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Today's Beastiable is Senator Marco Rubio. He has said several beastly things, yet is considered a front runner for the Republican nomination for President. Thus he has earned his turn as one of Les Beastiables.

NOTE FOR NEW READERS: This series features a new Les Beastiables cartoon here on caucus99percent every Friday afternoon/evening. We indulge in a little Franglish because the French are tres classy. But I digresse.

For serious source information, please join me below the break. Then you'll be able to "cleanse your palate" with a photo before you leave.

[Update] It's getting real for Hillary.

On November 22, 1909, thousands of New York shirtwaist textile workers met at the Cooper Union building to meet with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union’s Local 25 leaders to discuss working conditions and wages. Like most organizations in those days, the ILGWU was led by men.

Unless you are coming in from the north, then chances are you will drive up highway 447 on your way to Burning Man. Along that highway you will pass Pyramid Lake, a 112K acre, freshwater lake in a very dry state.

Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert US to 100 percent renewable energy

Elton John and his lover David Furnish (at last, finally, able, allowed, to be married, on December 21, 2014, in Britain) became in 2010 the parents of a baby boy, courtesy of a surrogate mother, who birthed Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, that year, on Christmas Day.

OK. The Donald didn't actually say that specifically. What he said was, “I’m the most militaristic person there is.” But that's what he was getting at.

It's promoted as part of the Blue economy.

From MIT

In 1997 the Tennessee branch of the AFL-CIO made an agreement with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to support the privatization of Tennessee's state prison system. This opened the door for Tennessee's prison labor being used to compete with private industry.

Most people think the Red Scare began on February 9, 1950, when Joseph McCarthy produced a piece of paper before the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, and proclaimed...