Topic: Merged: Shutdown Theater

[LadyVirginia]

I'm on twitter right now

@LadyVirginia

Until I have to go out after lunch I will be tweeting using their hashtag #BoehnerShutdown

[Pablo de Fleurs]

I'm on twitter right now

@LadyVirginia

Until I have to go out after lunch I will be tweeting using their hashtag #BoehnerShutdown

I'm not getting why you would do that (blame Boehner).

• @BarackObama
  Tea Party extremists caused this #BoehnerShutdown. Tell @SpeakerBoehner to end it now: OFA.BO/9cFiuk pic.twitter.com/WW4soKEibu
• @PablodeFleurs
   @BarackObama @SpeakerBoehner; #GoFundYourself, Barack. This is your doing, you poor excuse for a #leader. #ObamaShutdown

I know he doesn't read these...but his peeps do.

[LadyVirginia]

P,

It's how I'm engaging those people.  I got libs answering me with their stupid comments.  It's too fun.

It means they will read my comments as they follow the hashtag

[LadyVirginia]

didn't take long for me to be called a racist

 

[Glock32]

On somewhat of a side note, but related because it ties into this petty and vindictive triumphalism that characterizes these....people, but has anyone else noticed that the Obama 2012 stickers seem to have become more common on cars?

I see more of them now than I did in the election season. Alex Jones at Infowars (and say what you want about his oddball tendencies, he's clearly on the side of liberty) calls this their sense of "reflected glory" and I think that is a good way to put it. They luxuriate in "their guy" winning, and not just winning but then running roughshod over the losers. Everything this regime does is a deliberate finger in the eye to traditional America, and his screeching band of flying monkeys are vicariously relishing in it too.

Things are very stratified in this country. It's all personal now. We're in the midst of a classic lead-up to the outbreak of a civil war. The Civil War didn't suddenly just break out in 1861 either. There were decades of disagreements-turned-resentment-turned-hatred before any shots were fired, and the same sort of thing is palpably happening all around us now. I hate the Left. I won't live under their rule. I hold all of them responsible, whether they are actively executing the fundamental transformation or are merely one of the smug enablers.

What's the quote from Shakespeare? So foul a sky clears not without a storm? Oh, it's coming alright.

[Weisshaupt]

On somewhat of a side note, but related because it ties into this petty and vindictive triumphalism that characterizes these....people, but has anyone else noticed that the Obama 2012 stickers seem to have become more common on cars?

Actually what stickers I have seen are old faded 2008 ones.  Granted, I am now living in a rural area and there weren't that many to begin with. But I do end up driving through the people's republic of Boulder and Boulder County on occasion and there they are conspicuously absent. I have even had a few trips when I didn't see even one.  I have to go through Denver once a month as well on the journey to water Solar batteries... I usually see on one my entire trip - over 200 miles, a good 100 in urban areas.  But then, I flip them off every time I see one, and  let the fire of hatred burn as brightly as I can in my eyes. Perhaps I am not the only one doing that. They might very well be getting the hint that we want nothing but pain and suffering visited upon them ( If I could keep every one of them alive till they starved, I would do it. And sleep well at night)   and they might just be sensing that the govt really can't do squat to stop it if hostilities begin.  They may be trying to avoid getting on anyone's list, and I know all of here have got em.

[Pandora]

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/03/sf-shutdown-theater/

San Francisco’s Cliff House, a privately owned and very profitable restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was suddenly and unexpectedly ordered closed today, “because” the building sits on federal land. This, despite the fact that the Cliff House racks up $11.5 million in annual sales and is one of the most profitable independent restaurants in the nation.

How does the government save money by shuttering a profitable business? And a private one at that?

There are no federal employees at the Cliff House restaurant; a receptionist still manning the phones there today confirmed that all employees are paid by the restaurant’s owners, not by the government. As the Cliff House’s own Web site notes today, the restaurant is a “concessionaire” operating a business on Federal land — in this case, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which encompasses much of the Pacific shoreline along San Francisco and Marin counties — which means it is a private business which pays a fee to operate on government property ...

But there is no federally staffed “admission office” to access Cliff House, nor are there park rangers nor any other government employees involved in the Cliff House restaurant’s operation — it sits directly on a city street, accessible to all, as this photo reveals:

[oldcoastie6468]

This travesty will never stop. He's begun now, and he'll never stop.

[Pandora]

Neither will I; every time I see one of these, I'm gonna drag it here.  For the trial record.

I'm just waiting for the word from somebody -- I wish Levin would activate his threat now -- to amass and I'm there.

[Weisshaupt]

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/03/sf-shutdown-theater/

San Francisco’s Cliff House, a privately owned and very profitable restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was suddenly and unexpectedly ordered closed today, “because” the building sits on federal land. This, despite the fact that the Cliff House racks up $11.5 million in annual sales and is one of the most profitable independent restaurants in the nation.

