BS: Shotgun Cheney

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: GUEST,Stella
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 02:16 AM

Shotgun Boogie?

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Regards

Stella

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 08:26 PM

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/cheney_tenways.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: ard mhacha
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 07:11 AM

My old friend Owen Kelly tell this tale of a very smart rabbit,
When Cheney shot his lawyer friend he was following an established precedent.
Last year an Italian Lawyer out hunting shot a rabbit and stowed it in his game bag. The rabbit, a Bugs Bunny fan apparently, was only stunned, it came around crept out of the bag, placed one paw on a toehold, dropped to the ground and cleared off.
The toehold was the trigger, the gun went off and shot the hunter in a place that wouldn`t blind him.
He ate his dinner off the mantlepiece for quite a while.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 11:38 AM

Today he is on CNN handing out distinguished service crosses to service men.

I'm so proud I could bust

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 08:26 PM

gnu-

Thanks for clarifying what Cheney was aiming at and why.

I feel much better, but it may have something to do with the two beers I've downed.

BUT WHERE IS THE AMBASSADOR?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:53 PM

I thought 'Broken Arrow' would be more appropriate :-) - weapons of mass deception and all...

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:20 PM

Okay Charley....

I just talked to Dick. From what I could make out (ya know how Dick gets after a few), that the "accident" was actually a premptive strike on Avian Bird Flu. It appeared that the quail may have transmitted the deadly virus to humans, causing the victim to act irrationally. Of course, Dick had no choice but to act decisively, and unilateraly, and quarantine it.

Good shot, Straight Arrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:11 PM

Cheney was using one of those special guns designed to hit targets behind him. Of course they exist - Maxwell Smart and his fellow workmates in CHAOS had them ages ago!

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:44 AM

I'm shocked to see this thread abandoned so soon. What a bunch of wimps!

No one has addressed so far the mysterious disappearance of a prime witness to the event, the Swiss Ambassador:

**MISSING WHITE WOMAN ALERT***
Name: Pamela Willeford
Age: 50ish
Occupation: US Ambassador to Switzerland
Last seen: Sat. 2/11/06, on a ranch in Texas, in the company of the V-POTUS
Details: Ms. Willeford is missing after an incident involving firearms and alcohol.
 
SHE MAY BE IN GRAVE DANGER! Please report any information immediately to the authorities.
 
(Cheney has said over and over that Anne Armstrong, who remained in the car, was an "eye witness." But wouldn't the account of Pamela Willeford, who was ostensibly standing right next to Cheney at the time, be much more reliable? Where is she now? And where is her husband?)

I have no reason to doubt the veracity of the above story since it was sent to me via personal e-mail, along with an attachment showing Cheney examining a smoking shotgun at a NRA convention, with the gentleman to his left sadly missing his head...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 11:44 AM

well gnu, if mr whitington froze and pointed like a bird dog, it still wouldnt have helped him.
He was also behind Cheney at the time- according to the link above.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 11:40 AM

Last night on the Tonight Show Jay Leno said that at one Presidential ceremony (Yesterday was US Presidents Day) when they fired the 21-gun salute, Cheney shot back.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:11 AM

They have convictions??!!

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: kendall
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:57 AM

He admitted to drinking "ONE" beer. Given that he has a problem with booze, I'm suspicious.

What a pair to lead this nation, between them they have 5 alcohol related convictions.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:18 AM

He was drinkin? Well SOB! I hope he gets the max!

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 10:13 PM

Doesn't he pay people to shoot humans for him? Or is that the C-in-C's job?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: kendall
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 10:04 PM

From the time I was 15 I was an avid hunter. Then one day I shot a deer that didn't die right away, and as I approached it looked at me as much as to say, "Why"? Then the same thought crossed my mind and I haven't hunted since.

I'm sorry, but Cheney broke two firm rules; drinking and shooting a human. No excuse.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 09:32 PM

equal justice/accidents for all

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/cheneyfk.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 07:46 PM

Don't mention the war!


I did, but I think I got away with it...

