The Government Shutdown Countdown Lowdown MEGATHREAD

[The Brain]

How can you tell if the US government shuts down?

[garbon]

If a person doesn't know by now what could happen with a government shutdown, they don't care to know.

Since there is never going to be a "government shutdown" that's moot.

If a person doesn't understand what the parts of the government and its services are part of a partial government shutdown, they will learn.  Whether they care or not I will leave to your amazing powers of telling people what they care about.

Old people say the darnedest things.

[Razgovory]

If a person doesn't know by now what could happen with a government shutdown, they don't care to know.

Since there is never going to be a "government shutdown" that's moot.

If a person doesn't understand what the parts of the government and its services are part of a partial government shutdown, they will learn.  Whether they care or not I will leave to your amazing powers of telling people what they care about.

Grumbler was saying something similar when the Visigoths were coming up on Rome.

[grumbler]

How can you tell if the US government shuts down?

You'll notice the "Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"

[Barrister]

How can you tell if the US government shuts down?

You'll notice the "Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"

Whatever you say Dr. Venkman.

[The Brain]

How can you tell if the US government shuts down?

You'll notice the "Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"

I guess we should have reduced our carbon footprints.

[Eddie Teach]

I guess we should have reduced our carbon footprints.

Are you trying to set up a Katmai = Sasquatch joke?

[The Brain]

I guess we should have reduced our carbon footprints.

Are you trying to set up a Katmai = Sasquatch joke?

No.

[grumbler]

Old people say the darnedest things.

I've noticed that about you.  You weren't so cranky before you got old.

[garbon]

I'm a lot mellower now.

[grumbler]

I'm a lot mellower now.

Cranky and delusional.  Not a good combination, old man. 

[Zanza]

So once you fixed this, the next debt ceiling is coming up?

[Admiral Yi]

So once you fixed this, the next debt ceiling is coming up?

Yup.

[Jacob]

It's turning into one of those old school serials.

WILL THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS DESTROY THE US ECONOMY AND DRAG THE WORLD INTO RUIN THIS TIME? -- TUNE IN NEXT WEEK TO FIND OUT!

[Sheilbh]

I agreed with Rupert Murdoch's tweets:
Are Republicans self-destructing just when Obama at his weakest? Partial govt shut-down small issue compared to possible default.
Cruz' grandstanding will cost him long-term, smarter Rand Paul silent. Meanwhile# both sides seem incapable of political deal making.

And with David Frum that it looks like a lot of Congressional Republicans are getting into a fight that they think will end badly, but they're still going for it