[BREITBART] A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where police shot and killed her, witnesses and officials said. I'd ask what's the country coming to, but it looks like we're already there.
Tourists watched the shooting unfold on Constitution Avenue outside the Capitol as politicians inside debated how to end a government shutdown. Police ordered passersby and people in the Capitol and Supreme Court buildings to find shelter. Within two minutes, everyone outside had been shifted to the Capitol. The Capitol was then put on lockdown, with Capitol Police wary in the aftermath of the Navy Yard shooting two weeks ago, during which a civilian contractor for the Navy opened fire with a shotgun, killing 13.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported, "As a warning was sounded, the House abruptly went into recess and politicians left the chamber floor. The Senate also suspended business." The Republican House had just finished passing a bill that would have paid National Guard and Reserve members.
Capitol Hill has been reopened after about an hour, and NBC's Pete Williams states that the incident is now "over." Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine said that the scene was "under control." President B.O. was briefed about the incident.
The White House was locked down, according to the AP, after the incident, as was part of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who said he was briefed by the Homeland Security Department, said the woman was killed. Asked if she was armed, he replied: "I don't think she was. There was no return fire."
Police described it as an isolated event and saw no indications of terrorism.
The pursuit began when a car with Connecticut plates sped onto the driveway leading to the White House, over a set of lowered barricades. When she couldn't get through a second barrier, she spun the car in the opposite direction, flipping a Secret Service officer over the hood of the car as she sped away, said B.J. Campbell, a tourist from Portland, Ore.
A fleet of police and Secret Service cars chased the Infiniti toward Capitol Hill. An amateur video shows the car circling a fountain in front of the Capitol. The driver slows down as police approach, and then speeds away.
"The car was trying to get away. But it was going over the median and over the curb," said Matthew Coursen, who was on his way to a legislative office building when the Infiniti sped by him. "The car got boxed in and that's when I saw an officer of some kind draw his weapon and fire shots into the car."
Coursen watched the shooting from his cab window.
"I thought to myself, `The car is getting blocked in. The car is going to surrender,'" he said. "Now the cop has his weapon out. The car kept trying to get away. Then he fired shots."
Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer said a child was taken from the car to a hospital but said he knew of no harm to the youngster. Tourist Edmund Ofori-Attah said the child appeared to be about 2 to 3 years old.
A police officer was injured in the traffic accident but Gainer said the injuries were not life threatening.
"We heard three, four, five pops," said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who was walking from the Capitol to an office building across the street. Police ordered Casey and nearby tourists to crouch behind a car for protection, then hustled everyone into the Capitol.
"There were multiple shots fired and the air was filled with gunpowder," said Berin Szoka, whose office at a technology think tank overlooks the shooting scene.
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A woman believed to be a dental hygienist from Stamford, Conn., was shot dead by police today after allegedly attempting to ram the White House gates and leading authorities on a high-speed chase to the U.S. Capitol, officials said.
The related gunfire sent senators and staffers scrambling inside the Capitol, which was put under lockdown.
Authorities believed the dead suspect was Miriam Carey, 34, according to a spokesman for Carey's family. Authorities said she had a history of mental health issues, and her mother told ABC News she suffered from post-partum depression.
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WAA WAA. Let's move Our nations "leaders" to Detroit. One car chase and the world looks at this piece of shit DC as some kind of anomaly. Walk 9 blocks up from the Capitol building.
Self aggrandizing make hey out of nothing Twerks.
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I almost drove off the road last night laughing at the irony, listening to the radio justifying the use of deadly force - "The police could have been injured by her actions so they had a right to defend themselves."
But not you and me, Newshound?
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Apparently, the only shots fired were by the various and overlapping government personnel. Not that anyone in the WH has any grasp of the implications, but their theater may soon blow up in their face like Lexington Common. Nothing to see here, move along.
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The woman had mental illness issues. She acted improperly/irrationally and somewhat dangerously, and I can understand the need for police response. Main criticism is that if she really had been seriously dangerous their marksmanship was inadequate to have prevented catastrophe. I wonder if jihadis are watching and taking notes.
As most reports of police shootings seem to indicate. Too much time in departments playing SWAT soldier to claim an overdue library book or stop unpasteurized milk leaving a farm. These people should be under the Barney Fife ammo restriction until they get real weapons control training.
