Was it all for show?

Here’s a snippet from a spokesperson for the National Park Service:

“There was no directive from the National Park Service to cease operations; we merely informed them that the payments through their cooperative agreement would cease for the period of the shutdown. It was left to the discretion of the DNR how to best deal with the curtailed funding” [source:TPM]

Via Walker and Stepp cooked up fake park closings to show “defiance” against federal gov’t @ blue cheddar.