Does anyone besides me lie in bed at night and ponder the amazing wisdom of our elected leaders and their appointed helpers?

In case you haven’t heard, the powers that be in Washington decided that since there is currently no funding for the USDA, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (Noah) and other “non-essential” government departments, their websites would need to be shut off.

The only problem with this thinking? It cost those departments more to take their sites offline than it would have cost to simply leave them up with all updates temporarily suspended!  [Read more…]