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Home Front: Politix
Government Shuts Down, Nation Descends into Riots, Looting and Cannibalism
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/09/2013 05:09 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hilarious.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/09/2013 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Funny indeed...however you know you're in trouble as a nation when you read satire like this and think..."Gee, this could really be true given the lunatics currently in charge...."
Posted by: Warthog || 10/09/2013 10:29 Comments || Top||

#3  The United States of America (1787-2013) came to a swift and sudden end last night as the government shut down.

'Swift and sudden end'? No, it began in earnest long ago with FDR [who might still be president, had he not died in office]. Champ recently kicked it up a notch, all brought on by those pesky, boomer-crackers who insist on visiting national monuments and tributes to American greatness and exceptionalism.

Champ and his shadow gov't seek a fight. They actually desire civil disturbance. From a crisis of civil disturbance can come the much needed martial law and a setting aside of the constitution, the congress, and elections. We must remain vigilant and be very careful with these people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2013 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  What happened when the cannibal crossed the Atlantic on the QE2? He told the waiter to take the menu away and bring him the passenger list!
Posted by: Bertie Bucket4731 || 10/09/2013 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm going to rip off that danged mattress tag myself...RIGHT NOW.

I know it's a small gesture, but it is a start.

Time to take action boys....
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 10/09/2013 12:37 Comments || Top||

#6  beso, you can track the demise back to the first progressive president, Woodrow Wilson.

He's the one that is Genesis for our current problems.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/09/2013 14:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Greenfield is someone you may read when things are bad. Just spot on most of what he writes. It is a daily check.
Posted by: newc || 10/09/2013 14:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, and I heard there was a school that let the kids play kickball during recess.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/09/2013 15:08 Comments || Top||

#9  In Brooklyn, New York, an overweight Senegalese woman was unable to obtain a sign language interpreter while waiting on line to collect her free Obamaphone.

Why do I think that that actually happened?
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/09/2013 15:33 Comments || Top||

#10  I think is is time to go back to the sea. Where the water is wetter and Governments don't eat us in fricassee. Where we can sign and dance all night and not hear this government fight. We have to go there. We have to see this show there. Where there? under the sea.
Here let them explain that;
Posted by: Dale || 10/09/2013 16:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Only the Feral Govmint has shut down, descended into riots, looting and cannibalism. Oh wait a minute, that is business-as-usual when the govmint is open.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/09/2013 16:26 Comments || Top||

#12  #11 You got it. Where did we get going postal
Zombie time.
Posted by: Dale || 10/09/2013 16:47 Comments || Top||

#13  Bet the Dems are having heebee jeebees not being able to spend spend spend right now.
Posted by: Beldar Glineter4775 || 10/09/2013 21:40 Comments || Top||

#14  Season change and October lives up to its weird time of year. The parks are gone. The monuments are are gone. Even the People of faith are not allowed to attend church. The Autumn people are here. What was, is no more. The trees lose their colors. The grave gray stone vaults are all that remain in DC. The Autumn people suck the life out of the people. Spread fear and mischief among the people. Pride themselves on destroying unborne life. Now they are going after; what did Hitler call them, there were many names. This is an awake nightmare.
Posted by: Dale || 10/09/2013 21:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Local government & citizens preparing to confront Feds in Tennessee
Folks who live in the Great Smoky Mountains have just about reached their breaking point with the federal government.

"It's almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough," said Ed Mitchell, the mayor of Blount County, Tenn. "We were founded on a declaration of independence. And they are about to push the people to the line again." It's gotten to the point where Mayor Mitchell said Americans are ready to start fighting back.

The mayor said he wanted to "make [federal officials and congressional reps] aware that we were willing to do what they were not. We were willing to serve the people that they were not willing to serve."

I asked the mayor if he felt like local residents were getting ready to fight back. He agreed.

"I hate that it's come to this," he said. "This whole thing is all about power and leverage."
Never push honest men past the breaking point, because once started in a fight, they will not stop until they get complete submission of those who provoked them.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/09/2013 01:06 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama is too stupid to realize that thuggery doest work against people willing to stand and fight. He may have inadvertently lit the fuse on something that is going to explode on him, and destroy him and his ilk, swinging the pendulum the other way toward citizens and individual liberty (away from government and imposed collectivism), or else possibly rip the country violently apart as the productive throw off those who would chain them by government fiat and force.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/09/2013 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Almost hard to believe that he's making his first term look like Reagan by comparison...
Posted by: Raj || 10/09/2013 2:16 Comments || Top||

#3  "It's almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough,"

You think?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/09/2013 4:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Tyrant Obama might do well to look at the Battle of Athens (1946). There are limits that Americans will not tolerate being crossed for long. Maybe it's crazy talk but I hear a lot of crazy talk these days.

