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Top politicians spotted around town on Halloween!

SEATTLE -- Possibly due to the war against California going incredibly well, or just to let off some steam the leading members of government were out in force this friday - and we caught them at it!



President Leafgreen and wife. In costume, or a fashion statement?


Captain Morgan may be dressed as Captain Jack, but we can still tell he's got a little captain in him!


Secretary of Industry Tom Tuttle donating time at a local kennel.


Secretary of R&T Bill Gates even got into it!


Secretary of Intelligence Adam West was unconvincing in his Batman outfit.


Foreign Secretary Chasey Lain caught in tense full transit negotiations with the Ruler of Arizona!


Defense Secretary R. Lee Ermey refused to allow any pictures, but did want to plug his new action figure coming out after Thanksgiving.


While not currently part of the Washington government, there have been meetings with William Shatner and President Leafgreen. Shatner had just arrived from an awards ceremony in Alberta where Codemasters received honorary mention for an upcoming game, Psycho Pinball.

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"That's O'neill, with two l's"
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Spymaster Adam West - Geek.
Secretary of R&T Bill Gates - Nerd.
Spymaster Adam West - I bet if an episode of Star Trek had a whippit in it, you'd know what it was then.
Secretary of R&T Bill Gates - I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF A SCIENTIST AND NOT WORSHIP AT THE ALTER OF RODDENBERRY!

THAT IS SO FROM THE SHOW STARGARE SG-1!! Season 6, Episode 8: The Other Guys!!!!!

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Where do I sign up for the save the vowels movement?

Take out vowels, try to make cute abbreviated words AND add in typos and half the time it takes even longer to read.

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"That's O'neill, with two l's"
(Holds up 3 fingers)

TOP SECRET INFORMATION
OPERATION SECOND BLOOD - UPDATE 2
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE


The attached TOP SECRET information contains data the security aspect of which is paramount, and unauthorized
disclosure of which would cause EXCEPTIONAL GRAVE DANGER TO THE NATION. Special care in the handling,
custody, and storage of the attached information must be exercised in accordance with the security regulations.

AT WAR START / CURRENT

Wash - 616,000 square km of land / 1,325,000 square km of land
Cali - 1,050,000 square km of land / 299,000 square km of land
Wash - 401,000 active military / 427,000 active military
Cali - 500,000 active military / 250,000 active military
Wash - 14.9 million population / 40.8 million population
Cali - 54.7 million population / 18.6 million population

While our forces in northern California steadily moved south through mostly empty and undefended land forcing California to deploy what available units it had to counter them, 5 combat stacks moved through Arizona and launched an attack on southern California with our entire air force supporting them. Initially attacking at the pre-war border between Mexico and California, they quickly reached the ocean and moved north along the coast into heavily populated areas.



Los Angeles and the surrounding areas fell after moderate fighting with most of the defenders being garrison units, stiffened by attack helicopters and apcs. The capture of the L.A. area resulted in a gain of 20 million new citizens.



Thankfully our ally Mexico resumed control of its lands we liberated as we had no desire to keep them. Also we seem to have the same satellite coverage even though our total land area has doubled, even though we have not added any additional satellites. The remainder of the war should now be a simple mop-up of the remaining California units and cities, destroying any captured units, the repairing of all of our armed forces and then redeploying them to the new borders. Currently we have no enemies on our borders and ocean to our west, ally British Columbia to our north and our ally Mexico to our south.

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"That's O'neill, with two l's"
(Holds up 3 fingers)

(From atop the Space Needle, in a closed session at the rotating restaurant/bar)




