Do NOT Upset This Man!
posted by kmg at 13:53
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13 Comments:
Pomoze Bog.
Ummmm...making visual confirmation of your target is Hunting 101, Dick. Of course, maybe one of the bobwhites had a turban-shaped patch on its head... ;)
It's too bad Cheney wasn't hunting with a liberal---at least then he wouldn't have wasted the shot. Still, bagging a lawyer is just as good.
"Cheney's got a gun,
His partner's on the run..."
Pomoze Bog.
Speaking of upsetting people, you have GOT to see this...
http://www.glumbert.com/media/rave.html
faulty logic or true husker? with your logic of the situation (journalists have only felt cement under their feet) than it would be true also that the journalists who pumped out the news on clinton's bj's never felt ... ?
or perhaps it's simply news.
news reports say the accident happened "around 5:30 pm" on Saturday. In Texas, quail can be hunted until 30 minutes after sunset. Sunset on Saturday, in Corpus Christi, was at 6:18, which means they were legal until 6:48. The "around" is suspicious.
2. The news reports say that after Whittington had gotten off his shot and went looking for his bird, Cheney and the other hunter went to another spot where they saw a covey of quail. Texas quail might be different from Iowa quail, but in Iowa when a shotgun goes off, every quail within earshot flutters away. The story doesn't make sense.
3. None of the stories have commented on the fact that they were "road hunting", or hunting from a car. That is just about the lowest kind of low-rent, dishonorable kind of hunting there is (the phrase "road hunting" is often used synonymously with "poaching"). When I was growing up in Iowa, I went pheasant or quail hunting on scores of occasions with my Dad and others. We never would have hunted from a vehicle and it was an insult to even suggest that someone might. It was considered dangerous and declasse, as it was too great an advantage for the hunter to be "fair". It most states, including Texas, it is also illegal:
"It is unlawful to hunt from or by means of motor-driven vehicles and land conveyances or aircraft of any kind except paraplegics and single or double amputees of legs may hunt from stationary motor-driven vehicles or land conveyances."
However, Texas exempts private property owners from the prohibition when they are on their own land and Cheney was with the property owner on his ranch. But it is still really tacky.
4. Hunting quail in Texas requires an "Upland game bird stamp", which costs $7. This is a relatively new requirement, but I'll bet Cheney didn't have one.
5. The spin is that Whittington "came up from behind the Vice President", implying that he snuck up on him or was somehow partially responsible because Cheney didn't know he was there. When hunting, it is bad form to walk in front of someone's gun. When given a choice, one would always approach another hunter from behind.
Cheney has gotten negative press in the past for participating in "canned hunts" and a couple of years ago he got really negative press for going on a canned pheasant hunt in Pennsylvania where he got between 70 and 95 birds (depending on which report is to be believed). The typical daily limit in places like Iowa and South Dakota, where we have many more pheasants than Pennsylvania, is 3 or 5 per day and a possession limit of 15 or 20.
To many of our milieu, hunting is hunting is hunting and the distinctions noted above aren't that big of a deal. To hunters, these are important distinctions. Hunting regulations are strictly enforced in most states and every sixpack Joe knows he better abide by them or he'll get in trouble. Most hunters aren't affluent suede vest guys, they are working class guys within a couple of generations of agriculatural roots. The gluttony of shooting 70 pheasant in a day is almost impossible for them to comprehend.
Focusing on the kill rather than the hunt is frowned upon. Killing more than you can eat is frowned upon. Canned hunts and that kind of over-indulgence is for the Rambo hunters, who are not thought highly of by the old-fashioned Izaak Walton league type of guys, like my Dad.
Someone should be asking if Cheney was drinking, if he was properly licensed with his Upland Game Bird Stamp, when (and if) the hunting accident was actually reported to the authorities and if anyone has investigated why the quail in Texas seem to have gone deaf.
Ms. Armstrong claims to have been in the car, but to have witnessed the shooting. If so, that would mean the hunters were fairly close, within eyeshot, which makes it even less likely that Whittington had gotten off a shot at a quail and then there were other quail still waiting around for Cheney to find them. It just does not make sense.
Wow... that's a big, ole passle of speculatin' for an anonymous stranger...!
*yes... it's all very, very suspicious... I am sure that Halliburton is somehow involved... if I could just figure out WHY he did it... damn! *
Is the tinfoil hat one-size-fits-all? Or do they tailor make them?
geez...
*** oops I mean "passel" ***
This is getting to be hilarious! Accidents DO happen, but people forget.
One guy, on a local radio talk show today, called in to say there 'was a coverup' - that Cheney took time to pay off the people, and that's the reason for the delay in letting the press know (he had to have time to get the money). He also said, this lawyer was about to become a democrat, so Cheney shot him to keep him from becoming one. :) Lots of speculation out there!
But, it was said today on the news that Cheney was hunting legally.
Did any of you see the questions asked by all the journalists today? HOW stupid can they be? Do they not have other pressing things to check on? The radio talk show host said, surely, if these guys could take a look at the video of them asking such stupid questions, they'd be ashamed of themselves. I DOUBT IT!
Well we all know it's all Bush's fault!
ROFL!
Seriously though, the left is going to try, try, try their darndest to find something to make this a "scandal."
What's good for the goose...:
If Cheney now finds himself criticized or lampooned, he'll ironically be in the same position he himself put Senator John Kerry in during the final days of the 2004 Presidential campaign, though the circumstances then did not involve a potentially deadly accident. At the time, Cheney used his widely-known experience as a hunter to mock a duck-hunting foray in Ohio in which Senator John Kerry ended up shooting a goose. "The senator who gets a grade of 'F' from the National Rifle Association went hunting this morning," Cheney reportedly said, to hoots. "I understand he bought a new camouflage jacket for the occasion, which did make me wonder how regularly he does go goose hunting.” As the Texas incident shows, experience does not make hunters immune to accidents, which is why hunting advocacy groups put such a relentless focus on safety as the top priority. I think it's what big tough burly marksmen call personal responsibility.
Well that had to make you feel better...!
Feeling that moral high-ground and self-righteous glow that can only come from attempting to rub someone's nose in an accident.
Glad you were able to get it out of your system.
(It is out of your system now, isn't it?)
"Is the tinfoil hat one-size-fits-all? Or do they tailor make them?"
Some enterprising college students not too long ago did a little study on the effectiveness of these tinfoil hats. The results were quite astonishing ... see the following website:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
Steve (laughing all the way to the Faraday cage ...)
of course, what was I thinking: it was the lawyers fault. silly me! carry on mates! carry on...
Thank you... rule numer ONE around here is: "It's ALWAYS the lawyers' fault."
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