MORE SHUTDOWN SLOWDOWN MADNESS:

Lord Obama closes privately-owned San Francisco restaurant. Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein, take note. The petty, vindictive wannabe dictator is punishing your constituents.

Lord Obama shuts down Amber alert website.

Lord Obama allows government union reps to work during shutdown.

On the bright ... well, less dim ... side, I didn't vote for that petty, vindictive, wannabe dictator.

PETTY, VINDICTIVE, WANNABE DICTATOR shows his mean streak ... again.

MONEY TALKS: Harvard says “thanks but no thanks” to fossil fuel divestment.

Maybe the solution is for the fossil fuels industry to divest themselves of Harvard.

And another question: What if academia's jihad against fossil fuels is successful? What happens to their endowments?

The glues that hold the Left together are rainbows, unicorns, and ... hypocrisy.

MORE SHUTDOWN THEATER: Lord Obama blocks roadside view of Mount Rushmore.

OBAMACARE: Government Medicine Is Politicized Medicine.

From the comments: "Having Obama as President is like having an 8 year colonoscopy." A truth that cannot be repeated too often.

SOME THOUGHTS from the National Mall:

[C]onsider the significance of the fact that a guard was present. That expense was being incurred, just as if the memorial were open; so why did it need to be closed? The difference was that instead of being there to provide security, the guard’s role was to chase away any visitors who were bold enough to ignore the signs and the yellow tape.

All of which is more evidence that the Obama administration is engaged in a massive charade to hype the damage allegedly done by the partial shutdown.

From the comments: "Pres'ent Obama". I like the sound of that 'honorific'.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Progressives & Power. It's about control; it's always about control.

BIG SURPRISE: California ObamaCare exchange slightly overstated website traffic. Missed it by only 775%.

MARK STEYN: Manning the Barrycades of punitive liberalism.

'Punitive liberalism' -- a perfect descriptor for Obama's governing philosophy. 'Barrycades' is also a nice descriptor, but I think 'Barackades' is better.

"WHY DON’T PEOPLE behave in more environmentally friendly ways? New research presents one uncomfortable answer: They don’t want to be associated with environmentalists."

And I doubt environmentalists will learn to bathe anytime soon....

WHAT A… COINCIDENCE: Dr. Ben Carson says he had an ‘encounter’ with the IRS after prayer breakfast speech.

YES, LET'S ALLOW these people to run our health care system. Charlie Martin explains.

Linked from Instapundit here.

BANANA SPLITS: "After two years of ObamaCare, that’ll also be the official cure for a hernia, a broken leg and a cerebral haemorrhage."

REMINDER: they did take Normandy.

HEH: Instapundit calls it 'Obamaha Beach'.