The Presidential Peppering: An Update on Absurdity

Well, Things just keep getting better and better in Hunter land. First, Cheney tries to weasel out of his "faux pas" for failure to get his tags by sending in his $7.00 LATE. Nothing like trying to get your permits after the fact and expecting to pay the normal rate without a penalty added. Of course, you have to wonder-- would the SOB have bothered to send it in if he hadn't bagged his buddies face? I doubt it.

Now, on to the comments from PROFESSIONAL nitpickers.

TV Comedians Target Cheney Accident



LOS ANGELES (AP) - Television talk shows took aim Monday at Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental weekend shooting in Texas of a hunting companion. Here are a few of the jokes.

``Late Show with David Letterman,'' CBS:

``Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction: It's Dick Cheney.''

``But here is the sad part - before the trip Donald Rumsfeld had denied the guy's request for body armor.''

``We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney.''

``The guy who got gunned down, he is a Republican lawyer and a big Republican donor and fortunately the buck shot was deflected by wads of laundered cash. So he's fine. He took a little in the wallet.''

``The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,'' NBC:

``Although it is beautiful here in California, the weather back East has been atrocious. There was so much snow in Washington, D.C., Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear.

``That's the big story over the weekend. ... Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter, a 78-year-old lawyer. In fact, when people found out he shot a lawyer, his popularity is now at 92 percent.''

``I think Cheney is starting to lose it. After he shot the guy he screamed, 'Anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?'''

``Dick Cheney is capitalizing on this for Valentine's Day. It's the new Dick Cheney cologne. It's called Duck!''

``The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,'' Comedy Central:

``Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird.''

``Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects. ... But it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about. ... moms, dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasize this enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice president. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land, or energy regulations they're trying to get lifted - it's just not worth it.''

``Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,'' CBS:

``He is a lawyer and he got shot in the face. But he's a lawyer, he can use his other face. He'll be all right.''

``You can understand why this lawyer fellow let his guard down, because if you're out hunting with a politician, you think, 'If I'm going to get it, it's going to be in the back.

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``The big scandal apparently is that they didn't release the news for 18 hours. I don't think that's a scandal at all. I'm quite pleased about that. Finally there's a secret the vice president's office can keep.''

``Apparently the reason they didn't release the information right away is they said we had to get the facts right. That's never stopped them in the past.''

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Adding insult to injury, the victim has succumbed to a heart attack today, brought on by the facial "peppering". It takes this into something way past what even the most dangerously brainwashed republican stooge should see as a horrible precedent. The ongoing hooflerall over Cheney's Secret Service failures to secure the scene, contact the local police, and the entire White House staff's failure to handle the release of the information (they left THAT gem to the lady of the house, Ms. Anderson, who, while photogenic, is not someone that I feel should be handling White House press releases) show us an arrogance and lack of respect for the government that would be appalling if so many of us had not known about their proclivities long ago, when they did NOT win the first election.

Now, after 5 years, we are seeing what happens when thieves gain office. They continue to steal and lie.

Speaking of Voices in an Empty Room

Sometimes, no matter how far behind you are, there has to be a moment to stop and read the rest of the opinions on the planet-- maybe not ALL of them, but a smattering. The boring ones get skimmed so fast your browser spins, and the more interesting ones get a moment of glory...

So while wandering around I found some very interesting spots here..


http://mousehulhu.blogspot.com/
Gotta love the user info here. Keeps you smiling.

Then there is :

http://thegreatestriddles.blogspot.com/

I wish he had a spot where I could find the answers--- he asks GREAT riddles... thought provolking things. Mythos of play kind of spot.

I love the imagination some folks have for their lives- and often wonder why they weren't hired in stead of some of the hacks that seem to appear ad nauseum on the print pages of the world:http://slowlyboilingfrog.blogspot.com/

There are blogs of honor about social justice, love, and the rightness of being that I admire:

http://natenelson.blogspot.com/

Now, there are a lot of crap out there, advertising blogs, and things I cannot read- mostly spanish blogs. There are "family" blogs- pages like huge family newsletters with pictures, most notable for the fact that no one wants to read them unless they are related or pathetically lonely and bordering on some social psychosis.

Then again, I tend to find humor in almost anything.

http://kuaciman.blogspot.com/

Proves my point... even if you don't find it mentally challenging, it's still great stuff!

So stay tuned to the many blogs that abound.... it's a brand new world out there, and the best information is not necessarily coming from those who are paid and need to write to appease their boss.... they are often those who write to appease their souls.

The Gang that Couldn't shoot straight

This year, the Quail have nothing to fear. REAL men are in the woods.

