All Hat No Cattle: 50 Shades of Greed

$1.5 Billion over Budget, 12 Years Late for DHS Headquarters
The 250,000 employee Department of Homeland Security has a spending problem. And it isn’t just because Congress and President Obama are at an impasse over a bill that could partially shut down the agency.

The irony of 50 Shades of Grey is that people who pay to see it are the real masochists.- John Fugelsang

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Poisoning Our Troops
Federal watchdogs are once again calling attention to a potentially dangerous practice occurring daily at U.S. military bases in Afghanistan.

It involves taking out the trash.

Many U.S. troops are still using open-air burn pits to dispose of their garbage.

REPORT: The 62 Senators who voted for #KeystoneXL received an average of 47 Shades of Grey from oil companies. - The Daily Edge Tweet

Cruel & Unusual Punishment Thrives
South Carolina Inmate Receives 37 Years In Solitary Confinement For Updating Facebook
Almost 400 inmates in South Carolina have spent time in solitary confinement for using social media websites, a violation the state Department of Corrections defines as equal to murdering or raping a fellow inmate, according to an Electronic Frontier Foundation investigation.

Republican Shenanigans

If you don't believe in evolution, I don't believe in your tax policies.- Tina Dupuy

If We Don't Get Our Way, We'll Shutdown DHS
It wasn't supposed to be like this for Republicans. A month into their control of both chambers of Congress, they are confronting the very real possibility of a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department later this month.

The GOP wants 2 Americas. One where people have insurance, equality & a search for truth and another where you piss test the poor for kicks.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

Now let's give Ruth Bader Ginsburg some pot before the next State of the Union and she can decide which is more dangerous.- LOLGOP

U.S. Spreads Measles To Germany
A spike of measles infections in Berlin has been traced to unvaccinated refugees, but at least two cases appear to have come from the United States, authorities in the German capital said Friday.

If you did breathalyzers of everyone as they walked into the State of the Union, it would become the gambling event of the year.- LOLGOP

The whole point of watching the State of Union is to get a little Ginsburged and stop before getting too Boehnered.- Tina Dupuy

Business/Tech News

The Rich Will Be Pissed
Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller has a grim message for investors: Save up, because in the years ahead, assets aren't going to give you the type of returns that you've become accustomed to.

In his third edition of "Irrational Exuberance," which will drop later this month, the Yale professor of economics warns about high prices for stocks and bonds alike.

50 Shades of Grey is so timid compared to the steamy Bible, where whipping is foreplay for death and bondage is what you keep your slaves in. - Mrs. Betty Bowers

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NOTICE:

Today's edition was late today, as I had a visitor. My friend Yerlin was hit in the head yesterday by a falling branch. She was sitting on her motorcycle talking on the phone when it happened. Two men at the nearby bus stop, saw what happened and ran over to help her, as blood was gushing from her head. They wanted to call an ambulance but Yerlin refused. Instead, she stopped the bleeding and rode her motorcycle 30 miles to the large clinic in Santa Cruz and then drove back home. The nearby clinic had closed for the day. She got 5 stitches.