Beloved capitool bar Smith Point is on fire! DCFD is on the scene! Late Night Shots people are blaming, obviously, this website! Here are some comments: MORE »

Hooray, we now know what that “medical emergency” was at the Longworth, which followed the (unrelated) fire and evacuation. MORE »

From: US Capitol Police
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:37 PM
To: All House Staff
Subject: Evacuate the Longworth Building - Audible Fire Alarm
Importance: High

Fire alarms echoing throughout Longworth, members trampling staffers on their ways to the exits, and terrifying chaos marked the end of the 109th Congress, more or less just as we expected.

Full email after the jump.

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Sith Lord Dick Cheney apparently returned from Saudi Arabia (and Ireland) just in time to flee Washington again, this time for a “hunting trip” in Florida. Wonkette Operatives spotted the Dick’s motorcade blasting through downtown Monticello (near Tallahassee) late Monday, probably headed for this “Southern Quail Hunting” lodge. Says the hilariously named Two Beard Farm website: “As you prepare yourself for the kill your heart begin to race.”

But even as Cheney keeps one step ahead of that rascally process server, the chaos and skulduggery continue at his Naval Observatory lair. A mysterious blaze struck the compound on Sunday, while Wonkette Operatives spotted giant moving trucks outside the residence this morning. We’ll get to the bottom of this, after the jump.

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It comes to us courtesy of NBC4. In a routine story about that evergreen local news topic, fires during weddings, reporter Michael Flynn gets a little poetic: MORE »