Government Shutdown on the clock thread

[caulfield12]

I was going to cut her a little bit of slack because there are a handful in Congress who really do live off their salaries, but as soon as I got to the part about her husband being a surgeon I started cursing at my computer screen.

 

I'm sure he's a full-time volunteer for Doctors Without Borders, lol.

[Kyyle23]

I was going to cut her a little bit of slack because there are a handful in Congress who really do live off their salaries, but as soon as I got to the part about her husband being a surgeon I started cursing at my computer screen.

 

LOL, what was Patrick Ewings famous quote? "Sure, we make a lot of money, but we spend a lot of money too"

[Jake]

What happened to the murmurs of a potential (not quite grand) bargain that would restore some sequestration cuts, implement chained CPI, and raise the debt limit?

[StrangeSox]

jesus christ please no

[cabiness42]

Back pay passed the House 407-0. Half of my financial problem is solved.

[Cknolls]

Narcissus going out of his way to make the shutdown affect people who want to visit parks. How much money has been spent to try to make a point? Blocking state roads in South Dakota so people cannot access Mt Rushmore. brilliant! This just proves that he is a south side of Chicago political thug.

[cabiness42]

Narcissus going out of his way to make the shutdown affect people who want to visit parks. How much money has been spent to try to make a point? Blocking state roads in South Dakota so people cannot access Mt Rushmore. brilliant! This just proves that he is a south side of Chicago political thug.

 

I think a gigantic blizzard took care of cutting off access to Mt. Rushmore.

[cabiness42]

OK, Notre Dame haters, I'm going to serve one up on a platter for you:

 

One discussion board I belong to is a professional board for ND alums. I've been getting hammered on there for blaming the Republican House for the shutdown. I pointed out that my family was without 100% of our income and one of the irreversible effects is having to 'furlough' our babysitter during the shutdown. One response: "You're lying. If you need a babysitter then your wife is working and you aren't losing 100% of your income. If your wife isn't working then you don't need a babysitter."

 

I'm guessing Soxtalk can outsmart the ND alum and figure out at least one circumstance where my wife is neither gainfully employed nor available to take care of the kids.

[caulfield12]

Funny how terrible reporting is these days considering the lady killed was unarmed.

 

Probably because there WERE shots fired...

 

But yeah, it would have been accurate to phrase it differently...imminent threat/harm situation, I don't know how you'd put it, but when someone comes at the White House, they tend to shoot first and ask questions later.

 

Because the one time they really let their guards down, is the time something terrible happens to the President or VP, etc.

[Jake]

OK, Notre Dame haters, I'm going to serve one up on a platter for you:

 

One discussion board I belong to is a professional board for ND alums. I've been getting hammered on there for blaming the Republican House for the shutdown. I pointed out that my family was without 100% of our income and one of the irreversible effects is having to 'furlough' our babysitter during the shutdown. One response: "You're lying. If you need a babysitter then your wife is working and you aren't losing 100% of your income. If your wife isn't working then you don't need a babysitter."

 

I'm guessing Soxtalk can outsmart the ND alum and figure out at least one circumstance where my wife is neither gainfully employed nor available to take care of the kids.

 

You talked it about it earlier -

she is in school full-time

[Cknolls]

I think a gigantic blizzard took care of cutting off access to Mt. Rushmore.

 

Even more reason that what the Feds were doing is pure politics.

[StrangeSox]

OK, Notre Dame haters, I'm going to serve one up on a platter for you:

 

One discussion board I belong to is a professional board for ND alums. I've been getting hammered on there for blaming the Republican House for the shutdown. I pointed out that my family was without 100% of our income and one of the irreversible effects is having to 'furlough' our babysitter during the shutdown. One response: "You're lying. If you need a babysitter then your wife is working and you aren't losing 100% of your income. If your wife isn't working then you don't need a babysitter."

 

I'm guessing Soxtalk can outsmart the ND alum and figure out at least one circumstance where my wife is neither gainfully employed nor available to take care of the kids.

If reality doesn't conform to their ideology, clearly reality must be a lie.

