This idiot would be a laughingstock but for the fact that enough people with a similar lack of brains and information voted this idiot into office. How such as him can win amazes me, but as PT Barnum pointed out a sucker is born every minute. His voters, Sarah Palin and himself may make up 1/2 a WORKING brain, but I doubt it.
Bravo Billirubin, you have summed it up most eloquently! I too am well educated but underemployed and have had to, as you say, "cobble together disparate jobs that may or may not fit my skills, and have become a scrapper."
Your entire post describes exactly what I feel and where I am.
So, I'm too busy this morning to go off on a lengthy political diatribe, so I'm keeping it short and shallow.
Did anyone else notice in the photos of the Fitzgerald, both of them have this look on their face, like they are trying hard as hell to do real, honest, actual smiles, but the black in their hearts is overriding everything. It's almost like they are terrified that their face(s) would crack and bleed like chapped lips if they put on a sincere, ear to ear, shite-eatin-grin.
Acid test to know if you are truly, despicably evil....
When positive emotions cause you pain.
16 hours on a bus? Good for you G'ma! Does that mean you are a neighbor from the mid-west? I suffered from asthma for the first time in my life as an adult when I moved near a coal burning plant and never made the connection until my G'ma explained it to me.
I share your feelings about some people who call themselves "environmentalists," but your proposed solution makes no sense, either in terms of energy extracted from the ground in return for energy sunk in, or of keeping greenhouse gases out of the air:
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130219/oil-sands-mining-tar-sands-alberta-canada-energy-return-on-investment-eroi-natural-gas-in-situ-dilbit-bitumen
Much better just to leave tar sands "oil" in the ground and concentrate on conservation and developing renewables.
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