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Mon Feb-13-06 06:24 PM
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Phony ranch, canned hunts, careless shooting, womanizing |
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Wake up red America, these people are not good ol' boys and they're not your neighbors.
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:26 PM
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1. And they are certainly NOT Christians! |
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Jimmy Carter is a Christian!
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:28 PM
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2. Hear Hear!! (applause from me) |
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:32 PM
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4. Does Cheney even pretend to be a Christian? |
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I don't think he gives a flip what anybody thinks of him, and besides, he worships power and money.
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:30 PM
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3. They Should Be Raked over the Coals on "Canned Hunting" |
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I don't expect them to give the animal a fighting chance (then Republicans might become an endangered species :-) but a running-away chance isn't too much to ask. Is it?
I think even most hunters would agree.
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:38 PM
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Not so much pity for the animals, but rather disdain for anybody who pretended to call it hunting.
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:37 PM
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:42 PM
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I've been harping on that since the first report. I'm glad somebody has finally picked it up. The article brings up alot of other good points too, like the time and the fact that the quail would have flown away with the first shot. I wonder if this was just a flat out reckless discharge of a weapon, no hunting involved.
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:45 PM
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Edited on Mon Feb-13-06 06:45 PM by ProSense
"I wonder if this was just a flat out reckless discharge of a weapon, no hunting involved."
The VP while playing with a gun accidently shoots friend...
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:47 PM
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10. I mean at the actual time of the shot |
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They jumped out of the car to shoot the quail, shot the first one, headed back to the car and the gun went off. The guy was in really really bad shape, maybe he was shot at a much closer distance than what they're saying.
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Tue Feb-14-06 02:28 AM
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and he was probably drunk on his ass also. These pretend macho assholes can't do anything with out getting tanked up first-proves their manhood for them. Sounds to me like assault with a deadly weapon. A year in the Corpus Christi Kenedy County Jail would probably satisfy me.
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:44 PM
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8. 50,000 acres. A 50,000 acre perk for the VP. |
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A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
Doining the People's business is hard work.
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:51 PM
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I just wonder why these people vote for guys like Bush and Cheney. I do not even think Bush has even gone on a hunt.
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Mon Feb-13-06 06:54 PM
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Somebody said he went dove hunting, or some such, and brought back a killdeer, which I guess is as lame as him claiming to be a rancher. My husband used to hunt, I never have, so I can't say much about it for certain. But yeah, Bush has hunted.
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Mon Feb-13-06 07:00 PM
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When two men and two women hunt, and no one is married, it is "womanizing". So this meme is saying that women can't do anything with men without being "sluts".
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Mon Feb-13-06 07:07 PM
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14. Dick Cheney is married |
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Hello? Where ya' been? Most married men do not go hunting with women, especially unmarried women and especially not the Vice-President.
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Mon Feb-13-06 07:26 PM
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15. I hope you're being sarcastic |
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Because that train of thought comes straight from Dr. Laura.
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Mon Feb-13-06 07:34 PM
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16. It comes straight from most of America |
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The vast majority of married Americans do not go on trips with single people of the opposite sex, period. They certainly don't send their husbands off on hunting trips with single women, or vice versa. You can call it anything you want, I really don't care, that's the way most people live their lives. You don't want to, you don't have to. Doesn't change the fact that most people do.
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Tue Feb-14-06 12:56 AM
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22. I know women who hunt with men that |
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they are not married to but only day hunts, not staying some place overnight together. Of course there may be no hanky panky here but any politician who'd put himself in this situation is inviting speculation. With what we now know about the extramarital affairs of FDR, Ike, JFK, LBJ, and, of course, Bill Clinton, how could we not speculate? (Are the freepers' heads exploding?)
Kissinger said power is the ultimate aphrodisiac and those of you old enough to remember the Nixon years will remember that Kissinger, who was pretty gnarly looking even then, married a beautiful, much younger woman.
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Tue Feb-14-06 01:04 AM
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24. I know singles who hunt with singles |
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I know married groups where some take the wives and some don't, occasionally an additional family member or some such. But I've never known married buddies going off without their wives, to do anything with other women, single and/or without their husbands. Unless it's business or a charitable event. Apparently the lawyer guy who was shot isn't a hunting buddy of Cheney's either, so it isn't even like a bunch of old friends got together.
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Tue Feb-14-06 02:41 AM
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28. Doncha know, you weemen can't ever be with other men unless your |
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Edited on Tue Feb-14-06 02:44 AM by BigYawn
husband is with you? Even if them men are family friends for 40 years? It don't matter if you are in your 60's and past viagra stage and with a heart condition!!!
:sarcasm:
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Mon Feb-13-06 11:10 PM
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17. I think if it were innocent, Miss Swiss Miss would have been NAMED. |
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Edited on Mon Feb-13-06 11:10 PM by WinkyDink
By the WH. Interviewed. Questioned. But she wasn't, was she?
Funny, neither has been Lynn.
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Tue Feb-14-06 12:58 AM
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23. Her name doesn't even appear in the police report |
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I'm betting the local cops reported what they were told. Everybody had lots of time (the most conniving minds in the White House had an overnighter, I'm sure).
Where, oh where, is the Swiss Miss?
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Mon Feb-13-06 11:22 PM
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18. I don't know if this is really canned hunting but it is road hunting |
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which is not ethical is it? And is it legal in Texas?
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Mon Feb-13-06 11:25 PM
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19. Jon Stewart Daily Show... focusing on Cheney shooting 78 yr old man |
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and pen raised witless quails.
They did a video reenactment LOL
From Stable to Stable but still shot in the face.
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Tue Feb-14-06 12:18 AM
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20. actually, that sounds like a lot of people in Texas |
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Tue Feb-14-06 12:35 AM
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21. The "official account" is full of holes. |
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SS did not let the duputies interview Cheney right away - standard procedure in ANY shooting incident, accidental or otherwise.
Why did Mrs? Armstrong say that she thought that Cheney might be having heart problems when she saw the SS running toward the scene? She supposedly was an eyewitness to the whole event so she should have known right away that Cheney shot the guy.
And how did Mrs. Armstrong know that Whittington did not signal to Cheney that he was moving up behind him. Wasn't she some distance away sitting inside a car?
Why did Cheney flush out the second covey of quail instead of waiting for Whittington to rejoin him? I am not a bird hunter, but common sense says you would keep a hunting party together to avoid the possibility of an accident. A hunting party usually works the cover together with strict rules about who is going to take the shot, depending on which way the quail flies. Either Cheney isn't the experienced hunter he claims, or the accident didn't "happen" the way they said. Personally I think that Cheney accidentially discharged his gun, probably because he was walking with the safety off.
Circumstantial evidence for this version is that they waited so long to report the story to the press and not allowing the deputies to interview Cheney the same evening.
If the guys injuries were so slight, why wasn't he treated and released instead of spending almost 2 days in intensive care? It makes a difference, because a close range shooting would go along with more serious injuries and also fit in more with an accidental discharge rather than the official version of getting hit by the pattern thirty yards away.
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Tue Feb-14-06 01:48 AM
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25. Cheney was poaching (no upland game bird stamp) at the time. How |
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many of the others in the group that day were ALSO poaching????? Probably the whole goddam lot of them. They are a bunch of scofflaws, and this is just more par-for-the-course crap AFAIAC.
Laws are for the Little People, dontcha know?
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Tue Feb-14-06 01:57 AM
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26. Male hookers in the WH, a former cocaine abuser & drunk as prez... |
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Strange, bizarre people. Seems there is a very decadent undertone to their lives.
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