All Hat No Cattle: Happy Earth Day

Washington State Is So Screwed
California's been getting all the attention, but it isn't the only agriculture-centric western state dealing with brutal drought. Washington, a major producer of wheat and wine grapes and the source of nearly 70 percent of US apples grown for fresh consumption, also endured an usually warm and snow-bereft winter.

Happy Day, Earth. You're hotter than ever.- LOLGOP

This is what we should be fighting for:

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Only 7,395 shopping days till the Rapture, say Republicans #EarthDay - The Daily Edge Tweet

U.S. Supreme Court Made It Easier To Sue The Feds
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for people to sue the federal government by ruling in favor of plaintiffs in two separate cases including one involving a Hong Kong woman who was strip-searched while in immigration detention in Oregon.

America's great at treating corporations as people. Actual people aren't so lucky. - The Daily Edge Tweet

Republican Shenanigans

When Jesus comes back it'll be hard to hear Him over the sound of certain Christians calling for his head. - John Fugelsang

Obama Is Not (Fill In The Blank)____________________
Fox News’ Kirsten Powers, one of the network’s more liberal voices, is really going after President Obama for staying “largely silent” on the issue of Muslim terrorists slaughtering Christians just because they’re Christians.

Whenever someone like Marco Rubio denies climate change, I like to close my eyes and picture him clinging to a melting chunk of ice in the Arctic Circle.- Andy Borowitz

China to invest $46B to build roads and bridges in Pakistan. GOP to invest $0B in fixing 70,000 unsafe bridges in US. - The Daily Edge Tweet

Rock The Voter News

Another False Claim About Hillary. Yawn.
The Republican National Committee chairman says Hillary Clinton paid women in her Senate office less than men. But annual salary data provided by the Clinton campaign show median salaries for men and women in Clinton’s office were virtually identical.

For a group of people who say they are being "bullied into silence," the Christian Right sure won't shut the f**k up. - Jim David Tweet

Meanwhile In Costa Rica
Forest fires at Diriá National Park in Costa Rica’s Guanacaste province have already consumed nearly half of the park’s 5,400 hectares (13,000 acres).

Wildfires started on April 5 and smaller fires have since sparked up, sweeping across the dry, hard-to-reach protected area, according to a report from the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC).

Park administrators believe that hunters started the fires.

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Those like me who don't like to talk to people on planes would pay a premium to sit in "None Of Your Business Class."- Jim David

Fracking Faulted For Oklahoma Quakes, By Oklahoma Scientists
Oklahoma geologists have documented strong links between increased seismic activity in the state and the injection into the ground of wastewater from oil and gas production, a state agency said on Tuesday.