Vice President’s house now appears unobscured on Google Maps.
By on Jan 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Vice President’s house now appears unobscured on Google Maps.
In 2005, Maureen Dowd noted that “if you use Google Earth’s database to see [former Vice President Cheney's] official residence, the view is scrambled and obscured. You can view satellite photos of the White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol — but not of the Lord of the Underworld’s lair.” But Gawker reports today that as of last week (when Cheney left office), the overhead view is now clear:
Biden is also moving toward greater transparency in other areas, including disclosing his daily schedule. By contrast, Cheney “drew the line at the obligatory notices for public events.”
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The puny technology of humans cannot penetrate the dark side of the Force.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pmHEY! Look at that picture on the left – a bald, fat guy in a wheelchair scooting down the sidewalk!!
Could be a terrorist!! SHOOT HIM!!
Where’s a drone Preadtor when we need one?
January 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmMeanwhile, Wyoming has been entirely deleted.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pm“paranoia strikes deep…and the cover ups even deeper, like an onion this administrations foibles will take years to peel off.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:57 pmNevar Says:
Meanwhile, Wyoming has been entirely deleted.
But PULEEZE don’t delete Jackson Hole and Grand Targhee! Best DD’s in the world (And I am from Colorado.)
January 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pmOK, we can see the top of buildings again. Now what about the wiretapping?
January 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pmWait. I thought the lair was a volcano somewhere in the pacific
January 26th, 2009 at 5:04 pmcheney is easy to find. just call around to pet stores and ask if they have any kittens. when you find none, you are getting close to him.
apparently, it takes the blood of 20 or so fresh kittens a day to keep ol’ Dick properly undead.
and that is just the stuff we know about.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:04 pmOh wait there it is, up in the sky, a giant pe
Peanuts get your peauts
January 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pmThis has got to be Bushes fault. -=Dynamo=-
I see dynamo has not only ODS but BDS
January 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pmAhh, Dynamo, the house belongs to the American people, Nimrod, not to Darth or to Biden.
But, as a BushCo butt-buddy, that doesn’t resonate, right?
January 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pmHmm, an elected official who is accountible to his constituency..
what a radical concept….
January 26th, 2009 at 5:13 pmMy question is what the hell was Cheney doing around the house that required the whole thing to be pixellated anyways? The imagination boggles…
January 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pmWell, I suppose this only makes sense since Cheney’s brain is scrambled and obscured too…
Oh, man — I sure hope he doesn’t track me down and shoot me in the face for that…
January 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pmJust think, if Saruhh Palin was now living there, we’d be looking at all the laundry…
January 26th, 2009 at 5:19 pmSome clean, mostly dirty, some of it still in trash bags…
Kids running around in diapers, junk snowmobiles in the yard…
Nah. I don’t think you can use the Google running MS-DOS with a monochrome green screen monitor.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:22 pmWith Cheney’s love of secrecy, it’s a good bet he’ll be dead six months before we hear about it.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pmKids running around in diapers, junk snowmobiles in the yard…
And a trash fire Gotta have a big, blazin’ trash fire.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pmAnd a trash fire Gotta have a big, blazin’ trash fire.
“By gosh and by golly, look at the humungous pile of shredded paper that other fella left behind!”
January 26th, 2009 at 5:27 pmIf you look closely, you can see a pair of feet sticking out from under the house, their toes slowly curling up.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:31 pmNevar Says:
Just think, if Saruhh Palin was now living there, we’d be looking at all the laundry…
Some clean, mostly dirty, some of it still in trash bags…
Kids running around in diapers, junk snowmobiles in the yard…
Nah, she’d be livin’ it up in her taxpayer-built Wasilla home and charging We the People a per diem for each night. And then we’d be flyin’ her hillbilly clan back and forth for public appearances.
PEACE
January 26th, 2009 at 5:33 pmIs Google C.I.A.????
Sure seems like it!!!
My Google Search Results are Leading to Browser Hijackers!
My Search Results are ALL getting redirected!!!
Anybody out there know why this is going on?
&
How to fix this problem?
Thanks!
January 26th, 2009 at 5:38 pm. . . and charging more clothes on the State Department Office Supply Credit Card.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:38 pmYou’re probably right, spencers mom, she thinks a naval observatory is a Barcalounger.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:39 pmspencers mom Says:
Nah, she’d be livin’ it up in her taxpayer-built Wasilla home
The media sure isn’t looking to that, just like Bush’s War Crimes…her home build at the same time as the sports arena, Todd said he and some friends built it in 2 months, but they can’t produce receipts, and turns out it was the same contractor as the one who built the arena…why are all Repukes criminals?