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 07:15 PM

Kinda hard to ID something sneaking in to your field of fire. Ya kinda depend on humans to be a little more intelligent. I have even more doubt now that I know that quail flush and fly in an erractic fashion. "Sure of your target" just don't cut the guilty verdict in this situation. Keep saying it if you want. Don't make it right.

First time you and I disagreed... since the war.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 05:40 PM

Kendall, from your earlier post, I find it difficult to believe you were a hunter. Unfortunately, this sort of thing happens too frequently. The man walked back to the group without announcing himself. I have several pellet marks I could show you as I pulled the same dumb trick once.
I am sure Cheney saw the target, he did not see tke man as he swung and fired.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: kendall
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 08:11 AM

People such as Cheney would f**k up where ever they hunt.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Big Phil
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 09:14 PM

What amazes me is the Americans wear bright orange vests when shooting, and they still manage to shoot each other, How they would fare over here in blighty when the tradition is for dull, drab colours god only knows.............

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 03:02 PM

Yeah, Kendall. One in each hand?

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: kendall
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 12:48 PM

Maybe it was his glasses that were fogged up.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Don Firth
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 12:41 PM

I've shot a lot of targets. Lousy eating. They don't cook up very well and taste real pulpy.

Empty soft drink cans are inedible, but if you fill them with water first, they make a very satisfying geyser, especially when hit by a .45 ACP wadcutter.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Amos
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 12:27 PM

I think that may be due to his class, Ron.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Ron Davies
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 11:59 AM

Impaired. And he aimed low-as he always does.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 11:55 AM

Gnu-

I just Goggled you up a reference to the 4-gauge elephant gun:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An elephant gun is a large caliber rifle, so named because they were originally developed for use in hunting elephants and other large, dangerous game.

Traditionally, these were very large caliber black powder double rifles (c.1880-1895), often as big as 4-gauge and occasionally larger, giving projectiles starting at 4oz (113g). The most prestigious manufacturer of elephant guns was the British Holland & Holland. With the development of cordite, projectiles could reach a much higher muzzle velocity, lessening the need for such massive calibers, and relatively smaller calibers (.458"-.577") became the norm (c.1900). The Nitro Express line, so named because the composition of cordite is nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine, was the first to create ammunition to fill this market for smaller rounds with calibers such as the .577 Nitro Express, .500 Nitro Express and the .470 Nitro Express. These cartridges delivered anywhere from 5000 to 7000 ft-lbf of kinetic energy at the muzzle. Of the Nitro Express cartridges, the .470 Nitro Express is the only one still in commercial production. The larger bore rifles did not die off immediately, though, with large Nitro Express rounds such as the .600 Nitro Express and .700 Nitro Express still being made, but these eventually proved to be overpowered for anything but emergency use to stop a charging animal, and the smaller Nitro Express rounds won out.

Mr. Whittington is fortunate that Mr. Chaney was not using this state-of-the art weapon for the quail hunt.

Have a nice day!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 11:39 AM

I just had an inspiration - one that should satisfy the yearnings of the most atavistic among us: Make Skeet hollow and fill the compartment with red liquid. Splaaaat!

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Amos
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 08:48 AM

Impaired is an excellent term for him, Kendall. Deeply so.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 08:48 AM

Quail is an ancient delicacy, especially prized nowadays in French Style Cooking. They are readily available in Australia now, bred in captivity. The usual serving is one full quail per diner as an entrée. They are smaller than a clenched fist.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: kendall
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 08:36 AM

I've been an avid hunter most of my adult life (up until a few years ago when I quit) and I can state flatly that you NEVER pull that trigger unless you see your intended target. There is no excuse for mistaking a man for a quail. The evidence says he was impaired.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 11:45 PM

Quail meat is sweeter than spotted owl, and it isn't stringy like bald eagle.
Dove is great; 70 or 80 of them make a good snack.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 11:39 PM

Ebbie... less than 8" long? Gosh. I did not know that. Must take a shitload to make a stew. Why would anyone... oh... yeah... already addressed that queston. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 11:31 PM

I have never shot skeet. How barbaric. They are raised in tiny quarters... never allowed to roam... never allowed to live any kind of life... only to experience the possibilty of flight to freedom once... and few make it. Join SKEETA (Society for Eating Every Tasty Animal) and help. The K is silent. Only you can make a difference. K?

