Two hawks a-nesting, under a no-flight zone

[donsu]

snake Cheney and Rummy

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/18/news/letter.php

ST. MICHAELS, Maryland There are motorcades of black SUVs on Talbot Street, buzzing Chinooks overhead and a no-flight zone that has private pilots in an uproar. But Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have found peace and quiet in their new weekend hawks' nests, even if their presence in this Chesapeake Bay retreat causes a racket in town.

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As anybody would tell you last week at the Carpenter Street Saloon, St. Michaels' unofficial town hall, two years ago Rumsfeld paid $1.5 million for Mount Misery, a former bed and breakfast with a checkered past. (The 19th-century red-brick house on 4.5 waterfront acres, or 1.8 hectares, was built by Edward Covey, a notorious breaker of rebellious slaves who beat the abolitionist Frederick Douglass on and off there in 1834.)

Cheney, Rumsfeld's friend of three decades, followed this autumn with his own weekend purchase, Ballintober, a sprawling $2.6 million Cape Cod on nine waterfront acres just minutes from the defense secretary. Cheney's house, built in the 1930s, has formal gardens, a wisteria arbor and a 150-foot, or 45-meter, dock reaching out into San Domingo Creek, an inlet of the bay.

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Instead, Cheney and Rumsfeld keep company here with their own, like Nicholas Brady, the Treasury secretary under the first President Bush who has a farm along the Choptank River near the town of Trappe. Locals recall seeing Cheney, Rumsfeld and Brady strolling along the open roads here a few Thanksgivings ago with Justice Antonin Scalia, a hunting buddy of the vice president.
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Rummy has 2 other homes and the snake has one other home.

local Realtors are happy cause it raises prices.

pilots are pissed off about the no fly zone.

maybe a next summer hurricane will destroy these criminal's lairs.

isn't Lott suing someone cause his house got destroyed by Katrina?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Somehow Rumsfeld owning Edward Covey's house

seems appropriate. Covey was an evil, evil man and very cruel, as anyone who has read the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass will tell you.

[marylanddem]

2. It is sickening

That these warmongers can enjoy the goodies of this society, like second homes, while they continue to send children off to die.

[Javaman]

3. just like the romanov's before their fall... n/t