I'm sure there is enough video to do a 3-D real time review with bullet cam, but I have not seen it and reserve judgement, so don't know if she was acting the loon or trying to make a scene, still it all happened in two No Funny Stuff Zones especially in the age of the suicide bomber.
The national peoples' republic of radio is a joke to offer any explanation without the basic facts; parrots to a pirate captain.
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One car chase and the world looks at this piece of shit DC as some kind of anomaly.
To be fair:
1. It follows on the heels of the Navy Yard shootings,
2. Security situation in D.C. is a bit tense right now, whether you you want to believe that or not.
But hey - who am I to stand in the way of a mindless rant?
so don't know if she was acting the loon or trying to make a scene
Reports this morning are that the deceased was briefly institutionalized for mental health issues, and that she drove down from Stamford to D.C. that day. That's about a 5-6 hour drive, btw.
Whatever happened to caucasian loonie shooters and whacko's ?
Haven't shown up, much to the MSM's disappointment.
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..but when he does, it'll be 24/7 coverage for most of a week, extra days if they're able to tie him no matter how indirect or coincidence to their favorite whipping boys.
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so don't know if she was acting the loon or trying to make a scene
I have seen some raw video of only a few moments, no real context but that part looked like panic and evasion rather than deliberate action - at that moment.
Still, a No Funny Stuff Zone, especially after Navy Yard. I would think one of the scenarios they run is a car bomb, so at the very worst I currently am at I understand. Its not like a person call call an efn time out and do twenty questions especially when a car runs into a White House security device and then speeds off and attempts to ellude the cops.
Whatever happened to caucasian loonie shooters and whacko's ?
Odds on sharpton typing up the poh-lease gunning down ill black mother story?
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I would think one of the scenarios they run is a car bomb, so at the very worst I currently am at I understand
Sorry swksvolFF, can't agree with this as an excuse for a trigger happy cop. This is becoming all to prevalent that cops get a free pass 'cause someone might be a scary terrorist. Anyone could be a splodeydope or driving a car bomb and a panic attack by a cop should not be excusable in any case.
This is all of a piece with the militarization of the police which I find very troubling. Without going all Godwin there's precedent for concern.
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All I'm saying is wait a bit before throwing lettuce at a team designated to help protect the seat of government of the United States.
Because we all know how accurate the newsworks are on this kind of reporting. Just say that there were 24 or so shots fired - were they all from handgun or AR-15 shotguns? Is that all from one officer, or four officers firing three times each? Was the vehicle moving at the time? Had she given up and then shot down or was she being erratic and dangerous? They keep showing this picture of a smashed police cruiser - is there public video out which would show if the cop ran into her or if she used her vehicle as a ram? The woman initiated this scenario not the police, unlike say a raid or sting.
The militarization of the police is a concern, especially how giving boys toys they will want to play with them.
If there is a site where the video and timeline has been collected and can be studied I would take a look. If this is one officer going through three magazines at a stopped vehicle, year thats bull, but three officers attempting to shoot out tires and/or driver of an evassive fast moving vehicle then 24 rounds, if that is correct, would make sense.
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This is not as clear a case of overuse of force as say flash-banging grandpa in his attic, or mistaking two latinas for a black man.
As for our techie working in and office for a think tank in DC screaming Air is Filled with Gunsmoke!...I get the feeling he does not know what that statement really means.
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swksvolFF - there was a video clip out yesterday, looked like maybe from an i-phone, where you saw the car back away from the barricade and start to drive away. At that point you could hear what sounded like about a magazine of 9 mm shots that seemed to have no effect. The video showed the car moving at a high speed (for the environment - maybe 30 mph)around the area for a while. Did not hear other gunshots. Do not know if the woman died from one of the initial shots eventually having effect or if they shot later.
Concur with you that this was not an obvious overuse of force under the circumstances (may have been overuse but certainly not obviously so.)
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From the short video clip I saw this morning, she refused to stop. They had her stopped but then she put it into reverse and tried to get away again. So they shot her. It looked understandable to me. But then, maybe she should have been wearing a tin foil hat.
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They keep showing this picture of a smashed police cruiser - is there public video out which would show if the cop ran into her or if she used her vehicle as a ram?
The police car skidded into a security bollard. No other vehicle involved.
