This one is funnier than trying to stop people from looking at Mount Rushmore….   Perhaps I find this funnier because it not far from home and very familiar stomping grounds. To give you an idea how stupid this is, it’s wide open water.   Florida Bay is the body of water between the curve of the Florida Keys  WEST into  greater gulf of Mexico.      Biscayne Bay is a smaller sized body of water South East of Miami EAST to the Atlantic Ocean.
Enforcement ? Imagine trying to stop 3 million people, spread over 500 miles squared, from looking at a full moon.   That’s how practical enforcement would be.
(Via Breitbart)  Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was “closed” due to the shutdown.
Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.
The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban of access to an ocean. (more…)

President Obama is ridiculously shrinking himself in front of an entire nation.  Do you think this is serendipity, or strategy?   Yeah, me too....

U.S. special forces raids, one successful – one not. 

Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai’I (Anas al-Libi for short)  has been on the “kill or capture” list for 15 years.   He was a middle level al-Qaeda guy in the 90’s and thought to have been behind the cell that carried out the Kenya and Tanzania embassy bombings in 1998.
Both CNN and NBC are reporting he was captured in Libya (Tripoli maybe?)  […]

Al Libi has been a member of al Qaeda since at least 1994 and was a confidante of Osama bin Laden.  He also is a computer expert for the group and is believed to be one of the masterminds of the 1998 U.S. Embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 12 Americans and more than 220 Kenyans. He has been indicted in New York in connection with the attacks and could ultimately be brought to the U.S. to stand trial.

The unsuccessful raid was in Somalia […]  (more…)

A few days BigFurHat @iOTW predicted the following:

Many laughed thinking it was silly.    Well, it has indeed come to pass (more…)

Commodore Snoogie Woogums predicted this:

[…] Park spokeswoman Maureen Hugatree stated that the orders to fill in the canyon with fog had come straight from the White House. “They told me that they had deemed the fog machine operators to be essential emergency personnel with previous experience of clouding issues to the public,” she explained… (peoples cube)

Now it has come to pass…. (more…)

Yesterday President Stompy Feet posed for his latest national portrait.   Today the park service admits they were told to inflict the maximum public pain during the government shutdown.  Also today, the Border Patrol reveals they have been told to “Stand Down” and ignore border crossings.
All of this why?
Because the actual truth is people are awakening to the reality that most of the federal government is *non essential*; and, quite frankly, we can just do without them.  THAT is the real risk to sellers of BIG government.   It’s the same visible reality that stemmed from the ‘sequester cuts’ which, despite all the protestations to the contrary, really don’t have impact.   That’s the real issue. (more…)

Yesterday the media were swarming Chad Henderson.  He was interviewed by The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Politico, NBC, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal.  President Obama’s OFA was tweeting about him, and even The U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services interviewed him and was considering using him for “Obamacare” like Sandra Fluke for “free birth control”.

This is what today was about: MT @ChadHenderson: enrolled in #Obamacare! Looking forward to having affordable healthcare for the first time!
— Obamacare (@obamacare) October 2, 2013

That was Wednesday and yesterday.

Today:   After speaking directly with Chad Henderson, The Washington Post has confirmed that he has not in fact enrolled in a health-care plan.
The coverage of Chad Henderson has been massive. He was featured in The Washington Post Thursday as “the Obamacare enrollee that tons of reporters are calling.” He was also profiled in The Huffington Post as someone who “beat the glitches to sign up for Obamacare.” He was interviewed by Politico, multiple local news organizations, and, according to his Facebook feed, was asked to be part of a conference call hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Chad’s story was tweeted out by the official Obamacare Twitter feed. It was promoted to the media by Enroll America, a health-care activist group headed by a former White House communications staffer, as a sign of Obamacare’s success. Henderson told reporters at multiple news outlets that after a three-hour wait to sign up online, he enrolled around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning in an unsubsidized private insurance plan that would cost him about $175 a month. He also said that his father enrolled in separate coverage plan that would cost about $250 a month after factoring in the subsidies for which his father qualified on his approximately $24,000 annual income. (more…)

Yesterday we shared how POTUS was angry, and gave examples of his “stompy feet” mentality.   However, it’s gotten worse…. much worse.

President Obama gave an interview to CNBC (financial news) you must watch this video and recognize what he’s doing here.   He is intentionally talking down the stock market and the financial sector:

There are efforts to *hide* this video – so if you can’t play it on site GO HERE
We are traditionally programed to believe our President acts, and speaks, in the best interests of our nation.   Therefore it is jaw dropping to actually bear witness to a sitting U.S. President intentionally drumming up FEAR and ANXIETY. (more…)

By dictatorial fiat….

Obama's America… pic.twitter.com/P38BDsne5d

— Morgen Richmond (@morgenr) October 2, 2013

Ya know, I don’t think there is a more apropos reflection of this President is tarnishing the office he holds.

President Stompy Feet told Democrats to kill veterans funding, keep World War 2 Memorial closed so he doesn't lose face.
Angry yet?

— Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) October 2, 2013

https://twitter.com/SteveWorks4You/statuses/385197273929351168

****ACTION: List of Dems who voted NO to fund our Vets; Tweet Button included: http://t.co/GK6bNEqKLK h/t @SkiGarmisch #VoteForVets #tcot

— Rhonda Koenig (@Rhondako) October 2, 2013

(New York)  Sources tell FTVLive that CNN Boss Jeff Zucker is “actively looking for a replacement for Piers Morgan.”
Morgan signed a one year extension to his contract and as time winds down, Zucker is looking for someone to takeover his time slot.  Word is that Zucker really wants Katie Couric in that slot. Couric should be available soon as many expect this is the last year her talk show “Katie” will be on the air.
But, CNN sources tell FTVLive that Zucker is not putting all his eggs in the Couric basket. “He’s looking at other people besides Katie,” says our source.
Zucker might have learned a lesson (more…)