Okay, this is a serious walleyed snot nosed hissy fit.

Take a gander at this load of crap.

Because of the sequester, thousands of cancer patients on Medicare are being denied chemotherapy.  You wanna know why?  Because the for-profit health care providers will lose money.

Cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients, blaming the sequester budget cuts.

Oncologists say the reduced funding, which took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially.

Patients at these clinics would need to seek treatment elsewhere, such as at hospitals that might not have the capacity to accommodate them.

“If we treated the patients receiving the most expensive drugs, we’d be out of business in six months to a year,” said Jeff Vacirca, chief executive of North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates in New York. “The drugs we’re going to lose money on we’re not going to administer right now.”

There is something so base and evil about making money off suffering that it boggles my mind that we let the marketplace determine who lives and dies.  We have to put our lives in the hands of someone who looks at us by the profit we generate for them.

And then you have people like the owner of Cancer Centers of America who gave $12 million to the rightwing organization Freedom Works.   Well, apparently freedom doesn’t work for medicare patients with cancer.

Remember when the Republicans were all up in arms over “death panels.”   What the hell do they think this is?

Republicans are terrified of Rush Limbaugh and the NRA, but grandma doesn’t scare them in the least.   There is a special place in hell for those people. I just know there is.

They can kiss my big blue butt.

You’ve heard by now that that North Korea has Austin, Texas, on their nuclear target list.

Our buddy Harold Cook has his take on it (prepare yourself for a few Austin insider jokes).  (Okay, I said the whole “Austin insider” thing because I am deeply jealous that there are only three people who “get” Richmond, Texas, insider jokes.)

I suspect Kim Jong-un wants to take out his main competition in  The World’s Dumbest Evil Leader.

Check this out:  Rick Perry says he completely understands why Kim picked Austin.  It’s because Austin is truly  “a very important city.”

Asked about North Korea’s decision to single out the relatively small city of Austin, known more for college parties and music festivals than for political power, he said he’s treating it as a “very real threat.” While he wouldn’t speculate as to whether North Korea has the missile capability to reach Austin, Perry did show some sense of pride that the city found itself on the “Very Important American Cities” list.

Oh dear Lord, Rick Perry takes Kim Jong-un very seriously.   And himself.  Rick Perry takes himself very seriously.  That makes two of them.

I ain’t scared of no nuke.  However, THAT scares me.  A lot.  I say just let them meet somewhere and duke it out.

Rick Perry has always been geographically challenged, including the tendency to not know even where he is.

Texas and federal law enforcement agencies are linking the killing of both the ADA and the DA and his wife in Kaufman County to the Aryan Brotherhood.  Perry has speculation about the Aryan Brotherhood.

In an interview with Fox’s Jenna Lee, Perry quickly tied the killing to one of his favorite topics: the federal government’s role in Texas’ porous border.

“We know the drug cartels are very, very active in this country,” the governor said. “It goes back to the whole issue of border security and the failure of the federal government … to expend the dollars necessary to secure the border with Mexico.”

He offered no evidence to suggest McLelland’s slaying had border connections.

I knew it.  I just knew it.  Barack Obama is part of the Aryan Brotherhood and that’s why he’s allowing more Aryan Brothers is cross the border.

Since Perry’s statement left Texans walking around doing little circle motions with their fingers up next to their heads, Perry’s explainer/translator issued a statement.

Asked to clarify the governor’s comments to Fox on Wednesday, Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said her boss did not mean to imply any specific connection between the McLelland investigation and border security, but was instead “speaking globally.”

Good Lord, woman, Rick Perry can’t even speak Austinly so globally is flat out of the question.

So now Texans have to walk around making little circle motions to both sides of their heads, which makes texting, pumping your own gas, and any resemblance of table manners really, really hard.  And that’s Rick Perry’s fault.

Thanks to Frank for the heads up.

I do not know how the NRA is going to handle this whole “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” motto, but after the DA and his wife being shot in his own home where they had guns handy and the Mingo County Sheriff being shot in his car while eating lunch, it might be time to re-examine that philosophy.

A new catch-phrase:  Not only should everyone be armed, they should keep their guns pointed at all times.

Might work.

This actually happened in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

A man and his girlfriend were attending a “mudding.”

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In South Carolina, that is very similar to a wedding or a baby shower and sometimes they are done in conjunction with each other to make it more festive.   In this particular case, it was done in conjunction with a bonfire.  There was probably a joyful celebration with roasting of weenies and s’mores.  Perhaps some vintage wine.  A nice Riesling maybe.

Anyway, there they were at the mudding/bonfire social event and heard someone say, “Stop playing with the gun.”  It was 2:00 am so I wouldn’t think there would be target practice going on.  The next thing he knows …

The man said he heard someone say, “Stop playing with the gun,” and then felt a burning sensation on his leg where he had been shot. The group dispersed and the man’s girlfriend brought him to the hospital.

I guess I should add here that a shooting is generally the only thing that causes a crowd to disperse from a bonfire, so it’s almost required.

Both the man and woman told deputies there was no argument and they believe the shooting was accidental, the report states.

No charges have been filed and the man signed a waiver of investigation, according to the report.

Accidents happen.   So do angry girlfriends.  Highly respected statistical studies show that both of those things are more apt to happen at a mudding or a wedding in South Carolina.

I just wanted you to know.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Well, I’ll be damned.  You knew it was gonna happen.  The Second Amendment just up and shot the First Amendment with an assault rifle, unprovoked and with what little available forethought there is in North Carolina.

Republican North Carolina state legislators have proposed allowing an official state religion in a measure that would declare the state exempt from the Constitution and court rulings.

The bill, filed Monday by two GOP lawmakers from Rowan County and backed by nine other Republicans, says each state “is sovereign” and courts cannot block a state “from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.”

“I’m Proud To Be An American North Carolinian South Baptist” will now be sung at all Duke University Blue Devils Red Angels basketball games.

Smokey Mountain National Park will become North Carolina Hills of Galilee and Hallelujah Jesus Theme Park.  The historic coastal city of Wilmington will be named The Baptismal Font of Glory and Washing Away of Sins, where genders do not mix because of all those wet tee-shirts after the dunkings.

They will still have bars and dance halls in North Carolina but they will be renamed Holy Water and Rejoicing Centers.

And all them Jesus hatin’ sumbitches who are too chicken to kill someone for stealing a teevee or lookin’ funny at your wife have to move to Virginia.

Them’s the rules, you yankee first amendment sumbitches.

Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.