We went shopping all around Nashville yesterday. I started out with over half a tank of gas. When I got home it was less than a quarter tank. We are screwed.
I also noticed the post office wasn't open today or yesterday. I am scared.
Holy crap I better check and see if the Post Office is closed here too.
This is worse than I thought, and to think I was one of those deniers.
My postman didn't show up today and when I went to the donut shop this morning they all had their centers cut out. Now I'm afraid what I'll find when I go to the market.
Travel to a manufacturer for acceptance testing of a new measuring machine has been denied due to the restrictions on travel. This was required by the contract awarded.
Aircraft to be inducted for march have been postponed till further notice
Anything that costs more then $100 requires Department Head approval, anything over 3,000 requires CO/XO approval. I know that two jet engine test cells are down at this time due to having their parts denied for purchase.
End of the world as we know it.
Not even close to the end.
The CR is as close to the end for the Navy though.
The fact I can lose 20% of my salary this year is bad enough for me. The effect of the furlough will cause my area alone approximately 95 million for the year.
I wish I could take all 22 days at once, I can find something to supplement me. One day a week not really as easy.
I honestly am not understanding the furloughs.You call it optics, I call it intimidation.
The budget cuts are cuts in the rate of growth, not an actual cut in the budget.
I think that the furloughs are only being done to give the optics that this whole thing is super mega ginormous cuts.
It looks to me that civilian contractors and federal workers are being used in order for 0bama to be able to point at the repukes and say that they did this to you.
You call it optics, I call it intimidation.
I honestly am not understanding the furloughs.
The budget cuts are cuts in the rate of growth, not an actual cut in the budget.
I think that the furloughs are only being done to give the optics that this whole thing is super mega ginormous cuts.
It looks to me that civilian contractors and federal workers are being used in order for 0bama to be able to point at the repukes and say that they did this to you.
I have a high school classmate that retired from the Navy and was always very conservative. He now works for the SBA and he loves all things Obama in an "in the closet" sort of way. He is a huge defender of our big government now and he thinks we need to cut military spending. I think I need to kick his ass.
Forgive my ignorance, but are you claiming that 22 days of furlough is 20% of your pay?
When I got laid off in 2009, I was making about $70K per year. I found another job several months later making about $41K per year. I found a way to survive. I am confident that you will too.
Yes kick his ass
I honestly am not understanding the furloughs.
The budget cuts are cuts in the rate of growth, not an actual cut in the budget.
I think that the furloughs are only being done to give the optics that this whole thing is super mega ginormous cuts.
It looks to me that civilian contractors and federal workers are being used in order for 0bama to be able to point at the repukes and say that they did this to you.
Yes, the 22 days are 1day per week. That actually reduces my years salary by 20%. I will survive, though it may become difficult.
My prediction is by mid week some grand bargain will be reached and you won't miss any work.
I don't see that happening without a budget passed.
Uh you mean you guys aren't in the bunker? What's it like out there?
Locust? I can handle anything but locust. Give it to me straight.
You big baby--it's MA, there aren't any locusts out in early March in all that snow!!!!
But the fuel lines in all the planes at Logan Airport froze and the planes are falling out of the sky. But again, it's only liberals who are dying in fiery balls screaming like little bitches, so it's all good.
Uh you mean you guys aren't in the bunker? What's it like out there?
Locust? I can handle anything but locust. Give it to me straight.
The Bakers and Confectioners Union have applied to the government through the Trade Adjustment Assistance program and gotten many millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money to pay the union members to sit around on their backsides for up to two years and collect a check when it could have been avoided by working with the company.
So the country is going in the crapper but the Twinki Bakers union gets money from Obama ??????
http://plainsmannews.com/bakers-and-confectioners-unions-get-handout-from-obama-administrations-tra-p610-1.htm#
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022213-645487-bankrupting-hostess-brings-union-workers-government-benefits.htm
I guess the world is coming to an end at the hands of Barry.
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My prediction is by mid week some grand bargain will be reached and you won't miss any work.
There have been accounts of cannibalism breaking out in Madison but only in the wealthy, white liberal neighborhoods.
So, in other words, no great loss?Could end up being a net win.