How does the government save money by shuttering a profitable business? And a private one at that?

There are no federal employees at the Cliff House restaurant; a receptionist still manning the phones there today confirmed that all employees are paid by the restaurant’s owners, not by the government. As the Cliff House’s own Web site notes today, the restaurant is a “concessionaire” operating a business on Federal land — in this case, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which encompasses much of the Pacific shoreline along San Francisco and Marin counties — which means it is a private business which pays a fee to operate on government property ...

But there is no federally staffed “admission office” to access Cliff House, nor are there park rangers nor any other government employees involved in the Cliff House restaurant’s operation — it sits directly on a city street, accessible to all, as this photo reveals:

They have a lawsuit - lost business because of the violation of a lease. I very much doubt their lease with the govt to operate on Federal land includes a "federal govt shutdown clause" Seriously. You go out, you open up and you do business as usual. And you show any fed that comes by your lease and ask them what in that document gives them the authority to close a private establishment with a valid and paid lease to operate. Or better yet, just shoot the goon in the head for being a willing paid lackey of a corrupt and illegitimate tyrant, and throw his body over the cliff.
 

[Pandora]

At last, testicles in evidence ......

The National Park Service has told 2 lodges along the Blue Ridge Parkway that they must close Thursday and lodgers must be out by 6 p.m. One says it won't.

The government owns the building and the land. The National Park Service had given him until 6 p.m. Thursday to shut down and kick out his 78 guests.

He called owner Bruce O'Connell of Pisgah Inn Inc., who was in Mexico. O'Connell had seen the same report about the veterans. They came up with a plan.

"We thought if those guys can do it, we can make a stand," O'Connell said. "We just decided that it is in the visitors' best interest that we remain open."

... Miller told his guests Wednesday that the inn would not be closing — even though another Blue Ridge Parkway lodge on Park Service land in Virginia, the 68-room Peaks of Otter Lodge, says on its website that it is bowing to the government's wishes and closing completely at 6 p.m. Thursday.

What will happen after the deadline passes Thursday is unclear.

“We thought if those guys can do it, we can make a stand.”
— Rob Miller, Pisgah Inn about WWII vets keeping their memorial open

Parkway Chief Ranger Steve Stinnett said Wednesday that Washington was aware of the problem. He could not immediately say what steps the government might take to close the 51-room inn.

"We are in discussions at this time," Stinnett said.

The O'Connell family has operated the inn since 1977. It's one of the few remaining mom-and-pop concessionaires in the National Park Service.

Park concessionaires have been told to close, and lodges have been given the 6 p.m. Thursday deadline to allow them time to get guests out.

Miller called around on Wednesday trying to find other concessionaires who would stand with him but had no luck.

He posted the plan on the inn's Facebook page, which garnered nearly 190 likes by late afternoon.

People applauded the decision.

"Glad to see that you will stay open," Mike Stinneford commented. "I can't imagine an October without the Inn."

The fall is when these inns in western NC make their money.

[IronDioPriest]

If the feds roll in, people need to form an unbreakable ring around this lodge.

[IronDioPriest]

Farce on display...

[LadyVirginia]

If the feds roll in, people need to form an unbreakable ring around this lodge.

I truly hope they get some help and media there.

[Pandora]

H/T KA-CHING

Source: conservativebrawler

[ChrstnHsbndFthr]

Military may be getting paid but their commissaries are closed.  They must shop at regular stores which will cost them money.
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Welcome into the world in which those whom you love, live! I plead with YOU to stand with US!!! You have faced worse, as in tougher, but not more evil. Stand with us against Obama, my beloved warriors of freedom! Tell the man who currently sits as commander in chief that you serve the CONSTITUTION, then the PEOPLE, and in some far lower sense, the president, as far as he represents the others.

[John Florida]

Rush to Obama:

#GoFundYourself^{#GoFundYourself}.

  The Avatar abd the name seem familiar,have we met before?

[Pablo de Fleurs]

Heritage.org

The American people need a leader, not a lecturer. For President Obama and his political allies, protecting a failed law that is hurting the country seems to be their top priority.

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/10/04/mr-president-you-can-end-the-government-shutdown/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[Libertas]

Shutdown?  Shutdown?!

What is this "shutdown" people speak of?!

85% of government is still running!!!

Read more here - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-03/government-shutdown-36-facts-which-prove-almost-everything-still-running

Some of the stuff like schools etc who only get some Fedcoat subsidies (or the Fed which was chartered as an independent outfit [ha!]) is just fluff...but the main thing is what constitutes "essential" is a friggin' joke!

[Pablo de Fleurs]

from @KurtSchlichter
Trying to find the strength to go on in the wake of the shutdown!