Wonkette
That dreadful scandal-bastion known to some as “the University of Wyoming” is back in the news, because of mean old Dick Cheney: “CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A decision by the University of Wyoming to name a new center for international students for former Vice President Dick Cheney is drawing criticism from people who say Cheney’s support for the Iraq war and harsh interrogation techniques should disqualify him from the distinction.” HA! Dick Cheney, man. A $3.2 million donation from the Cheneys for this so-called “center,” designed to house the very people he despises: Foreigns. The four or five international students at UW should really consider ever walking into this fishy building… something seems a little “Bagram-y” about all of this. [AP via Indecision Forever]
And the new housemouther at Kappa Gamma Dick? Why Jose Rodriguez, of course.
They’re going to call it the International House of Yellowcakes.
Will all the Bushies just hurry up and die so we can get on with the unicorns and rainbows?
Methinks Cheney Hall should have his family motto, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter,” written in blood above the entrance.
Also, suck it, Dick.
All’s fair in the imaginary war to indoctrinate American’s students.
Students also will be able to hang out there, said university spokeswoman Jessica Lowell.
…by their thumbs, ankles, or special hooks inserted into their back muscles.
Make sure the floors are tiled and have plenty of sturdy drains.
Each room is outfitted with a waterboard, car battery and nad clamps.
What’s next, a GWBush Library?
StoneAge: That’s America, you moran.
I can totally understand naming, say, a primate research facility after Cheney, but a student center?
Will all the teevees be pre-set to Focks Nooze, like they were in Dick’s other concrete-lined fun-bunkers?
I’d ask why all the detainees, er students are forced to wear orange jumpsuits, but I already know the answer.
Lynndie England is the RA, all the beds are planks of wood, the library is nothing but defaced Korans, and the cafeteria serves nothing but Pop Rocks and Dr Pepper.
You’d think that for that kind of green he could get one more convenient to his own home.
I mean, he can watch on closed-circuit TV and all, but torture looses a lot when you can’t be there in person.
AnnieGetYourFun: Wow, not even the WashPo has rebranded torture centers as “primate research facilities.” Bonus point taken.
Will they ever disclose the location of this building?
Cheney insisted that the new international student center be designed by the same architect that designed Gitmo.
How long before on-campus “offenders” are sent there too?
Cheney’s going to spy on all the international students.
pub_option: No, and it will also be blurred out from Google Earth.
queeraselvis v 2.0: No, no, its “Arbeit Macht Frei.”
I can only imagine what an exciting prospect it must be for a foreign exchange student from Kazakhstan to visit collegiate America; to cast off the sparsely populated, intellectually stunted, endless plains of his or her homeland in favor of… CHEYENNE WYOMING.
have you seen the blueprints? they’re something else. there’s going to be extra soundproofing all through the building, and a large communal shower in the basement, though the shower heads don’t seem to connect with the plumbing.
Prommie: In Freddy Krueger’s voice, “You can check-in, but you can’t check-out.”
Foreign in Wyoming means Idaho and Montana.
norbizness: It looks like home, but there is more food available in Wyoming. Plus, it used to be as far away from Cheney as you could get.
Crank Tango: The folks in Standish, MI are going to be so disappointed.
SayItWithWookies: Epic win.
They’re just naming a building after him. It’s not like they’re doing anything important like giving him an honorary degree. You need to be experienced for something like that…
Seriously? How many foreign students could even find Wyoming?
Min: That’s where extraordinary student exchange rendition comes in. No need to find it when you’re safely ensconced in one of those Brazil-like body bags on an Army cargo plane.
user-of-owls: 1: Good.
2: Even better!
user-of-owls: The IHOY?
Where did he get 3.2 million dollars? He’s been a government employee for the past roughly 30 years. That’s not GS-15 coin. Was his soul actually worth that much?
Now it’s really time to consecrate the bonds of obedience…assume the position.
I am tickled with the Ironic implications of all of this.
SayItWithWookies: “Don’t Sioux me, bro!”
It will become The Darth Cheney Institute for Cunnilingual Studies, where foreign students learn how to breathe through their ears.
Copies of Lynne Cheney’s Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America will be available in the student lounge for $22.95.
norbizness: Its Laramie, but your point is still valid
The Dickitorium.
Cheney always thought Bush was a pussy since his Skull and Bones building wasn’t actually made out of Skulls and Bones.
Hey now! I live in Laramie, and work at the University. Laramie is really a nice place - the University makes it more liberal than you’d expect.
That said, I have no words for how ticked I am at having that warmonger’s name on the plaza. I end up passing it every day, and one of these days I swear to Cthulhu that I’m going to take a sledgehammer to the goddamned thing.
Min: Seriously? Quite a few. We have a pretty good population of foreign students at UW.
Dr. Zoidberg: Albany County (where Laramie is) was one of only two in the entire Cowboy State (Teton was the other) to vote for Barack Obama in 2008. Now I know that’s not saying much, but so it goes.
What makes the CIC even funnier is that it’s a center for INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. Something he wasn’t too keen on when it would have been useful. However, I do have at least one friend who’s going to rock Brussels on the Cheney’s dime. I dunno. It could be seen as a move towards atoning for what he did, kind of like George Wallace coming out in favor of desegregation after being a hate-monger for decades but what he continues to say completely negates any good the man could possibly do anymore. Really, who knows why he decided to give money to such a program. Although the only National insitution Cheney has shown even the slightest modicum of faith in (in books, stories, sloppily scrawled bathroom missives) has been higher education.
All in all, it doesn’t matter. There is no atonement for men of such great evil. And Wallace is still evil, too.
Perhaps someone should leave a bucket of water and a board in Cheney Plaza during the early AM hours.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Oh, now that is how it is done. Tres bon!
god.was.stingy: Yeah, when then Sen. Obama came to the campus it was awesome. I stood in line for two hours and then sat on cold seats for another couple of hours just to hear him speak.
And as for Darth Cheney, I sincerely doubt it had anything to do with atonement. That would imply a heart and a conscience, and he has neither.
Eh, I just wanted to throw in my two cents. I love Wyoming (moved here from Texas 8 years ago), and like I said, Laramie, at least, is more open minded than other parts of the state.
Why is it no one ever smiles at these Soviet Day parades?
Dick remembers where Wyoming is?