ADDED: Is the Secret Service taking a fall for Obama even as Tiger Woods is (perhaps) taking a fall for Elin Nordegren? That is, perhaps, there is a damaging connection between the gate-crashers and the Obama administration, and the Secret Service is absorbing the blow by taking the blame, when in fact it made no mistake. And Tiger Woods, perhaps, is saying that he's to blame for his accident...
The only person responsible for the accident is me. My wife, Elin, acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble. She was the first person to help me. Any other assertion is absolutely false.... when it may be that Elin did things that are, in fact, crimes.
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Sez you.
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You are.
@Freeman, concerning your over the top 4:44 post, next time you're in DC try to get to the Spy Museum. There are lots of things that don't set off metal detectors and yet are lethal.
While you're at it, I don't think 10 micrograms of a nonferrous metal will set off a metal detector, but that's the amount of Polonium-210 that killed Alexander Litvinenko -- go ahead and look up the details of how he died and imagine it happening to the President.
Not quite so hilarious, I hope.
@Jeremy, your comments at 4:59 and 5:08 suggest that you harbor a great deal of homophobia.
I am very surprised at you. I had thought that far-left liberals were above that sort of thing. Perhaps you are not really a far-left liberal.
Or perhaps you're simply beneath contempt.
JAL Khalili, the dude who the Obama's celebrated with when he went to NY?
FLS Attending a farewell party for a colleague lured away from your university with a named professorship -- that's questionable nowadays?
Left off my next sentence, I see.
There is videotape of the party, including festive poetry and accolades. But, true to form, the MSM thought "Hell, we don't want to spoil the campaign of the first black(?) presidential candidate. And we all know he doesn't really believe those things those people at the party were saying..." So ...
No thanks for not treating the citizens like adults and no thanks for not doing their job.
I am very well aware of all the things that have been used to kill people that would not set off metal detectors. That is beside the point. Being on the list does not ensure that one is not a loon. People could still have any of those deadly things.
Luckily, the Secret Service does a lot more than man metal detectors at Presidential events.
@Freeman, but can you accept that a person, walking in uninvited is more likely to be a threat than someone who has been selected to attend by people who are on the President's staff and presumably care a great deal about him and his safety?
Victoria, From a previous post...
There are lots of monuments to WWII German dead, if you know what to look for.
They are typically appended to the older WWI cenotaphs. I saw many when I lived in Schweinfurt and points North and West of there, like Hammelburg. Schweinfurt was the home station of the 2nd Panzer Division and most of the monuments were regimental in nature. sort of like you'd find in an English 'Shire.
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/memorials.htm
for pictures.
You can't complain about the Palin book and not complain about both the Clinton's cashing in.
So I read this and the thing that catches my eye? The Defense Department muckety-muck that the St@rF*ckers contacted allows anyone to see her facebook friends!
Idiot.
I also like the St@rF*ckers pubicist's name: Mahogany Jones. I see her in big bellbottoms and platform shoes.
Hey, thanks Drill Sgt! I will c/p the link. Didn't think anyone would read that comment. :)
Cheers,
Victoria
DBQ wrote:
Why do you listen to him then? If you don't like him.....don't listen to his show.
Funny thing is that many people I hear or read, er, rushing to condemn Rush will say, "not that I listen to him, but I hear...." & then quote what someone on the Huff Post Puff said that Rush said.
And then this insecure person, so eager to have show his/her un-Rush bona fides goes on to show that he/she has gotten all his/her news from the MSM & knows nothing about anything that is not "reported" in the Bible, a/k/a the MSM, via the NYT.
Before I get a reply about "knows nothing", & accepting the MSM spin as gospel, I mean it. Yes, like non-baseball fans they've heard that the NYY won the WS, or like non-football fans they’ve heard that whazzisname was fired as ND coach, but unless the MSM or the comedians keep it up, these folks don't know much or care much about Things Which Are Not Important, such as the concerns of the evangelical, fundamentalist rightwing nut jobs who don't care about the poor or the kittens & who don't realize that the bottom quintile of the population in income is in the bottom quintile in income. Or something.
Where’s Susan Sontag now that we need her?
And, please, no comment “informing” me that Sue, RIP (pbuh) wasn’t an evangelical, fundamentalist rightwing nut job.
Funnily enough, Big Mike, I was thinking EXACTLY of Litvinenko's polonium poisoning or the dioxin ingested by Viktor Yushchenko.
But you know, not only was Freeman's post on the dastardly possibilities hilarious, but it shows a very common sensical attitude that Americans have. I'd rather have 300 million Freemans than the alarmists or conspiracists that exist elsewhere.
I still think it was a lucky escape for our President, and it better not happen again. But Freeman made me laugh with her foot/cobra scenario.
Cheers,
Victoria
@Victoria, I can see your point, but, I am sorry to say, it didn't seem at all funny to me.
I am so tired of republican men jerking off to Palin propaganda. My friend's family in Chicago spent 5K / person to hear her speak and shake her hand. The woman can't even buy a pair of shoes. Can't wait to have her finger on the button. You betcha!
" 'Come on, folks, we're being asked to believe that the Secret Service let these people in without going through checkpoints?' "
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(Oh, ha ha ...
