With the deadline looming and only hours left before a government shut-down (previously) looks more 
and more inevitable, continued in-fighting amongst Republican members in Congress sabotaged a bill sponsored by the Senate that would have have been a stop-gap measure, a continuing resolution, to keep the funded government and operational through mid-November. The Speakership in hock and the House of Representatives held ransom by a radical element willing to let the government run out of money, insistent on a thirty-percent across the board cut in budgets and halting aid to Ukraine. Despite a precariously narrow majority in Congress that cannot enforce its will (captivity to an arch-conservative, pandering wing notwithstanding) without compromise and concession, particularly in mixed jurisdiction (and again, gerrymandering that protects their seats notwithstanding), the GOP is refusing to negotiate and willing to force a crisis costly in terms of economics and repute that may prove difficult to resolve.
one year ago: the Mayak disaster (1957)
two years ago: assorted links to revisit
three years ago: Star Trek tarot, the Feast of the Archangels, the cartoons of R Cobb plus more links to revisit
four years ago: more Theremin maestros plus more Middle English vulgarities
five years ago: the Munich Agreement (1938) plus the Suprematism movement