Once again, the rich are WAY different.
Vice fascist Dick the Prick managed to shoot his hunting partner Saturday while out killing pheasants for sport. We will discuss in detail what the hell is wrong with finding pleasure in killing animals at a later date. Please do remember however, that killing animals for sport is the first sign of pathological psychosis in teenagers. Those that kill and torture people usually start by enjoying the murder of animals.

For now, we will try to focus on what the hell is wrong with AMERICA for continuing to support-- hey, even apologize and excuse this group of original American abusers.
Let's get with a few basics..

Cheney didn't have a tag to bag squat. He decided it was OK to just pick up a gun and shoot something without the necessary permit. He didn't feel like paying Fish and Game their legal tithe to go kill something.
Now, there are about a bazillion things wrong with this. This is the SECOND highest legal representative of the executive branch of our government, President of the Senate, and, supposedly, still has some living brain tissue, yet the basic automatic function of every hunter to be LEGAL never crossed his mind???

Of course not. These guys don't have to be legal like you and me. The law doesn't count for them, weather it is buying and selling stock, beating prisoners in Gitmo in violation of the Geneva convention, driving drunk, pulling your kids military records to cover their failures, or bothering to get your tags in order to go out and kill something.

Now, I know for a bleeding liberal FACT that if you, or I, or any goddamned Republican that makes an hourly wage and owns just one pick up truck was found in violation of that law, they would have their gun confiscated, they would be given at minimum a citation, and often, they are flat out arrested. Calif. Fish and Game will arrest a person for standing and fishing without a license-- and most folks will agree that fishing is the least henious of all the killing fields.

Cheney is a free range abuser, crossing all social lines, and the "tags" issue is just the tip of the "rich are different" story here. Turns out, the local sherrif didn't think it was NECESSARY to bother interviewing the VP until the next day. Damn- I want that life! Shoot someone, send them to the hospital, and get to go home and schedule your chat with the local police for some time more CONVIENIENT????????


Hell.... Not since Scott Peterson has the guilty party been given so much leeway, and at least in HIS case the local PD was still collecting evidence. I guess if you are the VP, walking around with a weapon on your buddies private ranch, without bothering to get a permit, and then you SHOOT the SOB, then of COURSE the logical next step is for your "good old boy" local sherrif to kinda smile and shake it all off to "boys will be boys", smiling for the press and amicably meandering on out to shake your hand, get a quick photo shoot, and then frame that picture for over the desk as you write "accident" on the one page report (which was, in all likelyhood, overseen by White House Council sitting on his right hand side and dictating the exact phases to use).


Must be nice living that kind of life. I wish I could accidentally shoot a friend while illegally hunting and get to head on home for a cold one and a shower before getting around to chatting with the local constabulary.

My first thought is...WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH AMERICA TO **NOT** BE APPALLED WITH THIS?

Ok, that's actually my second thought. My first was regret that Chaney was not .. oh hell, better not tell ya that one. Considering the reach of Carnivore, the western Gestapo can have a team of swathounds at my house faster than Dominoes Pizza. Better let those regrets live on as artistic merit in a parody song to be produced at a later date.

IN 5 years, Through all the errors, the goofs, the arrogant oversights, the messes, I cannot find a moment of humble. Not one photo of repentant. Not a shred of feeling responsible or guilty. When Cheney is not allowed to scuttle off from the press (yes, he did THAT today too- one moment he's at the White House with staff, and the next, as the press comes in the front door, Dickey boy slides out the back), he bluffs and brazens his way at the cameras like the bull moose he is- a man with so much fear in him, so much determination to prove that his life is not a disgusting mess, that he will never once admit to being wrong.

Now, I don't know about you, but I think that I can pretty much GUARANTEE that there is no human being on the planet that has gone even 1 full year without making one mistake, taking one false step, having one error of judgment (large or small, Rumsfeldian or republican penis size)

So, What are we, the voting republic, to make of all this crap? Is it better to have "real men" that don't have sex with their wives but do spend time with their guns in the White House, and if so, how are we to protect ourselves from their artillery games?

Should we have mandatory blow jobs for everyone in public office? If this offends you, is it due to the fact that you dislike talking about sex, or because you aren't getting any?

If you agree with me, are you doing all you can to convince everyone you know to never ever vot for a Republican- because when they do, they are showing support for the abusive leaders, the men that make Noriega look like Jimmy Carter (who, buy the way, finally had even HIS Christian charity pushed beyond reason-- He is now actively speaking out against this administration, and for him, that is the equivelent of the Pope condoning condoms).

Remember- there is more to this story, and you will never know about it. Those they can't quiet with money they will invite to go hunting.