Dead Eye ******** (Cheney)

[Higgs Boson]

Don't mess with the VP. You might just get yo ass shot off.

(I'm sure there's a joke about hunting Quayle in there too, somewhere, but I jist cannae dae it.)

Cheney shoots man in hunting accident

Washington
February 13, 2006 - 8:09AM

US Vice President ******** Cheney has accidentally shot a man during a weekend hunting trip in south Texas, US media reported, quoting a Cheney spokeswoman.

The victim, identified as Harry Whittington, 78, is reported in good condition in a Corpus Christi hospital after being hit with buckshot on Saturday while hunting quail with the vice president.

Cheney sprayed Whittington, an Austin lawyer, with shotgun pellets while hunting for quail at about 5.30pm (local time), the local newspaper Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported.

The incident took place at the Armstrong Ranch in Kenedy County, where Cheney is a frequent visitor.

Katharine Armstrong, owner of the ranch, said Whittington was in good condition after being taken to hospital by ambulance, the newspaper reported.

"The vice president has spoken with Mrs Whittington and is visiting with Mr Whittington today," Lea Anne McBride, spokeswoman for the vice president, was quoted as saying.

CNN television, citing a witness, said Whittington had "never lost consciousness".

The vice president would return to Washington later today, NBC News reported.

Armstrong said Cheney, 65, had turned to shoot quail that had just been flushed, accidentally peppering one side of Whittington's body. Armstrong said Cheney had been unaware Whittington had approached him from behind.

"Nobody wants this to happen, but it does," she told the paper.
Cheney's secret service agents tended to the injured man before paramedics arrived, Armstrong said.

Officials with the Kenedy County Sheriff's Office had helped investigate the incident, the paper said.

- AFP

 

[Higgs Boson]

Stoopid swear filter. Arse. Wee. Poo. Penis. But not ********.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

I couldn't wish more harm on a person than I do Cheney. Can't wait til he has a heart attack and starts burning for eternity in the 7th level of hell

 

[Higgs Boson]

I couldn't wish more harm on a person than I do Cheney. Can't wait til he has a heart attack and starts burning for eternity in the 7th level of hell

Fully. Just on that, you know when public figures leave office, and then you see them a year or two later and are struck by how much they've withered and aged... well I cannot wait for this to happen with Howard. I long for the day I see him on the teev after he's been booted out of power and he just looks (more) like a frail old man.

 

[Higgs Boson]

Crikey

It's reported this morning that US Vice President ******** Cheney accidently shot a 78-year-old man while on a hunting trip over the weekend – and the bloggers are salivating:

• Cheney is a man who doesn't just talk the talk. No, if he's going to send American soldiers into harm's way, where they might be shot at any moment by a deranged fanatic, he's also going to do the same thing to his close personal friends. He's giving his hunting buddies a taste of life in the Cheney Era, when you count yourself lucky just to get out alive. – Washington Post's Achenblog

• Two quick predictions 1. ******** Cheney's new nickname will now be “Deadeye ********.” 2. The Bush Administration will evermore be known as “The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight.” – This Modern World

• Best Snarky Early Coverage of Cheney's Accidental Shooting: ABC News takes the cake. Here's an awesome screen grab from their website at around 4pm today... – Ironcity

• One day before Democratic and Republican senators called for an investigation into the possible leaking of classified information by ******** Cheney, the vice president accidentally shot and wounded a fellow hunter. The AP report notes that Cheney's office "did not disclose the accident until nearly 24 hours after it happened." – Cursorhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

• Just a reminder to my beloved blue state liberal brethren – while it's thigh-slappingly hilarious that Cheney shot his friend, try to avoid sounding scandalized. It was birdshot – it's not really a big f*cking deal – Pandagon

• Vice President Elmer Fudd...wings bystander. Time to take the shotgun away from grandpa, who's blasted perhaps hundreds of innocent birds into bloody feathers during his life, before he has another senior moment. Bush at least had the semi-decency or caution to stop after his first wrongful birdicide. – Vanity Fair's James Wolcott

• Will Cheney face charges over the shooting? Even though he didn't intend to shoot Mr Whittington, was he reckless or criminally negligent? – TalkLeft

 

[IntheNet]

Crikey

"I'd rather hunt with Cheney than ride with Kennedy."

 

[ssreid]

Then it is true all yanks are trigger happy!!

 

[Diego]

Fully. Just on that, you know when public figures leave office, and then you see them a year or two later and are struck by how much they've withered and aged... well I cannot wait for this to happen with Howard. I long for the day I see him on the teev after he's been booted out of power and he just looks (more) like a frail old man.

