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The government shutdown will temporarily slash the staffs and operations of every “nonessential” federal program — which, as you can imagine, adds up to a whole lot of programs. There are the ones you know about, like the national parks and the panda cam. Then there’s everything else.....

The RantNuke 'em 'till they glow and then shoot 'em in the dark By DOUG THOMPSON Feb 5, 2003, 13:23 OK. I’m convinced. Warm up the B-52s, fire up the Stealths, unleash the smart bombs. Time to nuke Iraq until it glows and then shoot Saddam in the dark.Using the massive snooping capabilities of the National Security Agency, whose recorders could hear a fly fart from 2,000 miles away, Powell laid out the long-awaited evidence that Saddam and his goons are moving his weapons of mass destruction out of sight just before the United Nations weapons inspectors show up.It’s a...