US government shutdown hilarity

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well given the historical links between right-libertarians and other extreme right movements, the chances of it going that way are almost a certainty.

I've been saying this for a while.  Basically, we're staring down the barrel of flat-out authoritarianism, possibly in the form of a military coup or at least an "interruption of normal service".

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Oct 2013: US defaults, nobody notices for a while.
Dec 2013: Hey, why are all the Xmas presents I was going to buy my kid this year so ungodly expensive?
Jan 2014: Holy shit, we can't buy milk and bread! WTF Guise?
Mar 2014: Fuck this, I'mma go burn down some shit.
Apr 2014: Oh yeah, they have tanks. Shit.

And so it was that the Great Experiment dissolved into what proved, ultimately, to be another painfully predictable Human pattern of violence, horror, and suppression. Thankfully, a full-scale World War was avoided, on account of the entire rest of the planet being doubled over with fits of uncontrollable laughter.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Seems people are getting salmonella from uninspected food.

Only the beginning. Think I'll go outside and watch everything crumble.

[Cain]

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[tyrannosaurus vex]

So the present struggle isn't so much over whether we want a dictator, but rather what kind of dictator we want?

Jesus.

[Cain]

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Seems people are getting salmonella from uninspected food.

Only the beginning. Think I'll go outside and watch everything crumble.

Just a side note; food is almost never inspected. The USDA hasn't had adequate inspectors for decades, so what happens instead is that there are outbreaks which spread unchecked until the CDC tracks down the source and issues a recall. Food safety has been on the decline for years now, and it's only getting worse, with deadlier strains of both viruses and bacteria emerging from feedlot conditions and farming practices.

Addressing that, of course, is part of the whole "sustainable farming" movement that people so like to pooh-pooh.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Seems people are getting salmonella from uninspected food.

Only the beginning. Think I'll go outside and watch everything crumble.

Just a side note; food is almost never inspected. The USDA hasn't had adequate inspectors for decades, so what happens instead is that there are outbreaks which spread unchecked until the CDC tracks down the source and issues a recall. Food safety has been on the decline for years now, and it's only getting worse, with deadlier strains of both viruses and bacteria emerging from feedlot conditions and farming practices.

Addressing that, of course, is part of the whole "sustainable farming" movement that people so like to pooh-pooh.

In this case, the number of inspectors was reduced from 80 to 1.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Seems people are getting salmonella from uninspected food.

Only the beginning. Think I'll go outside and watch everything crumble.

Just a side note; food is almost never inspected. The USDA hasn't had adequate inspectors for decades, so what happens instead is that there are outbreaks which spread unchecked until the CDC tracks down the source and issues a recall. Food safety has been on the decline for years now, and it's only getting worse, with deadlier strains of both viruses and bacteria emerging from feedlot conditions and farming practices.

Addressing that, of course, is part of the whole "sustainable farming" movement that people so like to pooh-pooh.

In this case, the number of inspectors was reduced from 80 to 1.

And that guy is basically the state-appointed scapegoat. Salmonella outbreak? INSPECTOR'S NOT DOING HIS JOB! 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Seems people are getting salmonella from uninspected food.

Only the beginning. Think I'll go outside and watch everything crumble.

Just a side note; food is almost never inspected. The USDA hasn't had adequate inspectors for decades, so what happens instead is that there are outbreaks which spread unchecked until the CDC tracks down the source and issues a recall. Food safety has been on the decline for years now, and it's only getting worse, with deadlier strains of both viruses and bacteria emerging from feedlot conditions and farming practices.

Addressing that, of course, is part of the whole "sustainable farming" movement that people so like to pooh-pooh.

In this case, the number of inspectors was reduced from 80 to 1.

And that guy is basically the state-appointed scapegoat. Salmonella outbreak? INSPECTOR'S NOT DOING HIS JOB! 

According to the radio this morning, the other 79 inspectors assigned to Foster Farms were quietly returned to work.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Note that there was no mention of inspectors being returned to other corporate farms.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Note that there was no mention of inspectors being returned to other corporate farms.

I'm sure they weren't.

[Cain]

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[The Good Reverend Roger]

The funny bit about this is that Obama has no say in anything yet, until a bill passes the house and the senate.  So if they were serious, they'd be talking to Reid.

[Cain]

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