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Everything to be Beautiful

Her parents have taught this child a lot.

Scuzzbucket of the Month

Update 9/23/2013: Hackers release phone number and address of this scuzzbucket

2) He says he's dropping the price of the drug.



This is what a conniving, evil little son of a bitch looks like

Martin Shkreli is a Albanian American hedge fund manager and entrepreneur, specializing in healthcare businesses and is a co-founder of MSMB Capital Management, of Retrophin, and the founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals .

The former hedge fund manager purchased the rights to a drug that's been used for 62 years to treat parasitic infections, and hiked the price from around $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet.

The drug is called Daraprim ,and it is used primarily to treat infants and people who have weakened immune systems — most notably those who have AIDS. It's among the most common treatments for life-threatening parasitic infections.

Shkreli tweeted "Every time a drug goes generic I grieve. Let us not mourn the dearly departed, instead celebrate the profits and new assets it brought us"


Shkreli oversaw Retrophin until last fall, Retrophin alleges that he created the biotech and took it public solely to provide stock to MSMB investors when the hedge fund became insolvent.

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Owls

Owls are such cute animals!

Posted by Bright Side on Thursday, 13 August 2015

Refugees

Photo: Paolo Pellegrin, for The New York Times

I wanted to share this photo because it touched my heart. Each face portraying what the Syrian refugees are struggling with.

These people have been through so much in the past four years.

I'm amazed at their bravery, living through the horrific humanitarian disaster that has been simmering since 2011, involving an influx of "sectarians"(ie terrorists), that evil Assad, a man with no soul and a world that basically turned the other way.

The father in this picture makes me wonder about his life. How it became altered by the craziness in Syria, crazy enough to grab his two small children and run for their lives. Where is their mother? Are there other children? The baby in his arms must be hungry, scared, sick. I just want to comfort him. And the little girl with the heart on her shirt. What stories will she tell in the future.

Please send up good thoughts and prayers for these three and ALL of the people who are refugees. Imagine yourselves in their place.

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Cruelty to those Suffering

I was thinking of going to go back to "Scuzzbucket of the Week" on this one.

But I was unsure if I could find a scuzzbucket every 7 days. What a silly thing to worry about. With an upcoming election year and the wackos out there hating our President, lunacy in the Mid East, that crazy woman in Kentucky, I'd have a treasure trove! I bet I could do a "Scuzzbucket of the Day" lately.

Anyway, I caught this video while checking out the daily news today.


I don't know where Hungary's leaders' minds are, but I'm not liking them too much lately. I'm feeling naive when it comes to what they're doing, I suppose. But it doesn't make me feel good about it.

Needed to see this....

Some one on Facebook mentioned Bob Fosse and this is the first thing I thought of

Monday Morning Smile - On Monday

...snarled traffic in San Francisco for four hours! Who says chickens are stupid? Chicken for the win, San Francisco motorists: zero.

A Village Called Versailles

Working in the East, I watched the daily recovery from Katrina. It took 3 months for me to return to work after the storm.

This heartwarming story made me cry, for these people found their voice and demanded their new home to be free from toxic waste.

Please watch when you have time. It is uplifting. Thank you.

Monday Morning Smile - posted early

Take a Picture of This

The General on Louisiana's Environmental Problem

courtesy of MSNBC