Friday, April 13, 2012

Well, that's awkward

A dozen Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to guard the Prez have been relieved of duty.
A dozen Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to provide security for President Barack Obama at an international summit have been relieved of duty because of allegations of misconduct.

A Secret Service spokesman did not dispute a tip received by The Associated Press that the misconduct involved prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, the site of the Summit of the Americas.
Update: Now, how does this work, exactly? The Secret Service is paying Joe Biden rent in order to protect him? Hell, they can protect me, and I'll only charge them half as much.

Update II: Five military people have been caught up in the Colombian scandal, too.

Update III: The hidden costs of being a cheapskate.

6 comments:

JeffS said...

Oh, come now, Paco! These agents were just developing new, ummmm, intelligence sources.

Yeah, that's it. Intelligence sources.

Jonah said...

It's Iceland, or the Phillipines,
or Hastings, or...this place!

Three years with Barry and the world is cheaper.
Honor was our temple now why would we be

Bo-thered with truth or so-briety.

(not that I'm sober)

The song that I'm cannibalizing is
"One Night in Bangkok" by something known as Murray Head.

Jonah said...

Another good song is called "Get out of Denver" by Bob Seger.

It's chorus (if it has one) is thus:

"'Cause you look just like a commie and you might just be a member baby, get out of Denver baby..."

Now I've been trying, but it's 4:34 AM, to rewrite the whole thing with the salient bit being, " get out of Cartegena baby." So I leave that for anyone's amusement, if any amusement can be milked from this drivel.

RebeccaH said...

I loved/hated that song "One Night in Bangkok"! It was just a fascinating sound, in a repellent kind of way, but whenever it came on, I couldn't not listen.

Minicapt said...

That was a scheme developed by Prime Minister Chretien in the late-90s at his home in Chicoutimi.

Cheers

Anonymous said...

There's always a tale of tourists getting gouged by some slick operator with a police relative.

Book activities through your hotel and avoid scam artists.