Breaking - Exits Sealed at Senate Office Building

[DoYouEverWonder]

April 17, 2006, 6:27 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- Police closed off entries and exits at the Senate's Dirksen Office Building on Monday and announced that people should avoid the building's basement.

Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said an alarm went off about 4:50 p.m. indicating a suspicious substance near a basement post office facility.

The detector signaled the possible presence of a nerve agent, but initial field tests were negative, a law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity because authorities were still investigating.

Fire trucks and ambulances gathered along Constitution Avenue and First Street between the Capitol grounds and the office building. Decontamination tents were erected at the site and three fully outfitted hazardous materials specialists were seen going through them.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-senate-building-alert,0,6701264.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines


Poll numbers down again, time for another terror scare.'

[xultar]

1. So removing the basment bugs now.

[madame defarge]

2. Aren't they all away on recess anyway???

I thought they were still away on the 2 week recess...

[SoCalDem]

3. Yay.. Lock the doors and throw away the keys..

We'd be better off if they never came back into session.. they just create stupid laws anyway :)

[EVDebs]

5. ROFLMAO ! They're shredding the Constitution and the machine blew up !

[BeHereNow]

6. GOOD ONE!!! N/T BHN

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[Lostnote06]

8. Whew......that was spot on.....LMAO

[Rose Siding]

4. Asbestos alarms?

;)

[Dover]

7. Probably planting the dynamite for their next big demolition...

The Bushies really have no use for Congress anyway. Who needs a 'middleman' when you can have a direct dictatorship?

[Teaser]

10. although I'm no conspiracy theorist

I'm going to remember this post.

[AlCzervik]

9. i thought all the monsters occupied the floor, i had no idea that had more

in the basement.

[EVDebs]

18. Kevin Phillips once said the R's House looked like the bar at StarWars!

[Junkdrawer]

11. Perhaps some of the Senators are getting too frisky again..

Time to remind them who's the boss...

[0007]

12. Yawn.......wonder what the next exercise will be?

[MichiganVote]

13. Probably a rat. Where is Delay anyway?

[formercia]

16. probably figuring how much Parathion it would take.....n/t

[MichiganVote]

19. Yeah..sniff...feeling rejected and all..gonna drop the big one

[woodsprite]

14. Bugging the basement rooms some more.

I've been away for awhile (surgery). Are there any upcoming hearing planned where they've been relegated to the basement?

[Thor_MN]

15. Probably weed and feed or herbicide on a janitor's shoes....

*'s opinion is probably along the lines of "WTH does the janitor have a lawn? Obiviously we are paying too much, so it's time to give more of the rich people money back by cutting salaries for services workers and taxes.

[DanCa]

17. Damn thats where the Easter Bunny is the rest of the year.

They got the poor thing cornered.

[leesa]

20. Our government is getting desperate. Their filth is being uncovered daily

and they need nearly comtimuous phony distractions to keep the focus off their crimes.

[baby_mouse]

21. zzz... nt

[paparush]

22. I think they basically spin a wheel and see if it lands on...

A. Rogue Plane in DC Airspace
B. Suspicious package left at Capitol.
C. Increase in 'chatter'.
D. Power outage in DC.

Round and Round she goes where she stops only Karl knows.....

[Minnesota Libra]

23. Getting ready for when the Senate comes back and decides to act on.......

....their constituents wishes to have idiot boy impeached.

[auburngrad82]

24. It's time for the terror alerts and "suspicious substances" to increase

It is an election year and the GOP is in deep trouble. So it's back to the old fear factor.



Liberal bumper stickers

[DoYouEverWonder]

25. What's odd is that I don't see signs of their noise machine this time

Last time they had sites like Talon News and Bush Country to create and promote their terror scares. Since Gannon got outed they've been pretty quiet.

[DoYouEverWonder]

26. Tests Negative at Senate Office Building

April 18, 2006

WASHINGTON — Police closed off entries and exits at the Senate's Dirksen Office Building for several hours Monday after something set off an alarm for the presence of nerve agents.

Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a Capitol Police spokeswoman, said an alarm went off about 4:50 p.m. indicating a suspicious substance near a basement post office facility. An all-clear was declared about 8:15 p.m., after tests proved negative.

<snip>

Schneider said, "The fact that we haven't had any positive hits on any nerve agents is good." It was not known what set off the sensors, she said, and that will be subject to further investigation.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3800012.html


Ho hum....Okay someone needs to come clean. Which pompous ass Senator cut the cheese in the basement?

[Norquist Nemesis]

30. errrr...Required Monthly Test

:shrug:

[Ian David]

27. Which Democrats' offices did the GOP need to search or bug that badly? n/t

[flordehinojos]

28. BUSH AND HIS FEAR PLANTING POPPY LEFT IT THERE.

[TheWatcher]

29. BOO!

Yawn.

Another Orwellian Circus.

At this point I am numb to this shit.

Save to say this. Is this REALLY the way Americans want to live out the rest of their lives?

B-MOVIE Scripts are more based in reality than the "reality" these thugs have us living in.

This smells about as legit as the other so-called "scares".

We live in such complete, utter Bullshit that I am sure by the time they are done, we will all bear the stink of living in such saturation for so long.

We won't even be able to try to pretend we are from Canada when visiting other countries to avoid hostility.

Our scent will give us away.

The sad thing is, many are just conditioned to accept this.

Average, Everyday life in America.

I want my country back.