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February 21, 2006
President Bush Visits NREL in Golden, Colorado
Bush flew in and out of NREL today in a post-modern whistle-stop tour. Secret service jockeyed with a herd of police cruisers to control the crowds. The crowds turned out to be a couple dozen protestors and office-cubicle spectators licking the glass of their cages, cowering in the bleak obscurity of the Denver Park West cube-farm.
NREL is the National Renewable Energy Labratory. They're ostensibly tasked with inventing forms of renewable energy. In reality, languish in a lackadasical stupor draining funds from the public sector. When forced to produce results, they release incomprehensibly stupid proposals like tinting car windows.
Ironically, 32 NREL employees were laid off this month. So, when Bush decided to visit to make an appearance of concern for renewable energy, it was sort of embarassing that these 32 people had been so recently capped. Their blood was still all over the visitor center. So, in a remarkable conincident, they were all reinstated to their positions a few days before Bush's arrival.
Bush flew in. Bush flew out. The protestors folded up their signs and headed home. And 32 NREL pawns put their feet up on their desks and wondered how long they'd be around.
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Posted by Peenie Wallie on February 21, 2006 at 11:04 AM
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