Shutdown Anomalies: NSA In, KKK and Hungry Kids Out, Pandas Dark, Pants Off

The moronic shutdown wrought by what one critic calls "a cabal of vandals...an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen and outright frauds" intent on breaking the government they're supposed to be running is proceeding with as much logic as the bogus process that got us here. Thus do we have the NSA working but FOIA requests not; gas and oil flowing but not WIC payments to hungry women and kids; TSA intact but clinical trials for kids with cancer halted; the panda cam shut down - bumming out many - and the KKK rally cancelled, bumming out nobody. With a Twitter protest #NoBudgetNoPants that makes as much sense as the shutdown. Elizabeth Warren tells it like it is. Update in Annals of Mind-Boggling Hypocrisy That Make Us Want to Throw Up: Ted Cruz is fear-mongering that the shutdown he orchestrated might lead to a terrorist attack so let's all work together. WTF?

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