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Another Science Facility Bites the Dust, Temporarily
An anonymous reader writes "Today, the latest victim of the U.S. government shutdown, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
shut its doors and essentially mothballed all three of its radio
telescope facilities: the Very Large
Array or VLA (think Jodie Foster, Contact); the Green Bank
Telescope, and the Very Long
Baseline Array or VLBA. While the ALMA telescope is not yet
affected (mainly due to it being run by a consortium of European,
Japanese, Chilean and U.S. organizations), the U.S. funds for that will soon
also dry up. Not only does this furlough most of the ~550 employees, it has also
thrown a monkey wrench into many long-term carefully planned observations
(to the tune of wasting half a million dollars and a year's worth of
work). Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society also has a commentary
on the closure — and a plea to 'stop the madness.'"
It's quite simple; Obama wants to WASTE as much money as he can, to teach all of us rebellious scum the penalty for "lese majeste". It is not, quite yet, legal for him to have us drawn and quartered for daring to question the Emperor, but he's working on it.
The National Park Service alone is running up enormous bills just for the rental of his Barry-cades that they're using to block access to open fields. Or to privately owned restaurants. The NPS Barry-caded the turn-around circle outside of Mount Vernon. (They tried to close Mount Vernon itself, but the government doesn't own that!) They're Barry-cading "scenic lookouts" in the Blue Ridge mountains. I'm sure the NPS has no use whatsoever for the money that the Cliff House in San Francisco pays for rent....
It's simple ..... no, it's quite a COMPLEX case of spite and hate for all Americans. If I wasn't quite certain that he'd been born in Hawaii, I might start believing the Birther claims that he was born elsewhere!
My question is, if Obamacare survives and if there's a miracle and it actually works, what prevents the NEXT Emperor-Wannabe from closing all the hospitals during the next budget crisis?