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: GUEST,boab
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 11:29 PM

Yaaawwwn! Mountains and molehills spring to mind......

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Amos
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 11:27 PM

Jes' goes to show you're smarter than the average coyote, Eb! :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 11:24 PM

The only quail I'm familiar with is California Quail, unless you're talking about the bobwhite. I don't know how much the adults weigh but I'd say they are something like 8 inches long. The chicks are little puff balls about the size of your thumb from the joint to the tip.

Once as I walking in the woods a quail flung itself into my path, flipping and flopping to get my attention. Knowing there had to be a nest nearby I stood still and looked around. About two feet from my left foot was this round nest of a dozen or so squirmng puff balls. Cuter than you can imagine.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 11:05 PM

Skeet also tastes terrible. Kinda chalky and metallic.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 11:01 PM

Crow? Never tasted them. Ravens, of course, are sacred. Now, I can attest that robins taste awful. Squirrel is even worse. Well, red squirrel... I don't know about them big fat grey ones on accounta I wasn't hungry when I seen them up in mid-western New Brunswick.

But... this here quail thing has taken a tern fer me. Just a few hours ago at a birthday supper. My brother, a world champion skeet shooter, all guages (Eurpoean, NATO, others... the boy can, ah, use to, shoot), told me at supper tonight that a quail is a tiny little bird that flies faster and flightier than a woodcock.... and, it's smaller than a woodcock!! (???? really???) He said it was like a sparrow on steroids. Is that true, or was he yankin my Cheney?

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 10:29 PM

Doug, I know a girl who grew up in the bush and her dad was a trapper. She said she'd eaten most every kind of creature out there you could cook up.

And she said that the only thing she couldn't stomach was crow. It apparently tastes awful.

Probably where the expression comes from.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 08:48 PM

Soooo... we don't know the choke eh? If we can't even get the choke, how are we going to find out chamber? Dram equivalent? Special? Range? Steel? Lead? Field? Magnum? Shelf? Reload? Custom? Primer? Double trigger? Single? Select? Flo bead? Red dot? Brass?

There's a lot more than meets the eye here.

Oh, BTW... I hear the lad apologized to Dick for stepping into his field of fire without warning.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: DougR
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 05:55 PM

Don: Nope. I don't eat crow. I hear it's real stringy.

Peace: you don't go dove hunting? Tasty little critters. Excellent for the crockpot if you have enough of them. Want a recipe?

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 04:58 PM

Just one other thought...

If it is true that Cheney didn't bother to notify his boss until the next morning, what does that say about who really is the "boss"...

Seems purdy arrogant to me on Cheney's part...

Nice piece of writing, Maureen...

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Amos
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 04:43 PM

From my favorite redheaded Guerilla Woman, Maureen Dowd:

Shooter Slips on a Silencer

By MAUREEN DOWD

...

The luckless 78-year-old Texas lawyer, Harry Whittington, is in intensive care after a heart attack, with up to 200 pellets riddling his face and body — one stuck in his heart — from Dick Cheney's designer Perazzi Brescia shotgun. And still his friend, the vice president, is Swift-BB-ing him.

Private citizens have been enlisted to blame the victim. Maybe poor Mr. Whittington put himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. But he was, after all, behind Vice, not in front of him. And the hunter pulling the trigger is supposed to make sure he has a clear shot. Wouldn't it be, well, classy for Shooter to express just a bit of contrition and humility?

Instead, the usual sliming has begun, with the Cheney camp trying to protect the vice president by casting a veteran hunter as Elmer Dud.

Scott McClellan told the White House press corps that Katharine Armstrong, a lobbyist with government ties who owns the Texas ranch (and whose mother, Anne, was on the Halliburton board that hired Mr. Cheney as C.E.O.), "pointed out that the protocol was not followed by Mr. Whittington when it came to notifying the others that he was there."