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an Infiniti is not an uparmored HumV or M-RAP. The police should be capable of stopping such a vehicle without wild firing if the driver is NOT armed and shooting back.
I'm all for the police stopping bad-guys but there have been all too many over-reactions by these supposed civil servants and the excuse that she could have been a terrorist with a car bomb is right up there with planting the evidence.
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Also interesting to know would be the SOPs and Training Scenarios & Guidelines; considering the location the police may be required to disable any erratic and unresponsive driver/vehicle ASAP.
The police car skidded into a security bollard. No other vehicle involved.
Ooopsies.
That's why I don't just jump on the newsies when these things happen - too much misleading, falsehoods, and deliberate lying. I figure a report will be issued tomorrow outlining the event. Maybe even right after the half of the second game.
I'll certainly agree with you on waiting on the REAL facts. I guess my big change of attitude is that I used to have a default that the cops were right; now my default is that the police state is wrong until proven otherwise.
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"The car got boxed in and that's when I saw an officer of some kind draw his weapon and fire shots into the car."
That's murder, The cop should testify WHO AUTHORIZED IT.
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Mark my words (he intoned ominously), she'll turn out to have been an avid fan of that "Scandal" program who couldn't handle the buildup for the season premiere last night. Or maybe she got an early look at it and the three-way in the secret bunker put her over the edge. Kinda shaky today, myself, but I'm not gonna say it. Hysterical! Okay, I said it. Yikes.
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AlanC,
I'm not much different. This would be abnormal for me just on account of its location and the lady trying to get away when it was past obvious she was in trouble. If she was having a bad day, it was the wrong place and wrong time, with the Navy Yard and a shooter in the Capital Building not so long ago.
But you are right, SWAT teams to do water samples, Education Department raids, Youth Brigades with armored vehicles, and you know that if war equipment is handed out to law enforcement, they are going to want to use it.
Even SWAT teams were a nice tool to have in the box, but now Everybody gotta have at least two. So then we have the civilianization in charter and behavior of the military, and the militization of the police. Batteries are going in backwards and its not going to work.
I know y'all are just as surprised as I am.
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That changed yesterday, when they found Henderson, a 21-year-old student and part-time child-care worker who lives in Georgia and says that he successfully enrolled himself and his father Bill in insurance plans via the online exchange administered at healthcare.gov.
But in an exclusive phone interview this morning with Reason, Chad's father Bill contradicted virtually every major detail of the story the media can't get enough of. What's more, some of the details that Chad has released are also at odds with published rate schedules and how Obamacare officials say the enrollment system works. Much more at the link. Ace has so much more.
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Also, looked for a "pants on fire" graphic, but apparently we don't have one.
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Like the hundreds of World War II veterans who came to National Mall to pay their respects this week, a group of Vietnam veterans found a barricade blocking the way to their memorial Friday. News4's Mark Segraves said two U.S. Park Service Rangers manning the gate asked that the group respect the government's shutdown but moved aside.
Segraves described the exchange as pleasant and respectful.
The veterans then moved the barricade and walked down to the wall to pay their respects. But a flood of tourists followed even though the memorial is closed to the general public.
U.S. Park Police arrive to the scene, asked everyone to leave and put the barricade back into place. A flood of tourists followed - largely also to pay their respects; that was the case when I was there with a class of fifth graders some years ago (Is ANYBODY smarter than a fifth grader anymore?) I am most interested to see if this flood of tourists left a mess or grafitti or chipped off souvenirs or what. My bet is no: people who visit do so because of respect, and the rare few who do not will still face the condemnation of the rest - like was the case across society a couple of generations ago, but survives only in a few niches today.
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Sent a woman to serve on the picture front. She has more balls than the Administration is what I gather from this. That being said, if she wasn't inwardly ashamed we have real problems.
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Apparently the barry-cades blocking the WWII memorial this morning have been wired together. If I were in DC today, I'd be out there with a pair of wire cutters.
Time to resist.
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So now Obama has sent out the village idiot to say something stupid and divert the negative attention away from himself. Joe, your a fool and being used as one.
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Hell, if I had an address I'd overnight a box of wire cutters today.
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Closing off a park that costs no money to run and shutting down government websites that cost no money to run and trying to close off parks paid for by others. And then calling the republicans childish brats. Wow, the chutzbah is stunning.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Senate Democrats blocked four resolutions to fund government programs, including paying the National Guard and opening national parks, as Republicans offered the limited measures in an attempt to win the government shutdown fight by financing popular programs and leaving those they oppose untouched.
