"The system worked" again!
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/07/2011 3:22:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A package addressed to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited on Friday at a postal facility in Washington, D.C. but was quickly extinguished and no one was injured, authorities said.
A postal worker was tossing mail into a bin when the package was discovered "popping, smoking and with a brief flash of fire," Cathy Lanier, chief of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, said during a news conference.
The package was addressed to Napolitano and was believed to be similar to others found in two incidents involving packages delivered to Maryland state offices on Thursday, a Department of Homeland Security official said. No one was seriously injured in those incidents.
"Initial reporting indicates this incident bears characteristics similar to the flaring package incidents at two Maryland state facilities yesterday," the DHS official said.
Lanier and other officials declined to provide further details about the incident in Washington. Napolitano's primary office is across town from the mail facility.
Security officials said the incidents were not believed to be the result of Islamist terrorism. Napolitano returned late Thursday from a weeklong trip to Afghanistan, Qatar, Israel and Belgium to discuss terrorism and transportation security.
Her office is about eight miles away from the mail facility, which screens and handles mail and packages sent to federal government agencies. It was set up in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and 2001 anthrax attack.
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Is she using her own money to pay postage on those packages?
Softening the sheeple up for the inevitable reports of "right-wing wackos"
Exploding dildo?
This calls for a rapid emergency crisis expansion of DHS.
Candygram-for-Mongo *ping*
(Feel free to use the above salutation for the ping list(s). I have Gene and Mel’s official okey-dokey. Really!).
Janet....Someone is trying to tell you to pay attention...You’re busy though..right??
Well no duh! Why would they want to take out one of their biggest enablers?
She doesn’t want to send out her homeland gestapo onto a battlefield. Those boys are really, really fat. Maybe if they disguised themselves as whales we couldn’t fire because who thought of buying harpoons?
"The system worked" again!
Yep, I have never heard so many alleged top officials including Obama getting so many threats and I have lived through many Presidents.
She should know better than to buy cheap mail-order stuff from China.
Candygram? I bet it was a land shark!
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