What's hanging in YOUR Federal buildings?

[TygrBright]

I had the CREEPIEST experience yesterday. It really jolted me.

It's been a long time since I've gone into a Federal office building anywhere except DC, and in DC I'm always assuming that everything there is Weird Central, anyway, so nothing can creep me out. But yesterday I had to go into a Federal office building here in Santa Fe.

Santa Fe is a sleepy little town except when/where the lege is in session and/or the tourists are swarming. They're swarming now, but 70s-era blocky boring public office buildings are not exactly part of the Santa Fe Tourist Experience, so you could have dropped half a ton of confetti in that atrium without hitting anyone but a bored-looking security guy manning the scanner.

For some reason, I took a moment to look around me. Let's face it, Federal office buildings are much of a muchness, that lobby could have been in any city in America. Acres of blank, clean vinyl flooring, brass-framed glass doors and floor-to-ceiling windows, marble-faced walls around the elevator bay and metal-edged wood panels elsewhere. Framed notices about evacuation procedures and security procedures, taped-up notices by the elevator bay about Amway sales and the collection being taken up for someone's kid wounded in Iraq (New Mexico has a LOT of our native sons/daughters deployed over there, way more than most states in proportion to our small population.)

Nothing I didn't expect. Except then I looked over to the big double glass doors that led through the building lobby to the Post Office next door. And over those doors was something else I expected to see in a Federal building -- a portrait of Our Fearless Leader, framed under glass and about 24" by 20" -- and something I did NOT expect to see:

A portrait EXACTLY the same size, in EXACTLY the same frame, of Doctor Evil himself, our smarmy, sneering, embodiment-of-sleaze VEEPER! Hung right next to the Chimperor's portrait, on the same level, like the Demon Twins they are.

OK, now, please... somebody... WHEN did it become practice to put the VEEPER's portrait up in Federal buildings? Right next to the President's? Like Frick and Frack, Abbott & Costello, whatever... I have never seen this before. It chilled me. What is going on?

worriedly,
Bright

[fasttense]

1. Soon, all federal buildings will be required to have a

six foot statue of the crazy king george. Just in case you forget who made your life so difficult.:sarcasm:

[TygrBright]

3. Yeh, but... a statue of Dead Eyes Dick, TOO....?

Just HOW MUCH POWER does he have?

Mind you, I've always thought the Veeper role needed a bit more power than it gets in most Administrations, if only to prepare the Next Logical Candidate to succeed, should he get to office (but when was the last time a Veeper got ELECTED subsequent to the Prexy leaving office in the normal course of things?)

But when did we appoint the Veeper co-equal Dicktator with the Chimperor?

revoltedly,
Bright

[xchrom]

2. it's just so you know who the Real Decider is.

[wishlist]

4. Cheney is first VP whose picture is displayed prominently along w/Pres

Many employees of my local Social Security office (Federal) were pissed in 2001 when the manager told them they were required to display large pictures of both Bush and Cheney in the waiting room area. Previously only a smaller pic of the Pres was displayed.

[flordehinojos]

5. at the federal building in ft. lauderdale what i saw were two 8 1/2 by 11

encased in very cheap $1.00-looking frames of stoooooooopid and his stoooooooopid AG. in front of their pictures was the american flag.

[demdiva]

6. Actually I have seen this in DC federal buildings too

It gives me the creeps everytime. It is a seriously creepy photo.

[demdiva]

7. It's this one isn't it?

[soothsayer]

8. now if they want to hang the real deal....!