Finally! A shovel ready project.Posted on 10/06/2013 3:01:12 PM PDT by NOBO2012
Day Six and the Obamacare Website - riddled with “glitches,” error messages and random question marks since it went live, is now officially down for “scheduled maintenance.” I might have scheduled it for a little more convenient time: like maybe before we went live.
Finally! A shovel ready project.
Fortunately nobody has paid much attention as we’ve shape-shifted everyone’s attention to THE GREAT AMERICAN ANARCHIST GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN OF 2013 rather than the failure of the great American socialized medicine system. Can you even imagine the fodder that could be derived from that unfortunate metaphor!?
After 3 years in the incubator and we suffered a major system overload and complete failure just 5 days into the program.
Uh, yeah, Houston, we have a problem: failure to launch.
Any way you try to paint it, that doesn’t bode well for the future of America’s health care.
And that’s why we’ve – temporarily - transformed our “Hope’nChange” promotion to “Happe’nChance.”
No longer content to wait for a good crisis to exploit, we are going to make our own damn luck from now on! Which is brilliant on several fronts; not only does it allow us to shift LoFo’s attention where ever we need it, butt since our Big Brain Crisis Team isn’t any good at resolving crises we’ve reassigned them to creating them.
So, in case you still don’t get it, that’s why Barry has dug his heels in and declared there will be no shore leave until morale improves:
“That's why I won't pay a ransom in exchange for reopening the government. And I certainly won't pay a ransom in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. For as reckless as a government shutdown is, an economic shutdown that comes with default would be dramatically worse.” – Barack Obama Weekly Address, October 5, 2013
Here’s Big Guy chastising the American Teahadists for shutting down America because they don’t like Obamacare – which happens to be “the law of the land”- just because he’s black. He also relays just a few of the thousands of sob stories submitted (as a result of our solicitation) about hardships imposed by the heartless Republicans:
PeoplesCube via iOTW
In order to prevent despair among the camp of loyal civilian troops, Barry sent them all a personal letter praising them for their past performance and sacrifice:
“You have endured three years of a Federal pay freeze, harmful sequester cuts, and now, a shutdown of our Government. And yet, you persevere, continuing to serve the American people with passion, professionalism, and skill."
IRS team: persevering with passion, professionalism, and line dancing skill.
"None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealistic Americans to public service that our citizens deserve and that our system of self-government demands,"
Jeff Neeley, GSA: just one of the driven, patriotic, idealistic Americans in public service that our citizens deserve.
I don’t know about that last part; the salary and perks alone for government jobs might continue to attract youngsters unable to find any jobs in the private sector.
Then we went on to assure them that, while he knew they didn’t want to take this unplanned vacation, he would do everything in his power to ensure that they get paid for it:
"I will continue to do everything in my power to get the House of Representatives to allow our Government to reopen as quickly as possible, and make sure you receive the pay that you have earned,"
3 years, 130,000 employees, $900 billion dollars and all I got was this lousy error message.
If you don’t think this is a “big f’ing deal,” think about this: nearly 17% of our federal overlords have been furloughed! Who will feed us? Who will give us free condoms and free Obamaphones? I think you can now see just how serious this historic shutdown is and why the MSM can focus on nothing else – well, other than Halle Berry’s (she’s black, you know) new baby boy.
And I want you to know, we’re all sharing your pain. Instead of our family meals and snacks being prepared by our long time personal chef, Sammy K, we are making do with sustenance pulled together by White House chef Comerford, and take-out from Five Guys until this ordeal is over.
Plus, we’re down to just one dog handler which, as you can see, is going to be a real problem:
Photo by Eddie Gehman Kohan/Obama Foodorama
Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror
You know, for all of Halle Berry’s chatter about one drop of black blood making you black, she sure does like white guys an awful lot.
What a load. The IRS is “patriotic”? I don’t think intimidating and threatening non commie ‘RAT Americans during the elections is “patriotic.” Criminal maybe but definitely NOT patriotic. Barry can KMA. There he goes lying again.
