It’s your party, and we’ll shut it down if we want to.
That’s the message congressional Republicans sent Yosemite National Park and NASA today, on their respective 123rd and 55th birthdays.
Yosemite’s special day will now include such celebratory activities as instructing all day visitors to immediately leave the park and kicking out overnight RVs and campers. Worst surprise party ever.
NASA put out a cheery graphic today celebrating its five decades of astronomic successes, from putting 12 people on the moon, four landers on Mars, and one craft in interstellar space. To honor their hard work, the government gave 97 percent of NASA staffers unpaid vacations. The space program effectively got grounded on its own birthday. Robots got the shaft too; Curiosity Rover poked at H2O molecules in Mars dust on Thursday, and got furloughed on Tuesday.
Congress may be giving them the Sixteen Candles treatment, but we wanted to let Yosemite and NASA know we care.
