One Thing Leads To Another

My word processor thinks that I misspelled Cheney. It wants me to change Cheney to Cheyenne. If only I could. A better choice for my spell checker would have been Casper. Then I could change Cheney to Casper and he’d be invisible. On second thought I don’t think I’d want that, he’d probably be more dangerous that way.

Anyways, in trying to find if the Dickster had anything to do with Cheyenne, Wyoming I stumbled upon this on Wikipedia:

In 1986, Cheney, along with 145 Republicans and 31 Democrats, voted against a non-binding Congressional resolution calling on the South African government to release Nelson Mandela from prison, after the Democrats defeated proposed amendments that would have required Mandela to renounce violence sponsored by the African National Congress (ANC) and requiring it to oust the communist faction from its leadership; the resolution was defeated. Appearing on CNN, Cheney addressed criticism for this, saying he opposed the resolution because the ANC "at the time was viewed as a terrorist organization and had a number of interests that were fundamentally inimical to the United States."

Cheney also served as ranking minority member of the Congressional committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair — a scandal involving members of the Reagan Administration who illegally sold arms to Iran, using the proceeds to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. He promoted Wyoming's petroleum and coal businesses as well, and as a result, the federal building in Casper, a regional center of the oil and coal business, is named the "Dick Cheney Federal Building."

He really is a despicable man, isn’t he?