How many “essential” federal employees does it take to hang a sign?

Yeah… I know… I know…   [Federal Guideline Handbook – Chapter 16, Volume 9; Subsection xvii, paragraph #3a: “Determining Human Resource Allocation” – In order to determine appropriate efficiency metrics’, unless otherwise noted, all federal employees shall, at the request of their immediate level 3 supervisors, while under the direction of the management office, require a specific measurement of the sign prior to labor distribution consideration.  ∞Prior to facilitating any request from alternate office management the proposed sign hanging must meet AFSCME guideline 334.021 article iii – and must be accompanied by a proposal, filed in triplicate, to include such measurements in metric centimeters, and standard inches, and allow a 10 business day review and approval request.  Failing to appropriately follow specific guidelines may lead to disciplinary action up to, and possibly including, the elimination of one 30-minute rest period for any individual workday exceeding 2.25,  but not greater than 3.15 hours, in duration]

Meanwhile….  83% of The Federal Government is NOT involved in the shutdown – Everyone knows the phrase “government shutdown” doesn’t mean the entire U.S. government is shut down. So in a partial government shutdown, like the one underway at the moment, how much of the government is actually shut down, and how much is not? (more…)

[Via The Peoples Cube]  Comrades, President Obama needs your help to raise everyone’s awareness of how the government shutdown is utterly ruining everyone’s lives and destroying everything in its path, and all at the behest of those greedy, evil anarchists, arsonists, extortionists, bomb-throwers, flame-throwers, terrorists, fearmongers, hatemongers, hostage-takers, killers, murderers, and thieves that make up the Tea Party Republicans, who are holding their guns, including assault weapons, to the heads of the American people, strapping explosives to the chests of children, and chowing down on kittens and puppies and bunnies while forcing everyone else to starve to death!

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We are all Tank Man NOW !!

President Stompy Feet is a petulant man-child.  A typical leftist.   Don’t give him, or anyone of likeminded inconsequence the satisfaction of deliberate consideration.  Laugh at them;  Sing joyful out loud songs, and Dance.
These people, who proclaim to rule over us, have the keen intellect of a dimwitted gnat and do not deserve even a modicum of reasonable discussion.   Something happens when a rational person crosses over the Potomac river –  They become dense, illogical and absent of standard cognitive capacity;  in short they get stupid.
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October 13th 9:00am Washington DC

Million Veteran’s March –  WEB SITE HERE and Facebook HERE
[…]  We do not care what political leanings you may be; be it liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent or whatever. The actions of the U.S. government this week with regard to barricading and shutting down the World War II Memorial to veterans, that may or may not be on their last trip to Washington DC, is a despicable act of cowardice.

[…]  Many in our group have decided that enough is enough. We are Americans. We are proud of our heritage and our service. As all of us were military brats and spouses, we have served in some form or another our entire lives. This is our way of life. We will not stand by and let the U.S. government dishonor the legacy of sacrifice of the generations before us. It is time to make a stand! We hope that you will join us in our peaceful protest against anti-American policies.  (facebook link)
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Andrea Shea King links to a recent accurate comment at PJmedia which opined in part:
[…] That’s the fundamental Republican Party problem in dealing with a conflict with the Community Organizer in Chief; they simply cannot stand conflict and confrontation, and he likes it, or at least he likes the kinds of mealy-mouthed half-measures that people have always used against the cool black dude because they were afraid of being called a racist.
I advocated here at PJM the other day that Cruz brewed up this sh*tstorm and now he will show what kind of man he is. Cruz or somebody equally articulate needs to go all Joe Wilson on Obama, and I mean right in Obama’s grill. Obama needs to be insulted and disrespected. He needs to be called on his lies. He needs to be provoked into a spittle-flecked rage, preferably before the cameras.  (link)
….. and we have just the right man for the job

2013 Twitter Post from Washington DC

Vietnam Wall entrance is open to all. Guard dog and guards are solely for intimidation. Go in. God Bless 'em pic.twitter.com/O7XSjOzbtj

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) October 5, 2013

If Twitter existed on June 5th 1989 would you have seen?: (more…)

There’s a lot wrong here.   A LOT !

Vietnam Wall entrance is open to all. Guard dog and guards are solely for intimidation. Go in. God Bless 'em pic.twitter.com/O7XSjOzbtj

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) October 5, 2013

But if I could just direct your attention to one little aspect many seem to overlook.
A sitting U.S. Congressman is telling the American People  not to worry, that armed guards and police attack dogs are only (solely) there to intimidate them.
Sit still and be quiet for a bit, while you think about that.
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This one is funnier than trying to stop people from looking at Mount Rushmore….   Perhaps I find this funnier because it not far from home and very familiar stomping grounds. To give you an idea how stupid this is, it’s wide open water.   Florida Bay is the body of water between the curve of the Florida Keys  WEST into  greater gulf of Mexico.      Biscayne Bay is a smaller sized body of water South East of Miami EAST to the Atlantic Ocean.
Enforcement ? Imagine trying to stop 3 million people, spread over 500 miles squared, from looking at a full moon.   That’s how practical enforcement would be.
(Via Breitbart)  Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was “closed” due to the shutdown.
Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.
The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban of access to an ocean. (more…)

President Obama is ridiculously shrinking himself in front of an entire nation.  Do you think this is serendipity, or strategy?   Yeah, me too....

U.S. special forces raids, one successful – one not. 

Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai’I (Anas al-Libi for short)  has been on the “kill or capture” list for 15 years.   He was a middle level al-Qaeda guy in the 90’s and thought to have been behind the cell that carried out the Kenya and Tanzania embassy bombings in 1998.
Both CNN and NBC are reporting he was captured in Libya (Tripoli maybe?)  […]

Al Libi has been a member of al Qaeda since at least 1994 and was a confidante of Osama bin Laden.  He also is a computer expert for the group and is believed to be one of the masterminds of the 1998 U.S. Embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 12 Americans and more than 220 Kenyans. He has been indicted in New York in connection with the attacks and could ultimately be brought to the U.S. to stand trial.

The unsuccessful raid was in Somalia […]  (more…)

A few days BigFurHat @iOTW predicted the following:

Many laughed thinking it was silly.    Well, it has indeed come to pass (more…)