Posted on 10/02/2013 2:52:38 PM PDT by edwinland
McMurdo Station, Antarctica (AP) -- The Republican's shutdown of the US Federal Government claimed another casualty today when scientists announced that Antarctica will be closed until further notice.
Although the US government does not technically own the world's Southernmost land mass, scientists funded by Federal tax dollars have had a presence on the continent for over fifty years. And with the Federal government shut down, that means the base, and all of the land it sits on, must remain closed until a new budget resolution is passed.
"It seems harsh," said Dr. Will Moresby, director of McMurdo Station on the Southern tip of Ross Island, "but if we can't work, we can't ensure the safety of the visitors to Antarctica, so it will just have to remain closed until the budget impasse is resolved."
To enforce the closure, the US Navy is sending 11 destroyers to form a blockade of the continent, and landing troops on all ice shelves adjoining major tourist landing sites. "It's a major expense" said Chuck Hagel, the US Secretary of Defense, "but until the Republicans agree to stop their pointless posturing, this kind of necessary expense will continue to accrue."
Experts put the cost of the closure at over $500 million per day, which will be added to the already enormous US deficit caused by the Bush tax cuts.
Keep the federal government shut down until all that's left is the Constitution and our armed forced and maybe a few courts.
National Park Service spokesperson Carol Johnson, now free from her duties keeping vets out of the WWII memorial, was sent to Antarctica to personally insure it is indeed closed, and hopefully freeze her @ss off.
> Send her there so she can close it herself (Sheila Jacson)
One way ticket only. Harry Reid and Pelosi should assist...: )
Crikey! It’s getting dark! Did those dang Republicans shut down the sun too?
But look on the bright side. With the US shutdown that leaves the Chileans Russians, Australians and New Zealanders with bases down there which means that the freedom index just went up.
Penguins are up in arms as the blockades prohibit their yearly migration. The few remaining scientists are painting “it’s the republican’s fault” on a glacier slope. Meanwhile, park service officials are trying to figure out how to mount a snow fence around an icecap. Film at 11.
What’s to shut down? According to the globull warming crowd is was to have all melting away already! /s
You had me right up until the blockade :-)
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Exactly MY comment.....Great(?) minds think alike? <:
(I was ‘waiting’ to answer with word for word, but wasn’t going to use the ‘smile’)
Sort of ‘sad’ it was satire cause I had a line about how this maladministration has gotten to shut down a Continent, to really show Arrogance is really carried out etc ...
Arrogance along the lines of that idjit PEERCE MORRRRGAN and his constant berating of US and our policies etc.
He LEFT Jolly Old England to get away from what he is proposing for US......
Adorable in spite of the poor penguin .....
Disclaimer: No penguins were hurt in the creation of that gif. ;^)
brilliant!!
Thanks for that. Penguins rock.
“Why do you call it a REPUBLICAN shutdown when it is the Demorats who won’t compromise ?”
Exactly. The article is a parody of the way the press would cover such a ridiculous event. Look at the last line!
The best satire has it roots in reality...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3076467/posts
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