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Monday, February 16, 2015

Boehner ready to let funding lapse for Homeland Security agency

Boehner ready to let funding lapse for Homeland Security agency
John Boehner, the Republican House of Representatives speaker, said he is willing to let funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapse as part of a Republican push to roll back President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration.

"Those who fail to learn from history are huge supporters of my presidential campaign."
- Jeb Bush
- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Weird. Jeb Bush doesn't want to discuss the wars his brother lost.- LOLGOP

Happy President's Day, President Carter.

Costa Rica Reacts To Anti-Vaxxers Results
Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health is calling for measles vaccination of children who will be traveling to the United States as a result of the recent measles outbreak in that country.

Money and ratings dominate the media. I'll believe 'the left' dominates when an anti-war rally gets coverage.- John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

JohnFugelsang: Happy Black History Month - or, if you're Rush Limbaugh, Happy Rich White Guys are the Real Victims Month.

"No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your religious freedom." - President Barack Obama

Boehner & BiBi
"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace on Sunday quizzed House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on his decision to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress.
Boehner invited Netanyahu without consulting the White House, leading numerous congressional Democrats to boycott the speech

George Soros is a foreign-born billionaire using his $ to influence American politics, say fans of Rupert Murdoch's FOX News.- John Fugelsang

"Times have changed since I first sat at this desk. For example I used to be the only pretty blonde woman to read the fake news. Now there’s an entire network devoted to that." - Jane Curtin on SNL's 40th Anniversary Show

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Commercial Drones
The Federal Aviation Administration released Sunday its long-awaited proposal for governing small commercial drones, setting a plan for remote-controlled aircraft to share the skies with passenger planes.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care were as easy to get as, say, a gun.- Andy Borowitz

Irony: Brian Williams is still too honest for Fox News.- Republican God

Oily CEO Says No To Fracking Water Tower (Near His Casa)
Exxon Mobil's CEO has joined a lawsuit to stop construction of a water tower near his home that would be used in the fracking process to drill for oil.

Business/Tech News

WTF? Cyber Attack But Unknown Amount Of Money Stolen
A leading security company says it has uncovered an "unprecedented" cyber-attack on up to 100 banks, which could result in $1bn (£648m) of losses.

But security experts are split over the severity of the alleged breaches, and on how much cash was stolen.

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Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

Rawa Island located in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Peace.

Friday, February 13, 2015

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

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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.

She is such a strong woman. I am so glad that she is OK.

Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there!

Peace.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

The 3 Stooges

Jeb Bush Redacting Sensitive Information in Email Dump
Jeb Bush’s political action committee are redacting constituent Social Security numbers (SSNs) that were in his massive e-mail release Tuesday and they are laying the blame for the blunder squarely on the state of Florida, noting they tried to stop this from even happening last year.

Big shout out to Rick Wise for inspiring today's phototoon!

Brian Williams should do the right thing. Go to Disneyland, contract measles, then infiltrate the Kremlin and infect Putin.- Will Durst

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

NO U.S. Boots On The Ground
Samantha Power, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said on Thursday that the fight against ISIS will require ground troops, "but they aren't going to be American ground troops."

Congress is now polling at 9% approval. Chlamydia is at 12% and cannibals on bath salts holding at 15%.- John Fugelsang

GOP Hopes Pinned On A Judge From Texas
All signs this morning are that Congressional Republicans have no idea how they are going to get out of the jam they've landed themselves in on funding the Department of Homeland Security. Senate and House Republicans are fighting bitterly over how to accomplish the seemingly impossible: Passing DHS funding that also rolls back Obama’s executive deportation relief through both chambers before Feb. 27th, when funding runs out.

It turns out, though, that Republicans may have an escape hatch

Republican Shenanigans

BREAKING: Ted Cruz and Steve King order all Congressional Republicans to cut off their own noses to spite Obama's face.- Tea Party Cat

Cruzin' For A Bruisin'
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is pushing the State Marriage Defense Act, legislation that if signed into law could accomplish two objectives. First, redefine marriage at the federal level to remove from hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples the federal government's recognition of their marriages, and thus, any corresponding federal benefits they are afforded, now or in the future. And second, should the U.S. Supreme Court not find a right to marriage for same-sex couples, encourage states that do not wish to recognize those marriages to potentially nullify them.

Email
Subject: Jeb Bush

Lisa,

Bush said he was releasing his emails in a spirit of ‘transparency’ but nobody does that either. The guy is a politician first, and he would put political interests ahead of transparency any day. I think Bush was trying to force the likes of Scott Walker, Chris Christie, Rand Paul, and Rick Perry out of the race (for money) early by squeezing them to release their emails. And wouldn’t we like to read some of those guys’ emails – all their emails, not just the ones on state servers?

But, in typical Bush ready-fire-aim fashion, Jeb failed to think through the consequences of his actions. Of course, you don’t have much time to think things through when you’re sending 20 emails an hour. So there were unintended consequences – the release of personal information on thousands of people. Unintended consequences and unforced errors seem to be Bush family hallmarks.

Now Jeb has a mess to clean up, a mess that did not exist until he created it by failing to think things through and pay attention to details. Does that sound like any other Bushes we know?

Beyond that, any Chief Executive who sends an average of 86 emails a day (for 365 days a year times eight years) just does not know how a CEO should manage his/her time. I would have very little confidence in the executive abilities of anybody who spends that much time on email. Every CEO, especially the President, has better things to do than send emails.

Anyway, let’s stay tuned. There’s more fun to come.

~Rick

Thanks again for the phototoon inspiration. I am so dismayed that this country would even consider another Bush for president, just after another Democrat has cleaned up their mess!

A new report says that last year Colorado collected $44 million in marijuana taxes. Unfortunately, they can't remember where they put it.- Conan O'Brien

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Sad News For The Shrinking World Of Journalism
Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, whose decades-long career included covering major overseas conflicts and surviving Iraqi prison, was killed in a car accident on Wednesday in New York City, police and CBS said. He was 73.

Only 17% of Americans support a DHS shutdown to demand deportations -- all of them will vote in the 2016 GOP primary.- LOLGOP

Dan Rather got fired for telling the truth and Brian Williams got 6 months off for the other thing.- John Fugelsang

Business/Tech News

Next up on Fox News: Democrats choose Philadelphia for 2016 convention, thus proving they hate the other 49 states.- Tea Party Cat

Port Shutdown
The 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast were effectively closed to cargo freighters for the second time in less than a week on Thursday under a partial shutdown imposed by shipping lines and terminal operators in an escalating labor dispute with the dockworkers' union.

BREAKING: House GOP passes Keystone XL pipeline bill, including requirement that Obama apologize to Koch brothers for taking so long.- Tea Party Cat