Friday, April 8, 2011

Its a good day for anarchists I guess?

image from NY Daily news
Its absolutely ridiculous that the United States Federal Government has gotten to this point that Congress cannot agree on a budget, resulting in a shutdown of all non-essential services until that happens.
As of me posting this, an agreement has not been made.


Some news about that:

If you have a work-issued blackberry, especially if you're one of those weirdos (who is a fed employee) who only uses their work cellphone... don't. -> http://gizmodo.com/#!5790399/federal-employees-could-face-jail-time-for-using-blackberrys


Average depiction of a federally funded research scientist


How the shutdown will affect science (deemed non-essential, good thing a committee is in charge of these decisions, phew!) -> http://gizmodo.com/#!5790332






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If you want to be taken seriously, get noticed (note: wait, not like this, idiots) -> http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/07/facebook-event-lets-dump-trash-at-boehners-pad/

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More "how it will effect you" links:

Wall Street -> http://blogs.forbes.com/afontevecchia/2011/04/08/how-a-government-shutdown-will-impact-wall-street-and-your-finances/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/government-shutdown-potential-furloughs-for-800000-federal-workers-disruption-of-dc-services/2011/04/06/AFRItOqC_story.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/05/federal-government-shutdown-2011_n_845164.html#s261490&title=Lost_Money
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A DC-area shutdown I am in full support of -> http://ca.news.yahoo.com/real-housewives-washington-d-c-axe-20110408-123719-878.html
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"the government should be in charge of building park benches and nothing else" -Jeremy Clarkson

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