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Shutdown overreach: More personnel sent to WWII memorial than Benghazi
washingtonexaminer.com ^

Posted on 10/02/2013 11:52:54 AM PDT by tsowellfan

Shutdown overreach: More personnel sent to WWII memorial than Benghazi; Park Service closes park it doesn't run (Video at Link)

The National Park Service is sending so many officials out to shut down federal parks from visiting Americans that at this rate it might have to suspend furloughs if the government closure continues.

Two examples:

-- At the World War II Memorial on The Mall in Washington, where veterans have been staging protests to keep it open...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barrycades; benghazi; govtshutdown; operationwhipcracker; shutdown; whatdifference; wwiimemorial; wwiivets
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1 posted on 10/02/2013 11:52:54 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: tsowellfan
Right. How many rangers does it take to 'run' a static monument?

More than the Park Service is sending to make certain no one can view it?

2 posted on 10/02/2013 11:54:10 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: tsowellfan
Normandy, was also closed we when got there!!!
...Hussein Obama
...tear down YOUR BARRYcades!!!



4 posted on 10/02/2013 11:56:44 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: skeeter
Right. How many rangers does it take to 'run' a static monument?

That depends; are the rangers unionized?

5 posted on 10/02/2013 12:03:03 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Good one!


6 posted on 10/02/2013 12:03:57 PM PDT by uncitizen (Obamacare IS TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION)
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To: tsowellfan

Is anyone calling for a mass mall visit this weekend. If several hundred thousand show up and insist on being arrested and held what will Obama do?


7 posted on 10/02/2013 12:04:30 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: tsowellfan
Of all the stories which could hurt the President (well, the few that Fox actually publishes!), this one might be the one that stings the most.

Double tap - WWII vets getting hurt and bringing Bengazi up once again. Ouch.

This and the constant carping by GOP about Obama and Reid's unwillingness to even discuss the shutdown lead to the 5:30 meeting. Of course, the One will simply reiterate to the GOP that he isn't bending. They should leave at 5:35.

Still, the Park stuff and Bengazi is hurting.

8 posted on 10/02/2013 12:06:15 PM PDT by dan on the right
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To: tsowellfan

Shutdown overreach: More personnel sent to WWII memorial than Benghazi

Well of course. There are more terrorists at the Memorial than there were at Benghazi.

 

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9 posted on 10/02/2013 12:08:48 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: fella

“...what will Obama do?”

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Why, go golfing as usual, of course.


10 posted on 10/02/2013 12:10:04 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

I like it.


11 posted on 10/02/2013 12:11:06 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Tough guy Hairy Reed should go stop those anarchist vets.


12 posted on 10/02/2013 12:25:00 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: tsowellfan

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (from “The Gulag Archipelago”)


13 posted on 10/02/2013 12:25:17 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Responsibility2nd
what will Obama do?”
Why, go golfing as usual, of course.
I wonder, Has there been any accounting on how much, 0'Buttplug...
been golfing/On vacationing vs working (or say he was "working")

14 posted on 10/02/2013 12:41:17 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: tsowellfan
Obama to the WWII Vets: "You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
15 posted on 10/02/2013 12:43:39 PM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: tsowellfan; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; Lady Jag; MEG33; LUV W; yorkie; jaycee; All


16 posted on 10/02/2013 12:48:14 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: F15Eagle

Whoops, I just did. Shoulda pinged you!


17 posted on 10/02/2013 12:49:18 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Kartographer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's, The Gulag Archipelago
One of the Great (series of) books of the last century...Yeah, I read it.
(get it while it lasts & Robert Conquest's The Great Terror)

19 posted on 10/02/2013 12:52:32 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: tsowellfan

Did any of those Veterans get hurt in this fracas? Some of them may have had PW flashbacks!


20 posted on 10/02/2013 12:59:36 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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