans stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, vehicles, and workplaces. The so-called “castle doctrine,” passed by the Legislature this year, states that a person has no duty to retreat from an intruder before using deadly force. The law goes into effect Sept. 1.

Borris Miles voted against you, my fellow Texans, doing precisely the same exact thing. Would some damn journalist call him up and ask him why he’s so goddamned special, and we ain’t? Why I’m expected by Borris Miles to back off and go hide and dial 9-1-1 and hope that copper wire is the only thing the sumbitch in my house wants and that the cops get there before said sumbitch turns his thoughts to maybe more?

Thankfully, Borris Miles was on the wrong end of history on that one. Fortunately, I’ve only got to wait another month and a half before I’m allowed, by the law of the great state of Texas, to defend me and my copper wire without fear of prosecution by an over-zealous vote-seeking DA. However, you voters who put Mr. Miles in office might want to ask him what other things he thinks you little people shouldn’t be allowed to do, but are perfectly OK for him.

I literally just turned on the teevee to the beisboll all-star thingy, and they’ve got some lady singer wandering around while a roadie dude in a black t-shirt tries to plug in a keyboard and the pianist is kicking off her shoes?  Wow.

I’ll never stop loving baseball, and that right there is the reason why…football has a cast of thousands with Broadway stage directors timing things to the split second, and spends $10MM for the winner of America’s Got Hash-Slingin’ ‘n’ Singin’ Talent show doing bumper music leading up to the 15th commercial before the National Anthem.  That’s cool, too.  But baseball, Major League Baseball, raking in billions every year, can’t string together an extension cord that’s long enough for Johnny Fever to plug in to the Radio Shack organ.

Looks like plenty of empty seats there…maybe everyone is out getting a beer.   It’s really a testament to the wonderfulness that is baseball that the schmoes running it haven’t completely and totally killed it as a national sport.  All baseball really needs is just a smidgen, a tee-tiny skosh, of good management.

…are really only a very small part* of this Holy Union:

Complete, utter lunatics, captured on film.

* The paying part.