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Storm knocks over tree at White House
BreitBart ^
Posted on 06/09/2009 5:53:46 PM PDT by jakerobins
Strong winds have knocked down a tree on the White House's North Lawn. The tree appeared to have been snapped off near its base during a storm Tuesday afternoon. The large tree had stood between Pennsylvania Avenue and the West Wing.
White House spokesman Bill Burton says it was a European linden. Grounds crews on Wednesday will grind up the tree to use it for mulch.
Burton says the tree was planted in 1940 but not by a president to mark a special occasion.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush planted a tree on the North Lawn to replace a 140-year-old tree that fell in 2006
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhowhitehouse; dc; thehandofgod; weather
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Perhaps it's time to quit the Obama is God rhetoric...the REAL GOD doesn't like blasphemy....
This might have been a warning next time it could be a well aimed lightning bolt...If GOD misses it's because he wants to and he is sending a message!!
To: jakerobins
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posted on
06/09/2009 5:54:49 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
To: jakerobins
Was Zero standing under it? /sarc
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posted on
06/09/2009 5:55:07 PM PDT
by
prismsinc
(A.K.A. "The Terminator"!)
To: jakerobins
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posted on
06/09/2009 5:56:25 PM PDT
by
Flavius
To: jakerobins
White House spokesman Bill Burton says it was a European linden.Criminy. Can't anything European stand on its own?
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posted on
06/09/2009 5:59:35 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: jakerobins
A response to “this is a Muslim nation”?
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posted on
06/09/2009 5:59:43 PM PDT
by
trtdenver
To: jakerobins
Should be cut up and dried and turned into something useful.
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:00:37 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: Flavius
still laughing about this one. However, it would surprise me like not at all if there was a Tree Czar on the horizon.
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:01:05 PM PDT
by
trtdenver
To: jakerobins
I’m sure under his breath Obama said “As Allah wills”
I have come to believe he is a Christian in name only with a Muzzie heart
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:02:40 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Joe Biden REALLY can't be Vice President, can he ?)
To: Kirkwood
What could cut up dried Obama be used for?? LOL
To: trtdenver
Why didn’t Baraq heal it?
To: Texas Eagle
Criminy. Can't anything European stand on its own? LOL! Post of the day!!!!
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:04:46 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|"AlsoSprachTelethustra"-NonValueAdded|Lk21:36|FireTheLiar)
To: Kirkwood
Fox reported a crew would make mulch tomorrow
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:04:46 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . The boy's war in Detriot has already cost more then the war in Iraq.)
To: jakerobins
At least it didn't hit the kid's swingset.
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:05:28 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: jakerobins
Our Barak is worse than our blight.
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:05:32 PM PDT
by
Andyman
(The truth shall make you FReep.)
To: jakerobins
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:05:36 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
Mulch? - Maybe ACORN could utilize the tree for some paper. Good for pamphlets and such.
To: jakerobins
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:07:20 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: jakerobins
This might have been a warning next time it could be a well aimed lightning bolt...If GOD misses it’s because he wants to and he is sending a message!!
It may be time for the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers to pull out his one iron, because as Lee Trevino said “Even God can’t hit a one iron”!
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:09:47 PM PDT
by
Batman11
(Chicago, Land of Lincoln who freed the slaves and Land of Obama who enslaved the free.)
To: jakerobins
Trees falling over is also a sign that there might be some tunneling going on. Drug smugglers?
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posted on
06/09/2009 6:12:35 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Barack Hussein Obama. Keeping the Communist dream alive.)
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