Oh i long for the day, but knowing the conservative baby boomer influenced media in this country, they will unfortunately write him as the best politician this country has ever had and too a point they are correct. He is an astounding politican for all the wrong reasons. I can't wait for the day of his death, i will be wearing a red rose to mark the occasion.

Evil bastard of a man running an even more evil party..and his wife isn't that far behind in the cruel stakes too.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Oh i long for the day, but knowing the conservative baby boomer influenced media in this country, they will unfortunately write him as the best politician this country has ever had and too a point they are correct. He is an astounding politican for all the wrong reasons. I can't wait for the day of his death, i will be wearing a red rose to mark the occasion.

Evil bastard of a man running an even more evil party..and his wife isn't that far behind in the cruel stakes too.

Werd.

The very encapsulation of the term 'corporate evil'. I hope his heart lasts another 20-30 years so hopefully i can watch him, Howard, Bush and the rest squirming on the end of a rope.

 

[rick James]

shut up socialist pansies, you are allowed to talk politics only when you grow some nads.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

shut up socialist pansies, you are allowed to talk politics only when you grow some nads.

you mean the type of balls that Cheney has...

Indeed, unlike George W. Bush, who performed some sort of service-ill-defined and unrecorded as it may have been-in the Texas Air National Guard, Cheney reacted to the prospect of wearing his country's uniform like a man with a deadly allergy to olive drab. Between 1963 and '65, Cheney used his student status at Casper College and the University of Wyoming to apply for and receive four 2-S draft deferments. As the war in Vietnam heated up, Cheney fought to defend and expand his deferments. Twenty-two days after Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in August 1964, raising the prospect of a rapid expansion of the draft, he "coincidentally"-in the words of a Washington Post profile-married Lynne. The advantage was that even if his student deferment was lifted, his married status might carry some weight with his draft board.

But the Vietnamese were not cooperating with Cheney's schemes. The war kept demanding more and more young American men, and the range of those who were eligible for the draft expanded rapidly. On May 19, 1965, Cheney was reclassified with the most dangerous draft status: 1-A, "available for military service." Soon afterward, Lyndon Johnson announced that draft call-ups would double, and on October 26, Selective Service constraints on the drafting of childless married men were lifted. Danang was calling. And it didn't look like ******** had any excuses left.

But there was one way for ambitious young men to avoid serving their country while maintaining their political viability. If Cheney had a child, he'd be reclassified 3-A, removing him from the pool of those likely to be drafted. Cheney needed a kid-quick. And he got one. Precisely nine months and two days after the Selective Service eliminated special protections for childless married men, Cheney was no longer childless. His daughter Elizabeth was born on July 28, 1966. Convenient? Coincidence? That's not Cheney's style. Writer Timothy Noah did the math and suggested that the timing of Elizabeth's arrival "would seem to indicate that the Cheneys, though doubtless planning to have children sometime, were seized with an untamable passion the moment ******** Cheney became vulnerable to the Vietnam draft. And acted on it. Carpe diem! Who says government policy can't affect human behavior?"

Cheney applied for 3-A status immediately, receiving it on January l9, 1966, when Lynne was still in the first trimester of her pregnancy.
Twenty-three years later, when Cheney appeared before the Senate to plead the case for his confirmation as George Herbert Walker Bush's Defense Secretary, he was questioned about his failure to serve. Cheney responded that he "would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called." In a more truthful moment that same year, Cheney admitted to a reporter, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."

 

[Diego]

shut up socialist pansies, you are allowed to talk politics only when you grow some nads.

Nah its not about socialism (well not in my case - I don't really see eye to eye with most socialist philosophies) but just how inhuman and mean Howard and his cronies are. They are just so in your face with their corporate ideology and are blatant arsewipes.

Can't wait for Costello to take over the role.

 

[Diego]

more..

The White House today tried to absolve US Vice President ******** Cheney of any blame for shooting a 78-year-old friend on a Texas hunting trip, as other officials struggled to explain why they waited nearly 24 hours before making the news public.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the victim, wealthy Austin lawyer Harry Whittington, had not followed basic hunting safety rules.

"Protocol was not followed by Mr Whittington when it came to notifying others that he was there," McClellan said.

"And so, you know, unfortunately, these types of hunting accidents happen from time to time."

However, several hunting experts were sceptical.

They said Cheney might have violated a cardinal rule of hunting: Know your surroundings before you pull the trigger.

"Particularly identify the game that you are shooting and particularly identify your surroundings, that it's safe to shoot," said Mark Birkhauser, president of the International Hunter Education Association.

Meanwhile officials said Cheney was in violation of the game laws of Texas when he accidentally shot and wounded his hunting companion because his licence lacked a required state hunting stamp.

