Thanks. 
For those slightly lazier than me:
Thanks, I am indeed lazier than you (maybe more than slightly)
I had heard he was killed in Vietnam.
OK, here’s a serious response. The government is shut down. SHUT DOWN. If you haven’t bothered to read any of the hundreds of thousands of articles on it, I doubt my post will help educate you. But it means that, with the exception absolutely essential services, the Federal Government has come to a complete, total, grinding halt, putting millions out of work and affecting the livelihood of tens of millions across the nation if not world.
No. You do not get to pick and choose which portions of government you personally would rather start back up because its shutting down happens to inconvenience you or insult your view on how the world should work. This includes the reopening of the WWII memorial.
Maybe next time you think about how crappy the government is, you’ll remember the WWII memorial shutting down and think “oh yeah. I guess there are a lot of things the government does that I completely take for granted. Maybe I shouldn’t jump to conclusions like that.” But that’s next time. For now, the only thing you can do to get the barricades down from the memorial is to lobby your Congressman to get his or her ass back into session, pass a clean bill, and get the government up and running again. That’s it.
How’s that for a legitimate answer?
It’s succinct, plausible, and will be completely ignored.
Next time, could you let the toenail fungus post instead?
Not to mention the fact that it was ignorant reactionary conservatives in the House that caused the shutdown (and by extension, the national parks) in the first fucking place.
Until a year from now, when the ACA is humming along without breaking the government and Repubs find that everything they’ve been told is a lie. Reality’s going to hit them big time. I sense a Republican nervous breakdown on a national scale coming.
They will simply continue to lie about it, saying that it isn’t working well, until people stop talking about it. Then by that time, they will say they were always for it. Then they will take credit for it as being based on Romneycare, which i suppose will actually be true to some degree.
Heck, they can keep 4 contradictory ideas in their head before breakfast.
In a year, the Republican morons will probably be able to say that Obamacare is a horrible, horrible failure, and the government better keep their hands off their precious ACA.
Maybe the fungus is posting and Clotha is its sock.
Point of order:
Simon bar Sinister has no mustache.
Snidely Whiplash does, however.
That said, Dick Dastardly’s is more twirlable.*
*This assertion is based on the fact that I couldn’t find an image of Snidely twirling his.
Dammit.
These are the morons who keep tell the Canadians and the Brits what a big failure their healthcare systems are. Anyhow a nervous breakdown implies a brain, so they are immune.
That is a truly reprehensible insult to fungi. Fungi are much smarter than that.
The party strategists maybe, but for the self-righteous zealots who honestly think they’re saving America, there’ll have to be a point when they’ll realize they’ve been lying to themselves. Even Karl Rove must have learned this (I hope) on election night last year. Or maybe I have too much faith in them as adults.
The zealots will simply imagine a new conspiracy theory involving cooking the books to make ObamaCare look better than it really is.
Yeah, those guys really opened my eyes. The gummint has no business looking out for the people who elected it and passing laws that provide me with health care, education, a safe driving environment, law and order, and all that good stuff that I should be man enough to do for myself, just like they did a thousand years ago. What’s a safe, healthy guy to do?
Anyone can accept health care. It takes a real man to sell his house for cancer treatments and start all over again at age 60.
“We don’t need no stinkin’ brains! We got the truth on our side! Just ask us.”