Went from a high of 55 to a high of 85 from 24 hours. Is it global warming, or sequester? Hard to tell. I am scared.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays in customs waiting lines as a result of automatic federal spending cuts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday.Link (http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Gov-t-Budget-cuts-already-causing-airport-delays-4326037.php)
Ms Napolitano said today that major airports were seeing lines "150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect" as result of the federal spending cuts that went into force on Friday.Telegraph UK (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9908416/Airports-contradict-Janet-Napolitanos-sequester-claim.html)
"We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend," she told a breakfast event organised by Politico.
When pressed for specifics she cited Chicago's O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), adding: "I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform."
However, when contacted by The Daily Telegraph, spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry, denied that airports had been hit by delays.
"We haven't had any slowdowns at all," said Marshall Lowe, a spokesman for LAX. Mr Lowe said that he had been on duty over the weekend and received no reports of unusual security delays.
QuoteWASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays in customs waiting lines as a result of automatic federal spending cuts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday.Link (http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Gov-t-Budget-cuts-already-causing-airport-delays-4326037.php)
Ms Napolitano said today that major airports were seeing lines "150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect" as result of the federal spending cuts that went into force on Friday.
"We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend," she told a breakfast event organised by Politico.
When pressed for specifics she cited Chicago's O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), adding: "I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform."
However, when contacted by The Daily Telegraph, spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry, denied that airports had been hit by delays.
"We haven't had any slowdowns at all," said Marshall Lowe, a spokesman for LAX. Mr Lowe said that he had been on duty over the weekend and received no reports of unusual security delays.
Telegraph UK (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9908416/Airports-contradict-Janet-Napolitanos-sequester-claim.html)
Of course the KneePad media won't call her on this bullshit.
Forgive my ignorance, but are you claiming that 22 days of furlough is 20% of your pay?
When I got laid off in 2009, I was making about $70K per year. I found another job several months later making about $41K per year. I found a way to survive. I am confident that you will too.
The sequester shut off my alarm clock this morning. I was late for work. :mad:
The wind is blowing 20-40 mph outside, my cilantro almost died, AND the Dollar General closest to me CLOSED!!
:runaway: :ohnoes:
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just heard we are going to lose an hour on Sunday. This sequester has it our clocks folks.
The wind is blowing 20-40 mph outside, my cilantro almost died, AND the Dollar General closest to me CLOSED!!
:runaway: :ohnoes:
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just heard we are going to lose an hour on Sunday. This sequester has hit our clocks folks.
I heard Baskin Robbins is cutting down from 31 flavors to 30.
I just had an Everlasting Gobstopper, and it didn't last forever. :mad:
I had to look that up. :lmao:
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THE SEQUESTER keeps stealing socks from my dryer!! :rant:
THE SEQUESTER keeps stealing socks from my dryer!! :rant:
You think that's bad sequester snapped the belt on my dryer. Now I have to buy a new belt and put it in.
Buy what new belt? You don't honestly believe that dryer belt factory #12 is still functioning now that government is deep in the throes of sequester, do you?
(Damn, it's hard to post all this with a straight face.)
Buy what new belt? You don't honestly believe that dryer belt factory #12 is still functioning now that government is deep in the throes of sequester, do you?
(Damn, it's hard to post all this with a straight face.)
True since Home Depot must certainly be closed now. Anyone have a 92 and a quarter inch by 1/4 dryer belt they can sell me?
You think that's bad, they turned the sun down a few notches so you can't even hang your clothes out to dry.
Yes, the 22 days are 1day per week. That actually reduces my years salary by 20%. I will survive, though it may become difficult.
I've noticed that too! We had lovely sunshine on Sunday and Monday, but the sequester has caught up with us now. The sun has been turned down significantly up here near the Puget Sound :bawl:d
The sequester killed Chavez.Dammit, you beat me to it. :-)
My daughter is a DoD civilian...her mandatory "time off" starting in April is one unpaid day a week through September. Not sure if she can use accumulated leave and/or sick days to reinstate them to paid time off though. :???:
If not, she may well end up back home with us for awhile, although at least she's not a dumbass kid who's gonna be staring at her Obumbles posters on the wall. :whatever:
I am still thinking that there is going to be some grand bargain. Just because the repukes haven't caved doesnt mean they won't.
I am still thinking that there is going to be some grand bargain. Just because the repukes haven't caved doesnt mean they won't.