BEDFORD: 11 reasons to love the government shutdown
1) All your friends who do wicked important, top-secret Jason Bourne stuff for the government? Yeah, they’re not essential, and they’re not going to work today, meaning they’re less insufferable than usual, plus they’re at home pre-gaming for when you’re done with your work day. (RELATED: WaPo asks the saddest question of all time: ‘Are you ‘essential’?’)
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/01/bedford-11-reasons-to-love-the-government-shutdown/
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Shutdown Highlights Basic Fact: Most of Government is ‘Non-Essential’
By Nick Gillespie @nickgillespieOct. 04, 2013165 Comments
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Susan Walsh / AP
Despite signs stating that the national parks are closed, people visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., Oct. 2, 2013.
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After learning that 95 percent of Department of Education employees were deemed “non-essential” during the government shutdown and furloughed, I’m still wondering: Is that all?
Since its creation as a cabinet-level agency in 1979 and spending billions of dollars every year since, test scores for high-school seniors have either declined slightly or remained flat at best, suggesting perhaps still more fat to trim. I’m confident that we could get the same results with fewer people. It’s called productivity, people!
http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/04/shutdown-highlights-basic-fact-most-of-government-is-non-essential/
There are a lot of the federal government jobs programs like the EPA, the Department of Labor and the Department of “Education” (Government student programming) that could be shut down permanently and not be missed by “the lives of American families”.
There Is No Shutdown … For Non-essential Federal Employees, Only Citizens
Confounded Interest ^ | Oct 6, 2013
Posted on Sunday, October 06, 2013 5:45:32 PM by KeyLargo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3075698/posts
The day WILL come when she ain't so cute anymore. Happens to all of us but it HAS to be harder for beautiful women. She WILL turn 40, then 50 and so on and the guys will stop looking at her and the film rags will say how great she looks for her age."
All the Hollyweird starlets have to face it. It will be not be pretty watching her age, but I will TRY not to laugh. Bwwaaaaahahahahaa!
“...The day WILL come when she ain’t so cute anymore....it HAS to be harder for beautiful women. She WILL turn 40, then 50 and so on and the guys will stop looking at her and the film rags will say how great she looks for her age.”
All the Hollyweird starlets have to face it. It will be not be pretty watching her age, but I will TRY not to laugh. Bwwaaaaahahahahaa!...”
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Halle Berry has far more class & common sense and is far more grounded than the typical Hollywood starlet. She has great family values and has built a nice family which will certainly comfort her in her old age. The time will come when she gets great joy from “spoiling” her grand kids.
It is still day 4. Day 5 starts tomorrow. Weekend days don’t count.
The next Republican CR should cut the funding (significantly) for the IRS, due to the scandal. (We won’t mention the side effects.)
Dear Paul:
You know her then? You must since you seem to KNOW that she has class and common sense.
I only know her through the movies and the boobustoobus. I have no idea if she has common sense and is grounded. How would I know unless I was WELL acquainted with her?
She is 46 years old now. She MIGHT even have a grandchild or two already.
From the Internet: Halle Berry was married to baseball star David Justice from 1992 to 1996, and to R&B musician Eric Benét from 2001 to 2005. In February of 2000, Halle Berry was involved in an auto accident that made the tabloids. With a serious head injury, Berry left the scene of the accident and was later charged. She eventually pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge.
Berry went from the world of beauty pageants in the mid-1980s to a television series, Living Dolls in 1989.
All my looooove, Chani.
You don’t know much of her life do you? She is about as smart as a stump and please, family values? Like marrying her daughter’s father? Oh yea, she didn’t do that. Acting topless, yep, what an awesome family value!
Whatever, enjoy the halle praise, I’ll pass.
It is still day 4. Day 5 starts tomorrow. Weekend days don’t count.
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Only 3 1/2 work days have elapsed since the government “closed down”. As I understand it, the affected federal employees reported to work for 1/2 day on Tuesday to “conduct shut down activities”. So the 2nd half of tomorrow (Monday) will complete the 1st half of the the 4th day.
Sorry for being anal, but several posters on this thread were reacting (in an “anal related” way — if you catch my drift) toward a post I did directed toward some hateful, and off-topic, postings concerning Halle Berry.
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