Only in New York could something like this happen:
A man in a Revolutionary War-era submarine was cited by the U.S. Coast Guard for drifting into a security zone, and for unsafe sailing in New York's East River near the Queen Mary 2 luxury liner, the Coast Guard and New York City Police Department said Friday.
The man in the replica vessel was identified as 35-year-old Philip "Duke" Riley of Brooklyn, N.Y., according to Coast Guard spokesman Petty Officer Seth Johnson.
It just doesn't get any better.
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This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some m
The AP reports a dude went to the headquarters of hate group based in Washington, DC, and shot a security guard:
And in this case, the teabagger is an actual tea party candidate, in the sense that the Republican Party is the Tea Party and Joe Miller is the Republican Nominee for the Senate.
there are some interesting air national guard unit activations taking place
some for overseas deployment to places like the 'stans, support units,
there also seem to be new national guard activation for US internal security duty - "Operation Noble Guard"
The article says that the submarine "does not pose a terrorist threat." *Whew*. I was worried there for a minute.
here's a set of photos from a test run a couple of weeks ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keylimecom/sets/72157600904315117/