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Take your best shot!

Does anyone think that Cheney will get treated like the rest of us?

Impeach the bastard - not for the shooting, for everything else.
 
LibraryLady said:
So, two guys are out hunting, and one accidentally falls and his gun goes off. He lies still and the other hunter sees blood, and in a panic he yanks out his cell phone and dials 911.

"911. What is your emergency?"

"My buddy just fell on his gun and I think he's dead!"

"Okay, stay calm. The first thing to do is make sure he's really dead."

BLAM

"Okay, I made sure he's dead."
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HA!!!

That's the funniest joke in the world! :D

Shhhh. You hear that? If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of 10,000 comedy writers scribbling furiously. Do you suppose any of them will come up with something original? :rolleyes:
 
"Whittington season!"

"Cheney season!"

"Whittington season!"

"Cheney season!!"

"Whittington season!!"

"Cheney season!!!"

BLAM!


"Whittington season."
 
My husband just was wondering why Bush never gets to go hunting with Cheney....
 
It's RifleGate! It's Riflegate!

Oh, wait, I'm not a republican thug, I don't get to do that.
 
I wonder what gauge the shot was... Anyways, seems it wasn't heavy enough to take down a lawyer. They're tough - need a second round just to be sure, it appears.
 
Zep said:
I wonder what gauge the shot was... Anyways, seems it wasn't heavy enough to take down a lawyer. They're tough - need a second round just to be sure, it appears.
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Maybe he "mistook" the lawyer for a vulture?
 
Zep said:
I wonder what gauge the shot was... Anyways, seems it wasn't heavy enough to take down a lawyer. They're tough - need a second round just to be sure, it appears.
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Heh. He was probably using a 20 or even a 28-gauge weapon with a wide choke and a relatively small shot size. That's the way it is these days with canned hunts1.



1: I realize Cheney is a busy guy, but still: boo for canned hunts. Particularly for a guy rich enough to go anyplace in the country to find more than enough birds in a natural environment. I can see it from time to time if one can't travel -- I've done it myself. But when you're at Cheney's level of wealth it seems, well, Kerryesque.
 
manny said:
Heh. He was probably using a 20 or even a 28-gauge weapon with a wide choke and a relatively small shot size.
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It was a 28-gauge probably with #6 or #8. Cheney duck hunts not too far from here in the Riceland rice feilds in SE Arkansas, though I bet the warm weather pretty much shut down the duck hunt here this year.
 
Zep said:
I wonder what gauge the shot was... Anyways, seems it wasn't heavy enough to take down a lawyer. They're tough - need a second round just to be sure, it appears.
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For quail, probably #8. Another question is steel or lead? US law requires steel when hunting any migratory waterfowl, but I don't know what the law is regarding quail hunting in Texas.

From the story:
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Katharine Armstrong, the ranch's owner, said Sunday that Cheney was using a 28-gauge shotgun and that Whittington was about 30 yards away when he was hit in the cheek, neck and chest.

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"He is very, very lucky that nothing seriously was injured," Sally Whittington said in a story in Sunday's online edition of The Dallas Morning News. She said her father was being observed because of swelling from some of the welts on his neck.

"It looks like chicken pox, kind of," she said of her father's face.

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"It broke the skin," she said of the shotgun pellets. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that.
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28 gauge is kind of small "caliber." The distance was 30 yards. I'm going to guess lead.
 
peptoabysmal said:
Another question is steel or lead? US law requires steel when hunting any migratory waterfowl, but I don't know what the law is regarding quail hunting in Texas.

From the story:

28 gauge is kind of small "caliber." The distance was 30 yards. I'm going to guess lead.
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Yup. No requirement for steel shot. It was almost certainly lead, though 28-gauges are pretty much exotics at this point, so it's hard to say. You certainly don't pick up a box of those honeys at your local Wally World.
 
This should make those pesky reporters think twice about asking Dick Cheney any hard hitting questions!
 
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Kopji Press 2-13-06
TEXAS - Dick Cheney today was sentenced by a local judge to eight hours of firearm safety practice using a standard "lawyer/quail" rotating target. The new practice targets have been shown to reduce accidental lawyer shootings by up to 80%.
 
From a reply on Atrios:

Senator: And what was the title of the Presidential Daily Brief?

Rice: I believe it said "Cheney determined to attack in the U.S."

Here's another: Afterwards Cheney said, "Two words: 'tort reform.'"
 
I wasn't aware that we had a season on lawyers in Texas. I may just take up hunting. I wonder what the bag limit is.

(edited to add old joke)
Game warden: I'm arresting you for shooting that lawyer.
Cheney: But Officer, lawyers are in season. Besides, I took him to the hospital in the ambulance that I always keep near me!
Game warden: That's why I'm arresting you, for shooting a lawyer near an ambulance. You can't bait the field.
 
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