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I didn't know Darth Cheney needed naps?
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| MisterOpus1 |
Poor fella. Just a little snooze time on the Death Star before taking out another planet I guess:
| quote: | | VEEP ASLEEP: Vice President Dick Cheney gets caught napping yesterday as Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other White House aides leave a press briefing by President Bush and Chinese leader Hu Jintao. The veep's people later insisted he was reading his notes, but if you ask us, it sure looks as if he's dreaming of quail hunting - and maybe bagging some birds this time. |
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/62704.htm
The Dark Side can be pretty exhaustive at times..... |
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| CranberryJuice |
hahahaha :stongue:
one of our teachers who several times assisted to meeting of our french national assembly saw some deputies reading their porn magazines .....all the politicians suck if u ask me :rolleyes: |
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| Moongoose |
| I once saw on tv one playing Doom on his PPC :D Who can blame them really, they have to sit through these boring meetings and for what...a couple hundred thousand a yer...i completely understand them :p |
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| josh4 |
Since when did your posts get light-hearted? :D
Whats with the small picture? You cant really tell either way, he could be looking at his notes. Rummy even looks like hes praying.
Its fun to make fun though. :happy2: |
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| Fir3start3r |
LOL!
I heard the Dark Side has cookies...:toothless |
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| sponger |
| yea Cheney is so evil, who cares if they donated around 7 mil to charities! :rolleyes: |
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| Renegade |
| quote: | Originally posted by sponger
yea Cheney is so evil, who cares if they donated around 7 mil to charities! :rolleyes: |
Yeah, he also shot an old man. With a gun. In the face.
Besides, I'm not exactly sure what that has to do with the VP falling asleep in a high-level meeting with representatives from the fastest growing economic and military power in the world? |
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| sponger |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
Yeah, he also shot an old man. With a gun. In the face. |
ya that was an accident!
| quote: | | Besides, I'm not exactly sure what that has to do with the VP falling asleep in a high-level meeting with representatives from the fastest growing economic and military power in the world? |
nothing, i was referring to this statement by opus:
| quote: | | The Dark Side can be pretty exhaustive at times |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by sponger
nothing, i was referring to this statement by opus: |
Oops, missed your comment. Let me post it again:
| quote: | | yea Cheney is so evil, who cares if they donated around 7 mil to charities! |
Very generous of him, no doubt.
Then again, he does seem to like that whole charity thing a lot, whether it's giving,
Or receiving:
| quote: | Kirsch: Cheney Tax Return Shows Katrina Tax Benefits for Non-Katrina Charitable Contributions
Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame) points out an interesting aspect of the Vice-President's 2005 tax return:
It appears that the VP is a major beneficiary of the Hurricane Katrina tax relief act. In particular, he claimed $6.8 million of charitable deductions, which is 77% of his AGI -- well in excess of the 50% limitation that would have applied absent the Katrina legislation. The press release indicates that the charitable contribution reflects the amount of net proceeds from an independent administrator's exercise of the VP's Halliburton options -- apparently, the VP had agreed back in 2001 that he would donate the net proceeds from the options to charities once they were exercised.
The press release seems to confirm, at least implicitly, the VP's efforts to take advantage of the Katrina legislation -- it mentions that the Cheneys wrote a personal check of $2.3 million to the administrator in December in order to "maximize the charitable gifts in 2005." Admittedly, I don't know anything about the transactions beyond the info in the press release, but my gut reaction is that the personal check was given in order to make sure the independent administrator had sufficient liquid assets to pay all of the promised charitable contributions before the 50% limit returned on 1/1/06.
Despite the importance of the Katrina legislation to his tax return, it looks like none of the charitable contributions actually went to Katrina-related charities (the press release lists the 3 charitable recipients, all of which were designated in the original 2001 gift agreement). While there's nothing inappropriate about that from a legal perspective, it does demonstrate how the legislation, which was sold to the public as providing relief to Katrina victims, provided significant tax benefits to the VP (and potentially other wealthy individuals) in situations that have nothing to do with Hurricane Katrina.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_...h_cheney_t.html |
Yep, nice fella. Give a little. Take a little. It's all a wash, and everyone's happy..... |
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| tiesto14 |
OH NO...this cant be true...can it? an older man that wakes at the crack of dawn everyday, works his ass off, suffers from heart problems taking a quick nap...wow that is unheard off.
Its not like it was during a speach or something...he IS human and humans do get tired...so he took a 5minute or so snooze - big whoop. |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
Besides, I'm not exactly sure what that has to do with the VP falling asleep in a high-level meeting with representatives from the fastest growing economic and military power in the world? |
WOW what a twist u made...it was not in a high level meeting...it was after...big difference.:rolleyes: |
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| Q5echo |
this Hu must have been a real barrel of monkeys.
maybe they had a "liquid lunch", if you know what i mean.
maybe thay're just trying to piss him off. |
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