Can I See Some ID, Sir? Dick Cheney Got Carded at Voting Booth Vice President Cheney got carded. Not for drinking but for voting.

Russians were told yesterday morning that the true nature of the conflict in South Ossetia is this: it's a plot hatched by Vice President Dick Cheney
to make sure Barack Obama isn't elected president. Is Cheney creating a Cold War 2.0?
This revelation, that the conflict is orchestrated to wing Obama, was first announced on the radio and has been getting wide play.

What's an ex-president without a fancy presidential library? And the good ones don't come cheap — the Clinton Library
cost $165 million. So it stands to reason, George W.

$23 billion has been lost, stolen, or not properly accounted for in Iraq, according to a BBC News investigation. BBC claims that private contractors
have exploited the conflict and reconstruction in a potentially criminal manner. There are 70 pending cases against private US companies for war profiteering, but the details of these cases are being kept mum under a gag order.
Cheney Makes Incest Joke About West Virginians
Talking about his distant relation to Obama, Cheney explained that while researching his family lineage for Lynne's memoir Blue Skies, No Fences, he learned there were Cheneys on both his father's and mother's side of the family. There was a Richard Cheney on his mother's side. "So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don't even live in West Virginia," Cheney quipped.
You know the biggies — the stories that are so everywhere, all the time that you're contemplating buying property under a very big rock just to escape them. I guess Dick Cheney might have one story he's a little weary of hearing, too — here's
his response to the "Dick Cheney is a heartless monster" story at last night's Radio & Television Correspondents' Dinner. I giggled.

So by now many of you have heard about evidence that top Bush Administration officials participated in explicit conversations in the White House regarding torture techniques to be used on suspected terrorists. Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of State Colin Powell, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sat around — in a series of meetings of potential war-crime defendants — discussing specific methods of harsh interrogation, and issuing their approval.
The Associate Press
reports that CIA officials demonstrated tactics to "make sure the small group of 'principals' fully understood what the al-Qaeda detainees would undergo.

Tax time means sometimes us mere mortals get sneaky peeks into politicians secret financial records. After much clamor, it turns out Obama gave about 6 percent of his income in 2006. That fraction was up from the 1 percent they gave in 2000-2004, which
clocked in far lower than the national average.