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No forkin' way: Secret Service bans utensils at Obama speech
Now.MSN.com ^ | June 22, 2012 | AnaNavaro

Posted on 06/22/2012 11:55:02 PM PDT by LucyT

"...providing security for the president is one of the toughest, most stressful jobs around. But we're not quite certain the threat forks present. Today at a meeting in Orlando, Fla., of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, where President Obama was scheduled to give a speech, the Secret Service wasn't taking the chance..." announcing they would collect all forks being used for lunch.

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Diners were also told that knives were not made available for "a reason."

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(Excerpt) Read more at now.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: florida; forkless; forklessfriday; forks; forkyou; paranoid; twilightzone
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To: Smokin' Joe

Yep, you nailed how it would play out.

I hope Romney’s security is tight.


21 posted on 06/23/2012 1:12:31 AM PDT by unkus
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To: LucyT

I wonder if Biden will do the same when he goes and does speeches to the Chinese-Americans.


22 posted on 06/23/2012 1:17:13 AM PDT by tsowellfan (Should Obama recuse himself from making any decisions on immigration?)
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To: tsowellfan; LucyT
I wonder if Biden will do the same when he goes and does speeches to the Chinese-Americans.

I don't see this happening with Biden. I don't see the paranoia in him.

23 posted on 06/23/2012 1:19:24 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: tsowellfan

Biden would make a stupid comment about chop sticks.


24 posted on 06/23/2012 1:20:01 AM PDT by unkus
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To: MasterGunner01; pepsionice; unkus

Walking out of an event would dampen any of BO’s attempts at manufactured drama aimed at a sympathy vote. No audience = no drama.


25 posted on 06/23/2012 1:22:54 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: Smokin' Joe
I can’t remember where I saw it but some people are swearing there’s going to be a fake assasination attempt. To drum up the sympathy vote.


26 posted on 06/23/2012 1:24:15 AM PDT by tsowellfan (Should Obama recuse himself from making any decisions on immigration?)
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To: LucyT

I often think there are people trying to sabotage him and his campaign. Considering the SS is under the control of the Executive Branch, this is comical. I hope it ticks off the hispanics.


27 posted on 06/23/2012 1:41:57 AM PDT by PghBaldy (I eagerly await the next news about the struggles of Elizabeth Sacheen Littlefeather Warren.)
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To: PghBaldy

They won’t be ticked off. Staying steady at about a 70 percent clip on the legal voter side, and 100 percent on the illegal side. Voting for their plantation masters is what those numbers mean. The blacks are firmly entrenched to vote for their plantation masters at 90 percent and the Hispanics are intent on catching up.

Naw, they won’t be ticked off. The handouts and the get in free cards for their comrades is too enticing. Whoop me again mah’ster.


28 posted on 06/23/2012 1:54:31 AM PDT by commonguymd (Freedom is a myth anymore it seems)
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To: Winstons Julia
Actually, I hadn't thought of that, although it is a possibility.

He has a problematical appointee who has been in the news lately, and it wouldn't be hard for the press to gin up a 'motive'.

As we have seen recently, facts don't matter to a media-driven populace, and the media are there to sell soap.

Instead, it is all about the image, the emotions the media tie to the 'brave, persevering, honest and forthright victim'.

By the time all the fawning memorials would be over (a few weeks, or until more Rights had been trashed with 'Emergency legislation' a few thousand pages thick--or even just Executive Orders, whichever came first), one would think Elvis had died again for all the used Kleenex produced by the people watching TV.

The racism meme could be trotted out again by the MSM if the appointee was the alleged target, and the ensuing and obligatory riots would be enough excuse for Martial Law, if the polls didn't reflect 'growing sympathy' for the administration.

Of course, agitation and incitement work best in urban areas in summer, so August is the most likely time, barring a heat wave.

When Bill O'Reilly calls those who have (correctly, imho) identified that F&F was to pad stats for guns retrieved from Cartel killings to justify more gun control a "conspiracy theory", I doubt there would be much analysis going on, especially not on TV. If the internet was compromised, the lockout would be pretty much complete, and no serious look would be taken at events past the media meme.

That may sound tinfoil hat, but in view of the lengths this administration has already gone to in order to impose the will of those pulling their strings on the people, I would put nothing past them.

Sometimes a theory is a correct representation of reality, no matter how much conspiracy is involved, nor how outlandish it seems. In fact, the more outlandish, the better, because that increases the deniability coefficient.

29 posted on 06/23/2012 1:56:53 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: abb

The Spork-Weasel-In-Chief is done.


30 posted on 06/23/2012 2:06:12 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: LucyT

How ever did they eat at Sarah Jessica Parker’s? Want was Anna Wintour’s solution?

Confiscate all eyeglasses as well. Potential risk.
Do not let anyone shake your hands. Hand sanitizer not good enough
Address audience by closed circuit from adjacent room.


31 posted on 06/23/2012 2:15:00 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: LucyT

0bama is apparently going full on Manson family on this one, 2012 style.

Then again, I guess Democrats think Latinos could always use tortillas to eat with. “Shut up and eat your taco!’


32 posted on 06/23/2012 2:31:21 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: LucyT

plan a ban guns. 2012
plan b ban knives? 2016


33 posted on 06/23/2012 2:40:54 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: LucyT

Vampires , ghouls & werewolves do not want silverware anywhere close when they’re in bloom. Well-known fact.


34 posted on 06/23/2012 2:44:06 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: LucyT

Looks real but it is PLASTIC.

35 posted on 06/23/2012 2:48:39 AM PDT by GailA (IF U don't/won't keep your promises to the Military, U won't keep them to the public)
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To: LucyT

ALL PLASTIC to go with the plastic forks, knives and spoons.

A true weapons expert can turn any thing into a weapon....duh!They must not have watched much McGiver.

36 posted on 06/23/2012 2:56:11 AM PDT by GailA (IF U don't/won't keep your promises to the Military, U won't keep them to the public)
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To: LucyT

Did they hand out feed bags at Sarah Jessica Parker’s?


37 posted on 06/23/2012 2:58:34 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: thecodont
I don't see this happening with Biden. I don't see the paranoia in him.

Joe B. has that "stuck on stupid" thing workin' for him.
They have been keeping sharp objects away from Joe for a lot of years already.

38 posted on 06/23/2012 3:07:21 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: tsowellfan
They make Joe use Vietnamese chopsticks - they have a blunt point.
(kinda symbolic for Joe)
39 posted on 06/23/2012 3:12:30 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: GailA

When Forks are outlawed, only outlaws will have forks.

You can have my fork when your pry my cold dead
hand from it.

The Second Amendment of the Constitution protects the right to bear arms.

SS says forks are arms.

This can not stand!!!!!

We are at a fork in the road to Marxism.

It won’t be long until some enterprising young entrepreneur fashions a gun with a fork like bayonet, then what?


40 posted on 06/23/2012 3:19:10 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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