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#1 2006-02-12 3:12 pm
VP Dick Cheney personally shoots a man.
Boy, when Cheney goes hunting, he doesn't screw around.
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
Texas lawyer 'alert and doing fine' in Corpus Christi hospital
Sunday, February 12, 2006; Posted: 3:54 p.m. EST (20:54 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.
Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/ … index.html
It's a breaking news story on CNN. VP Dick Cheny just shot and wounded some guy.
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#2 2006-02-12 3:15 pm
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(For those of you who saw the post before the rapid-fire edit, some coworkers of mine told me about it and said "Killed." Google News didn't have it posted yet, so I took it as they told me. 
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#3 2006-02-12 3:17 pm
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If you wanted to off someone, shooting them on a quail hunting trip would be the way to do it. However, it does say that the guy is fine, not dead.
It's a paradox of how sharply dull I am.
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#4 2006-02-12 3:21 pm
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The guy's 78; a fine line between fine and dead, anyway.
when surrounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
and the women come out to cut up what remains,
just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
and go to your god like a soldier...
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#5 2006-02-12 3:24 pm
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kb5zhh wrote:
However, it does say that the guy is fine, not dead.
Yeah, that one word got left over from the first draft of that post kinda changes the meaning of the whole thing. It's fixed now. 
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#6 2006-02-12 3:28 pm
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OMG the irony is sooooo rich
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#7 2006-02-12 3:32 pm
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"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."
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#8 2006-02-12 5:06 pm
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Wow. This would be a whole lot less funny if the dude had died. As it is, lmao.
Poor Cheney - I mean, whether or not you think he gives a crap about the little people, shooting his hunting buddy probably ain't doing his ticker any favors.
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#9 2006-02-12 5:09 pm
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Freakout Jackson wrote:
OMG the irony is sooooo rich
Like rain on your wedding day?
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#10 2006-02-12 7:40 pm
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Did Texas state law enforcement have Cheney to blow a breathalyzer? And why the 24 hour news blackout?
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#11 2006-02-12 7:48 pm
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oatmeal wrote:
Boy, when Cheney goes hunting, he doesn't screw around.
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
Texas lawyer 'alert and doing fine' in Corpus Christi hospital
Sunday, February 12, 2006; Posted: 3:54 p.m. EST (20:54 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.
Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/ … index.html
It's a breaking news story on CNN. VP Dick Cheny just shot and wounded some guy.
It wasn't in this morning's paper, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, but did make it to the website @link. No one seemed to know that Cheney was in town. Everything is 'classified' nowadays.
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#12 2006-02-12 8:06 pm
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Watauga_River wrote:
Did Texas state law enforcement have Cheney to blow a breathalyzer? And why the 24 hour news blackout?
Probably to give the PR flackies the chance to write some spin memos. Though truthfully, unless there is a suspicion of wrong-doing, this would seem to be a private affair.
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#13 2006-02-12 8:17 pm
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Just goes to show you that it isn't safe to go wandering about with a Dick who has a loaded gun...
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#14 2006-02-12 8:28 pm
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Is this the same Ranch where Cheney goes to shoot captive fowl?
He did that once a few years ago and "bagged" a some 50 or so birds that were born and raised in captivity.
No matter what you think of hunting, THAT is a sick thing to do.
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#15 2006-02-12 8:29 pm
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it's OK, it was a lawyer
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#16 2006-02-12 8:32 pm
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iSeamas wrote:
Is this the same Ranch where Cheney goes to shoot captive fowl?
He did that once a few years ago and "bagged" a some 50 or so birds that were born and raised in captivity.
No matter what you think of hunting, THAT is a sick thing to do.
My experience in LA is that there are few quail coveys around, so it would not surprise me if the private ranch actively managed the quail population in some way. I hold little opinion on the morality of such action.
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#17 2006-02-12 8:36 pm
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kb5zhh wrote:
Watauga_River wrote:
Did Texas state law enforcement have Cheney to blow a breathalyzer? And why the 24 hour news blackout?
Probably to give the PR flackies the chance to write some spin memos. Though truthfully, unless there is a suspicion of wrong-doing, this would seem to be a private affair.
...most (if not all) states require that hospitals and attending doctors to report all gun shot injuries to local/state law enforcement agencies.
"If you think the 10 commandments being posted in a school is going to change behavior of children, then you think 'Employees must wash hands' is keeping the p*ss out of your happy meals. It's not."
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#18 2006-02-12 8:38 pm
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iSeamas wrote:
Is this the same Ranch where Cheney goes to shoot captive fowl?
He did that once a few years ago and "bagged" a some 50 or so birds that were born and raised in captivity.
No matter what you think of hunting, THAT is a sick thing to do.
Yeah...but the quail at that Texas ranch welcomed Vice-President Dick with flowers and candy.
"If you think the 10 commandments being posted in a school is going to change behavior of children, then you think 'Employees must wash hands' is keeping the p*ss out of your happy meals. It's not."
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#19 2006-02-12 8:41 pm
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Watauga_River wrote:
kb5zhh wrote:
Watauga_River wrote:
Did Texas state law enforcement have Cheney to blow a breathalyzer? And why the 24 hour news blackout?
Probably to give the PR flackies the chance to write some spin memos. Though truthfully, unless there is a suspicion of wrong-doing, this would seem to be a private affair.
...most (if not all) states require that hospitals and attending doctors to report all gun shot injuries to local/state law enforcement agencies.
Is there a requirement that the police then send such reports to the news media? The news media blackout is not the same as a police-EMS blackout.
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#20 2006-02-12 8:44 pm
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And what is up with the "...tall grass" in winter spin? Vice President Dick must have been having a Viet-Nam flashback as his account reads like a tall-tale for all you city-slickers...
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#21 2006-02-12 8:46 pm
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And what is up with the "...tall grass" in winter spin? This account reads like a tall-tale for all you city-slickers...
everything is bigger in texas.
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#22 2006-02-12 8:59 pm
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Maybe he was one of the republicans that has been distancing himself from Bush and needed to be taught a lesson?
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#23 2006-02-12 9:02 pm
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Pariah wrote:
Maybe he was one of the republicans that has been distancing himself from Bush and needed to be taught a lesson?
Al Capone style sans the baseball bat...
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#24 2006-02-12 9:09 pm
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kb5zhh wrote:
If you wanted to off someone, shooting them on a quail hunting trip would be the way to do it. However, it does say that the guy is fine, not dead.
...unless Vice President Dick had Senator Bill Frist to perform another "Terri Schiavo" diagnosis for the lawyer via cable televsion.
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#25 2006-02-12 9:10 pm
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I suppose if Cheney intended on having a guy shot, he'd have had it done by extreme rendition, or have some soldier beholden to a backdoor draft do it for him.
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