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Oh, you've spent quite a bit of time with The Princess?
Then maybe you know who's baby that really is.
Whose, Jeremy, whose. Who's is an abbreviation for "who is", as in "Who's that dude I saw you kissing last night?" Whose on the other hand, implies possession.
Your second mistake was to misread what I wrote, where I said "I've never heard of her speaking that way", which implies I'm relying on hearsay. If I had said "I've never heard her speak that way" then you could assume I had some sort of personal familiarity with her.
So to recap, you made two very basic errors while attacking the intelligence of someone else.
Has this article been linked to yet? Interesting....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113004420.html
Freeman, but can you accept that a person, walking in uninvited is more likely to be a threat than someone who has been selected to attend by people who are on the President's staff and presumably care a great deal about him and his safety?
I'm assuming that the answer is supposed to be "Yes."
What a dumb assumption.
(Because it seems to me the same sort of person would argue that, for example, small children, and others, are at more risk from strangers than from people they know. Which, of course, is *mostly*--though not always--complete bullshit.)
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From the Anchoress:
A top Defense Department official corresponded with Tareq and Michaele Salahi in an effort to get them into last week’s White House state dinner, according to sources familiar with an investigation into the security breach. On Friday the couple turned over copies of the email exchange to the Secret Service investigators.
Sources said the e-mails were sent from Michele S. Jones, the special assistant to the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon-based liaison to the White House, who lists the Salahis’ lawyer, Paul W. Gardner, as one of her 50 friends on the Facebook social networking site.
Several people familiar with the Jones-Salahi correspondence argued the e-mails support the Salahis’ case that they were cleared to attend Tuesday night’s gala.
Here's the picture.
And yes, Khalidi (sorry I mis-typed it before) is in leadership of a "right to return" group which had Sahali on its board -- before they scrubbed the site. (Way back machines and dated google searches fix things like that.)
What a messy bunch. I wonder how happy the Indians are that the Sahali's felt this so important to distract the message of the dinner.
Oh. Right. Sahali arranged a US / India polo match for the mall next June.
By the way, "commonsensical/common-sensical" is as rare here--especially among those who most readily throw that term around, in whatever form--as palm trees are in Iowa.
Get real. Or at least improve your diction (definition #1).
Salahi
Salahi
Sorry. My li's are getting all screwed up. Arabic not being my mother tongue and all that.
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Well, how's that for a wv?
Oh, wait Beth--don't you teach something more or less in the area of English? Perhaps you could concoct a cover story that you're writing a paper on Jockspeak, and that's why you're listing to sports talk
Fortunately, I don't need a cover story in my department. Today, with the Saints playing on Monday Night Football, I wore my Saints T-shirt, and saw many of my fellow faculty in black and gold, from tasteful black blouses with a modest gold fleur-de-lis pin to NFL jerseys. We love us some football down here.
Oh! Did I mention that the 11-0 New Orleans Saints are going to win the Superbowl this year?
Freeman was on fire! (I've been away from the world of the internet, watching MNF - Geaux Saints!)
I understand Big Mike's concerns, but I tend towards Freeman's sense of humor. We can be paranoid or we can can be free. I also believe, as has been argued well here, that the security checks and the invitation checks are not the same thing.
Big Mike - "crass" is certainly a fair term, a lot better than those other terms. Landrieu was working hand in hand with Jindal on this deal; the state has been trying to make up a differential in the way health dollars are formulated that's been skewed by temporary income spikes from post-Katrina restoration spending. Every member of our congressional delegation has been part of that effort, Democrat and Republican alike. The money is not general fund spending, but specific to Medicaid. I think it's perfectly fair to criticize whether the feds ought to provide that funding, but it's bullshit the way that's been done by the likes of Limbaugh and Beck.
By the way, in case anyone's interested, which of course I assume they're not, I've been listening both to Cowboy Junkies and Cat Power in the recent time of this later evening of today.
Actually this incident reminds of the AF1 over Manhattan fall-out. They fired the military liaison guy under the pretext that he somehow authorized it, but didn't know anything about the military. In fact, he was a West Point grad and a former Secretary of the Army.
reader_iam, what albums?
I'm kind of surprised that no one has mentioned the husband crasher has a Muslim name.
Oops. wait. somebody did!
Did I mention that the 11-0 New Orleans Saints are going to win the Superbowl this year?
Have you told Trooper York this?
It looks like Limbaugh was right. It's a beautiful thing.
6:39 a.m. Tuesday 12/1/2009
POLITICO Breaking News:
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Alleged State Dinner party crasher Tareq Salahi tells the "Today" show's Matt Lauer: "We did not party crash the White House." Salahi says he and his wife are cooperating with the Secret Service and that the "the truth will soon come out."
For more information...http://www.politico.com
Blogs really need a way dealing with trolls; something like a USENET killfile. In the meantime, the best response is to scroll on down.
MadisonMan,
Trooper is aware, yes. He's not happy.
Oh I am very happy.
Well, you're always a pretty happy guy. Except about the Saints, and the sad, sad Giants.
I am not sad about the hapless Saints. You know they can never win.
Remember the Curse of Danny Abramowicz.
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