{"id":1656,"date":"2007-09-28T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T14:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/28\/things-dont-change\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T19:13:59","slug":"things-dont-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/28\/things-dont-change\/","title":{"rendered":"some things don’t change…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cheney to address top secret conservative policy group<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

An ultra-secret conservative group — so secret that members don’t even use the group’s name in communications — will feature Vice President Dick Cheney as a speaker at a meeting in Utah today. "Cheney will address the fall meeting of the Council for National Policy, a group whose self-described mission is to promote ‘a free-enterprise system, a strong national defense and support for traditional Western values," according to the Salt Lake City Tribune<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1981 by Tim LaHaye, the co-author of the popular post-apocalyptic Christian-themed Left Behind<\/em> books, the group holds confidential meetings three times a year attended by a small but powerful cadre of top conservatives. "The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part in our programs, before of after a meeting," one of the group’s rules reads, according to a New York Times<\/em> profile<\/a><\/strong> of the organization in 2004.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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VP Cheney arrives in Utah for meeting with secret policy group<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

Vice President Dick Cheney’s plane has landed and he has met with a small group of dignitaries and wellwishers en route to an address to a super-secret,conservative policy group. Air Force 2, a blue-and-white 757, landed about noon and Cheney stepped out to shake hands and briefly chat with a line of supporters, among them Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and family members. Cheney’s trip is to be a short one. He is making no public appearances.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the trip – which is privately funded – is to speak to the Council for National Policy<\/strong>, a conservative group that is permitting no press coverage. The four-day event that began Thursday is being held at a downtown Salt Lake City Hotel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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