"Unbelievably, today Senate Democrats went on record to oppose funding for National Guard and Reserve salaries, veterans' services, lifesaving medicine and cures, and national parks and museums," Senate Republican Conference chairman John Thune, R-S.D., said in a release following the procedural battle.
"Congress unanimously passed a bill to ensure active-duty military personnel are paid during this lapse in government funding, and it's unclear why Senate Democrats wouldn't pass similar measures to fund these important services," Thune said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., asked for unanimous consent to pass funding for the Veterans Affairs Department and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, requested unanimous consent to pass a bill funding the national parks and monuments. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... , D-Nev., rejected both.
"Senator Reid is countering Republicans' UC request with a request to pass a clean [continuing resolution] that reopens the entire government," Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson tweeted.
Thune offered a measure that would ensure the National Guard and Reserve units do not see their pay interrupted, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., called for the Senate to fund the National Institutes of Health. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., blocked the measures.
Sen. Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. , D-N.Y., defended the maneuvers during a press conference Thursday afternoon. "To fund these piecemeal bills would give Ted Cruz a veto power over what is funded and what isn't," Schumer said. "We are not going along with that -- how could we?"
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Reid also followed up on his controversial comments from Wednesday, when he took issue with the idea that the Senate should vote to fund clinical trials for cancer patients at the National Institutes of Health during the shutdown.
In the interview, Reid criticized Boehner for bowing to a conservative faction of his caucus that insists on attaching anti-Obamacare provisions to a temporary spending bill needed to fund the government.
His job is not as important as our country, Reid said.
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that reopens the entire government
Typical Democrap, give me everything I want or you're a meanie.
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All Reid and Obama are concerned about is the retention and exercise of power, the 'old' country be damned in their view. The brave new world of total centralized power is their want and desire.
#4
I would prefer all budgets be presented in small bites; 80% of Americans probably agree on 80% of the spending, and in a 'business' world, that would get funded so operations could continue with minimal disruption (and less cost too) while the remaining 20% was debated. But in the political world the 80% is held 'hostage' to the 20%. And we let them do it, and ultimately pay the ransom, so the technique prospers and grows.
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Why is Reid doing all the talking? If Obama is running the country shouldn't Obama be in the thick of it? Does Reid run the country? Does Obama take orders from Reid?
Obama is looking even less presidential these days -- a difficult trick to pull off!
Bambi takes order from Soros (and God knows who else; the Arabs, at least). >:-(
Maybe Reid delivers Soros' messages.
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It's pretty clear after that Syrian business that Obummer is taking orders from the Soddies. He's not alone, of course, his strange bedfellows McCain and Graham are too.
Reid accused House Speaker John Boehner of being more worried about his job than the country amid a government shutdown.
Unlike Reid, Boehner will have to face his constituents in 2014 and that election is now close enough that his constituents are likely to remember whatever way this situation gets resolved. It could also be that Boehner doesn't have fat cat developers who funnel illegal cash into his campaign coffers.
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Well, he has never done anything to effectively address the rumors that he is a pedophile, has he?
Frankly, at this point, I don't think there's anything too scummy for the Dem Party leadership to indulge in.
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See also NEW YORK TIMES > BOEHNER TELLS REPUBLICANS HE WON'T LET THE NATION DEFAULT.
* TOPIX > [USA Today] WALL STREET: ODDS OF US DEFAULT CLOSE TO ZERO.
* SAME > [WaPo] YOU PROBABLY THINK THE SHUTDOWN IS ABOUT SPENDING, BUT IT ISN'T.
* RIGHT WING NEWS > IN CASE REPUBLICANS IN D.C. HAVEN'T NOTICED, THEY'RE WINNING THE SHUTDOWN FIGHT.
The Debt + Deficit have both been going down - an Obama victory on the shutdown means he + Dems will raise the debt ceiling which in turn which means the Debt + Deficit will reverse + go back up.
versus
* TOPIX > [Business Week] WHY AMERICA'S ADVERSARIES LOVE THIS SHUTDOWN!?
