The Shutdown Report for Week 1 - Working Hard at Shutting us Down

"The Government Shutdown" is about shutting us down.
Part 1: Day one of shut down related stories and more.
A partial list of related links:
American Meteor Society
http://www.amsmeteors.org/about/ams-h...
Charles P. Olivier
http://12160.info/group/i-robot/forum...
"The government has been paying federal police to shut down national parks due to lack of funds, even parks that don't receive government funding"
http://intellihub.com/2013/10/03/gove...