It's no "oh no, now I will have to wait even longer at the airport", but if a House Republican ends up getting eaten by a bear don't come crying to me. Due to ongoing sequestration, Wisconsin's Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is having to close some islands to campers and other visitors after a local bear, or multiple local bears, launched a
newly emboldened food-stealing campaign:
As National Parks Traveler noted, the Lakeshore last year hired a seasonal ranger who, among other duties, focused on keeping bears and people apart and educating the people on storing food away from the animals.
"Because he was a seasonal, he didn't have all the collateral duties that the regular park rangers had, so he spent all his time in the field," Krumenaker told National Parks Traveler, adding that with an extra employee, officials this year could have "been more on top of the trends in the campgrounds and would have been able to get on top of this more quickly."
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2012—More from the mind of Rep. Joe Walsh:
This notion—that feeding poor people is more damaging than telling them to just go to hell already—seems to be even more common with the new tea party-endorsed crowd than it ever was with past Republican incarnations. I suppose it fits: If taxed enough already was the tea party motto, implicit in that is the premise that every bit of the country not personally represented by the space between their own ears can, well, go to hell. We always had Republican grumbling about supposed welfare queens, poor Americans living glamourous lives on the pitiful amounts of money government might provide them, but the premise now is that even dirt-poor Americans who live like dirt-poor Americans don't deserve assistance. Forget being a welfare "queen": Even if you're legitimately poor and desperately hungry, you don't deserve help. You don't even deserve to eat. Starving to death builds character. |
Tweet of the Day:
Between Facebook and the U.S. Senate, the word "friend" has lost all meaning.
— @ktumulty
On today's
Kagro in the Morning show, the nuclear option came and went during the course of the show, so we set that up & explain it away.
Greg Dworkin rounded up the nuclear option drama, the thief caught in Michele Bachmann's office, Zimmerman, Martin & B37, Republicans vs. the polls, Jenny McCarthy's move to ABC's "The View," and a little more about the Brookings essay, "The Promise."
Armando joined in on whether Florida's shoot first law did or didn't have anything to do with the outcome of the trial, and then to set up and knock down the nuclear option. Finally, a word on JLo's habit of putting on private shows for dictators, crooks and oligarchs. We'll try and make it "deep." Promise!
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