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Vice Presidential Contest Heats Up -- at Least Here

Loop Fans have their ideas about who might be the next veep. Among their guesses, from left, are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Gen. Anthony Zinni and Sen. Jim Webb (Va.).
Loop Fans have their ideas about who might be the next veep. Among their guesses, from left, are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Gen. Anthony Zinni and Sen. Jim Webb (Va.). (Chip Somodevilla - Getty Images)
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Those Wacky Hippies

Blackwater Worldwide is going green.

The controversial security company, under investigation in the deaths of at least 11 civilians in a Sept. 16, 2007, incident in Iraq, has, according to its Tactical Weekly newsletter, put up its own "wind turbine to reduce the company's reliance on fossil fuel generated electricity, joining a growing number of green companies. Not news you'll find in the mainstream media."

That's for sure.

North Carolina, where the company is located, "has long been known for farming and Blackwater Worldwide is introducing a new crop, wind," the newsletter says. "Well, Blackwater isn't exactly farming wind, but the ten-year-old firm known for its training and contracting will be generating electricity by means of harnessing wind energy through a wind turbine."

There's a ribbon-cutting ceremony at company headquarters in Moyock, N.C., on Saturday. Unclear if Gore can make it.

Plenty of Freebies Still

Good news for all those who fretted that recent congressional ethics mania would wipe out free booze and pigs in a blanket at trade organization meetings and other cocktail receptions. Rest easy. There will be munchies.

This week's schedule circulating on the Hill shows great possibilities for convivial after-work elbow-rubbing and grazing.

For example, on Monday, the Satellite Industry Association was to meet at Union Station. If you missed lunch, you could have stopped first at the Cannon Caucus Room to nosh with the Association of KFC Franchisees.

A National Low Income Housing Coalition gathering was scheduled yesterday at the Washington Court Hotel, but the Society of American Florists might make the Caucus Room more fragrant.

An aerospace association gathering after work at the Rayburn House Office Building should be worth attending. Then there's something called "Teaming with Wildlife" in the Senate's Dirksen Office Building. Joining the spotted owls? Maybe "teeming"?

Back problems? Check out the American Chiropractic Association on Thursday at the Rayburn Cafe. (That's the building's cafeteria.) No one on the Hill pays for dinner. Why should you?


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