Georgetown Hospital (HASMAT) White substance found in waiting area. (update: ALL CLEAR)

[Mordichia]

Wife just called. Hospital is on lock down and HAZMAT crews are on scene.

[Mordichia]

Breaking news doesn't get any fresher than this. Prayers for a happy ending.

She seems a little upset. Says TV crews are arriving on the scene. -- I hope its people over r-eacting.

[EarlyBird]

...4. something in KY...

What happened in KY?

[Velveeta]

btt

Praying for your wife and all at GH.

[TonyInOhio]

[RoseofTexas]

Redux, Redux, Redux!!!! Ok, slapping myself to reality! :)

[RoseofTexas]

Ooopps, left out BACK, back to reality...sheesh! Need to slap myself harder! :)

[js1138]

This just in: Democrat candidate says threat is overblown.

[octobersky]

bttt

[No Blue States]

more on CT, i think this is homegrown leftist terror.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An envelope containing a suspicious powder found in a Connecticut post office overnight was addressed to the Republican National Committee (news - web sites) and is being tested to see if it is the deadly poison ricin, officials said on Tuesday.


The letter was found hours after a powder which initially tested positive for ricin was found in a U.S. Senate mailroom. Officials in Connecticut said field tests of the powder were inconclusive but all mail associated with the envelope was isolated until laboratory tests were completed later on Tuesday.


"We are performing a battery of tests for biological and chemical agents including testing for the presence of ricin," Connecticut health department spokesman Michael Purcaro said.


The envelope leaking grayish, sandy granules was found in Wallingford, Connecticut in one of the same mail sorting facilities where anthrax bacteria spores were found in the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and also involved U.S. Senate offices.


The mail clerk who made the discovery was wearing gloves when he handled the envelope and he was not injured, said U.S. assistant postal inspector in charge Kevin McDonough, whose area includes Wallingford, the New England region's major mail sorting center.


He said the employee was decontaminated as a precaution.


No illnesses have been reported in either the Connecticut or U.S. Senate incident. The discovery did disrupt business in the U.S. Capitol complex on Tuesday.


A 94-year-old Connecticut woman was one of five people who died after inhaling anthrax that was spread in mail in the months immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks on the United States. No one has been identified as responsible for the incidents.

[epluribus_2]

...then announces an upcoming rally where he will speak against reinstatement of the Patriot Act before it's expiration.

[EarlyBird]

OK, thanks.

[Semper Paratus]

Unlike the anthrax attacks in '01 nobodys gotten ill.
(Yet!)

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[OXENinFLA]

I don't know what it is about that pic, but a laugh everytime I see it in a thread.

[Mordichia]

All CLEAR

Thanks for your concern she just called back -- they got the all clear.

[mitchbert]

Okay, Tin Foil time...

If you recall, the anthrax appeared in the days immediately following 9/11, as if it had been sent to follow on.

This stuff starts popping up now, only days after flights were cancelled that coincided with various cryptic warnings of a major attack imminent.

Was something stopped that we don't know about? Or just plain coincidence? Just a thought, albeit a bit off the wall.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Was there a woman changing a baby's diaper there by any chance?

The usual SOE (sequence of events) in these cases is to find one or two sights that may be contaminated and then every stuffed toy that is dropped by a toddler or sprinkle of powdered cleanser becomes "suspicious".

[1Old Pro]

who cares what Kerry Said.

The thousand or so members of the left wing media who will be carrying his water for the next 8 months.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I just came from my acupuncturist's office, where a little pile of white powder of unknown origin was spotted on the carpet just inside the front door. The receptionist swept it up. Is she the only person left in this country who responds to misplaced white powder by sweeping it up?