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Post by Metella on Feb 13, 2006 14:06:37 GMT -5
It's open season on millionaire quail hunters ? ?
Sigh. I'm surprised this has not been pounced on here yet - it is like fertalizer for the imagination.
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Post by BegToDiffer on Feb 20, 2006 0:31:42 GMT -5
If Cheney is that good with a gun, he should take Bush hunting.
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Post by maherjunkie on Feb 20, 2006 16:30:47 GMT -5
Note to Cheney:"Repeat after me. My name is Elmer J.Fudd. I own a mansion and a yacht.
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Post by NicoleMarie on Feb 20, 2006 22:17:33 GMT -5
I'd rather go driving with Ted Kennedy than quail hunting with Dick Cheney!
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Post by NicoleMarie on Feb 20, 2006 22:19:14 GMT -5
Note to Cheney:"Repeat after me. My name is Elmer J.Fudd. I own a mansion and a yacht. Cheney: "Now where's ole Dubya? I have a surprise for him, that wasculy wabbit!"
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Post by maherjunkie on Feb 25, 2006 10:53:34 GMT -5
Nah, Bugs Bunny was competent!
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Post by Patcat on Feb 25, 2006 14:18:01 GMT -5
My favorite joke on this, heard on the PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION:
"The doctors have been so worried about Cheney's heart that they forgot to check his eyes."
Patcat
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Post by LOCIfan on Feb 25, 2006 16:45:16 GMT -5
I've enjoyed lots of the jokes about Cheney and guns since the "accident" (accident/felony, what's the difference among friends...) but find this article from Capitol Hill Blue (www.capitolhillblue.com) disturbing:
Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer By DOUG THOMPSON Feb 22, 2006, 07:35
Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago say Cheney was "clearly inebriated" at the time of the shooting. Agents observed several members of the hunting party, including the Vice President, consuming alcohol before and during the hunting expedition, the report notes, and Cheney exhibited "visible signs" of impairment, including slurred speech and erratic actions.
According to those who have talked with the agents and others present at the outing, Cheney was drunk when he gunned down his friend and the day-and-a-half delay in allowing Texas law enforcement officials on the ranch where the shooting occurred gave all members of the hunting party time to sober up.
We talked with a number of administration officials who are privy to inside information on the Vice President's shooting "accident" and all admit Secret Service agents and others say they saw Cheney consume far more than the "one beer' he claimed he drank at lunch earlier that day.
"This was a South Texas hunt," says one White House aide. "Of course there was drinking. There's always drinking. Lots of it."
One agent at the scene has been placed on administrative leave and another requested reassignment this week. A memo reportedly written by one agent has been destroyed, sources said Wednesday afternoon.
Cheney has a long history of alcohol abuse, including two convictions of driving under the influence when he was younger. Doctors tell me that someone like Cheney, who is taking blood thinners because of his history of heart attacks, could get legally drunk now after consuming just one drink.
If Cheney was legally drunk at the time of the shooting, he could be guilty of a felony under Texas law and the shooting, ruled an accident by a compliant Kenedy County Sheriff, would be a prosecutable offense.
But we will never know for sure because the owners of the Armstrong Ranch, where the shooting occurred, barred the sheriff's department from the property on the day of the shooting and Kenedy County Sheriff Ramon Salinas III agreed to wait until the next day to send deputies in to talk to those involved.
Sheriff's Captain Charles Kirk says he went to the Armstrong Ranch immediately after the shooting was reported on Saturday, February 11 but both he and a game warden were not allowed on the 50,000-acre property. He called Salinas who told him to forget about it and return to the station.
"I told him don't worry about it. I'll make a call," Salinas said. The sheriff claims he called another deputy who moonlights at the Armstrong ranch, said he was told it was "just an accident" and made the decision to wait until Sunday to investigate.
"We've known these people for years. They are honest and wouldn't call us, telling us a lie," Salinas said.
Like all elected officials in Kenedy County, Salinas owes his job to the backing and financial support of Katherine Armstrong, owner of the ranch and the county's largest employer.
"The Armstrongs rule Kenedy County like a fiefdom," says a former employee.
Secret Service officials also took possession of all tests on Whittington's blood at the hospitals where he was treated for his wounds. When asked if a blood alcohol test had been performed on Whittington, the doctors who treated him at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial in Corpus Christi or the hospital in Kingsville refused to answer. One admits privately he was ordered by the Secret Service to "never discuss the case with the press."
It's a sure bet that is a private doctor who treated the victim of Cheney's reckless and drunken actions can't talk to the public then any evidence that shows the Vice President drunk as a skunk will never see the light of day.
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Post by maherjunkie on Feb 26, 2006 10:19:18 GMT -5
If you can shoot a guy and get him to apologize to ya, you're one bad mutha.
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