I still can't see how @2% cut in the increase of funding calls for a decrease of 20% in spending. :mental:
I still can't see how @2% cut in the increase of funding calls for a decrease of 20% in spending. :mental:
Take away hours and you get a 20% reduction.
Well looks like Obama shut down tours of the White House because of the sequester - he's sharing in the sacrafice.:rotf: That hit him where it hurts.
Now Rep Olmert has decided to do his part and told Obama that they would no longer fund his trips to the golf course until he opened the tours back up.
:lmao:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/05/congressman-no-golf-trips-for-obama-until-white-house-tours-resume-video/
Well looks like Obama shut down tours of the White House because of the sequester - he's sharing in the sacrafice.
Now Rep Olmert has decided to do his part and told Obama that they would no longer fund his trips to the golf course until he opened the tours back up.
:lmao:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/05/congressman-no-golf-trips-for-obama-until-white-house-tours-resume-video/
The bunnies, gyrfalcons, ermines, magpies, and ground squirrels are building up their military.They're going to have a hell of a time doing that without opposable thumbs.
I wish we could ground Air Force one until a budget is passed. I imagine if we did that he would be on the horn with Harry Reid demanding a budget right away.
Well looks like Obama shut down tours of the White House because of the sequester - he's sharing in the sacrafice.
Now Rep Olmert has decided to do his part and told Obama that they would no longer fund his trips to the golf course until he opened the tours back up.
:lmao:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/05/congressman-no-golf-trips-for-obama-until-white-house-tours-resume-video/
Dammit, you beat me to it. :-)
Now take away the helicopters to Camp David, the limos, Secret Service and confine his ass to the Whitehouse and we'll get some real compromise. Being couped up in the Whitehouse with Moochelle and the bitter maw-in-law will cause him to accept anything to get out of there.
**** you, sequester, and damn you all to hell. :bird: :argh: My husband just got a job.
:-)
I got a recent mail advertisement for strawberry plants 99 cents a piece at Ace Hardware. When I went to Ace this afternoon they didn't have any strawberry plants. Clearly the sequester is responsible :bird:
Damn you sequester.....wife didn't buy any junk food this trip.
The sequester ate all my Oreo cookies.
I understand that the sequester was not the apocalypse that O promised it would be, and making fun of it highlights his obvious demagoguery. However, please keep in mind that some of us on this board ARE feeling the pain, from Army and Air Force training budgets getting slashed resulting in no Aircraft to jump out of, to Tuition Assistance being cut off COMPLETELY, to Crazy Horse getting furloughed (this is not meant to be all-inclusive, btw). Remember that the people who swore to uphold and defend the Constitution are being punished more than anyone else.
That is the reason why I think Barry wanted this. He wanted to hurt the military. I mock the sequester because I think we need some comic relief. In no way do I intend to make light of what is happening to the military. I am mocking his end of times predictions.
That is the reason why I think Barry wanted this. He wanted to hurt the military. I mock the sequester because I think we need some comic relief. In no way do I intend to make light of what is happening to the military. I am mocking his end of times predictions.
Just got an email that all federal tuition assistance for the National Guard has been suspended.
It won't effect me but as professional soldiers are perpetual students a lot of people are now furiously pissed.
Doc, what Freeper said. I apologize from the bottom of my heart if any of my mockery seemed insensitive to any active/retired military. I can assure you that was not my intent.
Doc, what Freeper said. I apologize from the bottom of my heart if any of my mockery seemed insensitive to any active/retired military. I can assure you that was not my intent.
No apologies necessary from anyone. It's more an observation of the disconnect between American society and the American military at this point. OUR world is crashing and burning, life goes on for you.
I agree that O and his demagogue tour can't be allowed to stand, and mockery and ridicule make effective weapons.
I don't understand how this sequester works. If they are cutting the increase, how does that affect anything? They are still going to get more money this year than they had last year.
What am I missing?
I don't understand how this sequester works. If they are cutting the increase, how does that affect anything? They are still going to get more money this year than they had last year.
What am I missing?
I have the same question.
The only explanation I can think of is they are doing all this in order to make it hurt people. Or our information is wrong and theses are actual reductions.
Dual purpose: hurt the military and hurt people individually who likely are not friendly to him(know many more conservs then libs even in the civ. DOD world)
but I mentioned this before and a couple weeks ago really don't think I was taken seriously, but that's still my position.
