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Veronica Dunnachie, a 35 year old woman in Arlington, Texas, filed for divorce from her husband last October.  Yesterday, she went to the house where he lived with his adult daughter from another marriage and the couple’s three children.

She shot and killed her unarmed husband and his adult daughter and then drove herself to a mental health facility, where police found her.

This was almost dead solid perfect guaranteed to happen.

Veronica was an active member and proud demonstrator with Open Carry Texas, a group who feels the need to parade around town and in stores with military grade weapons.  Just because they can.

Here she is demonstrating her ability.  Click the little one to get the big one and read the cute comments from Cory Watkins, the head of Open Carry Texas.

And here she is on the left in an Open Carry Texas recruiting poster.

And there’s a group shot —

What is it going to take to see the mental health of these people who feel the need to carry weapons and scare the crap out of everyone?  Target kicked them out but Kroger is letting them carry.  I quit going to Kroger.

I know this isn’t funny.  It’s serious.  Deadly serious.

Thanks to Stephanie for the heads up.

Texas has sent a missionary brigade out into the world to spread crazy.

Out of Israel this week comes a case that involves our country actually exporting this terror, as American Adam Livix was arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up Muslim holy sites.

Livix is a 30-year-old evangelical from Texas who left the United States last year when he was sought for drug-related charges. He has lived in Israel since March 2013, apparently overstaying his tourist visa (his charges include being an undocumented resident).

Yes, our rightwing Christian druggie undocumented aliens are teaching the world about Jesus and, as a special gift, how to blow crap up.

So remind me again who the terrorists are.

Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.

No, seriously.  He said that.  Out loud.

“Running for the presidency is not an IQ test. It is a test of an individual’s resolve, it is a test of an individual’s philosophy, it is a test of an individual’s life experiences,” he told MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt in an interview that aired Thursday. “And I think Americans are ready for a leader that will give them a great hope about the future.”

And then as if to prove the whole bottoming IQ thing and providing hope to people, Perry explains that God wants you to be poor so shut the hell up about it.

Outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry shrugged off wealth inequality, saying the Bible showed poverty could never be eliminated.

“Biblically, the poor are always going to be with us in some form or fashion,” Perry told the Washington Post.

Okay, so Texas is the fifth-highest level of income inequality in the U.S but Perry says that’s okay because God said it was okay.  Besides, there’s this ….

He said a young man who dropped out of high school in South Texas could make more than $100,000 a year as a truck driver.

Perry acknowledged that the richest Texans have experienced the greatest amount of earnings growth, but dismissed the notion that income inequality is a problem in the state, saying, “We don’t grapple with that here.”

Where?  Where are truck drivers making $100,000 a year?  Maybe they are, if they are hauling drugs.

Okay, so maybe half that. But, Perry says you could hope your wage would double.  Expect no help from him, though, because he is admittedly dumber than a sack of hammers.

Now here’s the sad part, he said all this butt crazy stuff after he “has been working with speech coaches from a Republican firm run by a former actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company.”  Well see, that’s the problem right there.  They should have gotten a cast member from Dumb and Dumber.

Thanks to everybody and their Aunt Betty Lou for the heads up.

My email has been down since yesterday afternoon, so if you’re trying to contact me – even by Tell Juanita – it ain’t happening.  You might try smoke signals, texting (if you have my phone number), a Facebook message, or writing it on the back of a twenty dollar bill and leaving it on my doorstep.

If it’s not back up by this afternoon, I’m giving you the phone number to my service provider, where you can expend your pre-holidays grumpiness.

UPDATED: the threats worked.  Email is back.

Okay, y’all, I take it all back.

Rich Perry’s stock just went up.

Lookie who else is running.

Rick Santorum is running for President. Again.

In fact, so many people were assuming the former PA Senator and 2012 runner-up would give it another shot that Santorum didn’t even really declare, giving the impression that his campaign never really stopped.

Hey, wait!  That was Rick Perry’s plan!

You can’t do that.  Two crazy Rick’s running for president with the same damn campaign plans.  How the hell will Sarah Palin tell them apart?

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

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