Despite shutdown, USS Arizona to reopen... kind of

KITV News ABC ^ | 7:13 PM HST Oct 03, 2013 | Justin Fujioka

[WhiskeyX]

It wwould be interesting to know precisely when the carefully printedd sign giving notification of the closure of the memorial was made?

[real saxophonist]

I have received word from the U.S. Marine Band (The President’s Own)that they’ve cancelled their whole Midwest Tour, due to Sequestration, and cancelled several local D.C. area concerts, due to the government shutdown.

[Tax-chick]

Maybe they could go serenade the President until he turns himself in to the authorities. Something similar worked on Noriega in Panama ...

[JRandomFreeper]

They could play Barry Manilow...

/johnny

[Tax-chick]

Or Queen.

[WhiskeyX]

The National Cemeteries are being affected as well. Families with activities at the national Cemetery of the Pacific Punchbowl are being denied access otthe services of the cemetery.

[real saxophonist]

I'll be glad to do it. Look at the picture on my homepage.

Blue Angels and Thunderbirds are all cancelled. My dad was a WWII vet. The Arizona, WWII memorial in Washington, all this crap better stop.

[skeeter]

But everyone with an Obamaphone gets their monthly minutes without fail.

[Former Fetus]

My thought exactly when I saw the signs used in NYC, with the Statue of Liberty as background!

[Tax-chick]

My father is a Vietnam veteran, 2x. Nice picture! I’d throw in three kids with guitars and one with a ukulele.

[dfwgator]

Despite shutdown, USS Arizona to reopen... kind of

That would be news, since it's been on the ocean floor for the last 70 years.

Now the USS Arizona Memorial, that's another kettle of fish.

[Cyber Liberty]

...all this crap better stop.

It's not going to stop. The Republicans are getting all the blame. The "Republicans" on Meet the Press agreed it was their fault. As of one week in, the Rats and Obastard are winning this.

[fella]

“I have received word from the U.S. Marine Band (The President’s Own)that they’ve cancelled their whole Midwest Tour, due to Sequestration, and cancelled several local D.C. area concerts, due to the government shutdown.”

They get paid just as much sitting in the barracks as they would to march to somewhere in D.C., play and then march back. Or in D.C. is traveling on foot and unarmed to dangerous?

[Old Sarge]

It wwould be interesting to know precisely when the carefully printedd sign giving notification of the closure of the memorial was made?

The signs and the Barry-cades all had to be pre-made, and pre-positioned for use.

That alone says the shutdown was a foregone conclusion (IOW, scripted).

[real saxophonist]

I tell you what, man, the Marine Barracks at 8th and I is in a scary part of town.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This does not bode well for Obama. The USS Arizona Memorial is the closest thing America has to truly sacred ground. It is as serious or even more serious than the Vietnam Memorial.

For him to order these places closed for petty political reasons, because he is having a temper tantrum, will create generations of people that will despise him. And hopefully to despise his vindictive political party as well.

[real saxophonist]

Didn't mean to hijack your thread, and I agree about when were the signs printed, but just all this, USS Arizona, Marine Band, it's all Obama spitting in everybody's face.

And I don't particularly care to be treated that way.

[WhiskeyX]

That is my strong suspicion, but it requires evidence.

[Glenmore]

“I don’t particularly care to be treated that way.”

Me either. But are we going to actually DO anything about it? Doesn’t look like it. A few random acts of civil disobedience by a few 90-year-olds, and short-lived refusals to comply by a few small businesses just aren’t going to cut it. Irate blog comments by a handful won’t either. Most Americans either agree with Zero that it’s the fault of the evil, stupid Republicans, or they just don’t care.

[Alas Babylon!]

How about Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood or It's Raining Men by the Weathergirls. Maybe a little Judy Garland...

But I'm sure Obama would like that.