Obama & His Rentinue Leave Washington

[longeyes]

What, they haven't developed a Presidential WormMobile to burrow underground.  After all, cost is apparently no object...

[Perd Hapley]

They probably need the 34 ships to carry the above ground bomb proof tunnel he'll be driving in...
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_tunnel-for-obama-near-mani-bhavan_1461946

WTF? Why not use the helicopter?

What I thought. So does this impress and overawe our Indian allies (and Pakistan) with our prodigious might and technical prowess, or does it make us and our president look frightened and stand-off-ish?

Or maybe Obama is just a typical American person, who crosses the street when he sees an Indian?

[longeyes]

Perhaps he's watched 300 one time too many and become obsessed with the style and grandeur of the Emperor Xerxes...?

[MicroBalrog]

Except he's not, in fact, doing that.

[seeker_two]

Isn't there an aircraft carrier already on station in the Indian Ocean anyway?....  

WTF? Why not use the helicopter?

He doesn't need a helicopter.....he has his magical unicorn, remember?....

[vaskidmark]

But at least the Secret Service has not lost any skills:

US secret agents visited the museum to plan Obama’s security detail.

They were accompanied by officers of Mumbai Police and civic officials of the D ward (where Mani Bhavan is located). While inspecting the route and the buildings lining up the route to the museum, the Americans detected a skyscraper near Peddar road and also found the area to be highly populated.

In Mumbai?  Hard to believe it.

stay safe.

[Doggy Daddy]

the Americans detected a skyscraper

I am in awe of their Jedi-like powers of observation and situational awareness.

DD

[Monkeyleg]

I am in awe of their Jedi-like powers of observation and situational awareness.

You'll be even more in awe when you read that the piece of detection equipment cost over $60 million.

[AJ Dual]

You'll be even more in awe when you read that the piece of detection equipment cost over $60 million.

Yeah, I won the contract on that one through my minority front-proxies, and then a secondary shell corporation which appears to be owned by the Chinese People's Liberation Army to get favored status in the bids after the RFP for the skyscraper detector came out.

What we wound up making was a buzzer, a 9V battery, and a photocell. It goes off when the sun goes behind the skyscraper as the agent's go about their search-grid.

We did alright on that one. Out of the $60 Million, we wound up with a nice $6000 in profit after taxes, union negotiations, EEOC filings, and environmental impact statements over using non-lead-free solder to build it.

[Perd Hapley]

Except he's not, in fact, doing that.

So he's not building a tunnel? Why do you say that?

[Doggy Daddy]

So he's not building a tunnel? Why do you say that?

See now, dammit!  You almost made me spit up on my employer's keyboard.

DD