As much as people complain, I personally find entertainment value in a lot of these political wranglings. The 2000 Florida re-re-re-re-count was the best. How many generations get the watch a Presidential impeachment trial on TV? Seeing Obama win the Democrat nomination was a front row seat to history. I'll be honest and say I got choked up in 2009 when the Sargent of Arm of the House announced "Madam Speaker, The President of the United States" and seeing a black guy walk through the doors of the House chambers. And tonight, the Federal Government gets shut down. Anybody else think getting to see this history is entertaining o at least educational?
Trying to recall how many times I have seen this occur before I had to resort to some quick research ( knowing the gov. has shut down too many times for me to accurately say ) ... I found this will be the EIGHTEENTH time in THIRTY YEARS.....
Its akin to watching a re-run of "Gone With The Wind" for the eighteenth time... I already know the ending... nothing spectacular will happen again this time. :mrgreen:
Have a pleasant eve, Smeagol
Thom Paine
Post script: :doh oops.. to answer your question... entertaining in a way; educational in an entertaining way :roll:
I'll be up because I usually am at that time. Though I'm going to stay up to watch King of the Hill go dark from Netflix, it's gets taken off the service at midnight
I thought it was the second time, the first being in the 90s. Someone at work told me Tip O'Neil shut down the government 8 times in all, way before my time though.
You just listed non-events, not hostory. The moon landing was history. The Berlin wall comming down was history. The fall of the Soviet Empire was history.As much as people complain, I personally find entertainment value in a lot of these political wranglings. The 2000 Florida re-re-re-re-count was the best. How many generations get the watch a Presidential impeachment trial on TV? Seeing Obama win the Democrat nomination was a front row seat to history. I'll be honest and say I got choked up in 2009 when the Sargent of Arm of the House announced "Madam Speaker, The President of the United States" and seeing a black guy walk through the doors of the House chambers. And tonight, the Federal Government gets shut down. Anybody else think getting to see this history is entertaining or at least educational?
I thought it was the second time, the first being in the 90s. Someone at work told me Tip O'Neil shut down the government 8 times in all, way before my time though.
I ended up crashing but set my DVR to record 11pm to 1am. Lo and behlod, C-Span did not go off the air...and we all know why. C-Span is an essential government service and is unquestionably necessary for this county to operate!
I ended up crashing but set my DVR to record 11pm to 1am. Lo and behlod, C-Span did not go off the air...and we all know why. C-Span is an essential government service and is unquestionably necessary for this county to operate!
C-SPAN isn't a government operation, it's a private enterprise.
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This is the 17th time since 1976 that the federal government has shut down.
It's no biggie unless your one of the uninformed. It happens all of the time.
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Can someone answer a dumb question of mine? If the government operates on a fixed budgetary calender how is it that government shutdown 'start' dates can vary so much? Shouldn't they all start at roughly the same time and day when the previous years budgetary authorization runs out?
As much as people complain, I personally find entertainment value in a lot of these political wranglings. The 2000 Florida re-re-re-re-count was the best. How many generations get the watch a Presidential impeachment trial on TV? Seeing Obama win the Democrat nomination was a front row seat to history. I'll be honest and say I got choked up in 2009 when the Sargent of Arm of the House announced "Madam Speaker, The President of the United States" and seeing a black guy walk through the doors of the House chambers. And tonight, the Federal Government gets shut down. Anybody else think getting to see this history is entertaining or at least educational?
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