BREAKING SKY NEWS: WHITEHOUSE EVACUATED

[It was not a pretzel]

WTF is going on today? No more info, sorry.

Could be a anything from a gas leak to Karl Rove ploy to get attention away from the protests.

[MaineDem]

1. Just heard this on Bloomberg

WTF???

[karlschneider]

2. They're saying a plane has entered the no-fly zone around it...

how bizarre...
:eyes:

[tsipple]

3. Happens ALL THE TIME

Washington airspace is a mess, and pilots are very upset about it.

[karlschneider]

11. And it keeps changing! Depends on where smirk and cheeny are, partly

:grr:
Damn near impossible to keep up with it, even the FSS and DUATS aren't always up to speed.

[trumad]

4. That Plane has about as much chance of hitting the White House

as I do getting into bed with Heidi Klum!

[MUAD_DIB]

25. Heidi called while you were out, Trumad.

[qwertyMike]

27. Take Heidi off my hands will you?

She's been stalking me.

Thanks

[mobuto]

33. I hope you're right

but the no fly zone around the White House is very small. Commerical planes landing or taking off from National (DCA) are just a couple miles - maybe a minute at most - away. I'm not sure what kind of fighter cover you could scramble in under a minute. Its kind of scary actually.

Even if a Secret Service agent managed to hit a plane with a stinger as it came in, momentum would still carry it towards the White House.

[Pale Blue Dot]

6. Wouldn't it have to be more than that to evacuate?

Maybe the pilot is not responding?

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Just trying to detract from the happenings in London.

*

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. ...and Miami.

[cosmicdot]

34. ... and, the economy and on Capitol Hill ...

a non-story taking up media space and time

Sky News - thank you, Mr. Murdoch


((OJ had the Nation distracted over a year's time ... does anyone know what went on while no one was looking?))

[Bertha Venation]

7. according to DC news radio

Evac due to low-flying plane. Everyone's now on their way back into the WH. More shortly.

[Don_G]

8. Interesting

I haven't been able to get the AP breaking news for the past couple of hours.... :tinfoilhat:

[Renew Deal]

9. It's nothing. No Fly Zone Breech

:boring:

[ignatius]

10. It's been empty for a while, mentally anyway, IMHO.

[BlueEyedSon]

12. Small plane in restricted airspace, pilot contacted,

situation resolved (bloomberg TV).

[Pale Blue Dot]

13. CNN now saying there was no evacuation nt

[Bozita]

15. CNN says no evacuation

no links

[fshrink]

16. Oh well... Guess we'll have to wait till next December.

[MattPinNC]

17. ..just heard on Imus .....

... that the WH was evacuated due to 'an emergency situation' ...
ohhh well, that says a lot n/t

[Socialist Christian]

18. Cnn didnt have to freak everyone out. Damn this is a distraction from uk

visit they are masterful. IS it me or all of sudden there seems to be a lot of news stories in 3 days?????????

[Don_G]

23. He Needed One Badly

Latest guesstimates from the UK police at the Downing Street protest have risen from 7,000 to 40-50 thousand people with another 4,000 gathered at Trafalger Square en route.

Link: http://www.interwebnet.org/

[Socialist Christian]

24. I hope they get to at least 250k, especially after turkey this morning <nt

[bushisanidiot]

19. Each Terror Attack Around The World PROVES What A Failure AWOL Is

at "fighting terror".

If there is another attack on the U.S. on AWOL's watch it will be the final nail in his re-election coffin.

He is an incredibly WEAK "president" and has failed us!

[calimary]

28. Unfortunately, I suspect such a thing would only boost his numbers

with everybody suddenly blathering that "we have to stand behind Our President!" I'd bet most of the sheeple out there would NOT make the connection you and I would. They'd write him another stirring speech to make about how "they hate us for our freedoms" - which NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE has ever, EVER called him on and fully analyzed and objectively picked apart in search of fact - and everybody'd be falling all over themselves drooling about him. And we'd be finished.

[smirkymonkey]

20. I called it...

I knew something would happen over here to get the heat off chimp.

[greyl]

26. lol nt

[soupkitchen]

21. They "evacuated" all non-essential employees on West Wing last night too

[truthspeaker]

22. maybe a Karl Rove gas leak?

[gauguin57]

30. yeah, really ..

Quit freaking us out, CNN ... how am I supposed to concentrate on Wacko Jacko and Scott Peterson if you keep reporting planes in WH airspace? Sheesh -- have some consideration!

[cosmicdot]

35. from which end?

[emad]

29. SCARE RESOLVED: BBC

'Aircraft' scare at White House


Staff were briefly evacuated from the White House in Washington on Thursday after an aircraft strayed close to it, US officials say.
But a US aviation official later said the alarm was caused by a "blip" on a radar screen, rather than a plane.
The emergency is now said to be over and staff have been told it is safe to return to work. The incident follows a similar alert 10 days ago when two F-15 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a plane.

US President George W Bush, who has his office and residence at the White House, is currently on a state visit to the UK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3224082.stm

[Bertha Venation]

31. THANK GOD!

[wabeewoman]

32. OK call me a skeptic

but aren't we having a lot of these 'incidents' lately (especially since this was a blit not a plane) maybe to make it look like our fearless leader is well, fearless, especially since he isn't there and doesn't have to evacuate. Could this be the replacement to keep fear at the forefront without raising a color alert? Watching this play out will tell....

[mobuto]

36. No, I think everybody's antsy

If someone did try to fly a plane into the White House, from some directions they'd have only a minute or two to respond. So naturally they're a little antsy. You don't have time to double check a radar in 60 seconds.

[cosmicdot]

37. theatrics to add to George Woodrow Churchill Wilson's speech at the

Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace where Churchill bunkered down and stuff

All is calm, inside the bubble. Oh, what a lovely war.

"War and Peace - inside the two worlds of George Bush"
by Jonathan Freedland
Thursday November 20, 2003
The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1089179,00.html

.... oh, oh, oh .....

Texas Man Chokes to Death on Marijuana

http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=6&aid=D7UUDQEO0_story

I just love Tabloid-ed-up Hearst-style journalism, don't you


Remember the Maine!

Back to Jacko on his Backo

[davidinalameda]

38. two words--breakfast burritos

:bounce: