Tuesday, February 17, 2015

White House to appeal ruling blocking Obama's immigrant protections






White House to appeal ruling blocking Obama's immigrant protections
The Obama administration on Tuesday said it would appeal a move by a federal judge in Texas that temporarily stopped the president’s executive actions on immigration, an anticipated judicial roadblock that was greeted with partisan reactions.




Obama Signs Executive Order Removing Texas from Nation. - Andy Borowitz








BREAKING: House GOP passes bill removing Presidents Day as a national holiday because Obama. - Tea Party Cat




Our Founding Fathers Had It Right: SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
Roy Moore, the conservative chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, said Sunday that if the U.S. Supreme Court decides that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, he would defy the ruling because it would alter God’s “organic law.”










P.T. Barnum Said There Was A Sucker Born Every Minute
New report says conservative chumps sent $50 million to right-wing ‘scam’ groups like SarahPAC




New poll finds Republicans will be blamed if Republicans shut down the Department of Homeland Security.- LOLGOP









D*I*C*K
Mississippi lawmaker says calling blacks violent and lazy isn’t racist, it’s just ‘a way of talking’



GOP hates activist judges -- except when they deport grandmas or take insurance from diabetics or baptize corporations with ultrasound wands. - LOLGOP








NSA Versus Russia?
Russia-based security firm Kaspersky on Monday released a report about a mysterious and sophisticated malware distributor, dubbed Equation group, which might be linked to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).




I told facebook my concerns about lack of privacy and they said they already knew how I felt about it.- John Fugelsang







President Hillary Clinton & The Stock Market
President Bill Clinton brought Wall Street arguably its best bull market ever. There's historical precedent to believe Hillary -- or any Democrat in the White House -- could deliver even more good times to investors.









NOTICE:
Getting old is really getting old. I somehow injured my upper left arm and am typing with my right hand, so today's edition is a bit short.





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I think this was one of the funniest movies I had ever seen, SOME LIKE IT HOT, with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. I wish there were more movies like that today instead of all the flash and bang movies.

Peace.

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




Rock The Voter News






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




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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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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











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





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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.







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

Peace.