Buffalo River Closure???

[prophet]

I think I can bring us all together now
http://drunkdialcongress.org/

[Canoe_Codger]

I think I can bring us all together now
http://drunkdialcongress.org/

I don't see a presidental option? And... NSA will have me in their database if I... oh noes!

[Deuce]

You're all correct except for one person. I won't say which (or is that who?). In any case, I thought I'd mention a couple of things. My good friend Paul Smith and I launched on the Eleven Point without incident last Saturday. The accesses were open for use with the ranger's blessing but of course the amenities (camping and restrooms) were off limits. Float camps were open and clean as a whistle, although we decided to camp on a gravel bar instead. That jewel is three hours from Little Rock and is open for business.

[Canoe_Codger]

BNR and other National Parks and memorials may well be reopened by this weekend. And Federal workers are slated to get full backpay for their two week vacation.

The Canadian software developer which built the single-payer system for that country, Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique (CGI), is working around the clock to patch together the wreckage of the Healthcare.gov website they spent years constructing. Hawaii also hired CGI and report 0 people signed up through the portal there.

A heads up though to Arkansans. The person who has been given Arkansas as a part of the territory his group will be PPACA navigator of is none other than Louisiana union boss, former founder of disbanded ACORN, Wade Rathke. Some of you may remember him from a few years back. Good luck friends.

Michael

[Yarbrough]

No winners here, just differing degrees of losing, Buffalo lovers being in that group. Nothing was stopped or gained. Looks like just more division. The Senator who started it is vowing "it ain't over". The House leader can't heard cats. The Presidents "won't negotiate" hard line did nothing to bring the country back together. No budget deal was reached. Worst of all it looks like we will go through this again in January.

In reality it wouldn't have mattered one way or another to Washington if the Buffalo was open during this debacle. It did however hurt us.

[hollohead]

I know that I have been critical of the BNR Rangers in past posts, but I wanted to give them some props about some things I learned. Apparently, there were people camping at Steele Creek during the shutdown, and the Rangers just gave them a pass. Also, plenty of people hiking the trails also being left alone. The only people they were messing with was if they caught you in the act of moving barricades, which I'm told, were all moved. If this is true, and it came from an on site source so it must be, I owe them a great big THANK YOU for not being part of the insanity of closing the river.

[Roger]

"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday ruled out shutting down the government in exchange for policy change in the near future, acknowledging Republicans erred when they employed the tactic in their fight against Obamacare.

“One of my favorite old Kentucky sayings is there’s no education in the second kick of a mule," McConnell told the Hill in an interview published Thursday. "The first kick of a mule was when we shut the government down in the mid 1990s and the second kick was over the last 16 days."


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[Canoe_Codger]

McConnell (R-KY) got a $2.9 Billion dollar pork project tucked into the bill for his trouble. Not exactly a "Clean CR".

[jermdog]

Man Jan Brewer XXXXX.
First few days off the furlough she said that the Grand Canyon wasn't that important to AZ, then after massive backlash she works hard for a week to get it re-opened? XXXXXX

Edited. Jermdog: Please review the guidelines.

[okieboater]

on the other hand, ole Jan listened to her people and reversed a decision. Something I wish a lot of political types would do.

Those government employees who were not essential will get back pay.

I seriously doubt AZ will get reimbursed.

Read some where that those military families with loved ones KIA that were taken care of by a wounded warrior type organization would not get reimbursed for the money they provided when the DOD would not live up to a contract they made to our military.

[Benji]

I got to read it before it was edited, too bad there isn't a "like"
button. Get em Jerm!