Classic's Crap

[glatt]

I can understand this. "They say my cheese and crackers need to be ready at 3:45 when POTUS returns from his daughter's soccer game." Bad guys now know the timing and movement of POTUS and can lie in wait for the passing motorcade on Connecticut Ave at 3:30.

Or "Can't serve beef Wellington because those nutty Indians won't eat beef. Guess I'll go with the Chicken." Minor international ripples ensue.

He can write a book about it later.

[Shawnee123]

Maybe the White House has anti-attention whore rules for staff.

[Pie]

Also they worry about poisoning. One or more heads of state + knowledge that the bread is coming from such-and-such bakery = way more than the Secret Service wants out there...

[classicman]

@ glatt & pie - I can see your points, but thats not what this was. I guess if they allow any of it then it could lead to that.

[Shawnee123]

and the white house thinks it's attention-whore tacky and insulting to the other nation that Bozo the Chef is turning his meal-making into a media circus. It's a state dinner, not Taco Extravaganza Night at the junior high, some decorum is in order.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by classicman

thats not what this was.

Maybe, maybe not. I don't know everything he tweeted and what important information can be gleaned from it.

Ask yourself how your boss would feel about you if you were tweeting about the goings on at your company. I'm surprised that you are surprised by this. If I tweeted about work, I'd get reamed out. Our policy manual actually covers this. There are only a handful of people who are authorized to comment to the press about the work we do.

[classicman]

eh hem - hey shaw.

[classicman]

I know what you are saying glatt, but he was allowed to do interviews. I think this is taking it over the top. The guy was talking about recipes, ingredients and that kind of stuff. Nothing of any real value to anyone.

[Shawnee123]

Eh hem. Bite me.

[Shawnee123]

Hi

*waves*

[Shawnee123]

OUT damn spot!

[Shawnee123]

Alright, I'll stay out. I apologize. I just think I did have a point about decorum.

[classicman]

Senators load financial overhaul with irrelevancies

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., wants the government to finish building the 700-mile fence between the U.S. and Mexico. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wants to end the health insurance industry's antitrust protection. West Virginia's two senators want help with mine and oil rig safety.

They all want to add these things to the financial regulatory overhaul bill that's moving through the Senate, even though their ideas have little or nothing to do with oversight of financial markets.

Senators have proposed 326 amendments to the bill, whose chief purpose is to revamp the system that's regulated financial institutions since the Great Depression, but failed to prevent the current deep recession.

The bill could be the last major legislation this Congress approves — and draw enormous media attention — before November's congressional elections. That's why it's attracting a lot of extraneous amendments.

"A lot of senators see this bill as a good forum, and they see the session winding down after this," said David Arkush, the director of Congress Watch, a watchdog group.

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I think they see this as one of the last pieces of legislation getting done before the potential clusterfuck returns.

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Alright, I'll stay out. I apologize. I just think I did have a point about decorum.

It seems to me when you are invited into someone's home, the proper decorum is to do what they ask and not make it a personal sideshow....or leave.

[Spexxvet]

Seriously Classic, you're at the point where you'd be critical of government if congress passed a bill eliminating all taxes, and Obama signed it.

A couple of weeks ago you mentioned how you thought you might lose your job soon. I hope you don't, but if you do, I hope you'll be appretiative that there's a government that'll help you support your family until you can get another job.