Navy-Air Force Academy game cancelled by shutdown
Country Singer sends us a link from Ace of Spades who claims that despite the fact that service academy games are fully self-sufficient, the Department of Defense have suspended the series due to the government shutdown. From the Capital Gazette;
The Naval Academy Athletic Association is a private organization not funded by the government. Gladchuk said the Air Force-Navy game could be held without any “appropriated funding.” Air Force recently created a similar athletic association that operates using private funds, donations and revenue from intercollegiate contests.
“We could run our entire athletics program and conduct events as we always do without any government funds,” Gladchuk said. “In talking to the Air Force athletic director, their football team could execute the trip without government funding.”
Asked why the Department of Defense was suspending intercollegiate athletic contests if government funds are not required, Gladchuk said he was told it was about “optics.”
“It’s a perception thing. Apparently it doesn’t resonate with all the other government agencies that have been shut down,” Gladchuk said.
I’m also reading that some parks that happen to be on Federal land, but entirely funded privately are also forced to be closed.
I guess shutting down the government isn’t painful enough on it’s own, they have to make shit up.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
It’s all bullsh*t from the administration. United Airlines even offered to fly the USAFA out to Annapolis for free. http://consumerist.com/2013/10/02/united-airlines-offers-to-fly-air-force-football-team-to-play-naval-academy/
“All about the optics” – form over function, perception over actually doing something…. what a sad encapsulation of our government today.
Make no mistake, B. Hussein 0bama & Co. are making everyone they can as miserable as they can with their mega-hissyfit!!
Yea? Well, heres a funny piece of news then. Erick Holding his dick in hand wasn’t able to attend a service for one of the civil rights activists down here in the ATL, because…FBI agents tasked with clearing the venue are on furlough. Isn’t that just fucking special.
ESPN reports this weekend’s games are back on pending Hagel’s approval.
Anyone else getting the feeling that the DoD could use a good run through with the ol’ pitchfork and torch type crew?
This order, apparently, came from “the DoD”. Clean out the coffee hooks, politicals, brain dead bureaucrats, etc and so on and make room for actual warfighters.
Since Hagel is Baracka’s butt-boy, I wouldn’t be looking for approval from him.
It’s a good thing that veterans are not required to salute this panty waisted, girly man of a CinC. Hell would get very cold before this old vet ever saluted him. He makes me sick.
Fox News just reported all games will be played.
Is it my imagination (or wishful thinking) that folks are not accepting the excuses as graciously these days?
And what optic is it to which they object? The one about things getting done without government subsidy perhaps?
Looks like someone will miss out on the Liberty Bowl.
OWB, it is NOT wishful thinking on your part. The angry repartee and disgust are viewable at various Twitter spots.
But, man, am I going to satirize this asinine crap in print. Oh, yeah!
This is a political gold mine, too bad our GOP masters haven’t either the brains or spine to mine it properly.
The administration is screwing people over under the cover of the shutdown. It’s so obvious its joke worthy.
This and the open air parks is proof positive that the POTUS and his clown posse have zero honor, integrity or basic grasp of cause and effect.
When will Old Glory be retired from atop Federal buildings? I can’t imagine that raising and lowering her is an essential employee’s job, not in this administration. Plus, think of how happy that make Baracka and, especially, Michele “All This for A Flag?” Obama.
But hey, the Army V Boston College game will go on this weekend… which just goes t oshow more proof of how political many of the things closed are.
Again, our ancestors would have been shooting by now.
Looks like they are going to play after all: http://www.navytimes.com/article/20131002/OFFDUTY04/310020040/Official-Service-academy-football-games-will-go-on
I’m sure that the fact that all of the service chiefs are alumni of the service colleges motivated them to bump up the probability of approval at the Sec Def level.
It was all theater in the first place-Obama knows that he couldn’t plausibly put the blame for cancelling the games this weekend on the Pubbies (despite all the help from his media pals) so he blinked. The left does crap like this all the time, they’re childish little drama queens and they pout and stomp their feet when they don’t get their way.
@13 – that is pretty much the entire GOP dilemma for the last 15 years – they let the Dems and MSM dictate the prevailing media message. Even if it is a lie, with everyone braying it, it gets accepted as truth. And The Republicans rarely seize control and lead on an issue – they react. No way to win until they get ahead of the curve, and so far they have been unwilling or unable.