Stormy Monday, 9/22/14

[DemocratsForProgress]

Jeff Rosenzweig: Stormy Monday, 9/22/14

The Secret Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility will undertake a procedural review following Friday’s disquieting incident involving a knife-carrying man jumping the fence and actually gaining access to the White House. Through a spokesman, the President has since expressed “full confidence” in his security detail, a presidential statement I sincerely hope is a bald-faced lie.

Also helping shut the barn door after the horses have bolted, Congressman Peter King told Fox News Sunday he’s “sure” that the House Homeland Security Committee, on which he sits, will launch its own investigation into the incident. Which actually makes the whole thing even scarier…

Accompanied, presumably, by the most hyper-vigilant Secret Service detail ever mustered, the President and Mrs. Obama head for New York City on Tuesday for the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly. After addressing the 2014 Climate Summit at the UN, the President will speak at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. Wednesday, he’ll address the General Assembly, then chair a Security Council summit on terrorism. The First Lady will give the keynote address at Wednesday’s meeting of the UN Global Education First Initiative. Thursday, the President will speak at a special UN meeting on the Ebola epidemic, before the Obamas return to Washington in the afternoon.

Speaking of the Ebola virus, Sierra Leone yesterday ended a three-day lockdown intended to stop the spread of the epidemic among the country’s six million citizens. The lockdown enabled collection and safe burial of over 70 highly infectious bodies of Ebola victims; Ebola has claimed 560 lives in Sierra Leone during the current outbreak. If the large-scale containment attempt proves effective, expect it to be replicated in other parts of western Africa...

More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2014/09/21/stormy-monday-92214/

[TheNutcracker]

1. Oh yeah, and one was just past out drunk in Netherlands, waiting for him....night of drinking.

Secret Service agents sent home from Netherlands after a night of drinking and WERE WARNED AHEAD OF TIME TO STAY OUT OF TROUBLE! GADS!

Source: Washington Post


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-agents-on-obama-detail-sent-home-from-netherlands-after-night-of-drinking/2014/03/26/86d1a8a6-b4e6-11e3-8020-b2d790b3c9e1_story.html

In LBN

[freshwest]

2. As if the House didn't know that the Sequester has starved White House funding?

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Don't need another hearing for that, just a look in the mirror. Oops, there'd be no reflection, my mistake.

And it's not like they'd give a rat's ass if Obama was killed. That's what they promote in media and at town halls, and they'd like to eliminate all the people who dared to vote for him, too.

Their plans are to give the White House to the Koch brothers in 2017. That's when the place will be refitted and funded properly. Off of poll and sales taxes on the little people.

Yeah, we should all feel so much better now.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. seriously.

I always include prayers for their protection in my morning and evening chanting. Not just for the sake of the President and his family, or those who like him, but for everyone's sake, really,

[freshwest]

4. Good for you, Blanche. Toss in one for me while you're at it.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. Ok, fresh. I will.

You must Break Through!!

Don't give up!