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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2013 29 Comments
Well, apparently today was just a photo op at the White House. Obama is still in a no negotiation mode. Instead, he's deliberately trying to talk down the markets. https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/385539376572547073 https://twitter.com/AndrewNBCNews/status/385539468859813888 https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/385539877557006336 John Boehner after White House Mtg 10-2-2013

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2013 22 Comments

In addition to the real shutdowns at the WWII Memorial and elsewhere, we can expect to see all sorts of non-shutdowns blamed on the federal government partial shutdown. I noticed this along a path in the Collegetown section of Ithaca, a path along the Gorge next...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2013 23 Comments
The reports are coming in of incredibly petty shut downs beyond the WWII Memorial and Lincoln Memorial. Newt Gingrich posted this image (h/t Twitchy) of a bus turnaround shut down at Mount Vernon: https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/statuses/385433008473260032 They shut down the bus turnaround even though Mount Vernon is OPEN: https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/statuses/385214703808413696 (video added 10-3-2013 h/t Crawdad Hole) UPDATE added by Mandy, 10/2/2013 at 3:30 EST. Here's another example that was shared earlier today: Claude Moore Colonial Farm is a living history farm in Virginia that provides visitors the opportunity to experience life as it was in 1771.  That experience comes complete with costumed interpreters and authentic recreations of tools, buildings, and everything else just as it was in that point in time.  The Farm is also economically self-sustaining, having been cut from the National Park Service’s budget in 1980. But that hasn’t stopped the agency from shutting down Claude Moore Colonial Farm, despite the fact that the Farm is fully staffed on its own and prepared to open today. In an email sent to supporters, the Farm’s Managing Director Anna Eberly wrote:
For the first time in 40 years, the National Park Service (NPS) has finally succeeded in closing the Farm down to the public. In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm. We weren't even informed of this until mid-day Monday in spite of their managers having our email addresses and cell numbers.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2013 77 Comments
Obama has barricaded the World War II Memorial for not good reason. The excuse that the government needed people on duty who knew CPR was laughable -- the Memorial is open-air and open to the public 24 hours a day, even though previously staffed only part of the day. There is a protest planned at the WWII Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial today. We will update (new updates at top): https://twitter.com/verumserum/status/385443871062106112 https://twitter.com/WashTimes/status/385437061609951232 https://twitter.com/DanRiehl/status/385433764694097920 https://twitter.com/AndrewHClark/status/385433065436114944

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2013 11 Comments
The full text is here. Scott Johnson at Power Line has some of the key excerpts exposing the history of Iran's new "moderate" President Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani is anything but moderate, he was a key player in numerous terrorist attacks and the building of Iran's nuclear program. Excerpts (and additional videos) after the video. But I'll start with the ending lines:
In our time, the biblical prophecies have been realized: As the prophet Amos said: They shall rebuild ruined cities and inhabit them, They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, They shall till gardens and eat their fruit. And I will plant them upon their soil, never to be uprooted again. Ladies and Gentlemen, The people of Israel have come home, never to be uprooted again.
I feel deeply honored and privileged to stand here before you today representing the citizens of the State of Israel. We are an ancient people. We date back nearly 4,000 years to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We have journeyed through time, we’ve overcome the greatest of adversities, And we reestablished our sovereign state in our ancestral homeland, the Land of Israel.... Well, Rouhani headed Iran’s Supreme National Security Council from 1989 through 2003. During that time, Iran’s henchmen gunned down opposition leaders in a Berlin restaurant. They murdered 85 people at the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. They killed 19 American soldiers by blowing up the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Are we to believe that Rouhani, the National Security Advisor of Iran at the time, knew nothing about these attacks? Of course he did.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2013 13 Comments
Under the Rules of Suspension they were operating under (not sure why, but it's what it was), a 2/3 vote was needed in the House to pass legislation funding various agencies. [If someone has a procedural explanation, please post in comments.] Democrats in the House voted against funding the Veterans Administration, the District of Columbia and National Parks, including the Holocaust Memorial Museum and Smithsonian. House vote Veterans Parks DC https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/385191884928208896 https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/385189205791358977 https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/385188805122486272 https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/385191786143944704

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 01, 2013 19 Comments

Update - The barricade was all a set up for photo op -- Obama admin knew Vets were coming...

Posted by Laurel Conrad on October 01, 2013 36 Comments
Democratic lawmakers are definitely not holding back with name-calling lately, even comparing conservatives to arsonists, people with bombs strapped to their chests, and extortionists. Check out 5 recent outrageous accusations, which have the Democrats seeming rather, um, "unhinged" themselves.

1. “Unhinged” Arsonists

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Democrat, told Candy Crowley of CNN in a recent interview that the House GOP is “unhinged” and attempted to use an analogy to equate their actions with burning down a house. “You have Republicans on the other side who are irrational and not playing with a full deck. Would you -- if you didn't like the redesign of your kitchen, would you burn the whole house down or would you try to make modifications to the kitchen? These people have come unhinged.”

2. Insane People Who “Have Lost their Minds”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bemoaned on the Senate floor how House Republicans “have lost their minds” because they “keep trying to do the same thing over and over again.”
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