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ReidRansom posted:Normally I do too, but this year I felt I had to help make sure Kesha Rogers didn't end up on the general ballot. Is it wrong that in my head that read Ke$ha
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Joementum posted:Oh don't worry, the USSS is ahead of you there too. You missed the best part of this: quote:When a supervisor from the firm providing security at the CDC approached and discovered the agents’ concerns, the contractor was fired on the spot and agreed to turn over his gun — surprising agents, who had not realized he was armed during his encounter with Obama.
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:You missed the best part of this: One time, USSS told me not to let anyone on an elevator at an event. I got into quite a physical alternstion when it was rush time and the club's hundred year old elevator started to open on the lobby floor.
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ex-Marine, ex-CIA, ex-USSS agent Dam Emmett has a suggestion for a new Director of the Secret Service.quote:Pierson should be replaced and the next director should come from outside the Secret Service, with the deputy director remaining an agent. In this role, a true leader, not a bureaucrat, is needed. Someone like Florida congressman and retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Allen West would be perfect for the role. West has successfully demonstrated that he possesses the leadership skills of a combat officer as well as managerial and diplomatic skills of a congressman, exactly the traits needed in the next director. Highly competent and beholden to no one in the Secret Service, he would be a superb director. Yup, that sounds like a great plan for keeping Obama safe. Quick reminder: quote:The operation has expanded recently from West's basement apartment—which he calls "the bat cave"—to a suite on the eerily empty third floor of an office building only blocks from his old office. The walls are barren because many of them are going to be torn down to build a bigger filming studio. The place has the feel of a start-up. A half-dozen young women mill about. West's flat-screen TV, tuned to Fox News, sits atop a cardboard box. A Post-it Note stuck to his computer reminds him that his password is "allenwest." Talking points about Trayvon Martin and a packet of Clearasil wipes sit atop his desk. Oh, and there's a samurai sword. Secret Service Agent Reagan sighed as he drew his katana....
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Oct 1, 2014 00:08
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Joementum posted:ex-Marine, ex-CIA, ex-USSS agent Dam Emmett has a suggestion for a new Director of the Secret Service. Someone wants a coup that places Boehner as the new President.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:15
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Something Calenth and I agree on: How has Obama not been capped by some loony yet?
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Oct 1, 2014 00:21
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ReindeerF posted:Something Calenth and I agree on: How has Obama not been capped by some loony yet? We should always remember that the people guarding him are human, but the people trying to attack him are probably a little more human.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:24
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Yeah, the idiocy of the hoi polloi is the greatest armor we have against whatever the gently caress they want today.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:29
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Allen West can't be head of the Secret Service because a true ronin serves no master.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:30
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It's one of the reasons that there's only been one President successfully assassinated in the last 100 years and in that singular instance so many things had to go right for Oswald to do what he did that some of the conspiracy theories are more plausible.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:31
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Allen West can't be head of the Secret Service because a true ronin serves no master. They usually don't allow war criminals to be head of Secret Service
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Oct 1, 2014 00:33
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:They usually don't allow war criminals to be head of Secret Service Well, lets be fair, that hasn't stopped other departments before.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:35
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:They usually don't allow war criminals to be head of Secret Service There you go again, thinking in a pre-9/11 mentality.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:36
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I imagine that SS is much more on their game when actually doing motorcades and so forth buuuut at the same time I'm kind of expecting a story about how they lost the president and ended up on a wacky chase of some kind Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTlLsRFPZR4
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SedanChair posted:I imagine that SS is much more on their game when actually doing motorcades and so forth buuuut at the same time I'm kind of expecting a story about how they lost the president and ended up on a wacky chase of some kind Oh, I wouldn't be so sure http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/6867331/Osama-bin-Laden-came-within-minutes-of-killing-Bill-Clinton.html Former President Bill Clinton came within minutes of being assassinated in the Philippines by terrorists controlled by Osama bin Laden, a new book has revealed.
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Also that time a guy threw a grenade at George W. Bush but it didn't go off because of how he'd wrapped it in a handkerchief.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:46
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:They usually don't allow war criminals to be head of Secret Service (citation needed)
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Our political system just changed. Forget Benghazi, we now have Ebola This is going to be a long loving year.
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Joementum posted:Also that time a guy threw a grenade at George W. Bush but it didn't go off because of how he'd wrapped it in a handkerchief. Also that time a guy threw both his shoes at George W. Bush but Bush managed to duck both.
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Joementum posted:Also that time a guy threw a grenade at George W. Bush but it didn't go off because of how he'd wrapped it in a handkerchief. Also Bush was behind bulletproof glass and outside the grenade's kill radius.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:51
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First Africa invaded the whitehouse, now our blood! Obama! 
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Trabisnikof posted:First Africa invaded the whitehouse, now our blood! Warren G. Harding already happened. Calm down.
