Saturday, February 08, 2003

Today (2/7) the Bush administration raised the terrorism threat level from yellow to orange, indicating a "high risk" of potential attack.

Today (2/7), the Washington Post (print edition) carried this story:

Gate-Crasher Hands Bush 'Message From God'
The Rev. Richard "Rich" Weaver, nicknamed "Handshake Man" because of his knack for getting up close and personal with the high and mighty, struck again yesterday morning.
The Post's David Montgomery reports that the 57-year-old Weaver, a nondenominational Christian minister from Sacramento, crashed the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton, breezing through the ballroom entrance without a ticket and handed President Bush what he later described as an eight-page typed "message from God" about Iraq.


Montgomery had to pass through a metal detector, but – without an invitation – he simply sat down at a table and waited for the right moment. Then he handed President Bush a letter packed with weaponized anthrax…oops!...nope, just an anti-war missive.

I just got back from a trip where I had to place my jacket, shoes, and laptop in separate trays while a TSA officer waved a wand over my groin. Meanwhile, in Washington, a man walks into the National Prayer Breakfast and just walks up to the President. What is wrong with this picture?

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