Dragyn's Breath: 04/01/2015

LePage is the pinnacle of the new Repug politician. Stupid, mean-spiritied, petty, and possessed by radically fundamental 'Christianity'. So, of course, we must piss on the poor just as some idiot pastor says Jesus said to to. I hope they all get leprosy. Maybe their version of Jesus can cure that...

“The legislation may sound reasonable, but it’s actually a cynical
attack on the EPA’s ability to do its job,” said Andrew Rosenberg, the
director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of
Concerned Scientists

Loonie Louie Gohmert and Slimy Stevie King! You would expect better from these two?

Hypocrisy abounds in every corner of this issue. The twists and turns the justices perform to get to where they want to be are fascinating. And intellectually impossible. Which is why Scalia looks so constipated in the pic; his wittwe tiny bwain huwts!!!

The difference is that, even with tits on the front page and the occasional hysterical headline, they still do journalism in Britain. There are at least four, and I think it's up to seven, daily newspapers in London. Is there a city in the US with more than two papers (there're three in NYC, but one's the Post, so.....)? I live in the second largest city in the US (well, in the burbs...) and there is one paper. There is a second if you count the OC Register, but it's focus is just OC, and it's barely becoime a newspaper again after decades of being a pamphlet for the Birch Society (with a REALLY good funnies section!) :) And almost none of them practice journalism anymore; they specialize in stenography, with a slight bias to whichever side they 'favor'.

"It can only be assumed that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his minions over at Fox News believe everyone they talk to is a moron… and based on the Fox News audience… this is probably a proper assumption. However, unlike the viewers of Fox News, there are those out there who know a thing or two about the political spectrum, and when Cruz says things like “Liberal Fascism” he is, quite literally, contradicting himself."

When faced with the reality that immigration helps job growth and increases wages, Republicans commission a report that compares apples to oranges.

Umm Frankie... gay people don't indoctrinate people. Crazed, right-wing, pig-ignorant radical fundamentalist Christers indoctrinate people.

There’s some recruitment going on all right — of all the right-wing lunatics who believe this crap.

Great approach. Maybe we can try it in L.A. We're gonna need about a billion gallons of paint, tho. And some of the ummm parts will be pornstar level given some of the cavernous potholes around town. I do not, however, give credence to the theory that the La Brea Tar Pits started life as a pothole! :)

Forty years ago today, Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) fell to the North Vietnamese (now known as the Vietnamese :) ) Many refugees (including the parents of my significant other) ended up in the tent city at Camp Pendleton. The Times commemorates the anniversary with a series of the stories of some of the 'campers'.

I really don't like Gordon Ramsay. I've worked for or with too many people with same demeanor. Lord give me strength or a baseball bat was my mantra. But this is a really human (thus totally unexpected) side of Ramsay in response to young cook whose life was sliding off the rails. Bravo! (Can I say bravo when he's on a different network?) :)

I wish Ron had been home more during Rand's childhood. Altho, his name is Rand... he was probably doomed to be a douchebag no matter what.

I love ya, Bernie, and you'd make a good (well, at least, an
interesting) President. But, at this point in time, you can't win. America's not ready for a socialist Pres. Someday, but not now. Plus,
Hillary will kick your ass.

Of course, I was wrong about Obama in '08, so WTF do I know? :)

As gay marriage goes to the Supreme Court, activist + author Michelangelo Signorile
reminds us: what good is the right to marriage equality if same-sex
couples don't get married because they're afraid of losing their jobs?

Just shows the depths to which journalism has fallen. Not that anyone on the right has any claims to being a journalist left; they abandoned them sometime in the Clinton Derangement days.... (wait! what? we're still IN the Clinton Derangement days?!?!?)

Well of course they are. We're Americans!!! If the arctic is warming twice as fast, we are compelled (by Manifest Destiny! (tm) or something...) to get that up to three times as fast. Constant innovation and improvement is our metier, even if that improvement destroys the environment and crushes lives. Plant the red white and blue in the arctic and drill away. Our descendants will thank you, right up to the moment the waters start lapping over their heads....

I'd like all Dems to sign a Grover Norquist pledge. To draw and quarter his ass on national TV as part of the Inauguration. Just to be sure, after he's drawn and quartered, burn the quarters. This vampire needs to be expunged from our country's political life or we will become third world in our children's lifetimes. He is pure evil on two legs.

OFUCKINGKAY! I never EVER want to hear the phrase 'edible insect farming' again! ARE WE CLEAR? I CAN'T HEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR YOU!!!!!!

The author of the upcoming "Clinton Cash" lied about how much money Hillary Clinton made. If you're going to write a book on how much money Hillary Clinton makes, it might be a good idea not to lie about the amount.

Today marks two years since the deadly Rana Plaza factory collapse, after which brands like gap pledged to ensure worker safety in Bangladesh. Here's what life is really like for the people that make our clothes today.

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