WRT the government shutting down

flossy_log_lady · October 2013

I honestly didn't even know this could happen.

swamp_knobbler_mahan · October 2013

It shut down twice in the mid-90s under Bill Clinton/Newt Gingrich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_1995_and_1996

flossy_log_lady · October 2013

Yeah, I'm just ignorant.

swamp_knobbler_mahan · October 2013

Just saw this tweet:

The gov't may have closed, but as long as the corporations are still at it I think we should be ok.
— michael dwayne adams (@micdadam)
October 1, 2013

orchid_issues · October 2013

I found this Slate article amusing: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/09/30/potential_government_shutdown_how_would_the_u_s_media_report_on_it_if_it.html

kdawg · October 2013

stuff is crazy over here.
A local synagogue has opened up a "shutdown hub" which is not a hilarious joke about "startup hubs" but instead a "hangout zone" for bored workers to eat pizza and do yoga?

I miss the pandacam already.

orchid_issues · October 2013

Also several government websites are down: USDA, NASA, Library of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission. What the...

YoursTruly · October 2013

just millions of people basically getting fired
NBD
PIPO
Makes me miss King George

YoursTruly · October 2013

just got an email about how interlibrary loan won't be functioning

MirandaJuly · October 2013

The White House Tumblr is down. I REPEAT. THE WHITE HOUSE TUMBLR IS DOWN.

swamp_knobbler_mahan · October 2013

Takes a lot of #socialmediagurus to keep that Tumblr up and running!

kdawg · October 2013

When this happened under Clinton's watch, what it meant was that Newt Gingrich never was able to achieve elected office ever again.

So there will be some Republicans whose careers will be irreperably ruined! Hooray.

FCC website and Copyright Office sites both down today, which made work hard

YoursTruly · October 2013

In the middle of the night I woke up thinking about that old SNL skit where a kid tells his dad, I believe played by Bill Murray, that he doesn't feel like going to school, and so the dad pitches a huge fit about how "oh okay, well then I don't feel like going to WORK!" and he calls in and tells his boss, and the boss is like "yeah, you know what? I don't FEEL like going to work either!" And so it goes up the chain of power until the president is also passive aggressively staying home from work and then I think Russia invades or something

kdawg · October 2013

I am really getting frustrated with this whole thing.

MirandaJuly · October 2013

Should I be in my bunker yet? Haven't even packed my bug out bag.

YoursTruly · October 2013

yeah, at what point will we start becoming anarchists? LIke, why are the buses still running. I'm very interested in where the line is between "not having a government but we all keep doing our jobs and following the rules" and "chaos"

kdawg · October 2013

well the 1995 one was longer, but the rhetoric around it was less toxic/violent/racist

MirandaJuly · October 2013

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