Dictator Leafgreen - That went much better than I expected.
Morale Officer Captain Morgan - More champagne!
Defense Secretary Ermey - You moldy excuse for an officer, I don't drink that imported kek!
Defense Secretary Ermey - Get me a Fosters.
Secretary of R&T Bill Gates - Riiiiight... You'll be happy to know that research is completed on phased electron streams and we now are researching how to mount it on a mobile platform.
Spymaster Adam West - Geek.
Defense Secretary Ermey - In english!
Secretary of R&T Bill Gates - Phaser tanks.
Spymaster Adam West - Also our last satellite has gone up and after we position it we believe we will have 99% coverage for communications, recon and missile defense. I don't understand why we still have 99% communications and recon coverage after almost tripling our land area, but I'm told we do.
Secretary of R&T Bill Gates - Nerd.
Dictator Leafgreen - Excellent! How are things on your side Tom?
Industry Secretary Tom Tuttle - A-OK! We had a lot of extra industrial capacity we weren't using - with the destruction of all the facilities in the captured California lands we have enough mines, power plants, food, etc to supply our citizens and factories with some extra capacity for emergencies. All finished goods plants are underused, but we can make and sell those for a profit.
Industry Secretary Tom Tuttle - Speaking of profit, we're making a profit now. Roughly $1,250 million per day.
Dictator Leafgreen - Chasey? How are things on the diplomatic front?
Foreign Secretary Chasey Lain - Good. North Carolina fell last week but that doesn't affect us. We have ocean to our west, allies to our north and south and a full transit/line of sight treaty with Arizona that covers half of our eastern border.
Foreign Secretary Chasey Lain - Speaking of Arizona... should we try for a full alliance with them? Negotiations with them are fun!

(Captain Morgan starts singing a ditty about a field, a hoe and sowing oats)

Dictator Leafgreen - Possibly. I would like you to strengthen ties with the former Canadian provinces that border the former U.S., and with Mexico. That way we can move eastward without worrying about our northern or southern flanks.
Dictator Leafgreen - The Canadian provinces are too much empty land to be worth it right now, we'd be bogged down trying to get supplies to our forces. And Mexico is a BIG country for us to take on, plus we'd have to fight Texas at the same time. Too big of a bite for us right now.
Dictator Leafgreen - Soo.... here's what I want to happen. We build more missile fabs, from our current 12 to about 50 or so to keep us supplied with ammunition. That will increase the strength of our air force a lot. We bring all 10 naval fabs online and continue building a solid blue water navy.
Dictator Leafgreen - We have 35 land fabs right now with 15 of them mothballed. I suggest we keep those 20 online and build more M-118A4 apcs and stockpile them. Then when we can make phaser tanks we bring all 35 online and switch to making those and phase out our GMT-2A Storm Hunter tanks.
Dictator Leafgreen - And scrap the outposts that are no longer on the new border, no need to keep them manned and spending money when we no longer need them. And scrap those bloody WS-2 artillery units!
Industry Secretary Tom Tuttle - Can't we sell them and the GMT-2As to somebody instead?
Dictator Leafgreen - No, that feature wasn't added.
Industry Secretary Tom Tuttle - Huh?
Dictator Leafgreen - Err.. nevermind.
Defense Secretary Ermey - I want more tanks! And when are you gonna sign off on the purchase of those airborne and naval replenishment units?!?!
Dictator Leafgreen - You don't need more tanks. But you're right about the supply vehicles, our tanks kept getting bogged down in the empty desert and our air forces had too short of a range. Plus the navy will need them.
Defense Secretary Ermey - I want MORE tanks!

(Leafgreen sighs, thinking that some people never realize they have enough)



Dictator Leafgreen - NO TANKS! I'm even thinking about switching from combat stacks of 4 tanks/3 apcs to 3 tanks/4 apcs instead. Don't push it.
Dictator Leafgreen - Now that California is out of the way and we're making money and have lots of reserves, how are we coming on operation Comoros Shall Rise?
Defense Secretary Ermey - Our navy sucks. And without the supply ships they don't have the range.
Dictator Leafgreen - We won't need supply ships for this. And we should have the 'gifts' for them ready in a few weeks. But can we weather the diplomatic storm it will cause?
Foreign Secretary Chasey Lain - Possibly, I'll try my best. Where is Comoros anyhow?
Spymaster Adam West - East of Africa. Here is its actual location, with a picture of their current leader - Xbwalker.
Foreign Secretary Chasey Lain - Ooo.. he looks dangerous!
Secretary of R&T Bill Gates - He seems familiar somehow....
Foreign Secretary Chasey Lain - Kind of looks like Ron Jeremy in his thinner days.
Dictator Leafgreen - Begin preparations for Operation Comoros Shall Rise.

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"That's O'neill, with two l's"
(Holds up 3 fingers)

Just put the picture in your signature... AND ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO DO SO! Spread the word!

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reserved

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"That's O'neill, with two l's"
(Holds up 3 fingers)

Well you gota atleast reunite the US.

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