Yesterday’s shakeup of Washington DC and the surrounding federal quarters was – for most people – a pretty damn funny spectacle. At one point I read that the Pentagon was evacuated. The Pentagon! Those guys are supposed to be fucking warriors, not screaming queens.
Put it this way: San Fransisco handles these earth burps with more masculine pride than did the seat of the most powerful government on earth yesterday.
Today I wake up to an article from WaPo in my email. Lists of government buildings closed because of the quake.
U.S. Drug Administration
• Federal Aviation Administration (headquarters)
Department of Health and Human Services (Hubert Humphrey Building)
• Department of Labor (Frances Perkins Building)
• Independent U.S. Government Offices (National Building Museum)
• National Endowment for the Arts (Post Office Old)
• Department of Agriculture (Agriculture South)
• Department of Homeland Security (Nebraska Avenue Complex)
• Department of the Interior (headquarters)
• Department of Commerce (Building A)
• Office of the Secretary of Defense (One White Flint North)
• Department of Health & Human Services
• Archives
Tell me: Would the world notice if the National Endowment for the Arts closed and stayed closed? How about the Drug Administration, whose sole job is to suck huge buckets of cum out of Big Pharma in exchange for lining the pockets of pols? And why isn’t SecDef in the goddam Pentagon? What is with all these military types hiding out and closing down – is this what America has become?
Maybe I’ve been too deeply engrossed in Mark Steyn’s After America, but the way things are down there these days, I frankly look forward to the end with open arms.
I would like to also close a few more gubmint agencies:
Dept. of Education
Dept. of Energy
Dept. of Corporate Welfare
We are losing our Super Power status in favor of Sissy Pussy status.
Did “the market” really tick up while D.C. was closed?
Ditto, Ditto and Ditto on Pauly’s comment. I include the list of offices you list too. Pentagon, What does a country that has a constitution stating that the army is to be enacted to protect the borders and fight insurrectionist (I mean us homeboys)need with a Pentagon? So we can add the US Border Patrol to the list of closed offices. Cool, we just solved the nation debt.
I get the biggest kick out of the watching “ambulance chaser’s” on television going after the wonder drug that the FDA approved just 3 and 4 years ago. Another vicious circle created by the FDA to allow trial lawyers to jump in.