However, no action will be taken against the vice president as the stamp requirement had only been in effect since September and most game wardens have been issuing only warnings.

On its 10 commandments of shooting safety, Texas Parks and Wildlife lists being sure of your target as the third commandment.

Whittington was listed in stable condition today at a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.

He has birdshot wounds to his face, neck and chest.

White House and Texas law enforcement officials have not provided a detailed account of the incident.

Katherine Armstrong, one of the owners of the ranch where the accident happened, said Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of their vehicle to shoot a covey of quail.

The third member of the hunting party was the US ambassador to Switzerland, Pamela Willeford, a Texan and a Bush family friend.

Whittington shot a bird and went to get it, breaking from Cheney and Willeford.

Armstrong said Whittington then came up from behind without signalling, and as a covey flushed Cheney wheeled and fired his .28-gauge shotgun, hitting Whittington.

Whittington was tended at the scene by Cheney's medical detail before being taken to the hospital by ambulance.

Though the shooting happened on Saturday afternoon, it didn't become public knowledge until Armstrong notified the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, her local paper, yesterday.

The lag between the shooting and the reporting of it prompted questions about why a private citizen, not the government, was disclosing a shooting involving the vice president.

Cheney's office has a history of not sharing information with the public.

Last month, it refused to specify the nature of a foot injury for which he was given medication that caused water retention and shortness of breath and sent him to the hospital.

"He's secretive by nature," said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics.

"It's a dumb thing for officials to do, especially someone as experienced as Cheney.

"Just imagine what (TV comedians) Jon Stewart, Jay Leno and David Letterman are going to do to him for days.

"It's a self-inflicted wound."

 

[rick James]

Nah its not about socialism (well not in my case - I don't really see eye to eye with most socialist philosophies) but just how inhuman and mean Howard and his cronies are. They are just so in your face with their corporate ideology and are blatant arsewipes.

Can't wait for Costello to take over the role.

hmm they probably do have too much of a capitalist focus for my liking, but socially i don't think they're any worse than the alternative. they've been fairly responsible over the years, it's only this latest term where howard's had free reign to bring in change.

 

[Diego]

hmm they probably do have too much of a capitalist focus for my liking, but socially i don't think they're any worse than the alternative. they've been fairly responsible over the years, it's only this latest term where howard's had free reign to bring in change.

Thats the problem with australian politics and most know it - there is no opposition.

 

[Higgs Boson]

I saw this this morning...

 

[Lance Uppercut]

now the victim has had a heart attack due to pellets lodged in the heart.

This is getting better and better.

Newsflash

New on the American charts No 1. with a bullet

Aerosmith: Cheney's got a gun

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

now the victim has had a heart attack due to pellets lodged in the heart.

This is getting better and better.

Newsflash

New on the American charts No 1. with a bullet

Aerosmith: Cheney's got a gun

Whoa the guy who Chyeney shot had the heart attack????

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Whoa the guy who Chyeney shot had the heart attack????

It's just delicious isn't it??

 

[IntheNet]

...This is getting better and better...

How is an accident "better"? What kind of a sick puppy might you be? Excited about misfortune? That's just sick...

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

How is an accident "better"? What kind of a sick puppy might you be? Excited about misfortune? That's just sick...

Is he sick enough to beleive rape is legitimate???

Dont you dare call anybody sick, you perverted ********.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

How is an accident "better"? What kind of a sick puppy might you be? Excited about misfortune? That's just sick...

oh cry me a river I'm sure you and you're neo con mates got excited about Shock & Awe. Maimed Iraqi civilians, slap that knee!

 

[IntheNet]

oh cry me a river

Far too many insensitive and, in Funkyzeit mit Matt's case, sick folks that wish to criticize without knowing the facts. It's an accident; get over it. We have real issues like terrorists and insurgents, and the left only knows smear and criticism. Sad.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Far too many insensitive and, in Funkyzeit mit Matt's case, sick folks that wish to criticize without knowing the facts. It's an accident; get over it. We have real issues like terrorists and insurgents, and the left only knows smear and criticism. Sad.

Insensitive? Ironic accusation from a guy who appears to get physically aroused from the sight of Iraqis being maimed by US war machines (yeah really ballsy...25,000 feet in the air)

Anyway, you think Im insensitive now?

You should see me when a shotty pellet puts Bush in the ground.

I will have a keg party.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Far too many insensitive and, in Funkyzeit mit Matt's case, sick folks that wish to criticize without knowing the facts. It's an accident; get over it. We have real issues like terrorists and insurgents, and the left only knows smear and criticism. Sad.

so whenever you hear black humour jokes about bad stuff that's happened (which always occurs) you always scold the joke teller and say that it's not funny?

Or is it only when it disagrees with your political bent?