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2013-10-06 Government

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Posted by Fred 2013-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 FREE TRADE AND SAIORS RIGHTS! didn't we fight a war over that? Oh, my DC guy says the WWII Memorial Barrycades are now wired together so the next Honor Flight Veterans better bring those Bangalores left over from Omaha Beach

Posted by Griter Crart8496 2013-10-06 00:06|| 2013-10-06 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I,the great Barack of Hawaii, via Chicago, do hereby command that my NPS servants close the Atlantic Ocean in Florida! Let it be so ....

I also command that the NPS servants close all the open air public monuments, which are within and out of my sight (Grand Canyon) for I must enforce the laws of the land ! Let it be so ...

Posted by Au Auric 2013-10-06 00:39|| 2013-10-06 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 You know, I've only one explanation for Obama's behavior: he just curious how far he can push you people.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-06 01:50|| 2013-10-06 01:50|| Front Page Top

#4 ...until that Lexington Commons moment, cause we're dealing with fools. Once that happens, it's like the detection of a nuke launch. Do you wait to see if its an accident and accept limited but significant casualties or do you take it as a precursor to a full volley at which time you lose your ability to respond fully in kind if you don't launch everything as well. Escalation is rapid and out of real control while deescalation is very hard to pull off. Given the skill of these clowns the latter is probably not an option.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-06 08:05|| 2013-10-06 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 No, he isn't curious. He feels HE is the one being pushed to the limit. He believes his righteousness is so self-evident that there is no need to respect law, custom, or courtesy. There is nothing he won't hold hostage to extort concessions, which is ok because there is no legitimate reason anyone could disagree with him, fail to sympathize with him, or support his opponents. The only upside is that he is making new enemies where he previously would have encountered no resistance.

Posted by RandomJD 2013-10-06 08:21|| 2013-10-06 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 "...until that Lexington Commons moment" is why DHS bought all that ammo.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-10-06 10:58|| 2013-10-06 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Symbol of the Resistance:

courtesy of Rantburger jay-dubya

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-10-06 13:39|| 2013-10-06 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Why thank you! [modest smile]

Posted by jay-dubya 2013-10-06 13:57|| technochitlins.com 2013-10-06 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Like a lot of the shutdown activity, it would seem that it's gonna take more resources to enforce the closure than it would to keep it open. Are they gonna send cops to stop all fishing boats headed out onto the ocean?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2013-10-06 15:14|| 2013-10-06 15:14|| Front Page Top

#10 The absurdity, ridiculousness and naivette of this administration is astonishing. I hope they don't do anything rash. On the other hand...

Posted by JohnQC 2013-10-06 16:22|| 2013-10-06 16:22|| Front Page Top

#11 I believe this is calculated and directed. I believe he is targeting traditional conservative Americans in an effort to start a fight. The Veterans, the few that live on govt land, fishermen, and tourists all come from the flyover states he so hates. They will very easily be identified as tea partiers by the liberal press when one group ends up in an altercation with police. Kicking 80 year olds out of their homes, blocking scenic overlooks, and closing an ocean bay show just how far and how absurd they are willing to go to start a fight. Soon they will close all farms that take gov subsidies. The minute one of these groups fight back, he will have his reason to enact marshal law and start down the path he has so wanted for many years.

I am just surprised the park service is dumb enough to try and enforce his mandate. But then his DOJ attacks did not start a fight, his IRS attacks did not start a fight, his NSA attacks did not start a fight, now he is down to the preverbal "kicking puppies and kittens" to try and get a violent response.

Posted by 49 Pan 2013-10-06 16:39|| 2013-10-06 16:39|| Front Page Top

#12 "O" goes after "this group and that group". After a while as the groups grow in number, "this group and that group" constitutes a large majority of the people and then the show is over.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-10-06 17:18|| 2013-10-06 17:18|| Front Page Top

#13 I wonder if those National Park folks know the the Nuremburg defense is not accepted.

Posted by OldSpook 2013-10-06 17:21|| 2013-10-06 17:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Has Obama heard of King Canute?

Posted by OldSpook 2013-10-06 17:27|| 2013-10-06 17:27|| Front Page Top

#15 #14 Has Obama heard of King Canute?

Judging by the weedhead worldsavers of his vintage I've known, I doubt he knows more than the name and the beach scene, totally out of context. In any case, he'd cast Boehner in that role. O and his bunch would be the rising tide, the inevitable progress of blah blah blah. Striding purposefully onto the stage at his umpteen-thousandth speaking date twenty years from now, he'll still think he's Robin Hood. Rich to the poor. Band of merry diverseniks. Partisan lair in Sherwood Forest. It'll never occur to him that he was the King John of his century. Hey, ya gotta dream.

Posted by Harcourt Hitler3148 2013-10-06 22:03|| 2013-10-06 22:03|| Front Page Top

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