[CedarDave]

Story is that NPS employees put up road cones to prevent viewing of Mount Rushmore from a state highway overlook. The state asked that they be taken down and NPS did remove some of them saying that they were put up "as a safety precaution". Then a blizzard hit and all were removed. It remains to be seen what happens after the road is cleared. Picture at the link.

This thread is a direct link to the news article not provided in an earlier thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3075343/posts

[elpadre]

time to begin program to move monuments from the Feds to State hands

[a fool in paradise]

Obama is a manchild who threw a temper tanrum when he wanted Bush to sign the “stimulus” deal in November 2008 and he continues to stomp his foot when things don’t go his way.

[CedarDave]

Apologies to you both - I didn’t see your link to the story in the earlier post and I don’t do Facebook.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“America is closed! You no lookee! You keep going!” - A fundaMENTALly transformed park ranger.

[Paine in the Neck]

Jonathan Jarvis is Director of the NPS

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Perry Plumart, a spokesman for Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, said closing Mount Rushmore hurts visitors, businesses and furloughed park rangers.

“The best way to restore access to all national parks, including Mount Rushmore, is for Speaker Boehner and the House to pass a clean continuing resolution and end the government shutdown,” Plumart said.

Johnson, you're going to wind up eating those words.

[Sequoyah101]

Safety precaution? Safety from what? You mean that turnouts on the highway are not safe?

[MaxMax]

I KNEW THEY WOULD GO AFTER THE HIGHWAYS!

[FlingWingFlyer]

The National Park Service. “Now we know how IRS employees felt during the 2008 and 2012 elections.”

[JPG]

Obama fighting his battles...C+

Obama choosing his battles...F

[BykrBayb]

I saw a photo earlier, of helicopters holding a big sheet over Mount Rushmore. That belongs on this thread.

[Liberty Valance]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Remember this the next time the retarded Kommie Kollege Kiddies say they want to put the Kenyan’s mug on Mt. Rushmore. He’s the only bastard to ever forbid Americans from seeing it.

[Iron Munro]

If anyone was ever curious to know what it would be like to have a petulant spoiled brat run the country, Obama-World is it.

[opentalk]

[Rebelbase]

I’m of the opinion that the extreme national parks closure it meant to impact the red states and red areas. The 40%+ die hard obama voters living in the blue areas don’t give a crap about the impact to people living in and deriving their incomes from proximity to national parks.

And those die hard blue suck voters who work for the park service are going to get back pay anyway so their discomfort is minimized.

[mrsmel]

I am calling my state and local representatives about this matter, the administration’s donation of 445 million to the corporation of public broadcasting, and other things. I have gotten through to some of them (Palazzo for one) and spoken to a staffer. Others (Cochran for one) have a message, like that of the ‘rats, saying that their offices are “partially closed and understaffed due to the shutdown”. This has pizzed me off, and I told them so in no uncertain terms. Why are they taking the ‘rat line, when the stalwart Republican congressmen don’t seem to have a problem being available, or at least not using the rat party line as their excuse? I told them that I hoped their parrotting of the rat party excuse wasn’t indicative of anything worse, and that if it is, I’ll never forgive them. I’ll do everything in my meager power to see them lose if they’re trying to undermine the first time in years our representatives have actually represented us as they were elected to do.

[jmcenanly]

How are they going to prevent the pilot of a commercial aircraft from pointing out the larger land marks from the air? Are they going to have him order the passengers on the correct side of the aircraft to lower their shades under penalty of law? Obama's starting to sound like The Sheriff of Nottingham. If this keeps up I wouldn't be surprised if he did call off Christmas

[CodeToad]

That road is probably State property. They should arrest the federal employees doing this.