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Title: Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212 ... _pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident
Published: Feb 12, 2006
Author: yahoo
Post Date: 2006-02-12 16:11:03 by Flintlock
Keywords: Accidentally, Cheney, Shoots
Views: 3601
Comments: 76
WASHINGTON - 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. Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance. Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
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#2. To: Flintlock (#0)
what an evil bastard.
Funny you should mention that because I made a blog entry today of this photo captioned "What evil does to men's faces." Both Cheney and Rumsfeld looked like normal people in November 1975. 30 years later they have transmogrified into monsters and it's literally written all over their faces. Both of them are enough to scare small children these days.
Wow, I didn't even RECOGNIZE Cheney at first - then I noticed that little smirk. I think you have an excellent observation - that after 50 or 60 years of living your face, and especially your characteristic expression truly represent what you're about inside. If you look like a mean, bitter, nasty person when you're past 50, then that's probably what you are.
Read this one.. bizarre: (KDKA) Pittsburgh Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting trip to Westmoreland County this week is drawing criticism.
I don't object to hunting per se, but I do object to wanton violence and cruelty, which I think is what Cheney displays. He just likes to hurt and kill things, it's obviously one of his character traits. When I look and listen to Cheney, I get the impression of a very sick, evil and twisted person, and that's reflected in his very odd family life, as well. No wonder his wife and daughter are lesbians.
No wonder Cheney and his chief of staff Addington are apparently the ultimate source of the torture policies.
I agree with you - it takes a certain mindset to really think through and approve torture policies (especially when most good intelligence people will tell you that info gained through torture generally isn't worth much). Cheney and his people have routinized torture, made it part of the usual practice. I think it's part of their twisted mindset where they really do enjoy controlling and inflicting pain on others - human or animal. I have always believed that the way people treat animals will reflect on how they treat people. There is something fundamentally wrong with many members of the Bush admin on a basic human, psychological level. These are not normal people.
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#14. To: Sam Houston (#2)
#16. To: christine (#14)
#58. To: Sam Houston (#16)
#60. To: mehitable, siagiah, aristeides (#58)
Sport or Slaughter? VP's Hunting Trip Sparks Criticism
Cheney arrived at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe on Monday to do some hunting at the Rolling Rock Club and Game Preserve -- a private club with farm-raised pheasants; but some say it was no hunt -- it was a slaughter.
Five-hundred pheasants were released in front of Cheney and his men; and the ten-man hunting party killed 417 of the birds. Vice President Cheney alone shot over 70 pheasants.
The birds were then plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight back to Washington, DC.
The hunt sparked the Humane Society to issue a statement chastising Cheney. "We're appalled that so many animals were killed -- for target practice essentially," says Humane Society Vice President Wayne Pacelle.
The White House isn't commenting.
#69. To: Zipporah (#60)
#70. To: mehitable (#69)
He just likes to hurt and kill things, it's obviously one of his character traits.
#71. To: aristeides (#70)
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