What part of essential is hard for you to understand?
If the GOP closes the government for non essential services, why the everloving fuck would they think that National Parks make the cut?
It’s a nonsensical jumble of patriotism and ignorance driving that one.
Also, Obamacare isn’t hit by the government shutdown because of how its funding is set up.
Apparently you can’t read.
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What was shut down was an informational portal about how states set up Amber Alert systems. They did not shut down anything related to actually running Amber Alerts.
No. The “We are shut down” pages are hackable, but there isn’t anything there to be disturbed. Whereas the actual website pages have lots of information, links to other websites, etc that could be altered or otherwise vandalised. So while one can vandalize a “we’re closed” page, there isn’t much they can do to it, as opposed to what they can do to a working page. That’s why the working page content was moved behind a firewall while administrators are not around to monitor and police the pages.
Because the website was the federal DOJ informational page telling what the Amber Alert System is, how it is coordinated, and how states can set up their own programs. It does not actually perform any function to the actual Amber Alert network.
The Let’s Move website is part of an initiative that is run from the Executive Office of the President. It is part of the White House home page. The Executive Office of the President is partially open. The WhiteHouse.gov page is currently active, though it has big headers that the government is shut down and some services may not be available.
So it appears the Let’s Move webpage is active in the sense that it has not been replaced by a “closed” sign, but has not been updated since the shutdown. The White House pages are active, so it is likely the IT person is maintaining the pages to protect from hackers and whatnot, whatever risk there is.
Why is the Executive Office of the President still open? Because they support the President, who is still working.
So this is not a case of picking and choosing at some low level which pages should and should not be open. Rather, it is a case of high level decisions allowing low level situations to seem incongruent. In other words, bureaucracy at work.
My ‘subsidy’ is a 12% tax break. I can take the credit monthly or at the end of the year. No one is giving me cash or checks. I thought R’s like reduced taxes.
Only for those deemed Worthy.
It isn’t a “tax break”.
Furloughs turn DC into skateboarding park. In short: “Places that are normally off limits to skateboarding are attracting all kinds of riders right now – because a lot of the people who enforce the rules are out on shutdown furlough.”
I’d rather skateboarders not start screwing up memorials and monuments. Closing them is just fine with me.
I agree, but a sick part of me would pay to see this guy slalom his way through a bunch of World War II vets. INCOMING!
You haven’t thrown any facts out. The idea that there people would be more likely to vandalize a monument in front of a group of people is bullshit and you know it’s bullshit.
Of course there are such people, the only question is how many.
Why would it be bullshit ? Whether it’s masturbation or smashing a statue, some people get off on doing “forbidden stuff” in front of a shocked, unprepared audience. Do you live a terminally sheltered life, that this could be a new and intringuing notion for you ?
You know that people flew planes into stuff, in front of people, right? Your assertion is so staggeringly daft and inept, that I’m just gonna assume you’re not arguing in good faith.
You are literally saying no one would ever commit a crime in front of other people. That’s just delusional.
Clearly has never seen the Cubs play baseball.
Who said “more likely?”
I was going to go to Gettysburg this past weekend thinking that I could at least walk the battlefield because, silly me, what would be the point of closing an outdoor property? I knew that the visitor’s center and guided tours and the like would be suspended, but I’m glad I went online first.
Walking on the battlefield is now trespassing and I could be arrested for it. The worst part is that the fucking pull-off spots on the road where there is a sign describing a portion of the battle (no trash cans, no rangers on duty, no nothing, just a SIGN) is taped off an access is prohibited. This is the height of government stupidity.
Will someone vandalize the sign? No more than any other day of the year when the park is open and Pennsylvania is fully capable of enforcing vandalism laws. Further, rangers patrol the area to throw people out dare these visitors cost the government money during a shutdown by reading the signs. Most posters don’t realize how fucking stupid that is? Pay money to throw sign readers out on the off chance that vandalism might occur…10 feet from a state-owned highway.
I’m not saying it’s an Obama conspiracy, just more of the same logical decision making from government employees. The only thing more amazing is that many posters here think that this seems rational.
Oh, and the visitor’s center was open because it is run by a private entity.
You just stepped off the cliff on that bit of stupidity. You’re suggesting that because terrorists flew into buildings that the average miscreant is going to spray paint a monument in front of people. That is so seriously devoid of logic I’m just embarrassed for you.
No, he didn’t. You’re the only one who is (deliberately?) misinterpreting what he, or Lobohan, is saying.
Ask yourself this question: Why does it have to be an *average *miscreant?
Feel free to feel angry about this issue, but know that it’s because you don’t understand what is happening and are lashing out in confusion.
It isn’t the average miscreant. Its the people who want the publicity. PETA would be an example of an organization who chooses to vandalize publicly to get coverage.
Just to rope things back to reality, the faulty decision by government employees that is at the root of this problem is the goal of extreme Republicans to shut down the government – it’s not the fault of civil servants trying to execute stupid laws written by irresponsible people.
Republicans are not the ones shutting anything down. They’ve repeatedly offered a number of bills that did just the opposite which were turned down by Reid and Obama.