Anybody here see the news story about the couple who "crashed" the White House state dinner the other night?

My opinion?  Somebody's head must roll at the Secret Service.   >:(   This is an unforgiveable breach of security.  What if instead of a fame-seeking couple, they were highly trained terrorist operatives?

The President deserves one heck of alot better security than this.

No doubt.  How scary is it to know that basically all you have to do is tell them they forgot to put you on the list and you're in.  The President needs more protection than that.

No doubt.  How scary is it to know that basically all you have to do is tell them they forgot to put you on the list and you're in.  The President needs more protection than that.


seriously!!! bet they get that reality show the chick was after tho...  ::)

I thought this was a screenplay for Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, but a lot of folks up there with the important jobs in the important buildings ain't smiling.  LB's right, heads are gonna roll.  They better.
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Articles I read assert that there was no danger because they went through the security screening, so couldn't have had concealed weapons, but still...

By not being on that list they should have been turned away at the door...no ifs ands or buts. These people lied to security and for that they should be punished.

Articles I read assert that there was no danger because they went through the security screening, so couldn't have had concealed weapons, but still...


But if they had been trained martial artists, they could have put a lethal move on the President when they talked to him in that receiving line.

The lack of violence in this incident makes it no less serious. Something is wrong with the Secret Service and it needs to be fixed... NOW. 

By not being on that list they should have been turned away at the door...no ifs ands or buts. These people lied to security and for that they should be punished.


When it's easier to get into the presidential dinner party than a VIP room at a nudie bar, something's wrong...

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When it's easier to get into the presidential dinner party than a VIP room at a nudie bar, something's wrong...

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All you gotta do to get into the VIP room at a shake shack is a wad of money.

At least that's what people tell me...  :P

All you gotta do to get into the VIP room at a shake shack is a wad of money.

At least that's what people tell me...   :P


What I've heard, you know, is there are VIP rooms and there are (air quotes) VIP rooms (/air quotes).  Sorta like the speakeasies during Prohibition.  A wad of money gets the job done as long as it's all within the law.  The thing is, the DEA, and the IRS, and the vice constabulary can send a snitch in with a big ol' wad, so...  Anyway, I was gonna say Manhattan coke party, but six and one-half dozen of the other.  Zeb mentioned "not on the list," which brought your standard bar bouncer* to mind.  Plus that broad looked like somebody who would be brought to a nudie bar VIP room by a dude who looked like that.
:P

*Qualifications for job of bouncer:
a. Stand next to a door.
b. Be an azzhole.

Wait a minute, I knew I saw those too idiots somewhere before...they were in a synth pop band in the eighties!

http://itsnotpossible.typepad.com/trashfan/animotion1.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DhfDjOqaw

(that's 1985, not 1983, btw)

:D

Wait a minute, I knew I saw those too idiots somewhere before...they were in a synth pop band in the eighties!

(that's 1985, not 1983, btw)

:D


could have sworn it was 1983... weird.  I guess Holly Knight did record a version then, but it wasn't popular.

Those two just want a Reality Show...like everybody else!

could have sworn it was 1983... weird.  I guess Holly Knight did record a version then, but it wasn't popular.


Going off-topic for a moment...

I didn't know Holly Knight did her own version of "Obsession," but she was the chief writer, with some help from Bernie Taupin.  That was Animotion's problem, their big hit was written tunesmiths, then when you bought the album (as I did), the rest was bleccch!  The two of them always made me crack up.  She looks like a Vegas hooker and he looks like he just walked off a scotch ad!

BTW, Holly Knight, fresh from "Love is a Battlefield" also wrote a song Real Life tried to revive their career with, "Babies," which is hilarious!
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