Nilibuster?
Those on Mt. Doofus in the domed building are farting thunderbolts in our general direction. Us lowly pawns are down here in the dirt with no national parks or panda cams or mortgage processing or Mars rover activity will just have to suck it up and watch the shutdown porn on the TV.
The POTUS made a nice speech. Well it was sort of boring. He should have thrown some terriers and hostile allies and arsonists in there. Something we can all hold onto and repeat while we go about our drudgery with no gubmintzes. Make the pie higher!
Meanwhile back at the healthcare.state site, there is no going forward past a certain window. Says: "No Updates". I will try again and see if I am incredibly stupid or they are waiting for business hours.
News from the real estate world: The government has drawn new flood maps. something something global warming, sea rise, bad weather patterns, higher flood insurance premiums or no coverage after bean counters crunched the data on hurricane Sandy.
Rain tax: really dumb. srsly? rain tax? I live in a watershed, I thought that was the point, the whole point. I may just cut down all of my trees and plaster the yard with a huge solar array, the trees are messy anyway. Then I'll take all my runoff and sluice it through a hydroturbine.
While we're witnessing the artificial craptacularfest in the Capitol, Fukushima is worse than ten Chernobyls and nobody has a clue how to deal with it. Radiation is wafting throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Fun times. Time to find a non-flooding high altitude abode in South America I guess. I really don't care for quinoa.
Off to sharpen my pitchfork........