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What Has 132 Rooms and Flies? (2009 NYT Article)
NT Yimes ^ | 17 June 09 | MARK LEIBOVICH

Posted on 01/04/2017 2:40:39 PM PST by SkyPilot

The White House is bugged!

No, not like that. But actual flies are swarming the place, confounding housekeepers, irritating aides, even trying to feast on the president. During an East Room interview with John Harwood for CNBC and The New York Times on Tuesday, a giant fly orbited Mr. Obama’s head.

“I got the sucker,” the president boasted after fatally slapping the critter on the back of his hand.

That scene became an instant YouTube sensation — and resulted in a complaint from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

“Well, I guess it can’t be said that President Obama wouldn’t hurt a fly,” lamented Alisa Mullins of PETA on the organization’s blog. The animal rights group announced that it would send over one of its Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher contraptions to the White House in the event of “future insect incidents.”

White House staff members report that they and their boss have been routinely bothered by the bugs, and have seen the First Exterminator personally enforcing a no-fly zone in the West Wing.

“He chases them down in the Oval with his briefing papers to smack them,” reports Austan Goolsbee, a member of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: capt. norm

It needs about 20 heavy duty Ozone machines for 24 hrs before I’d move in. Kills all the bugs inc bed bugs and cockroaches. disinfects and kills bad odors.
I put ours in the chicken house before I put in new chicks. It smelled like fresh air in a few hours. If it can kill chicken poop smell it can kill any smell. It even killed the mice in the tree house.


21 posted on 01/04/2017 3:16:54 PM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: SkyPilot

22 posted on 01/04/2017 3:19:36 PM PST by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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To: oldasrocks
Believe it or not I have an adequate (commercial) ozone generator but my son claims it's poisoning him so I can only run it while he's not around.

Leaves a refreshing (right after a heavy rain) scent in the air. For some reason it kills bugs big time but I set aside a time to really turn it loose and kill all the small life-forms who are invading my space.

People forget that ozone = oxygen (O3 instead of O2). It' just a lot "busier".

23 posted on 01/04/2017 3:42:49 PM PST by capt. norm (Capt norm)
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To: SkyPilot

How sad that the People’s House has had to endure this.

If we’re grossed out, can we even begin to fathom how repulsed DJT is, given his attention to hygiene?

I can’t imagine them moving any of their belongings in, let alone themselves, until the entire WH is treated for not only fly and pest infestation, but specifically bedbugs as well.


24 posted on 01/04/2017 3:50:16 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: BenLurkin

I’m afraid to ask...what it is!


25 posted on 01/04/2017 3:51:19 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: SkyPilot

It’s going to take a forensic team, a fumigator, dozens of cleaners and an excercised.


26 posted on 01/04/2017 3:55:57 PM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: SkyPilot

an excorcist that is.


27 posted on 01/04/2017 3:58:27 PM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: nickedknack
“The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.”

Thanks.

I knew a military aid who worked in the Clinton White House. He described it like that: cluttered and smelly. People were slobs. And this was the White House!

28 posted on 01/04/2017 3:59:10 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: BenLurkin
Is that a rat?


29 posted on 01/04/2017 4:00:04 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

A rodent of some kind.


30 posted on 01/04/2017 4:01:28 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Poor picture quality, what’s it supposed to be?


31 posted on 01/04/2017 5:37:51 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: SkyPilot

Flies: Satan’s minions gathering around his acolyte. Perhaps you will recall the fly walking on is face during a debate...or was it a press conference?


32 posted on 01/04/2017 5:49:35 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Right-wing Librarian

Might be the real reason Mrs. Trump has decided to stay in NYC, on the pretext of Barron needing to finish out his school year.
Imagine the uproar if the truth came out-—that the WH is filthy.


33 posted on 01/04/2017 6:02:32 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: SkyPilot
They needed a bunch of these , like this one from Amazon:

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34 posted on 01/05/2017 6:01:25 AM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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