Secret Service wants more money
Oh, I didn't know that...but I can spot an unmarked FHP car a mile away because I see them parked in the back of the station on Normandy everyday. And whoever designed that place was an idiot. I mean, the in/out there by Memorial Park...it's an accident waiting to happen and I'm sure plenty have. But I'm going to bed..I've had a long day. (7 hrs ago | post #11)
Secret Service wants more money
hahahaha...you at the station on normandy? and i don't think anybody is home seeing how they failed to pay their bill and JEA cut off their water and electric. (7 hrs ago | post #9)
Obama Scraps Visit To Wounded Troops
Imagine that. I guess that's the type of treatment our troops will need to get use to if he gets elected. I'm sure he just hit the gym instead. (7 hrs ago | post #2)
Obama Scraps Visit To Wounded Troops
BERLIN (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey. The spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday that Obama made his decision out of respect for the servicemen and women, but Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign immediately criticized the move. "Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military," said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender. Obama's decision raised a number of questions because the visit, which had been scheduled for Friday, never appeared on the schedule of events distributed to reporters who are accompanying him on his travels. The first word from the campaign about its existence was Gibbs' statement. Obama had been planning to go to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany before a flight to Paris. Gibbs said the stop was canceled because Obama decided "it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign." http://www.breitba rt.com/article.php ?id=D924E4KO0& show_article=1 (7 hrs ago | post #1)
Secret Service wants more money
Oh, well dispatch a plethora of emergency vehicles to my neighbors house. (7 hrs ago | post #7)
Howard Stern: ‘I Will Never Vote For a Democrat Again’
“They’re for communism. They don’t want to see companies – this is gangsterism. I said, ‘This is crazy.’” http://www.breitba rt.tv/?p=138263 (7 hrs ago | post #1)
Secret Service wants more money
Like, can't you go shoot somebody? (8 hrs ago | post #5)
Secret Service wants more money
How much did it exactly cost the Secret Service to cover both McCain's and Obama's trips overseas? (8 hrs ago | post #3)
When I'm in a really bad mood, I listen to that, and the pop music makes me feel better. Dunno why, it just does. (8 hrs ago | post #181)
Secret Service wants more money
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year for the agency's campaign security job. Among other things, the extra money would be used for the added costs for the candidates' international travel and a late-in-the-game decision by Barack Obama to accept the Democratic nomination at Denver's Invesco Field at Mile High—an open-air, 76,000-seat stadium—instead of the 20,000-seat Pepsi Center, which is the site of the party's national convention. Presidential candidates are traveling overseas with Secret Service protection more than ever before. Obama is on a six-day trip to Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and Britain. Before that he was on a three-day congressionally sponsored trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. Republican candidate John McCain has traveled to Canada, Colombia and Mexico under the agency's protection. The 2008 presidential campaign cycle is the longest in Secret Service history by about five months. The Secret Service budgeted $106.65 million for the 2008 campaign cycle, compared to $73.3 million in 2004. "I thought we had a very, very good plan in place for the campaign," Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan said in an interview with The Associated Press earlier this week. "If past history was any type of an indicator, we anticipated picking up protection somewhere in January, February, March of 2008." "But the campaigns are different now," Sullivan said. Obama received Secret Service protection on May 3, 2007—the earliest the agency has ever stepped in to protect a candidate. Obama, who frequently draws crowds in the thousands at campaign stops, requested the protection. At the time, the Secret Service and Homeland Security officials said they were not aware of any threats to the senator. McCain picked up protection on April 27 of this year. During the 2008 campaign, the agency has protected candidates on about 1,500 trips; and each trip has included three to eight stops. To secure the candidates on these trips, the Secret Service has used about 2,200 magnetometers to screen about 1.5 million people. The crowds have also been larger than expected. For instance, on May 18, in Portland, Ore., an Obama event was expected to draw 20,000. But instead, 75,000 showed, the Secret Service said. And Thursday, in Berlin, Germany, Obama drew a crowd of about 200,000, according to local law enforcement. These are not the first candidates to travel internationally. In 1984, then-Democratic hopeful Jesse Jackson traveled to three countries in Latin America, the Secret Service said. "One of the things I've been most proud of is our work force, because it has been a long campaign, but they have been incredible, enthusiastic and just done a terrific job with the campaign," Sullivan said. Congress is currently considering the request for additional funds, which was made earlier this summer. The money would be drawn from other programs within the Homeland Security Department, the Secret Service's parent agency. The Secret Service was formed in 1865 to investigate counterfeit currency. It started protecting major presidential candidates in 1968. http://www.breitba rt.com/article.php ?id=D924KQ8G0& show_article=1 (9 hrs ago | post #1)
Motorist draws gun at 'Grey Poupon' question
When a car full of teenagers imitated an old mustard commercial made famous in the ‘80s, they got a response they never expected. The response had the teens scared for their lives. They asked the driver of the car next to them at a stoplight in Murray if he had any Grey Poupon. He answered by pulling out a gun. Most of us are familiar with the question: "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" That's thanks to a number of Grey Poupon commercials that aired on televisions across the country in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. The famous response "but of course" was not the response a car full of teenagers got when they asked that same question. The driver of the car next to them, 22-year-old Vitaly Kovtun, instead pulled out a gun. "He racked the slide back and basically told the other kid, ‘Here's your Grey Poupon. Now, roll up your window,'" said Detective Kenny Bass, with the Murray City Police Department. The teens jotted down the driver's license plate number, and Murray police arrested Kovtun. Police say he admitted he pulled out the gun. "They were just goofing around, as teenagers do, just kind of playing a little joke. They didn't think it would be that big of a deal and [were] obviously scared to death when it happened," Bass said. Kovtun, who holds a concealed weapons permit, has been charged with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony. "It's a horrible idea. The idea behind the concealed weapons permit is strictly for your own safety, for your own defense, to defend yourself against a threat of death," Bass said. We spoke to the department that issues concealed weapons permits. A representative told us, over the phone, Kovtun's permit will be suspended until there is a resolution in the case. http://www.ksl.com /?nid=148&sid= 3834288 (9 hrs ago | post #1)
should p rainwater kill himself?
I seriously hope that was a joke. (10 hrs ago | post #10)
should p rainwater kill himself?
I'd be more worried about what she'd do to you. My mother is one tough bitch. (10 hrs ago | post #8)
Bleh, I don't really care one way or the other. Michael Jackson, R.E.M., and Ray Stevens is what's displaying now. (10 hrs ago | post #171)
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