* SAME > [IBT.com] ANALYSIS: NEXT OBAMA QE TO BOOST ECONOMY, COUNTER SUTDOWN EFFECTS TO ALSO ACCELERATE DEBT. US AT HIGH RISK OF HYPER-INFLATION.
IOW, its NOT the Republican shutdown, but raising the debt ceiling as desired by the Bammer Admin + Democrats, that will worsen US economic woes.
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VOICE OF RUSSIA > US SHUTDOWN HAMPERS IMPLEMENTATION OF IRAN, SYRIA SANCTIONS - WHITE HOUSE.
Yokay, but China has NucWeapons while Japan + PHIL + ASEAN do not; + the Bammer + Democrats = US need China to borrow post-shutdown. I DON'T SEE THE US PUTTING ANY SANCTIONS ON CHINA IFF IT OPEN FIRED AGZ JAPAN + PHIL, ETC.
* Also from VOICE OF RUSSIA > US GOVT. SHUTDOWN: OBAMA DOESN'T WANT TO LEAD HIS OWN NATION - INTERVIEW, wid Patrick Young.
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As a reminder ...
* TOPIX > JENSEN: IRAN WILL HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Its what OWG Global, SSSSSHHH...CCCCCCCC P-A-R,
"C0-Superpowers" do???
#4
So maybe it is true the troops continue to get paid, but if they cannot use the commissaries and exchanges and have to go out in town,, that is going to put a bite into their pay; maybe not as bad as total non pay, but when the spousal unit gets wound up about budget issues, watch the moral-o-meter drop. ( for the record, here at NASWI, the NEX gas price is at least the same as in town, maybe a bit more, but off the island I can find it for 25-30 cents less, so I do not use the NEX.)
#5
Honestly, although there are two pretty lavish commissaries with reach of me - I have hardly used any of them since I retired. First - there is the convenience factor; there are two or three HEB outlets within a 5-10 minute drive from my house. The commissaries are about a 20 minute drive, or more. There is a Sam's Club also about 5 minutes away. Between Sam's and the HEB - the prices are about the same. So, not to heartbroken about the commissaries. Sorry - just not that on.
I heard most of this on the radio this morning. WTOP is "the most listened-to station". At their website, it is one of several questions answered by "The Answer Desk" Is it really necessary to close monuments memorials on the National Mall during the shutdown?
A partner [Mahoney] with a Washington law firm focused on the federal employment sector, says the barricades on the mall send a clear message that the government is shut down. The "clear message" part was not included in the radio spot.
"It is somewhat political, I mean obviously the mall is a very publicly visible area," Mahoney says.
The park service says the monuments and memorials are closed because of staffing reductions. But Mahoney suggests some security is available.
"The park rangers are furloughed, currently, the park police are not," Mahoney says.
Some congressional Republicans complain that while the high profile spots are closed, including the Lincoln, Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. memorials, other park property has remained open including Constitutional Gardens and the Japanese American Memorial.
Some of the closed monuments "are open spaces on an average given day," Mahoney says, and "whether they actually need to be closed is a fair question." "A fair question." On the radio, I almost took the item to be approaching being somewhat, slightly critical of the government's approach to inflicting maximum pain.
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Obvious solution: rename it the Barack Hussein Obama National Mall.
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Why Is the National Mall Closed?
Cause we can't call a king a king, yet? It would be an admission that the republic is long dead and that we've been running the gauntlet of oligarchs who play the theater to the masses to keep the servile in line. You've built a imperial bureaucracy and given it grand and sweeping powers not grasping that in the end all power corrupts. Too many in the bureaucracy now fully believe, as they act, you exist to serve the state.
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There is no NEED to close open-air features due to staff furloughs; they are even admitting it is being done because of 'visibility', which is to say publicity and politics. THAT is an abuse of power and should be illegal.
As far as not having trash pickup etc. - I saw pictures of the Mall after Tea Party rallies (and saw in person other parks after such rallies) and am convinced the need for government trash service only applies to Democrats.
#4
Champ is King! He decides what the zeks will visit.
Champ is redefining the powers [formerly Congressionally mandated powers] of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. His work on the Judicial has already been completed.
#6
As pointed out by the "Peoples Cube" - Yes, it's true - the official 800 national hotline number listed on the healthcare.gov website to call for assistance is 1-800-318-2596, otherwise known as 1-800-F1U-CKYO. They should have vetted that number better.
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