Posted by: Silentbrick - Oil Rig Insanity Division || 10/09/2013 5:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Enough is enough. He is a domestic enemy. Plain and simple and people are finally understanding that.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/09/2013 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  He is NOT the only "domestic enemy".

SECDEF Hagel, the Service Secretaries, and every General officer in the Pentagon should be resigning over this denial of survivor benefits bullshi*.

BTW, what has happened about yesterday's news of a truckers strike headed to D.C. along with their demand that Champ resign ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2013 10:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Just walked past a tv with CNN polluting the air. First time in 5 years I see a dead soldier casket; only because Obama thinks it will bollster his side of the shut down arguement. Absolutely disgusting.
Posted by: airandee || 10/09/2013 12:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I think he is testing the water. Can he take more from us or does he have to back off? I see the average American as totally frustrated by the federal government. I hope there isn't a spark that sets off a revolution.
Posted by: David169 || 10/09/2013 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  I aim to Misbehave.
Posted by: Ptah || 10/09/2013 14:44 Comments || Top||

#10  I read this with great interest since I live in Knox Co. which abuts Blount Co. I think there is only one old church operating in Cade's Cove. There are only two cemeteries in the Cove of which I'm aware; there might be a few more in the Park. This area of the country is quite independent. There are many old timers and their relatives here who have a moon-shining heritage. I wouldn't doubt that they could engage in civil disobedience.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/09/2013 16:45 Comments || Top||

#11  Y'all need any help? Gives new meaning to "Head for the hills".

Saw a few with Rifles in their Ford pick em up trucks with bumper stickers that read... "If first you don't Secede..... "

The Prez needs to back down because I don't negotiate either. Remember the last time the government tried to make Slavery legal across the board? Ummm hmmmm.
Posted by: newc || 10/09/2013 21:44 Comments || Top||


Government
Americans Cross Obama's Parkway Barriers In Spontaneous Civil Disobedience
[DailyCaller]
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not exactly Concord Bridge. But I hope its a first step of many in disobedience and active rebellion against the regime (big government, and abusive government) in DC.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/09/2013 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Is there a better site for this story? The ad overlays make the site unreadable on chrome on the iPad.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/09/2013 0:41 Comments || Top||

#3  I get redirected to The DC's main page; link is FUBAR.
Posted by: Raj || 10/09/2013 0:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Correct, working link is here.
Posted by: Raj || 10/09/2013 1:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I've modified the link to the one Raj posted.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/09/2013 9:28 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Jumbo White3004 || 10/09/2013 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Obama's gone too far, IMPEACH HIM.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/09/2013 12:59 Comments || Top||

#8  It would be a waste of time. HE could make chili out of little black babies in a cauldron on the mall and the Senate would say it was enlightened and rule not guilty. Please stop wasting our time by pretending otherwise.

Ever wonder why none of the Usual Suspects are marching for justice for Miriam Carey the way they did for Trayvon?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/09/2013 13:46 Comments || Top||

#9  Yes, I do wonder. I'm not sure if the police used excessive force against Miriam, but I'm not sure it was necessary either. Is the difference between Miriam and Trayvon that she might possibly somehow have been a threat to BHO?
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/09/2013 14:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Obama really think's he's God or something. He's trying an interdict on Roman Catholics now.

"Interdict is a censure similar to excommunication. It too excludes from ministerial functions in public worship and from reception of the sacraments, but not from the exercise of governance.
~wikipedia
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/09/2013 15:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Ever wonder why none of the Usual Suspects are marching for justice for Miriam Carey the way they did for Trayvon?

The usual 24/7 from the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine says its just 1984 Memory Hole material in the Miriam case.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/09/2013 15:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Various memorials were closed, that is, barriers were placed around them and security was assigned to keep people away. No matter that the memorials are usually open 24/7 and no one staffs them. So what is this "extra" cost to "close" things? Jackasses. We have seen this at the state level when taxpayers don't pass some issue on the ballot that is wanted by the state. Usually, the most high profile things where taxpayers come in contact with the government are closed such as parks, state run libraries, museums, etc.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/09/2013 16:21 Comments || Top||

#13  Park Service is now removing handles from water fountains on national trails.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/09/2013 18:15 Comments || Top||

#14  Why wouldn't every hiker have a small pair of vise-grips in his back pack?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 10/09/2013 19:14 Comments || Top||



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