You have GOT to be kidding me

[LouCipherr]

Click here for the lunacy... Mr Obama will arrive in India on Saturday for the first leg of an Asian tour. But as well as the usual security measures that come with welcoming a a visiting dignitary, Indian authorities have decided to go one step further, by removing all natural threats to the president as well. All coconuts around the city's Gandhi museum, one of Mr Obama's stops in the city, are being taken down. "We told the authorities to remove the dry coconuts from trees near the building. Why take a chance?" Mani Bhavan's executive secretary, Meghshyam Ajgaonkar, told the BBC. Last week American security officers inspected Mani Bhavan and its surroundings along with other places the president is likely to visit. Every year in India people are injured or even killed by falling coconuts. Mr Obama, still smarting from heavy losses in the midterm elections, will visit India, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan and China on the 10-day tour.

[Neil]

Oh My God! Maybe they should make sure the grass isn't too long incase he should trip over it... And the bees? What about the bees? He might get stung!!!!

[SymphonicX]

You forgot the blindingly important detail in all of this: This trip is costing YOU AMERICANS 200 million A DAY! Fucking disgraceful. He's taking his whole family out there on a jolly. Source: The daily hate: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...taxpayers.html five days - a billion dollars that could be spent on helping the jobless return to work, or reforming healthcare, or ANYTHING.

[AcesandEights]

In all fairness, we are only one bad coconut away from a Joe Biden presidency. Just sayin'.

[LouCipherr]

You forgot the blindingly important detail in all of this: This trip is costing YOU AMERICANS 200 million A DAY! Fucking disgraceful. He's taking his whole family out there on a jolly. Source: The daily hate: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...taxpayers.html five days - a billion dollars that could be spent on helping the jobless return to work, or reforming healthcare, or ANYTHING. Don't even get me started on this idiot. It's bad enough he's president, now we have this kind of shit going on. How's that "change" and "hope" everyone?

[BillyRay]

Don't even get me started on this idiot. It's bad enough he's president, now we have this kind of shit going on. How's that "change" and "hope" everyone? Oh, Lou... I'm too tired and peacable and normally have a ton of respect for you to start yelling and flaming. So...just... NO BACON FOR YOU. I'm sorry it came to this.

[ProfessorChaos]

1 billion dollars for the O's to take a vacation? fuck...any point to this little getaway or is he just trying to forget his party just got thumped in the elections? EDIT: well, i guess he'd better yuck it up while he can, i highly doubt he's gonna be at 1600 pennsylvania avenue after jan 20, 2013.

[AcesandEights]

NO BACON FOR YOU. I'm sorry it came to this. Well worth the price of admission to the thread!

[BillyRay]

1 billion dollars for the O's to take a vacation? fuck...any point to this little getaway or is he just trying to forget his party just got thumped in the elections? EDIT: well, i guess he'd better yuck it up while he can, i highly doubt he's gonna be at 1600 pennsylvania avenue after jan 20, 2013. Yep, the people have spoken. And they've said: "PLEASE, CORPORATIONS! TAKE OUR MONEY AND RESOURCES AND GIVE US NOTHING BACK! PLEASE ERODE OUR RIGHTS AND LESSEN YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITIES! WE'D MUCH RATHER PRESENT OURSELVES TO YOU LIKE MANDRILLS IN THE NAME OF THE "FREE MARKET"! They have 2 years with no co-operation to turn things around and crap rainbows. The same chance they gave ol' Barry.

[ProfessorChaos]

goddamn i hate politics.

[BillyRay]

Sorry dude, didn't mean to rant. It just seems that the electorate is acting like a battered housewife. All it takes is the Republicans saying: "Honest baby, I won't hit you again, I promise, you know I love you" and the American people come running back for more. It makes an old Leftist feel like the "Nice Guy" who was dumped for an asshole yet again.

[LouCipherr]

Oh, Lou... I'm too tired and peacable and normally have a ton of respect for you to start yelling and flaming. So...just... NO BACON FOR YOU. I'm sorry it came to this. Well, the no bacon for me I can understand, but why in the world would you possibly want to yell at me and start flaming? Let me reassure you, I don't just hate obama, I hate all politicians (well, except for one) equally, so my prejudice is universal. Well worth the price of admission to the thread! I have to agree. goddamn i hate politics. I agree with that sentiment, too.

[ProfessorChaos]

i know, BR, i wasn't offended. i can imagine that someone who traditionally votes D would be upset now. i've voted for both parties on a few ballots for varying reasons. the last couple of elections i've mainly been in the R camp, but i don't like to consider myself as being solely for one side or the other. but i think there is a lot that people aren't happy about and want to see fixed in the right way and it feels like certain items are rushed through without the type of serious contemplation and levity they call for.

[Mike70]

did i hear talk of bacon? that is so much more interesting that any political topic could ever be.

[LouCipherr]

did i hear talk of bacon? that is so much more interesting that any political topic could ever be. I think it should be a requirement that we BACON every single thread on HPotD.