Shutdown Theater: DOJ Takes Down Amber Alert Website

By William Teach October 7, 2013 – 8:27 am

Remember, one park ranger told the Washington Times that “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can”. We’ve seen this time and time again during Shutdown Theater. Now, the Obama/Holder highly politicized, partisan, and unequal justice DOJ goes a step further

(NBC LA) Instead of showing critical missing children bulletins, the federal Amber Alert website on Sunday displayed a sparse, white screen with a simple message: It’s a victim of the government shutdown.

“Due to the lapse in federal funding, this Office of Justice Programs (OJP) website is unavailable,” the message reads, just below a U.S. Department of Justice seal.

The website normally displays urgent alerts from across the nation about the most at-risk missing children, helping to connect citizens and law enforcement across all participating jurisdictions.

The website is still showing that message. The picture is a screen-cap I took at 8:15 Monday morning. Only 17% of the federal government is actually in shutdown, yet Obama/Holder can’t find someone to run the website. Or just leave it running. It costs almost the same to leave the site running with that message. They’re playing a disgusting game. Which shouldn’t surprise anyone. But one which the media would excoriate a Republican President.

More: Twitchy reports that Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!!!!1!!!” website is still operational. As Ed Morrissey notes “priorities”.

More: someone in either the Spite House or DOJ decided that having the website down was really, really bad optics, and it has been restored

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Shutdown Theater: Blue Ridge Inn Forced To Close

By William Teach October 6, 2013 – 2:17 pm

Nowhere is safe from Obama’s hissy fit

(USA Today) At a spot 5,000 feet above sea level and 20 miles from the nearest town, an innkeeper decided Friday to defy the federal government and reopen his lodge.

That stand lasted about two hours as National Park Service rangers blocked the entrances to the privately run Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway after owner Bruce O’Connell decided to reopen his dining room, gift shop and country store at noon Friday for lunch. The federal government had forced the inn, in a leased building on federal land, to shut down at 6 p.m. ET Thursday at the height of fall foliage — and tourism — season.

The inn has been leasing the land and building from Los Federales since 1919. O’Connell and has family have owned the business for the last 35 years. The feds essentially do nothing to maintain the building and property.

A handful of guests had lunch before Park Service patrol cars blocked the driveways, turning on their orange flashing lights. Rangers turned customers away, saying the government was closed.

The rangers stayed all through the night and into Saturday to make sure that Everyone Else feels the Obama decreed pain. The Blue Ridge Parkway itself isn’t closed. Los Federales make money off the lease of the land. They don’t lose money. Yet, according to Parkway Chief Ranger Steve Stinnett, they were directed by Washington to block the business.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 6, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…are horrendous things: a fossil fueled vehicle killing the grass, the flag of a country with a giant carbon footprint, and a gun that shoots lead bullets, all ruining a perfect place for solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on the “control-freak administration”.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 6, 2013 – 9:27 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Barrycaded nation of America. This pinup, perfect for the playoffs, is by Forest Clough, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine Barrycaded 15

  1. Raised On Hoecakes isn’t impressed by Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus”
  2. The Lonely Conservative notes that Scott Walker told Los Federales to take a hike
  3. The People’s Cube has some people’s karaoke
  4. The Strata-Sphere reviews shutdown theater
  5. Theodore’s World notes what the IRS is doing during shutdown theater
  6. This ain’t Hell… has SEALs vs ninjas
  7. Wake Up America has shutdown theater on Lake Mead
  8. Villainous Company notes that they were opening a “marketplace”
  9. The Daley Gator wonders how evil Obama can get during shutdown theater
  10. The Camp Of The Saints notes that park rangers “were only following orders”
  11. The Last Refuge notes governing by temper tantrum
  12. protein wisdom is very concerned over the reduction in Obama housekeepers
  13. Legal Insurrection notes that you can’t look at Mt. Rushmore during shutdown theater
  14. Jihad Watch notes more cries of “islamaphobia” in the UK
  15. And last, but not least, Fire Andrea Mitchell notes the scheduled Million Vet March On the Memorials

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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“Affordable” Care Act Follies: “I Was Laughing At Boehner Until The Mail Came”

By William Teach October 6, 2013 – 8:00 am

Will the “Affordable” Care Act end up helping some Americans? Sure. Even the worst written law will help some people. The ACA will surely help illegal aliens. It’ll also help those with pre-existing conditions. Not only can they not be denied coverage, but they supposedly can’t be charged more than healthy people (though the example the San Jose Mercury News uses for this doesn’t help the O-care narrative). There will be some success stories, ones designed by the law to be successful, which cover up the other 90% of what the law does. And ACA supporters are shocked, shocked, I tell you! that they got hosed

(SJ Mercury News) Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.

Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.

Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.

These “independents” were like totally floored. For people in Middle Class Land, that’s real money that could have been used for other things, and really hurts in the Obama economy malaise.

“I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today,” Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.

“I really don’t like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family’s pocket each year, that’s otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy.”

Granted, both families make more than the cutoff for receiving a “subsidy”. Yet, Covered California states that just 570,000 of the 1.9 million who will get insurance through the Government Exchange will be eligible for subsidies. And someone has to pay for all those extra costs built into O-care plans. People like the ones mentioned in the story.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Schoolkids Won’t Know What Life Without A Snowcat Looks Like

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 6:15 pm

Won’t someone please think of the children?

Breaking nearly century-old early autumn snowfall records, a storm system smothered South Dakota’s scenic Black Hills in South Dakota with up to three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow, leaving residents the challenge of digging out.

Pennington County Emergency Management spokeswoman Alexa White said rescue efforts were slow-going, because “the only way to get there is the snowmobiles or the Sno-Cats.”

Of only people would give up their 21st century lifestyle which makes it hot!

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Should The Government Regulate Your Grow In The Dark Plant?

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 4:06 pm

That’s the headline on the front page of the Washington Post, slightly different at the story page

Hunkered down in a converted shipping container stationed in a San Francisco parking lot, three young entrepreneurs are tinkering with the DNA of ordinary plants in the hopes of being able to mass produce a variety that glows in the dark.

If all goes well, their start-up company will begin mailing out the first batch of seeds next spring to the 8,000 donors across the country who helped them raise nearly $500,000 in a phenomenally successful online fundraising campaign through Kickstarter.

It’s a big “if”, because enviro-hysterics and are creating issues, from Kickstarter funding because the plants are genetically modified (stuff like that never ever happened before, ya know!) to whining at government agencies to Do Something

“What if someone decides it would be cute to light up a national forest?” asked Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University and an adviser to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on synthetic biology.

Well, then, civilization might end or the planet might explode.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will rise hundreds of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post by Jim Hoft on how a disease nearly took his life. We’re all looking forward to Jim being back full time and doing the great work he’s always done. More importantly, we pray for his health to continue to get better and full recovery.

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Hey, Noah Had To Go Through “Climate Change”, Ya Know!

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 12:36 pm

So he built a fossil fuels powered Arc

(Huffington Post) Noah is told by a highly creditable source (God) that climate change (40 days and nights of rain) will cause a dramatic rise in sea level (the Flood) which will, in turn, cause enormous loss of life. Noah’s response may provide guidance for us. We too have been told by a highly creditable source (science) that climate change (global warming) will cause a dramatic rise in sea level (plus many other problems) which will, in turn, cause enormous loss of life.

(snip all the way to the end of a bat guano insane article that you really have to read to understand the full bat guano insanity)

Let us avoid the survivalist mentality, rise to a higher standard than Noah, accept responsibility, and take social action in the face of scientific predictions of potentially disastrous climate change.

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Rick Perry To California: “we don’t judge success on the number of people we have on public assistance.”

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 8:35 am

Texas Governor Rick Perry continues his tour to swipe jobs and companies from Blue States, having recently gotten into it with Maryland Commissar, er, Governor Martin O’Malley. Now…

(SFGate) Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry, on a tour aimed at pushing “red state” tax and business policies to drive growth, said Friday that a major economic difference between California and Texas is that “we don’t judge success on the number of people we have on public assistance.”

“California has substantially more liberal public assistance programs,’’ said Perry, considered a possible 2016 GOP presidential candidate, in a wide-ranging interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. “This is a state that’s going bankrupt. You have huge debt out here..and part of that is driven by these very expensive, very rich programs.”

“We judge success by the number of people that have a job,’’ said Perry, who has been a vociferous critic of the Affordable Care Act.

He said working Texans are free to “go buy (health) insurance, or be in a company that delivers that health care for them. That’s the real future of America.”

Nor did he hold back on Obama

“The President of the United States thinks the more people on public assistance, the more successful he is as a leader,” he said.

One last excerpt

“Jerry Brown is very capable, thoughtful fellow,” he said. “He just has a different outlook than I do.”

Instead of being bombastic, abusive, and insulting, which is the way Obama and so many Democrats would do it, Perry is gracious and flattering, and simply notes a different set of ideas.

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