{"id":38936,"date":"2013-10-09T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38936"},"modified":"2013-10-09T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:34:42","slug":"38936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38936","title":{"rendered":"Two Americas:  Shutdown Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">The Obama Administration\u2019s effort to punish ordinary Americans until they agree to unlimited debt, continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">Catholic priests aren\u2019t even allowed to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/oct\/8\/priests-booted-bases-shutdown-trickles-military\/\" target=\"_blank\">volunteer to serve the troops<\/a>. \u00a0Why not?\u00a0 What\u2019s it hurt?\u00a0 Does this affect other religions, too?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">Families of soldiers in combat aren\u2019t\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/oct\/8\/shutdown-leaves-families-killed-soldiers-no-funera\/\" target=\"_blank\">getting death benefits<\/a>\u00a0to attend funerals. \u00a0When did the military become \u201cnon-essential?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">The feds closed every<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/wwii-veterans-storm-dc-memorial-closed-by-government-shutdown-1.244447\" target=\"_blank\">memorial,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2013\/10\/obama-barricades-lincoln-memorial-unlike-during-1995-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0monument<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/muckraker\/scott-walker-resists-federal-order-to-close-parks-during-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">boat launch,<\/a>\u00a0permitted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_24234605\/st-croix-river-boat-activity-slowed-by-federal\" target=\"_blank\">operator<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2013\/10\/shutdown-theater-mount-rushmore-edition.php\" target=\"_blank\">scenic overlooks<\/a>\u00a0and even<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/10\/05\/Feds-Try-to-Close-the-OCEAN-Because-of-Shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">parts of the ocean<\/a>\u00a0to ordinary Americans; except\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/oct\/7\/park-service-oks-immigration-reform-rally-closed-n\/\" target=\"_blank\">open border Liberals<\/a>\u00a0who get to hold their rally on The Mall.\u00a0 Why am I not surprised?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The founders&#8217; vision of theirs country was &#8220;a free association of equals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s is &#8220;unruly children who need to be brought into line&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Obama Administration\u2019s effort to punish ordinary Americans until they agree to unlimited debt, continues. \u00a0Catholic priests aren\u2019t even allowed to\u00a0volunteer to serve the troops. \u00a0Why not?\u00a0 What\u2019s it hurt?\u00a0 Does this affect other religions, too? \u00a0Families of soldiers in combat aren\u2019t\u00a0getting death benefits\u00a0to attend funerals. \u00a0When did the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-38936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38938,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38936\/revisions\/38938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}