Corbett: Gimme PRESENTS and you can frack everybody and everything

Here's some context for this: Corbett has given drillers of natural gas carte blanche to poison water and people in PA. The fracking industry is paying very little for the privilege of destroying lives and the environment of the Keystone State (then there's the whole absence of meaningful regulation, but that's another issue). One estimate of how much PA will lose over a twenty-year period by not requiring frackers to pay royalties? 48 billion. Hey, remember that one and a half billion that Tommy cut from the education budget? Which is leading to the closing of thirty schools in Philly and probably a wildcat strike later in the year, as the district is like, work more for much less pay and oh we can't even give you access to water fountains I MEAN FUCKING WATER FOUNTAINS and you know how all of this could have been avoided? Taxing the fracking industry.

New York, which shares the Marcellus Shale with PA, is WOW applying things like reason and caution to whether fracking should commence (although one douche is going on about the 'jihad' against the fracking industry, which, I guess, establishes that no place is idiot-free). And in debating the issue, the legislature is like, well, in Pennsylvania people are dying and stuff so guess that's what when there's no regulation or oversight and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WE CAN'T BE LIKE PA. And therefore no fracking in New York for at least two years more. So that NY can study more PA's state of fucked-upness with regards to fracking.

Maybe this is how people who think thoughts feel in Texas or Arizona; this sense of shame that arises from having true wackadoodles (Perry, Brewer) in charge of their state. Kind of like, you work in a cubicle farm and this dude is farting loud and stinky farts and other folks know it's not YOU but you are in the same vicinity of the smell of shit, so it's a big downer, both in terms of smelling shit and also being associated with the smell of shit.

So it turns out that during Tommy Corbett's campaign for guv, he accepted a buncha stuff from folks who wanted stuff from the hot mess that is the Corbett administration. One big gift-giver was this fellow Moran, who was under investigation by the state for issues related to, well, how fucking awful fracking is. Moran was all, here are tickets to the Philadelphia Orchestra lemme frack, here is money for a yachting vacation, lemme frack, here's a bunch more money, lemme frack.

At least Jan Brewer has alcoholism as an excuse for her bad behavior.

Angrycat sez: Yo, dude, YOU MAD? No, no, I'm not mocking. I swear. I mean, purr, purr, purr, I love you. Just -- you know, your Manson eyes of hate? Really freaking me out right now.