As the story of the weekend's bizarre hunting accident is wrenched out of the White House, the picture isn't pretty: With American soldiers dying in Iraq, Five-Deferment Dick "I Had Other Priorities in the 60's Than Military Service" Cheney gets his macho kicks gunning down little birds and the occasional old man while W. rides his bike, blissfully oblivious to any collateral damage. Shouldn't these guys work on weekends until we figure out how to fix Iraq, New Orleans, Medicare and gas prices?

This version of "The Most Dangerous Game" neatly follows the four-step Bush-Cheney cycle:

Step 1: Set out to pick off what you think is an easy target, like quail this time or pen-raised and netted pheasant in the past, or a certain sanction-caged Iraqi dictator.

Step 2: In the corrupt company of lobbyist-contractor friends, botch things up. Ignore the peril at hand — as with, oh, Osama at Tora Bora, or Katrina, or the Iraq occupation — and with steely resolve, indulge your raging incompetence. (Oops.)

Step 3: Stonewall. Resist giving Congress information about 9/11 or Katrina; don't tell the public how you're tapping phones at home, setting up gulags abroad and making war and energy policy in secret. Why give the taxpayers, who are ponying up for these weekend hunting trips, the extraordinary news that Vice shot his hunting companion in the face and chest? Scott McClellan knew before yesterday's White House briefing at noon that Mr. Whittington was worse, but did not tell the reporters. He left that to Corpus Christi doctors, who spun the heart attack as "an inflammatory response to a metallic foreign BB."

Step 4: Admit no mistakes. Express sympathy. Blame the victim without leaving fingerprints by outsourcing the smear to the private sector.

Trent Lott joked in a meeting yesterday that Mr. Cheney was now the "shooter in chief," while other wags noted that Quayle was always a problem for Bushes.

Presidential staff members and lawmakers speculated yesterday about whether Shooter would resign and make room for Condi if Mr. Whittington did not survive. His death would trigger a more thorough police investigation and probably a grand jury.

"Are you crazy?" one Republican senator told a reporter. "He'd never quit." (Aaron Burr presided over the Senate after he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.)

The shooter in chief can't quit because he is the administration. Who'd even tell him to quit? If necessary, he'd probably make W. take the fall.

Despite efforts by Mr. McClellan to joke and urge reporters to get back to "the pressing priorities of the American people," the hunting debacle once more showed Mr. Cheney running the imperial show.

He didn't talk to the sheriff for 14 hours, or even call the president to notify him after the 5:50 p.m. accident. Vice left that to Andy Card, who called Mr. Bush at 7:30 p.m. to say there had been a hunting accident, without mentioning that Vice was the gunman. Soon after that, Karl Rove called Mr. Bush back with that little detail.

A reporter, surprised, pressed Mr. McClellan: "The vice president did not call the president to tell him he was the shooter?"

Usually when there's a White House cover-up, the president's in on it."...

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 04:43 PM

"CAN ANYONE HERE USE THEIR HEAD FOR ANYTHING BUT A PLACE FOR THEIR BALLCAP?"

Rather nice, dontcha think?

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Amos
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 04:32 PM

I understand that Dick-Head did actually go to the hospital to see his "peppered" buddy, but that he made sure to bring his lawyer with him.

Oh, the humanity! :)


A

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: kendall
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 03:51 PM

It's called polarization. The Bushites will call it "Much ado about nothing" and the liberals will call it what it is. More cover up.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 02:53 PM

" just heard the "victim hunter" give a statement to the press and he looked and sounded pretty healthy to me.
DougR "

Then you saw and heard a different man than I did, Doug.

Subject: RE: BS: Shotgun Cheney
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 02:32 PM

I just got a call from a buddy, but missed the new song on the raido... Cheney's Got a Gun, done to the tune by Arrowsmith. A hoot I am told.

Well... I gotta go out in that cold wind now... where's my ballcap?