Foreign tourists detained by armed park rangers

Obama wanted the shutdown; he also wants us to default on the debt.....why do you think he voted no to raising the debt limit ? Originally Posted by Whirlaway

Do you have ANY support for your allegations ... ?

Out of a humanitarian gesture, may I answer that one for you?

NOT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE! And don't give me that limp-wristed liberal hogwash..

.. "you prove me wrong"!

Sound familiar? That's not an echo!

If anyone on this board (excluding BT) knew the answer to that question:

"... why do you think he voted no to raising the debt limit ?"

Then they would know where ALL of the Syrian WMDs are hidden!

As to the literal answer to the question ... what someone on this board "thinks" ...

doesn't mean shit ... so it really doesn't help you to prove any point you are trying to make.

The Park wasn't closed; they let the visitors in....the hotel was open for business the roads were open, the staff was cooking meals, the moose, elk and bears were there for the viewing, it wasn't closed by any reasonable standard.

And close up access to the Ole Faithful geysers were cordoned off; the visitors could easily have been permitted to walk around without supervision; that kind of visitor access is common to the park........Your phony argument about senior denizens slipping into the hot springs is baloney !

There was no excuse for the NPS to lock down those tourists, much less adopt a belligerent gestao attitude with the guests.!

BTW, your "closed the park for restorative time out" argument is hilarious; it has nothing to do with the issues at hand; and the park is approaching the season when it will be shut down to almost all outside visitors !

It is amazing you are being so stubborn and refuse to admit this was an over reach by the NPS.

Yeah; Obama's own words..................

The Park wasn't closed; they let the visitors in....the hotel was open for business the roads were open, the staff was cooking meals, the moose, elk and bears were there for the viewing, it wasn't closed by any reasonable standard.

And close up access to the Ole Faithful geysers were cordoned off; the visitors could easily have been permitted to walk around without supervision; that kind of visitor access is common to the park........Your phony argument about senior denizens slipping into the hot springs is baloney !

There was no excuse for the NPS to lock down those tourists, much less adopt a belligerent gestao attitude with the guests.!

BTW, your "closed the park for restorative time out" argument is hilarious; it has nothing to do with the issues at hand; and the park is approaching the season when it will be shut down to almost all outside visitors !

It is amazing you are being so stubborn and refuse to admit this was an over reach by the NPS. Originally Posted by Whirlaway

park was closed ..

A group of tourists say they got some harsh treatment from National Park Service rangers at Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park soon after the partial government shutdown went into effect last week.

Originally Posted by notanewbie

The Park wasn't closed; ..... Originally Posted by Whirlaway

"When the government shutdown took effect on October 1, Vaillancourt’s group of about four dozen senior citizens had just arrived at Yellowstone.

" Although many tourists were already being shuttled out of the park,

"....rangers allowed the tour a two-day extension due to their prepaid hotel reservations.

"As the bus made its way into the park, the group stopped to take pictures of a large bison herd passing nearby. Vaillancourt said that a ranger quickly appeared, ordering the tourists to stop “recreating” and return to the bus."

You know Whirl, you aren't doing yourself or conservatives any favors by twisting facts. You accuse liberals of doing that, including Obaminable, but you do it openly and obviously.

The Park was closed Oct 1st.
The whining tourists arrived on the day it was closed.
The Rangers allowed them in for 2 days because their hotel was PREPAID.
The whining tourists left on Oct 3rd (after their 2 days was up).
Old Faithful was not "cordoned off" (where the hell did you read that in the article?)
And where the hell did you get "close up access to the Ole Faithful geysers..?;
Old Faithful was "BARRACKED" ('the geyser, which was already barricaded")

My suggestion that parks and areas of parks are restricted regularly is ABSOLUTELY relevant to the discussion. ..........

how long have you been whining that the national parks are closed from time to time?

According to you, Obaminable had NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS INCIDENT!!!!!!