January 26th, 2009 at 5:43 pmOh come now. Give him a break. It takes a lot of time to clear all the brush and clean up the image of the property
January 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pmI know you can’t tell the difference, but he died 6 years ago.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:53 pmNevar Says:
Just think, if Saruhh Palin was now living there, we’d be looking at all the laundry…
Some clean, mostly dirty, some of it still in trash bags…
Kids running around in diapers, junk snowmobiles in the yard…
If they’re running around loose, they don’t need diapers, fool!
January 26th, 2009 at 6:14 pmRaptureReady Says: Security-wise, this decision is not intelligent.
Now there is a totally clueless statement.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pmruptured rectum thinks you can launch a terrorist attack through google maps? what a dolt.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:51 pm“If they’re running around loose, they don’t need diapers, fool!”
I’m remembering your fondness for free range fraternity… lol
January 26th, 2009 at 6:57 pmThey would be expected to maintain some decorum… after all, it is an observatory…
Is your house scrambled, Daryll?
January 26th, 2009 at 6:57 pmIt might be a good idea, Rapturous, if your place was blurred out for when Pastor Ted comes over.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pmDick Cheney is so evil, he can distort and bend light around him.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:13 pmIt would be in your best interest to have clear and unobstructed Google Earth images, Rapture Ready… how else will the Rapture Mobile be able to find you when it’s time to pick you up?
January 26th, 2009 at 7:18 pmIt’s easy to spot deathshot’s house. It’s the house with the permanent dark cloud above it.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:23 pmNevar Says:
Is your house scrambled, Daryll?
It’s his brain that’s scrambled.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:25 pmReally, this is as bizarre as the man-sized safe. Probably more so.
Google Maps can’t be used to target space lasers or the like, since it’s not real-time. And that degree of pixellation shows the shape of the building clearly, so it can’t be to disguise any architectural features. So what the hell? What was Cheney doing around the house that needed to be pixellated? Digging holes in the lawn? Shooting kittens? WHAT?!?
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Nevar Says:
Is your house scrambled, Daryll?
I believe that it is, just so angry TP’ers don’t use Google Maps to go knock over his G.O.P. sign again.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:38 pmOh God – it was nude sunbathing wasn’t it? Cheney likes to “get natural.” Ulp…
January 26th, 2009 at 8:21 pmI hope Chenney gets prosecuted for war crimes. He deserves hanging!
January 26th, 2009 at 8:56 pmstop teasing!
January 26th, 2009 at 9:03 pmNow it will be easy for the terrorists to get the new V.P., but I can’t imagine why they would want HIM…
January 26th, 2009 at 9:26 pmDon’t worry Daryll. Any right-wing, Republican, gunnut, terrorists who might want to attack Joe Biden at his home aren’t likely to be computer savvy enough to use the Google anyway.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:27 pmTim, your house is on the Google. BOO!
January 26th, 2009 at 9:29 pmTim Vaculik Says:
Now it will be easy for the terrorists to get the new V.P.
It’s Google Maps. It’s not real-time. That’s not a live feed. And I don’t see how making the house slightly blurry is going to keep people from knowing where it is.
Look, I don’t mind if you wingnuts have policy disagreements with us, but please stop being so damn stupid all the time?
January 26th, 2009 at 10:22 pmElBruce, it would be quite a stretch for the wingnuts to stop being stupid. Being stupid is the first requirement for being a wingnut.
January 27th, 2009 at 12:36 amTim Vaculik Says:
Timmeh you are already a worthless ignorant punk. Why do you feel the need to be even stupide and more worthless by the post? Time to go to your proctologist for a cranial rectal extraction
January 27th, 2009 at 6:16 amI suggest that it was not an executive branch order that caused the dumbing down of the image but rather Cheney’s presence that warped reality there. I mean, has anyone ever seen Cheney in a photo that isn’t just ever so slightly out of focus anyway? Perhaps this is due to his under worldly powers and make it impossible to see the three sixes that follow him around everywhere.
January 27th, 2009 at 10:27 amI’ve long suspected that the “man sized safe” is where he sleeps during the daylight hours. Maybe the pixellation effect on satellite imagery is a corollary to not having a reflection in a mirror. I believe most sattelite cameras do use mirrors…
January 27th, 2009 at 11:05 amTransparency is quite refreshing, I’d say.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:44 pm