Republicans weigh government shutdown to stop Obama on immigration

Republicans weigh government shutdown to stop Obama on immigration

One Republican leader on Sunday held open the possibility that his party could move to shut down the government in an attempt to stop President Barack Obama from taking executive action on immigration policy.

#ThingsThatScareRepublicans People finding out that Obamacare didn't cause their gout. -LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Obama calls IS beheadings "pure evil"
• U.S. targets Islamic militants with more airstrikes in Syria, Iraq - Central Command
• Islamic State video intensifies concerns about foreign jihadis
• Egypt to deepen buffer zone with Gaza after finding longer tunnels

Blaming Obama for ISIS is like blaming Bush for Lewinsky.- John Fugelsang

A 15 kiloton nuclear weapon detonates about 10 km from the cannon it was fired from, Nevada Test Site, May 1953.

Putin Loves Germany
 Russia President Vladimir Putin said in a German television interview on Sunday that he is convinced it should be possible to find a way to resolve the crisis in Ukraine but added he was concerned about the threat of ethnic cleansing




It seems no one wants American ground troops in Iraq more than ISIS, which is something we should keep in mind. - LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

• Pelosi Zings Boehner On 65th B-Day: Welcome To The Social Safety Net!
• CNN: GOPers Used Secret Twitter Code To Get Around Election Laws
• What Happened the Last Time Republicans Had a Majority This Huge
• Tucker Carlson: ‘Tons of social welfare benefits’ for ISIS is ‘exactly’ Obama’s immigration policy
• Rush Limbaugh defends Bill Cosby against rape allegations: ‘It’s not like he did it yesterday’
• Disrupter of Muslim prayer at National Cathedral: God and Drudge sent me

We've only waited 6 years for the GOP to come up with an Obamacare alternative. Why not wait 10 more for their immigration plan? - LOLGOP

Anonymous responds to KKK’s twitter taunts by hacking, taking over their account
Following a week in which a chapter of Ku Klux Klan threatened to use “lethal force” against Ferguson protesters, the hacker collective known as Anonymous announced Operation KKK (#OpKKK) designed to harass the white supremacist group.






Being the anti-government party has a lot of advantages, until it's time to blame someone for shutting down the government.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• 'I Love Ferguson' signs, T-shirts lift morale in protest-hit town
• Pope says will visit United States next year

Leviticus says man who lies w/man should be stoned so I always like it when states approve both gay marriage & legalized pot. - John Fugelsang

GOP and Net Neutrality Collide
Republicans are courting Silicon Valley, eager to make inroads with tech companies and the millennials who love them. The Silicon Valley ethos overlaps in tantalizing ways with the GOP agenda: Both are, to some extent, anti-regulation, pro-innovation, anti-union, and anti-tax. Meanwhile, brands like Instagram and Pinterest are deeply popular with a demographic that Republicans want on their side.








Facebook  Closes Door On Political Campaign App
Barack Obama’s reelection campaign pioneered a pathway for political campaigns to reach voters through Facebook when it released an app that helped supporters target their friends with Obama-related material.
But as the 2016 presidential campaign approaches, Facebook is rolling out a change that will prevent future campaigns from doing this, closing the door on one of the most sophisticated social targeting efforts ever undertaken.

Business/Tech News

• Cracks widen at OPEC as oil prices tumble
• State Department's unclassified email system hacked
• Chevrolet supports grassland preservation program
• Putin Readies Aid as Rosneft’s $21 Billion Looms: Russia Credit

Pope Francis to put showers at St. Peter’s for the homeless, as though he thinks Jesus cared more for the poor instead of job creators.- Top Conservative Cat

Time For The USA To Ban Animal Testing For Cosmetics? Naw.
Hoping to build off recent bans in Europe and India, opponents of animal testing for cosmetics plan to make a big push for a similar prohibition in the United States. The effort could be a tough sell in a Republican-controlled Congress.




So I changed my mind-- I’m willing to give up net neutrality if it means no more Kim Kardashian on the Internet.- Top Conservative Cat

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Odd News

• Florida residents alarmed over monkey business
• Can the Long-Extinct Woolly Mammoth Be Cloned?
• Maine teen charged with naked break-ins
• Texas rancher's dog hitches ride on ambulance
• Men accused of target practice inside home

Time To Deflate Photo

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia.

Peace.

Review Faults Secret Service's Training, Communications

Review Faults Secret Service's Training, Communications
Organizational confusion, gaps in training, a series of communication failures and more allowed Omar Gonzalez to jump a fence and enter the White House in a September incident that led to the Secret Service director's resignation.



It seems you're safe as long as you are not in direct contact with an Ebola victim or being protected by the Secret Service.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Iraqi forces drive IS from refinery town
• Islamic State commanders liable for mass war crimes: U.N.
• What is Vladimir Putin up to sending Russian bombers close to the US?
• 'Systematic problems' threaten US nuclear force: Hagel
• Ukraine and Russia take center stage as leaders gather for G20

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: "The air war against ISIL will intensify as Iraqi ground forces become more effective, assuming they exist."- Top Conservative Cat

Putin's Golden Touch
Russia's Central Bank has been buying up huge quantities of gold – 55 tons in the third quarter alone – as a means to pad the economy against Western sanctions' bite.

Rand Paul to run for president, just as soon as he figures out a way to be both for and against more wars that sounds coherent. Stand by.- Top Conservative Cat



Republican Shenanigans

• O’Reilly: Obama Is ‘Declaring War on the Republican Party’
• Pat Robertson tells women how to get ‘clean’ after abortions and ‘multiple sex partners’
• Louisiana TV station owner’s Facebook rant warns convenience stores are being taken over by terrorists
• Fox Guests Can't Stop Blaming Obama for Navy SEAL's Decision to Reveal Himself

Next two years: 
Republicans write legislation that Obama will veto.
Obama signs executive orders that Republicans can't stop.
Losing an election is AWESOME.- Andy Borowitz

Government Shutdown In 3.........2.........
The tea party and establishment wings of the House Republican caucus are already splitting over how to respond to President Barack Obama's promised executive actions on immigration reform, which could be issued as soon as next week.
The big question is: Should Republicans be willing to shut down the government to block Obama's unilateral moves on immigration?






