Risk management is what the secret service does. obviously, they came to the determination that using the emergency vehicle exception.... Which every vehicle the secret service uses is... That bringing the vehicles was a priority. If you have ever seen a motorcade (i lived in DC for ten years before moving to Houston)... There are usually DOZENS of vehicles. This is a very small footprint comparatively.

#55 do you think armored cars raise or lower the safety risk to the person they are protecting.....AND the agents themselves? And you want to deny them the use of them, even though there are exceptions for emergency vehicles, because???

That you can't differentiate between a level of security necessary for the CURRENT vice president and a former president is laughable. They don't require near the assets. You really want the VP, who had on his staff a military aide who carries "the football" everywhere in case of emergency, to not have protection is hilarious.

You want any jerkwad with a free afternoon and a.22 to be able to capture our launch codes and throw the country into chaos?

You can't actually mean the secret service isn't necessary.

#33 because the consequences of one of our vips getting harmed in anyway is complex and far reaching. Not only would it leave a power vacuum causing chaos, it would also cause economic and political damage. Unstable markets, and etc...

Because of that the country decided it was in its best interest to create an agency that protects it's important leaders, and has laws mandating it.

It would be the utmost foolishness to expect their protection to ever be dropped.

#32 and because he is so much higher of a public official, his level of protection increases as well. It's not rocket surgery.

Plenty of things to criticize about. This isn't one of them.

Tremaine, you couldn't be more wrong. See, I was actually attending the event with the mother of my brother in law. There were over 60,000 seats and 53000 people crossed the gates and into the stadium. (You know the venues can take down the individual counts of how many come in.

The numbers of protesters outside on westridge and Kirby didn't even reach 10,000. It was much closer to 7k. Which is still an impressively large protest. No need to lie about it, though.

Just to see if I have this right. The island allows exceptions for emergency vehicles. The secret service brought 8 emergency vehicles over to the island. The vehicles are part of the security protection provided by policies and laws of the country.

But because they didn't ignore those policies and laws and used the afforded exception for emergency vehicles, everyone should freak out?

this seems much ado about nothing. If I choose not to go to work, I also don't get paid. I don't understand why this is so terrible. The company gave them an option. Come to work, and get paid for being at work, or don't come to work and don't get paid for the day... You know... Cause you didn't come to work.

If there was implication that your promotion prospects would go away, or terminated for not showing up, that's crazy. But I don't blame a company who decides to not pay employees that don't report to work.

I think the company was doing well to give them the option.

That it included no protesting... Hey, they are a private company and have restrictions on such expressions by their employees as part of their union contract. You can't come to work, embarrass your employer, and keep your job.

This article fascinated me. The descent into political back biting and stupid finger pointing on a topic with no political nexus, doesn't... But meh. It's the Retort.

Anyway. If the poles reversed tomorrow. What would happen? Would we all have a good laugh as our gps needed a quick calibration? Or would there be systemic and society crushing problems?

On the surface it seems like we would have a rough few weeks as software was updated to compensate for the shift. But would ie be more? Food doesn't get delivered, medicine can't arrive too end users, and now we have riots and looting all over the world?

Reading the article, I guess it would depend on how weak the magnetic field became. If it gets too weak, solar radiation is going to cook everyone anyway.

Just fascinated by these kinds of events.