Notes on the shutdown: Not one, but TWO park rangers

To give him a ticket for running in at Valley Forge National Historical Park during the shutdown.

Wonder how much they make each day.

Notes on the shutdown

The Administration is still spending money to inconvenience and annoy the American people into blaming Republicans.  The sad thing is it seems to be working.

Park rangers removed handles from water fountains on popular running and walking trails.

As an aside, they also tried to close Mt Vernon, George Washington's home, which is privately owned.  They put barricades across all the parking lot entrances.

Oh, did I mention that they are putting cones alongside highways around Mount Rushmore in places that you can pull over to look at the monument or take a picture?

It's all the Republicans fault for not doing exactly what President Obama wants, however.

A word has even been coined for this.  Barrycades.  I wonder if that's too disrespectful for the Imperial President.

Notes on the shutdown: Favored group status?

If you need any more proof that all the harassment and Gestapo tactics being inflicted on the American people in the name of "shutdown" are political theater put on by the White House, how about this story?
Immigration reform rally gets the go ahead

Yup. That's right. The "closed" National Park, where WWII veterans were threatened with arrest, is open to leftist protesters.

Time to wake up, people.

More notes on the shutdown: Kicked out of their private homes

Privately owned homes on federal land, the federal government gave them 24 hours to get out and stay out until the shutdown is over.

http://www.ktnv.com/news/local/226557661.html

Update: Just a quick note, but various sources are making the argument that the golf course at Andrews Air Force Base (the President's home course) is open because it is funded by user fees and doesn't require government funding.  They won't, of course comment on why private homes and privately run businesses are being barricaded and manned by park police to keep people out.

More notes on the shutdown: The widening definition of "essential"

Washington Examiner reports that union reps are authorized to keep working at taxpayer expense during the shutdown.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/exclusive-obama-admin-allows-government-union-reps-to-work-during-shutdown/article/2536864

Yup.  Nothing more essential than union reps to the good operation of our federal government.  Makes you wonder how we got along without them for the two hundred years or so before Kennedy allowed federal workers to unionize.  Hell, even FDR, the Progressive in Chief, thought it was a bad idea.