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And Dubya was saved by a plaid hanky wiki posted:On 10 May 2005, Arutyunian waited for United States President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to speak. When Bush began speaking, he threw a Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade, wrapped in a red plaid handkerchief, toward the podium where Bush stood as he addressed the crowd. The grenade landed 18.6 metres (61 ft) from the podium, near where Saakashvili, his wife Sandra E. Roelofs, Laura Bush, and other officials were seated.  e: beaten
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Pohl posted:Our political system just changed. Forget Benghazi, we now have Ebola First, I was mocked a month ago when I said ebola be coming and that if Obama doesn't nationalize healthcare for ebola, I just don't trust that he ever will. Then, I wonder who'll run the first ad accusing the Presbytarian hospital's fuckup of sending the EVD patient home to infect others on insurance. Because it certainly seems like Presbo hospital sent home a patient with febrile symptoms and travel history to west africa rather than follow CDC guidelines. I wonder why?
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SedanChair posted:And Dubya was saved by a plaid hanky My favorite part of that is how it says the guy "disappeared". drat.
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JT Jag posted:Investigative comedy really is a good way to describe Last Week Tonight. He does a lot more in-depth research segments than any normal satire news show, he won't be able to hide behind being "just a comedian who makes fun of the news" for long at this rate. He's up there with Maddow for me at this point, and maybe even better now that Maddow's show is on ISIS coverage auto-pilot. The recent show on the Cuban Embargo and Miss America was mind-blowing. I kind of want to know how that show is put together because they're doing much better journalism than even the Daily Show does at its peak. I was really involved with the Broadcast Journalism community at my university, and it just feels like there must be some news director they brought out of retirement with the instructions of, "go nuts."
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Oct 1, 2014 01:23
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Boon posted:My favorite part of that is how it says the guy "disappeared". They mean ran off. He was arrested at his mom's house a few days later. Trabisnikof posted:Yup, and of course its totally fine that the healthcare plan women buy covers viagra etc. Because Viagra is for a legitimate medical condition. This is a common enough meme, but how many insurance policies actually cover erectile dysfunction drugs?
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:This is a common enough meme, but how many insurance policies actually cover erectile dysfunction drugs? Historically? Greater than zero.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:They mean ran off. He was arrested at his mom's house a few days later. Most of them I am pretty as far as I know. I know both the ones I have been under in the past 10 years did (I know this because I checked when that was brought up previously).
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JT Jag posted:I'd like to give Warren at least six more years of seasoning in the Senate before she runs for President. I think one of the biggest problems Obama faced is he honestly wasn't accustomed enough to the partisan environment of Washington, and how to properly navigate it, and that resulted in him not being able to exploit his Democratic majority in Congress as effectively as he could have when he had it. I agree with the above, and also dammit people stop trying to take away the only elected official in Massachusetts who's actually interesting
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I agree with the above, and also dammit people stop trying to take away the only elected official in Massachusetts who's actually interesting
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Khisanth Magus posted:Most of them I am pretty as far as I know. I know both the ones I have been under in the past 10 years did (I know this because I checked when that was brought up previously). Nah, very few of them do. There are a handful that cover them outright, and there are a few that cover them with prior approval for physiological erectile dysfunction or pulmonary hypertension. I've yet to see a PA approved for BPH, although I'm sure some plans cover it for that indication. The majority do not cover them for any reason OR technically cover the medication but with an extremely high copay. I don't know much about ivf, but many insurance companies also exclude oral fertility drugs, which would be a more logical comparison I would think.
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JT Jag posted:I'd like to give Warren at least six more years of seasoning in the Senate before she runs for President. I think one of the biggest problems Obama faced is he honestly wasn't accustomed enough to the partisan environment of Washington, and how to properly navigate it, and that resulted in him not being able to exploit his Democratic majority in Congress as effectively as he could have when he had it. Eh, by then she'll be in her 70's.
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beatlegs posted:Eh, by then she'll be in her 70's. I'm sticking by my point though. I don't think it's prudent for freshman Senators to run for President. I suppose by 2016 she'd have completed a full term, unlike Obama who only was around for three years when he was elected in 2008, and that *might* be enough.
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beatlegs posted:Eh, by then she'll be in her 70's. You're right. She's much for fit for the Supreme Court. The presidency is just a shiny impermanent distraction, anyway. She can be part of the coalition that upholds President Bernie Sanders' Bill to Enact Socialism and Tolerance (BEST). 
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JT Jag posted:She's already 65? I assumed she was 50-something. Huh. No, it would be exactly the same situation.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:They mean ran off. He was arrested at his mom's house a few days later. After working in a pharmacy, a surprising amount of them do. There are even coupons for them (https://www.viagra.com/registration.aspx) however I've never seen a coupon for birth control.
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JT Jag posted:She's already 65? I assumed she was 50-something. Huh. I was going to point that earlier but I assumed I missed something. I think you are assuming that Obama wasn't ready for the Presidency, but he isn't Warren. Obama is a very Conservative person and President. His fault is not lack of experience, it is that his ideals suck. Warren would have a lot of difficulty getting anything done, but she would try. I'm really not sure exactly what you are advocating. Do you think an experienced president could make this Congress pass bills?
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Pohl posted:I was going to point that earlier but I assumed I missed something. I think you are assuming that Obama wasn't ready for the Presidency, but he isn't Warren. Obama is a very Conservative person and President. His fault is not lack of experience, it is that his ideals suck. There's plenty of evidence that the bills passed were not what Obama wanted and were formulated because he relied on advisors instead of his own experience and intuition.
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Pohl posted:Warren would have a lot of difficulty getting anything done, but she would try. I doubt that severely, because she really doesn't want to run in the first place.
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