United States Federal Government Shut-Down

ABC is reporting that a female suspect has been killed.

 

Female shooter! I didn't see that coming.

She wasn't very smart. She tried to ram a White House gate with her car. Well, you know no ordinary car is going to get through one of those. Then she apparently took off down Pennsylvania Avenue (did anybody get footage of the chase?) and took the easy left onto Constitution. Another brain-dead move. That's an extremely secure area. The shootout was between First and Second streets, only a block away from the headquarters of the Capitol Police! She must have been from out of town.

I've seen footage of a wounded police officer on a stretcher, but nothing else on the suspect.

 

That is what ABC's twitter feed is reporting. Haven't seen it confirmed anywhere else.

 

Now CNN is reporting that the female is wounded, and that there was a child in the car.

 

Local news (WJLA) is apparently corroborating that a female suspect was shot and killed, along with a child being in the car.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/shots-fired-capitol-hill-97808.html?hp=t1

 

Considering the fact that women are almost never involved in violent crimes of this kind, I find it extremely ironic that the shootout took place right beside the Sewall-Belmont House (http://www.sewallbelmont.org/), an important historic site in the national women's rights movement. It's also very close to the site of a building where women's suffrage protesters were imprisoned for many months in the late 1800's, under inhumane conditions. There is nothing left of that building except the front steps and a historical marker along the sidewalk. I remember walking past it earlier this year.

Obviously, this isn't the kind of equality we need.

Even though there is no evidence that this woman was operating as a part of an organized group, I think it's still a timely reminder that the public's patience is not infinite.

 

Yeah, we have no idea as to this woman's motive at all. It could be completely unrelated to the shutdown for all we know.

 

Mental instability is likely to be a factor. She didn't have a plan that had any reasonable chance of accomplishing anything. I'm glad that the child is okay.

 

Yeah, the fact that a child was in the car, to me, points to a sudden mental break.

 

The car license plates are from Connecticut. I wonder how long she had been on the road.

Now, NBC is reporting that no gun was found on her, or in her car.

Another point of irony: The police officers who did whatever it took to stop this car, not knowing if it was going to be a suicide car bomb attempt or whatever, don't know if they will ever get a paycheck for this week's work.

 

Uh yea. Like I said, every single person I knew at the Canyon is getting hit in a big way (Same with Yellowstone but luckily most of the ppl I knew there weren't staying there for too long). Since it's pretty much in the middle of nowhere everyone there has been forced out of their homes with nowhere to go and if this continues for a long time they will have to give up and relocated entirely, probably back home (for the few that are lucky enough to have a home). Not to mention, the town Tusayan, by the canyon depends on the traffic. I know for a fact most of them are piss poor. If this goes on for long, they are really, really fucked. I don't want to think what people like that will do when desperate.

The ignorance and lack of compassion here is astounding. A simple google search would have shown the vast reaching consequences (not even including this one) of this action.

 

Both central Florida and the feds need to evaluate the cost effectiveness of NASA. Given current conditions exploring life on uranus possibly should be curtailed. To me , this is the purpose of the shutdown. Taxation/Revenue Sharing is doomed from the start. A FLAT TAX is imminent. We just can't afford obamunism.

 

The shutdown horror stories continue to accumulate, with no end in sight. A woman in New Mexico recently lost her husband. He was a firefighter, working for the federal government to fight recent wildfires out west. Because of the shutdown, the life insurance benefits she is entitled to receive have been delayed, and she only has enough money to get by for a few more weeks. The federal employees she needs to contact about this have been laid off.

For those who say everyone who receives government money is a deadbeat or a terrible person, tell me what this woman and her late husband did wrong.

 

assumed the government would stand by their promises?

 

Thank-you Mr. Voyage. Live by the guvmint ; die by the guvmint. No Thanks. Don't deal with the devil.

 

Yeah, since I wrote my post I thought more about all the people it does effect (and heard more-learned more about what all it does effect...the clinical trials and stuff like that...), so, yeah, it does suck for a good bit of people.

 

Congress may be retarded but they get a 72% subsidy for their oby care. Can you and I get that? That's what I thought. Shut the bastards down!!!!!!