Ted Cruz' father Rafael says atheism leads to child molestation, much to the confusion of multiple former altar boys.- John Fugelsang

Rock The Voter News

• Obama to pledge $3 billion for international climate fund

"The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for his selflessness and compassion. Then to be safe, Obama threw his phone in a trash can and lit it on fire." –Jimmy Fallon

Prince William and Duchess Kate to visit America, and knowing Obama he’ll apologize and retroactively surrender for the Revolutionary War.- Top Conservative Cat

Super Duper Computers
The U.S. Department of Energy said on Friday it is spending $425 million to research extreme-scale computing and build two super-computers, which would be the world's fastest, for research into basic science as well as nuclear weapons.






Business/Tech News

• Russia Braces for 'Catastrophic' Drop in Oil Prices
• Europe dodges recession - barely
• Twitter trashed with 'junk' rating from S&P
• World's Richest Woman Tops $40 Billion as Wal-Mart Surges

"Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for the ups and downs. So about 20 years ago I put all of my money and liquid assets into videotape rewind machines." –David Letterman

Buy A New Obamacare Plan!
That's when Americans can start buying coverage for 2015 or renew the plan they have on the Obamacare health insurance exchanges. The federal exchange, healthcare.gov, is handling open enrollment for 37 states, while 13 states and the District of Columbia are running their own exchanges.



"The European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet 317 million miles from Earth. When you get discouraged by how much attention people pay to Kim Kardashian's buttocks, remember that there are also people out there that know how to land a spacecraft on a moving comet 317 million miles away. They're out there." –Jimmy Kimmel

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Odd News

• 100 police patrol in town with tiger on prowl
• Family Believes 4-Year-Old Boy Is Reincarnated Marine
• 57 Skydivers Are Basically A 'Party Flying Through The Sky'
• WATCH: Man Stuffs Chainsaw Down Shorts
• Man proves he's not dead in Michigan, gets to vote

Time To Deflate Photo

This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the perspective of another planet.

Peace through art.

Mitch McConnell Elected Senate Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell Elected Senate Majority Leader
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was unanimously elected to be the Senate majority leader by his Republican colleagues on Thursday, his spokesperson announced.



Apparently the cure for Ebola in America is having an election be over.- John Fugelsang

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Turkish nationalists assault U.S. sailors in Istanbul
• Dutch mayor urges action on returning jihadis after arrests
• Germany warns anti-semitism rising on back of Middle East violence
• Kerry to meet Abbas as new Israeli settlements fan tensions

Teaching The Unteachable Iraqi Army
 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday the U.S.-led air war against Islamic State militants will intensify in the future as Iraqi ground forces improve and become more effective.



Captured Benghazi suspect now in US custody - tune into FOX to not hear anything at all whatsoever about this!- John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• There Is Now A Coloring Book For Children Called ‘Ted Cruz Saves America’
• Domino’s Founder Created All Catholic, No Birth Control Town In Florida
• Florida threatens married gay couple: Change your names back or lose your drivers licenses
• Just another day in the Bible belt: Video shows bizarre saliva-spewing ‘exorcism’ outside Starbucks
• Anti-science Republicans want politics, not experts, to determine how research gets funded

1984: If Libs say trickledown will ruin middle-class in 30 years, call em Commies.
2014: If middle-class ruined, blame Libs.- John Fugelsang

The Party Of No Starts Its Engines
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) assured his colleagues on Thursday morning that he will work with them to formulate some kind of a congressional response if President Obama uses his executive authority to revamp the nation's immigration laws.

Rock The Voter News

• Obama, Chinese president agree to landmark climate deal
• U.S. weather agency reports cyber attacks on four websites

Obama Throws Hardball. GOP__________________ (Fill In The Blank)
President Barack Obama plans to announce an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy through executive action that would shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

And the Pharisee said to Jesus: 'Hey libtard, the poor are lazy.  Quit the class warfare, Romans are the job creators.- John Fugelsang

The Governor Should Pardon All Low Level Drug Felons, Not Just His Son
Outgoing Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe said on Wednesday that he will pardon his son for a felony drug conviction, local media reported.

If Obamacare paid for itself the way the Iraq War did, we wouldn't have any problems.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

• Gov't tells US drivers to get used to cheap gas
• Letter from North Dakota: The Oil Party Rocks On
• Shell 'warned pipeline could leak'
• Alibaba's Jack Ma: Being richest is 'great pain'

The difference between tax cuts for the rich and same-sex marriages is same-sex marriages pay for themselves and don't screw everyone.- LOLGOP

Keystone Pipeline Over?
What if they voted for a pipeline but nobody came?

As Congress rushes to approve the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline, it is questionable whether or not the project will make as much of a difference as proponents expect.




As a Black man, if your judge is named Robert E. Lee you should just expect the death penalty. Like...in traffic court. - Anon.

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Odd News

• Police hunt for tiger loose near Disneyland Paris
• Tractor-trailer stuck in park, driver blames GPS
• Troopers warn of underwear bandit in Alaska town
• Arctic storm has Colorado shoveling ... tumbleweed
• Police: Car dumped into river during divorce flap

Time To Deflate Photo
The Size Of Rosetta's Comet

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko Relative to Downtown Los Angeles

photo credit: Matt Wang

Peace.