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The Secret Service has expanded its operation to Twitter, urging Americans to report on their fellow citizens whose tweets "concern you."
"To report a tweet that concerns you, call the nearest field office in your state," the Secret Service tweeted on Oct. 23. The agency then links to a
list of contact numbers for Field Offices in each state.
The Secret Service sent
another tweet on Wednesday, again asking its followers to report tweets. "Contact your nearest field office with time-sensitive or critical info or to report a tweet," it said.
The agency has accrued more than 44,000 followers since joining the social media platform on May 9, 2011. Twitter
surpassed 500 million user accounts around the world earlier this year, 140 million of which are in the U.S.
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A new video from the founders of a celebrated advertising agency features children "of the future" singing about the aftermath of a Mitt Romney presidency: A world where sick people are required to "just die," the atmosphere is "frying," gays can be "fixed" and "oil fills the sea."
The children, who stare blankly at the camera throughout the video, even take pains to explicitly mention that they blame "mom and dad" for all those horrors.
The video — produced by the founders of the advertising
agency , which came up with the famous tagline "Got milk?" and boasts clients like Cheetos, Netflix, the National Basketball Association and Nintendo — asks viewers, "What Would The Children Of The Future Say If We Let Them Down This November?"
The two minute 21 second video concludes with black and white text instructing: "Don’t let it happen… vote."
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Move over vampires, goblins and haunted houses, this kind of Halloween terror aims to shake up even the toughest warriors: An untold number of so-called zombies are coming to a counterterrorism summit attended by hundreds of Marines, Navy special ops, soldiers, police, firefighters and others to prepare them for their worst nightmares.
Hundreds of military, law enforcement and medical personnel will observe the Hollywood-style production of a zombie attack as part of their emergency response training.
In the scenario, a VIP and his personal detail are trapped in a village, surrounded by zombies when a bomb explodes. The VIP is wounded and his team must move through the town while dodging bullets and shooting back at the invading zombies. At one point, some members of the team are bit by zombies and must be taken to a field medical facility for decontamination and treatment.
Called "Zombie Apocalypse," the exercise follows the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's campaign launched last year that urged Americans to get ready for a zombie apocalypse, as part of a catchy, public health message about the importance of emergency preparedness.
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Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are spending the days before the election trying to shore up votes among their constituents, but, so far, they have ignored at least one demographic that is dying to hear from them: The undead.
Apparently, members of America's zombie community would like to pick (and possibly eat) the brains of "Barack Zobama" and "Mitt Zomney" if this infographic devised by
HalloweenCostumes.com is any indication.
For instance, one zombie complains there are problems with Obama's death certificate while another worries that his 14-year-old child is still eating brains at a third grade level.
Hopefully, the comments and concerns of American zombies will give the candidates something to chew on and some food for thought about the pending zombie apocalypse.
