Government Shutdown

[Panjandrum]

I really wanted to take a second to applaud the Gosling/Zoo thing.  I chuckled.

[michigancat]

I would finish Barry's term out for no money at all if people would let me.

Yeah, it'd look great on a resume.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I would finish Barry's term out for no money at all if people would let me.

He's not doing anything.  Let his chair finish out the term.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

LOL, there's like 1 ranger for every 40,000 acres, and when was the last time you saw someone guarding a statue.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Perhaps K-S-U is mistaking "moderate" for "extreme right wing teabagger."

If tea partiers are teabaggers, who are the tebagees? Dems?

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

LOL, there's like 1 ranger for every 40,000 acres, and when was the last time you saw someone guarding a statue.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

[CNS]

Funny, you know what I think is crazy? How about doubling the national debt by $10 trillion over 8 years, while passing a massive new entitlement, pushing for amnesty to put millions more people on said entitlement, and never even passing a budget. Yeah, that seems pretty rough ridin' crazy to me. But to each his own....

Both sides are pretty worthless.  Neither know how to talk to each other anymore.  I mean, if you can't even listen to another's opinion, you certainly will miss opportunities to compromise, which is what this nation needs.  Middle ground legislation for middle ground ppl.  The problem is that moderation and middle ground isn't good news or radio discussion topics to ppl that like to be angry or entertained.

The secondary problem, which is what my other post was about, is that the actions we have as ppl to change is to throw out one Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) only to usher in another Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) that will be willingly led to the same level of inaction and corruption as the last Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) because the party that provides for them tells them how it's going to be.  This is why I said that sanity is not well backed or funded these days.  Its en vogue to be extremely stubborn these days.

Amen, brother. Look, the Dems want to spend more, the Pubs want to spend less. Let's just compromise and spend the same as we're doing now! Problem solved and nobody gets their feelings hurt!

Quit being stupid.  That is part of the problem.

It's the entire problem.

So the Dems don't want to spend more? Lets see...
- March 2013: Latest Dem budget proposal would increase spending 62% over next decade
- September 2013: Pelosi says "The cupboard is bare, there's no more cuts to make."

Seems like they want to spend more.

More stupid my team v your team stupidity.  Shocking.

Please show me a serious Dem proposal to cut spending. Thanks.

You may have been reading other ppl's posts and attributing them to me, but I haven't talked about spending specifically at all in this thread.

[Dugout DickStone]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

LOL, there's like 1 ranger for every 40,000 acres, and when was the last time you saw someone guarding a statue.

Pretty sure you can't just go right up to the Lincoln and climb onto his lap.

[nicname]

Is it bad that I feel almost completely detached from all of this shut down stuff?  I know that all of this stuff effects me, but whatever happens in the government doesn't really seem to make a difference in my life, or really too many people that I know, outside of them bitching about politics. 

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

LOL, there's like 1 ranger for every 40,000 acres, and when was the last time you saw someone guarding a statue.

Pretty sure you can't just go right up to the Lincoln and climb onto his lap.

Yeah, inpenatrable velvet ropes and all.  FYI, not all statues are on the DC mall.

[Dugout DickStone]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

LOL, there's like 1 ranger for every 40,000 acres, and when was the last time you saw someone guarding a statue.

Pretty sure you can't just go right up to the Lincoln and climb onto his lap.

Yeah, inpenatrable velvet ropes and all.  FYI, not all statues are on the DC mall.

 

[p1k3]

break the government.

I don't see a problem with this

Well we still need one, or else it's back to caves and sticks and hunting and gathering.

I've managed to make it all day without moving into a cave or hunting and gathering for food.

lol oh my god. Great read into the mind of a libtard

"I must be governed. . . I need the government!

 

[EMAWmeister]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

Right. But honestly why do we even have "national parks"? Like, what is the harm in the federal government going to Wyoming and saying "look, you guys take over Yellowstone. It's a huge tourism earner for you, so we're going to let you take care of it"

[puniraptor]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

Right. But honestly why do we even have "national parks"? Like, what is the harm in the federal government going to Wyoming and saying "look, you guys take over Yellowstone. It's a huge tourism earner for you, so we're going to let you take care of it"

 You've got a fever and the only prescription is more PBS documentaries.

[Institutional Control]

Alex Smith is adorbs in that.

[felix rex]

This was unfortunate timing for baby rex

[gatoveintisiete]

We'll just take over 1/6th of the economy on a party line vote, if we end up a couple votes short we could just buy them off, I don't foresee any pushback in the future, we should be fine- ready break!

[bubbles4ksu]

This was unfortunate timing for baby rex

[0.42]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

Right. But honestly why do we even have "national parks"? Like, what is the harm in the federal government going to Wyoming and saying "look, you guys take over Yellowstone. It's a huge tourism earner for you, so we're going to let you take care of it"

Mainly because many western states like Wyoming/Idaho/Montana would immediately sell off shitloads of parkland to logging/drilling interests and (even more likely) shoot all of the megafauna that ranchers regard as pests (wolves, bears, etc).

[EMAWmeister]

How do you close a forest or statue?  That just seems Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

National landmarks need to be protected to some extent. unfettered access means they will be ruined by some idiot.

Right. But honestly why do we even have "national parks"? Like, what is the harm in the federal government going to Wyoming and saying "look, you guys take over Yellowstone. It's a huge tourism earner for you, so we're going to let you take care of it"

Mainly because many western states like Wyoming/Idaho/Montana would immediately sell off shitloads of parkland to logging/drilling interests and (even more likely) shoot all of the megafauna that ranchers regard as pests (wolves, bears, etc).

Good for them. Let's do it.

[felix rex]

This was unfortunate timing for baby rex

No leave pay. Bad time to take a 3-month medical leave. I mean, it's really our fault for having a due date around the end of the fiscal year. Irresponsible, really. But you know how those crazy Cairo winters can be. 

[Cartierfor3]

80% of government employees were still expected to go to work. The other 20% they should probably lay off anyway.

[CNS]

With the us-egypt conduit, places on both sides,  and the network of fixers at your disposal,  it seems like there are possibilities for supplemental income for the creative.

[bubbles4ksu]

This was unfortunate timing for baby rex

No leave pay. Bad time to take a 3-month medical leave. I mean, it's really our fault for having a due date around the end of the fiscal year. Irresponsible, really. But you know how those crazy Cairo winters can be. 

yikes. well at least legal hiring in DC is booming. heh.

ts and ps, fr.