The Smoking Gun brings us an interesting travel document in which Dick Cheney gives directions to the Five Star Hotels about his preferences. We might note that sparkling water is only required if Mrs. Cheney is present. We can only assume Dick is still sticking with the hard stuff, probably a requirement for those who are so intellectually challenged such that Fox News is the only channel worth watching.
Back in the day, I was part of a team sent to advance the visit to Kualu Lumpur of another great Republican vice president, Spiro Agnew. There was a long discussion one day, led by the embassy's public affairs officer, of where to find a suitably attractive frame for a large color photograph of the vice president, to be hung in the vice president's bedroom.
Anxious to rise in the foreign service, I suggested that we hang a mirror instead. All discussion stopped for a moment while the other officers decided how to respond. Apparently a silent consensus was reached that I had understandably snapped under the pressure, and that the kindly thing would be to pretend that I had not spoken.
Conversation resumed, and no mention of my impolite noise was ever made.
Posted by: Jerome Doolittle on March 23, 2006 10:58 AMThey must have redacted the pint of kitten's blood...
Posted by: UncleHorns on March 23, 2006 8:36 PMCheney may be beating a path to my door when I post my catblogging picture tomorrow, but sorry Dick, our sweet lovable Mabel protects our (non-existent) garden and for that she's entitled to her due too.
....on the other hand, come on over, Dick, Mabel will probably see you as a threat to the garden too. Stay tuned for catblogging tomorrow.
Posted by: Buck on March 23, 2006 11:29 PMAll lights turned on? I guess that's part of the conservation is for sissies meme.
Posted by: tstreet on March 24, 2006 9:50 AM