Finally: some Americans fight park closures

Posted on Thursday, October 10, 2013 by BZ

We’re not gonna take it! Americans use 1st Amendment to storm shutdown barriers

Taking their lead from the veterans who first pushed through the barricades to visit the World War II Memorial, Americans nationwide are defying the federal government shutdown, tossing aside traffic cones and toppling wooden fences to get to national parks and other federal lands that the administration has deemed out of bounds.

As the shutdown hits the middle of its second week, civil disobedience has become a sensation. Some proudly post online photos of themselves overcoming the government’s obstacles, and others use more subtle ways to make their point.

Oddly enough, the same thing I said I would have done this past Monday:

Now here is what BZ would, of course, do: drive over some cones, pull out his camera, a tripod, a video cam, a table, a chair, sit down and have lunch at my leisure. When finished, I would also leisurely take any number of photographs to my satisfaction. Then, just prior to leaving, I would merely “displace” said blocking cones to an unknown point down an adjacent steep hill. Mission accomplished.

To continue from the article:

The owner of the Pisgah Inn along the Blue Ridge Parkway, who last week announced that he was defying the park service’s shutdown order, said it was a matter of principle.

“If not now, when? If not me, who?” Bruce O’Connell told The Washington Times.

It’s nice to see that a smattering of Americans still have balls.

National Park Service blocks drivers from pulling over to view Mt Rushmore

Posted on Monday, October 7, 2013 by BZ

Is this — again — not the most insane thing you’ve heard or read? Just when you think that the Obama Administration cannot get more nakedly craven, cowardly and puerile — they do. They have topped themselves today with their newest spoiled-child tantrum. More sphincter-dribble from the US Spite House.

From the SiouxFallsBusinessJournal.com:

Barring visitors from view an unexpected effect of shutdown

Blocking access to trails and programs at South Dakota’s most popular attraction was one thing, but state officials didn’t expect Congress’ budget stalemate to shut down a view of Mount Rushmore.

The National Park Service placed cones along highway viewing areas outside Mount Rushmore this week, barring visitors from pulling over and taking pictures of the famed monument.

The cones first went up Oct. 1, said Dusty Johnson, Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s chief of staff. The state asked that they be taken down, and federal officials did so with some of them. The state was told the cones were a safety precaution to help channel cars into viewing areas rather than to bar their entrance.“I think reasonable people can disagree about that,” Johnson said.

They certainly can. I believe, as a Political Beastie and beholden to the federal government nipple, Governor Johnson is being quite tactically correct and extremely kind. There was one purpose, and one purpose only to the blocking off of vehicle pullouts: to punish Americans, to inconvenience them, to anger them, to frustrate them.

I’ll wager that more of YOUR tax dollars were spent to block and shut down various parks and attractions than required to simply operate them on a normal basis.

While I’m at it, I simply canNOT pass up a graphic I discovered here.

P.S.
This is Kabuki Theater. This is Theater of the Absurd.

And: why is it ONLY the pro-America venues that are finding themselves closed?

Boehner: House will not pass bill to re-open govenment until Obama agrees to negotiate

Posted on Sunday, October 6, 2013 by BZ

That headline above from McClatchyDC.com.

And it’s about damned time that someone in the GOP took a stand.

As the saying goes, Obama will negotiate with this guy:

But he won’t negotiate with the GOP. A recent NYTimes headline reads: “Obama Says He Won’t Negotiate Until Government Reopens.”

Meaning: he won’t do anything, and will continue to refuse to speak — and continue the government shutdown — until he gets his way. First. Hello? Common sense? Once that happens, why “negotiate” anyway?

Hostage taking? This is it on Obama’s side. And the American Media Maggots don’t portray this fact as “hostage taking”?

Because here’s another little salient fact:

If it weren’t for Ted Cruz, Tanned John wouldn’t be taking any stand right now.

Military Priests Face Arrest for Celebrating Mass in Defiance of Shutdown

Posted on Saturday, October 5, 2013 by BZ

From CatholicVote.org:

Our government is out of control.

First, it was the World War II veterans who had to break down barriers to see the open air, un-attended memorial erected in their honor. A memorial which is on public land but is supported – including the National Park Service fee – with private funds. This week there was more security surrounding this memorial — just to keep elderly veterans out — than there was at our embassy in Benghazi the night it was attacked.

And for what? To inflict as much pain as possible through this government shutdown. It’s called Washington Monument Syndrome, and it’s pure political theater.

But now there’s a story just coming to light that takes things even further. According the Archdiocese for Military Services, GS and contract priests (who are paid by the federal government as independent contractors in places where there aren’t enough active-duty priests to meet the needs of Catholics in military service) are being forbidden from celebrating Mass, even on a volunteer basis.

That could never happen. Except when it is.

This is outrageous. It is a violation of the First Amendment. It is a prohibition of the free exercise of religion to order priests under penalty of arrest that they cannot volunteer their time to offer Mass to the faithful on base. This cannot be allowed to stand.

And read one line again: “This week there was more security surrounding this memorial — just to keep elderly veterans out — than there was at our embassy in Benghazi the night it was attacked.”

This is insanity writ large and purposely meant to be punishing.

Harry Reid: “why would we want to do that?”

Posted on Wednesday, October 2, 2013 by BZ

And what was that statement in reference to?

Harry Reid being asked the question: “If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?”

Harry Reid’s answer: “Why would we want to do that?”

And there is your caring, nurturing Leftist and Demorat contingent, with Harry Reid in charge.

From CNN:

BASH: But if you can help one child with cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?

REID: Why would we want to do that? I have 1100 people at Nellis Air Force Base sitting home. They have problems of their own.

There you go, thanks to Harry Reid.

Out of the mouth of Harry Reid. And then time to insult the AMM female who asks the question in the first place. A Leftist AMM who deigns to ask an actual question that Mr Reid doesn’t wish to answer. When you don’t have a cogent argument, as it is said time and again, make the attacks personal. How does it feel, Bash?

God bless Harry Reid. God bless the average Obama voter:

And here you see the intelligence, caring, compassion and insight of the Demorats and those who vote for Demorats.

P.S.

You can’t make this stuff up. Really. That’s why God created video.

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Right thinking from a Left brain.

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