No, Wolf Blitzer, your studio isn’t the Situation Room. This is the Situation Room:
Caption: “President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)”
Hillary looks concerned (spooked by a 3:00 AM phone call?). Gates looks unfazed. Biden looks like he needs to take a dump. The general at the head of the table looks like he’s playing Angry Birds. And Obama looks like he’s trying to personally bore a hole through Bin Laden’s skull by shooting laser beams out of his eyes.
And who’s that woman way in the back, peering over everybody’s shoulders? Wait a minute — is that Chloe?! 😉
That is a tiny tiny room. My office looks bigger than that. I am so disillusioned.
You mean your heart didn’t break of disillusionment upon seeing that the entire staff was so benighted that not one of them was using a Mac?
LOL! I think yer right! It IS Chloe!! ;}
“Biden looks like he needs to take a dump.”
Nonsense. The man is in Prayer. New York Times:
I believe Biden’s personal rosary ritual during major military operations is to say 5 Hail Marys, 3 Our Fathers, and 2 Big Fucking Deals.
I once worked in an intelligence agency. After that, movies based in intelligence agencies bothered me, because THOSES OFFICES ARE SO NICE! Why couldn’t I work in offices that nice? I even work in that building!
Honestly made me a bit mad.
Brendan, #4: Hee hee! // Ahem. Hey, wot kinda Notre Dame Cattlik boy are you? That’s no Rosary Ritual, it’s a fookin’ Penance! Now you go make a good Act of Contrition or by God we’ll send ye back to CCD for Sister to teach yez some County Monaghan Canon Law! (quasi-Plagiarism apologies to His Grace The Most Rev. Dr. John Joseph Hughes, D.D., Archbishop of New York 1842-1864. 🙂
But That aside, far be it from mee to question the doctrinal propriety of the VP’s petitioning the Blessed Virgin (and isn’t Herself the Queen of Peace) under the relevant Situation Room circumstances. / However, regardless of theological affiliation, if Anybody ever needed to hedge his bets by mumbling “Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen” it was yer man in Abbottabad. (Y’know, just before getting the old abbottabada bing. Fullblown Plagiarism apologies to Jon Stewart. 😉
B. Minich, you obviously haven’t been to [site name censored] or [site name censored]. I agree most defense and intel facilities are old and drab, but the newer ones generally reflect modern tastes and sensibilities quite well.
@AMLTrojan – Meh, 5 laptops is hardly representative and especially in the case of the military I imagine the vertical integrated software is more readily available on PC.
DOD computers require an ID card to be inserted into them to work (Multi factor authentication for single sign on, pull the card everything logs out instantly). This is possible on a MAC now with an additional pice of hardware, but there are wintel laptops that have them built in making them a bit more convenient. It isn’t really too surprising that the room would be fully populated with wintel boxes given the very specific area that these machines are operating in. All the software is probably also custom proprietary DOD stuff so you would need emulation to run it on a MAC anyway.
JeezuzKrist you two, can’t you tell when my tongue is planted firmly in cheek?
No, I could tell… I just enjoy pointlessly pontificating on occasion.
dcl, we have much in common. ;}
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