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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: on May 11, 2005, 02:39:00 pm
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Capitol goes bananas! (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/11/evacuation/index.html)
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I'm two blocks from the White House, and I heard a military plane whizz by -- close and loud -- right around that time. My friend across the street at Bloomberg emailed to ask if I heard it too, and told me what was going on.
We were at code Red for a few minutes, folks.
The White House briefing was interesting -- with questions like, "haven't the terrorists won if one small Cessna can throw the whole government into chaos?"
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I don't know what everyone was worried about.
Our fearless leader had everything under control:
At the time of the incident, Bush was on a bike ride
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So answer me this,
Why were the planes released from Andrews AFB for a tiny ass Cessna, but when we already knew about planes being hijacked on 9/11 they were released from Richmond. Really makes you wonder doesn't it...
I work about 4 blocks from the White House and it was a party going on here while I was on our rooftop patio!
MindCage
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A fighter jet whizzed right over the club, we thought it was SOAD arriving for sound check.
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Quote from the cnn article: "...President Dick Cheney was moved to a secure location for a brief time"
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Originally posted by twangirl:
A fighter jet whizzed right over the club, we thought it was SOAD arriving for sound check.
those "new English bands" do that, you know.
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Smoketown, Pennsylvania
...sounds like a partying place, eh?
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"At the time of the incident, Bush was on a bike ride with a security detail in Maryland, officials said."
Great. Glad to see we're in good hands.
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By any chance, was he cycling with markie & chimbly..?
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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
]"...President Dick Cheney"[/i]
eek!
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A new exercise craze is sweeping the capitol steps.
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Originally posted by bearman:
"At the time of the incident, Bush was on a bike ride with a security detail in Maryland, officials said."
Great. Glad to see we're in good hands.
Oh, that's right, because ever other president this country has had is ALWAYS in the White House just waiting for something to happen.
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Originally posted by LRHippo:
Oh, that's right, because ever other president this country has had is ALWAYS in the White House just waiting for something to happen.
The last one sure was, and I'd take him over the moron we've got in there now. It was proven he was in the White House plenty of times, just ask ol' Monica Lewinski! ;)
MindCage
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or waiting for it to happen while reading to school children.
at least it wasn't another 'terror cloud' like the one last week.
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Oh, so all those jogging trips to McDonalds were at the 1600 Penn. Ave location...OK....
DOn't get me wrong folks, I didn't vote for him either, but let's not start reaching here.
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Originally posted by LRHippo:
Oh, so all those jogging trips to McDonalds were at the 1600 Penn. Ave location...OK....
DOn't get me wrong folks, I didn't vote for him either, but let's not start reaching here.
where's the reach?
i don't have all the stats on hand, but i do know that W has taken more vacations than any modern president before him and that he works MUCH less than clinton did
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Originally posted by MindCage:
So answer me this,
Why were the planes released from Andrews AFB for a tiny ass Cessna, but when we already knew about planes being hijacked on 9/11 they were released from Richmond. Really makes you wonder doesn't it...
I work about 4 blocks from the White House and it was a party going on here while I was on our rooftop patio!
MindCage
Mindless Faith (http://www.mindlessfaith.com)
Deep6 Productions (http://www.deep6.com)
I'm not one to defend our current administration nor rule out splendid conspiracy theories but the easy and obvious answer is that security is much different now than it was pre-9/11. Supposedly the government had not considered much the feasibility of flying planes into stationary objects and now that seems to be a concern of theirs. Which simply means, it probably will not happen again. Just like how they check your shoes at the airport - who the hell is going to try to smuggle a bomb or other device in their shoe nowadays? Always one step behind they are.
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All I'm saying is the guy has enough legit things we can bitch about. And I wouldn't call taking a bike ride a vacation.
That's it. Carry on....
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DC goes apeshit, Germans go dog shit:
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34179/index.php (http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34179/index.php)
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<img src="http://www.nobeliefs.com/politics/Bush_bike_fall.jpg" alt=" - " />
After Bush fell off his bike and injured his chin, upper lip, nose, and hand John Kerry was reported to have quipped, "Did the training wheels fall off?"
This was an uncalled for remark because reports claim that Bush fell while the training wheels were still attached.
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of all the presidents bush spends the most time on vacation. he spends EVERY weekend at camp david with his wife and condi rice. leaves on friday afternoon, returns on sunday night. that he was riding a bicycle during a crisis and not told what happened until hours after it happened is expected from him.
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Originally posted by anarchist:
of all the presidents bush spends the most time on vacation... that he was riding a bicycle during a crisis and not told what happened until hours after it happened is expected from him.
true dat
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President spends 40% of time out of the office (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0%2C12271%2C1190302%2C00.html)
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i was brutally woken up from a nice slumber by the f-16s...should i file a civil suit for lost sleepy-time against the pilot, the government, or both?
if only johnnie c were still alive and with us today...
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On a Bicycle in Beltsville, Blissfully Unaware
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 12, 2005; A13
When the state of red alert was declared yesterday, the vice president was evacuated from the White House and the first lady was whisked to a secure location. But no precautions were needed for President Bush.
He was out at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Beltsville, riding his bicycle -- at noon on a Wednesday -- blissfully unaware. "The decision was made to inform the president upon conclusion of his bike ride," Bush press secretary Scott McClellan said later.
It was not the first time a crisis has focused uninvited attention on the Bush fitness routine. On a weekday morning in February 2001, when a gun-wielding man was shot outside the White House, it quickly emerged that Vice President Cheney was working in his office, while Bush was exercising in his residence.
Bush opponents have tried -- to no avail -- to profit politically from the president's leisure activities. Anti-Bush filmmaker Michael Moore poked fun at Bush's long vacation in Texas before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and his admonition on the golf course to "watch this drive" after commenting on Middle East violence.
But the president, while scaling back the golf outings, has made little effort to conceal his more cardiovascular activities -- inviting reporters on occasion to go running with him and, after his knees worsened, to go mountain biking.
Bush told Runner's World magazine in 2002 that his running times "have become faster right after the war began." He added: "For me, the psychological benefit is enormous. You tend to forget everything that's going on in your mind and just concentrate on the time, distance or the sweat."
Still, McClellan couched his explanation of Bush's activity yesterday carefully, reminding listeners of Bush's trip to Europe.
"First of all, as you all are aware, the president was off-site, getting in a bike ride after returning from a four-day trip overseas," he said.
The small group of reporters who escorted Bush to Beltsville reported that they heard nothing of the plane scare until after it was over.
In follow-up answers e-mailed to reporters late in the day, McClellan said that Bush's Secret Service detail was informed soon after the incident began but that they chose not to disturb the perspiring president. After an hour and 24 minutes on the trails, Bush went back to work.
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