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US Homeland Security Is Moving Into An Abandoned Insane Asylum
Gizmodo ^
| 7-27-2013
| KELSEY CAMPBELL-DOLLAGHAN
Posted on 07/30/2013 7:39:30 AM PDT by smoothsailing
July 27, 2013
US Homeland Security Is Moving Into An Abandoned Insane Asylum
KELSEY CAMPBELL-DOLLAGHAN 
Did you know that the US government’s third-largest agency is ramping up a 20-year, $US4.5 billion construction project that will turn the grounds of a former mental hospital into an “elaborate” headquarters for its sprawling network of agencies? It’s already a decade behind schedule and $US1 billion over budget.
In Bloomberg Businessweek, Devin Leonard describes his tour of the grounds of St Elizabeths Hospital, in Anacostia, Maryland (in the 1850s, it was known as “the Government Hospital for the Insane”). The 176-acre campus is scattered with abandoned buildings, some of which are completely rotted out, since someone forgot to turn the heat off when the last St Elizabeths patients were relocated in the 1960s....
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: dhs; insane
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To: smoothsailing
Suunds like a good place to house Congress. (”As is” )
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:42:35 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
To: TurboZamboni
The jokes just write themselves.
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:44:03 AM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: smoothsailing
It would make an awesome plot for a horror movie.
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:45:55 AM PDT
by
Defiant
(In the next rebellion, the rebels will be the ones carrying the American flag.)
To: txrefugee
It’s not abandoned any more...
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:46:34 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: smoothsailing
Hard to believe they could find someone dumber and more insane than Big Sis.
To: Defiant
Oh great, a true story where 300 million victims are tormented by retarded demons...
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:48:22 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:51:39 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
To: smoothsailing
Soon it will be an occupied insane asylum.
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:58:21 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
To: smoothsailing
(in the 1850s, it was known as “the Government Hospital for the Insane”)
Funny, that's what Capitol Hill is known as now.
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posted on
07/30/2013 8:01:17 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Truth/Lies; Liberty/Tyranny--WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE??)
To: smoothsailing
Wasn’t this the place where they were keeping John Hinckley?
Where are they stashing him now?
To: smoothsailing
Not the Massachusetts Home for the Bewildered?
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posted on
07/30/2013 8:01:58 AM PDT
by
null and void
(You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
To: COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; opentalk; ..
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...
And this time I really do mean nut-job...
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posted on
07/30/2013 8:05:21 AM PDT
by
null and void
(You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
To: smoothsailing
The Soviets had psychiatric hospitals for folks who had trouble getting with the Soviet program.
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posted on
07/30/2013 8:06:15 AM PDT
by
Tau Food
(Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
To: dfwgator
I would have used that graphic had I known it existed!
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posted on
07/30/2013 8:06:35 AM PDT
by
null and void
(You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/30/2013 8:07:37 AM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
07/30/2013 8:08:20 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: smoothsailing
Under Secretary Hank MoonMan Johnson
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posted on
07/30/2013 8:12:32 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Macabre Crumpet of Caucasian Ethnicity)
To: MeshugeMikey
Ezra Pound was there for years.
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