Monday, September 30, 2013

Open thread

I'll be offline for a few days, so feel free to cavort in the comments section.

You might consider adding to this long (and apparently endless) list: Things Biden Can't Understand.

23 comments:

Minicapt said...

For 'non-essential workers', it's party time?

Cheers

JeffS said...

The shut down jargon du jour is "excepted" and "non-excepted", Minicapt

Anonymous said...

Deborah .... Are you reinforcing the defenses at Paco Central in anticipation of the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it (aka government shutdown), or are you getting a jump on the masses of government employees headed for a mini vacation? Gotta be the former because you must be essential.

Wouldn't it be better to list the things Biden knows? It would at least be shorter.

In the meantime....meade and target practice!

bruce said...

Tach it up tach it up, the Beach Boys sang a song about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pYU0p6WZhU

SwampWoman said...

Goodness, I'd surely leave town, too. The smell of the bullsh*t being excreted in D.C. must be overwhelming.

Anonymous said...

Deborah ....Swampie, bullshit*t is the usual scent. But you're right, the odor has increased. For those who can't flee, now would be a good time to hit the military surplus store...or check the PACO catalog.

RebeccaH said...

Gee, I wonder how many of the White House staff will be furloughed. What?

bruce said...

Isn't the President getting like the 'boy who cried wolf'? Who didn't believe there really was any danger from 'wolves' and thought it was just a way of getting people's attention.

Anonymous said...

Deborah .... Bruce, perhaps Barry is previewing his Halloween outfit. Not much of a costume, but it's fit for someone who isn't much of a president.

bruce said...

War veterans reclaim their memorial. B-b-but, it's supposed to be Shut Down! When the Govermint shuts down, it gets very scary.

bruce said...

Actually the way the Govt is closing stuff like parks, with barricades, is rather scary.

Robert of Ottawa said...

Government shutdown - a libertarian's dream. If only ... sigh.

On a serious note:

Rebeccah, probably as many who had to accept Obamacare.

Isn't there something fundamentally wrong when the ruling elite make laws that only the apply to the plebs, not them? I find this very disturbing.

Isophorone said...

Speaking of Biden, is he in any way essential? Shouldn't he be furloughed?

Isophorone said...

Speaking of Biden, is he in any way essential? Shouldn't he be furloughed?

SwampWoman said...

Well, maybe he is furloughed. Haven't heard anything out of him for awhile....

Anonymous said...

Deborah .... Biden's brain is the only part worth anything...to the scientific community and curiosity shops. A buck fifty is something.

Now seriously gang. Can't we get above sixteen comments? Let's do it for Paco. Otherwise he will think he can't leave us alone.

Merilyn said...

See you lucky people are going to have Julia Gillard over in your neck of the woods to share her thought with.

bruce said...

Well, when did 'shutdown' become 'barricade all public places so the public can't congregate'? Sounds more like something else to me, but I'm just a grumpy old extremist.

rinardman said...

I've never seen a U.S. President, amd his Administration, that could so consistently prove me wrong when I say:"They can't do anything more stupid than this!"

bruce said...

Pondering the Machiavellian parallels. Pres Obama and the Dems complain that Republicans are 'obsessed' with the nation's debt. If you don't intend to repay 'loans' then they become something else: tribute. If the Dems really want to go down this road, Pres Obama should declare all funds 'loaned' to the US as Imperial Tribute, himself the President Emperor. Does it make sense to pretend otherwise?

Paco said...

Bruce: An interesting insight - and probably an accurate assessment of how Democrats see the national debt.

RebeccaH said...

Yes, an interesting insight, but since Obama has pretty much gutted American foreign policy and screwed all our heretofore allies, is there any nation in the world who would be too afraid to demand repayment and enforce their demands with violence (economic or physical)?

Michael Lonie said...

Rebecca,
No. Next question.

China is alredy moving into the Caribbean basin, not yet with military power, but that will come (just as it did with the USSR). Imagine Chinese gunboats on the Mississippi enforcing the payment of half of US taxes to China to repay our debt, with a Chinese supervising the IRS and Customs. That's what happened to China in the 19th century, why should thay not do it to us, if they develop the power to do so, and we are too weak to stop them?