For Obama, this isn't about reducing spending... it's intimidation, plain and simple. "Do what I say or else."
I took you seriously, JTY, and all the others, too. I guess I just didn't know what to say. I feel utterly helpless in the face of being screwed by my government. The only Reps I have are Dem. They disregard me completely.
I'm confused who wasn't taking you seriously?
I have the same question.
The only explanation I can think of is they are doing all this in order to make it hurt people. Or our information is wrong and theses are actual reductions.
I am really quite shaken over what I see potentially coming down the pike putting aside my own short term family concerns. I guess everyone in history has sat a little shell shocked when they realized they are a part of a dark time in history; that's where I'm at. I miss the 80's and Reagan :bawl:
Take heart....half the country didn't vote for Obama. If he keeps his scorch and burn policies in effect, even some of his worshipers will get scared too and finally open their eyes.
I can't help but bring up Rand Paul's filibuster here. One of our biggest problems is we don't have any real leadership right now and the media never says anything about conservative views outside of trying to make us look bad. Rand wanted a question about Obama having the authority to use drones on American citizens answered. He was ignored as a sitting Senator. When Holder finally did answer Rand (after a threat to filibuster) Holder said he felt that Obama did have the authority. Well, that's when Rand went to the floor of the Senate and started the filibuster. If he had not done that, would the American people even know about the drone policy? The media wouldn't have reported it, but they didn't have a choice after Rand made a spectacle of it. Just like fast and furious and Benghazi gate. How many Americans really know what happened there and how Holder and Obama have been hiding and blocking information from those in position to have oversight?
It's like we have no real leadership or a strong voice, a unified message or anyway for it to be heard and taken seriously. But I'm hoping Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Rubio, Olmert and others follow their courage to speak up and to get out there and fight. Graham and McCain be dammned.
You mentioned Reagan. Read his 1975 C-Pac speech after the loss to Jimmy Carter. It could have been written today.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/excerpts-from-ronald-reagans-1975-speech-to-cpac/
Take heart....half the country didn't vote for Obama. If he keeps his scorch and burn policies in effect, even some of his worshipers will get scared too and finally open their eyes.
I can't help but bring up Rand Paul's filibuster here. One of our biggest problems is we don't have any real leadership right now and the media never says anything about conservative views outside of trying to make us look bad. Rand wanted a question about Obama having the authority to use drones on American citizens answered. He was ignored as a sitting Senator. When Holder finally did answer Rand (after a threat to filibuster) Holder said he felt that Obama did have the authority. Well, that's when Rand went to the floor of the Senate and started the filibuster. If he had not done that, would the American people even know about the drone policy? The media wouldn't have reported it, but they didn't have a choice after Rand made a spectacle of it. Just like fast and furious and Benghazi gate. How many Americans really know what happened there and how Holder and Obama have been hiding and blocking information from those in position to have oversight?
It's like we have no real leadership or a strong voice, a unified message or anyway for it to be heard and taken seriously. But I'm hoping Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Rubio, Olmert and others follow their courage to speak up and to get out there and fight. Graham and McCain be dammned.
You mentioned Reagan. Read his 1975 C-Pac speech after the loss to Jimmy Carter. It could have been written today.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/excerpts-from-ronald-reagans-1975-speech-to-cpac/
]The low information voter still doesn't have a clue about the drone bullshit, and it is bullshit because for a smart guy, Holder doesn't know how to write a letter that makes it clear that ENEMY COMBATANTS are legal targets for the president no matter where they are -- in the country or outside the country.
So your okay with Obama using drones inside the U.S.? Even knowing this Administration has enemy lists with mostly conservative groups including vets, preppers, anti-abortionists, anti-illegal immigration, pro-10th amendment supporters?
So your okay with Obama using drones inside the U.S.? Even knowing this Administration has enemy lists with mostly conservative groups including vets, preppers, anti-abortionists, anti-illegal immigration, pro-10th amendment supporters?
Earlier I was joking about the sequester and my dryer belt. Well guess what there is not a single place in this whole freaking town that sells dryer belts. You have to order the damn things either online or through the store.
There's a place near me that sells hoses, belts and bearings. They stock almost everything for belts used residentially.
Is it some type of S & M shop????There's one of those in my neighborhood.
There's one of those in my neighborhood.
Their display window is, um... interesting.