Military keeps Camp David open, cuts NFL, baseball coverage to troops overseas

[headhuntersix]

President Obama has visited the Navy-run presidential retreat Camp David in central Maryland only 32 times, but it is being kept open during the government shutdown for his entertainment and security at the same time the Pentagon is cutting sports coverage to hundreds of thousands of troops around the world.

A phone call to the retreat found it open, confirming a TMZ report.

Camp David is one of the most highly secure areas in the nation and provides the president with a safe haven. The president has been known to shoot skeet at Camp David, which he most recently used for his 52nd birthday, according to CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller.

Obama has spent just 78 days at the retreat, choosing instead to spend his weekends in Washington and hitting military golf courses, which are also being kept open during the government shutdown.

In the meantime, overseas troops who typically look forward to watching NFL games and the baseball playoffs provided by the Armed Forces Network, will get little if any service due to the shutdown. A notice on the AFN page reads:

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“GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. Due to the government shutdown, the Defense Department can only provide limited overseas television, radio, print and web services.”

The virtual elimination of sports coverage was noticed by the New England Sports Network, co-owned by the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins. “AFN provides a form of escape for many troops stationed around the world. Let's hope the popular station gets back on the air soon,” they reported.

[headhuntersix]

That would have been the last straw if I was deployed.....the next day I'd be leading Taliban forces against the Infidel...atleast if they offered Sunday Ticket.

[Soul Crusher]

O-TWINK is such a pos.  

[AndreaRyc]

Why Republicans Shut Down the Government

This is the context of the fight against Obamacare. The basic idea -- similarly articulated by some Republican officeholders, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz -- is that Obama has extended a new entitlement to create a class of lazy, poor voters whose well-being is dependent upon the Democratic Party. Shorthand: more 47 percenters.

"Their party is losing to a Democratic Party of big government whose goal is to expand programs that mainly benefit minorities," the report states.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/why-republicans-shut-down-the-government.html

Ignorance begets ignorance. 

Cruz and the Repubs shut down the gov!  But don't shut down the gov!  Shut it down!  But not that part....we were only kidding about shutting down that part...

There's the republican party's game in a nutshell.

[Soul Crusher]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/3/pruden-the-cheap-tricks-of-the-game


Obama is a fucking terrorist and a thieving ghetto grafter.  Fuck him and the Islamic prayer rug he flew in on 

[JOHN MATRIX]

 Fuck him and the Islamic prayer rug he flew in on 
[/quote]

Lmao!!

And yep the hypocrisy and apparently targeted shut downs continue from the communist administration.

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

President Obama has visited the Navy-run presidential retreat Camp David in central Maryland only 32 times, but it is being kept open during the government shutdown for his entertainment and security at the same time the Pentagon is cutting sports coverage to hundreds of thousands of troops around the world.

A phone call to the retreat found it open, confirming a TMZ report.

Camp David is one of the most highly secure areas in the nation and provides the president with a safe haven. The president has been known to shoot skeet at Camp David, which he most recently used for his 52nd birthday, according to CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller.

Obama has spent just 78 days at the retreat, choosing instead to spend his weekends in Washington and hitting military golf courses, which are also being kept open during the government shutdown.

In the meantime, overseas troops who typically look forward to watching NFL games and the baseball playoffs provided by the Armed Forces Network, will get little if any service due to the shutdown. A notice on the AFN page reads:

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“GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. Due to the government shutdown, the Defense Department can only provide limited overseas television, radio, print and web services.”

The virtual elimination of sports coverage was noticed by the New England Sports Network, co-owned by the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins. “AFN provides a form of escape for many troops stationed around the world. Let's hope the popular station gets back on the air soon,” they reported.

Camp David is separately funded from other federal departments, same as Congress and other places.  The personnel however won't get paid until the shutdown is over however.

[headhuntersix]

So u shut down AFN......Barry is a worthless piece of shit.

[Necrosis]

President Obama has visited the Navy-run presidential retreat Camp David in central Maryland only 32 times, but it is being kept open during the government shutdown for his entertainment and security at the same time the Pentagon is cutting sports coverage to hundreds of thousands of troops around the world.

A phone call to the retreat found it open, confirming a TMZ report.

Camp David is one of the most highly secure areas in the nation and provides the president with a safe haven. The president has been known to shoot skeet at Camp David, which he most recently used for his 52nd birthday, according to CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller.

Obama has spent just 78 days at the retreat, choosing instead to spend his weekends in Washington and hitting military golf courses, which are also being kept open during the government shutdown.

In the meantime, overseas troops who typically look forward to watching NFL games and the baseball playoffs provided by the Armed Forces Network, will get little if any service due to the shutdown. A notice on the AFN page reads:

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“GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. Due to the government shutdown, the Defense Department can only provide limited overseas television, radio, print and web services.”

The virtual elimination of sports coverage was noticed by the New England Sports Network, co-owned by the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins. “AFN provides a form of escape for many troops stationed around the world. Let's hope the popular station gets back on the air soon,” they reported.

33, maybe if you didn't shut down the government this wouldn't occur? why are you so shocked that things are closed? that people are suffering? this is what the shutdown causes with the potential to fuck up a lot more should this reach the debt ceiling debacle.

[Necrosis]

So u shut down AFN......Barry is a worthless piece of shit.

Absolutely none of this is Obama's fault, this is a group of idiots ruing democracy over something no one wants.

How did Barry shutdown anything? he said he will sign any clean resolution without healthcare tied to it. Why in the hell would he concede on something he ran on and won? why would he concede to ideas no one wants, all while holding the world hostage. You fucking idiots already fucked up the world once, you are no fit for the power you wield, that much is clear.

[headhuntersix]

Nobody here cares about your opinion..your not American...fucking die.

[whork]

So u shut down AFN......Barry is a worthless piece of shit.

And so are you

[whork]

Why Republicans Shut Down the Government

This is the context of the fight against Obamacare. The basic idea -- similarly articulated by some Republican officeholders, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz -- is that Obama has extended a new entitlement to create a class of lazy, poor voters whose well-being is dependent upon the Democratic Party. Shorthand: more 47 percenters.

"Their party is losing to a Democratic Party of big government whose goal is to expand programs that mainly benefit minorities," the report states.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/why-republicans-shut-down-the-government.html

Ignorance begets ignorance. 

Cruz and the Repubs shut down the gov!  But don't shut down the gov!  Shut it down!  But not that part....we were only kidding about shutting down that part...

There's the republican party's game in a nutshell.

No facts here dammit.

You are ruining the neocons day.

[Necrosis]

Nobody here cares about your opinion..your not American...fucking die.

Just like you are in the minority and soon to be extinct, both your political and religious views. Must suck to know you are holding on to old age views and the world continues to press forward.