[cabiness42]

If reality doesn't conform to their ideology, clearly reality must be a lie.

 

Yeah, I don't think the University keeps any such statistics, but my guess would be that about 2% of male graduates and about 0.01% of female graduates marry somebody who doesn't already have a degree. It doesn't seem possible to them that my wife could start her college education in her 30s.

[NorthSideSox72]

Even more reason that what the Feds were doing is pure politics.

S&P 660!!!!!!

 

[pettie4sox]

OK, Notre Dame haters, I'm going to serve one up on a platter for you:

 

One discussion board I belong to is a professional board for ND alums. I've been getting hammered on there for blaming the Republican House for the shutdown. I pointed out that my family was without 100% of our income and one of the irreversible effects is having to 'furlough' our babysitter during the shutdown. One response: "You're lying. If you need a babysitter then your wife is working and you aren't losing 100% of your income. If your wife isn't working then you don't need a babysitter."

 

I'm guessing Soxtalk can outsmart the ND alum and figure out at least one circumstance where my wife is neither gainfully employed nor available to take care of the kids.

 

People can be so f***ing stupid sometimes.

[LittleHurt05]

OK, Notre Dame haters, I'm going to serve one up on a platter for you:

 

One discussion board I belong to is a professional board for ND alums. I've been getting hammered on there for blaming the Republican House for the shutdown. I pointed out that my family was without 100% of our income and one of the irreversible effects is having to 'furlough' our babysitter during the shutdown. One response: "You're lying. If you need a babysitter then your wife is working and you aren't losing 100% of your income. If your wife isn't working then you don't need a babysitter."

 

I'm guessing Soxtalk can outsmart the ND alum and figure out at least one circumstance where my wife is neither gainfully employed nor available to take care of the kids.

 

She golfs a lot?

[witesoxfan]

She could have developed palsy (nothing specified) where she can no longer safely care for children. She could have also just had a surgical procedure done where movement is limited. That she is actually going to school is one of hundreds of different reasons why it could be that way.

[StrangeSox]

I think we can all agree that this anecdote from HH shows us all just how 'valuable' an education from ND is!

[Big Hurtin]

So now veterans are going to get the shaft.

 

http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigation...-226821331.html

 

 

 

[southsider2k5]

So now veterans are going to get the shaft.

 

http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigation...-226821331.html

 

I would say "have gotten the shaft", as this isn't new.

 

The News4 I-Team’s review of agency work orders shows the backlog is already severe. Nationwide, 418,711 veterans’ claims have been pending for longer than three months. In the Washington, D.C., area, veterans wait an average of almost a year to have the average benefit processed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

 

The VA hospitals are the same way with six month+ waits for elective surgeries.

[Texsox]

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Report...-226744931.html

 

Close to death after being forced from the national park by the shutdown. (hyperbole, I can't really blame the shut down)

[StrangeSox]

Late-breaking news, and I’ll update as I find out more: While the government is shut down, with food-safety personnel and disease detectives sent home and forbidden to work, a major foodborne-illness outbreak has begun. This evening, the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture announced that “an estimated 278 illnesses … reported in 18 states” have been caused by chicken contaminated with Salmonella Heidelberg and possibly produced by the firm Foster Farms.

 

[...]

 

That means that the lab work and molecular detection that can link far-apart cases and define the size and seriousness of outbreaks are not happening. At the CDC, which operates the national foodborne-detection services FoodNet and PulseNet, scientists couldn’t work on this if they wanted to; they have been locked out of their offices, lab and emails. (At a conference I attended last week, 10 percent of the speakers did not show up because they were CDC personnel and risked being fired if they traveled even voluntarily.)

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/...own-salmonella/

[Texsox]

I wonder if food producers are thinking, hey we need to be extra careful during the shutdown because the government isn't fully supporting and watching over us -or- what can we slip by while no one is watching?

[StrangeSox]

I wonder if food producers are thinking, hey we need to be extra careful during the shutdown because the government isn't fully supporting and watching over us

 

[Cknolls]

 

OOPS!

 

 

 

 

http://twitchy.com/2013/10/08/awkward-wh-a...s-n-word-tweet/