<p>This is a great example of our Homeland Security at work…even on vacation, our VP is protecting the average American from those terrorist quails…if only all that energy went into finding Bin Laden…</p>
<p>Have to agree that being driven to “Where the Quails are” seems unsportsman like…if you can’t walk unaided, should you really be able to hunt? </p>
<p>If you don’t report it, then perhaps it never happened?</p>
<p>This has me wondering. If a person shows up at a hospital with a gunshot wound, don’t the treating doctors have to file a police report? (source: Harrison Ford/Peter Weir movie “Witness”). Was that NOT done in this case? Is VP Cheney being given preferential treatment? Shouldn’t someone (in charge) take his gun away?</p>
<p>In reconstructing the incident, Whittington was standing to Cheney’s left. Well, of course it’s difficult to be to Cheney’s right.</p>
<p>What Cheney does with a shotgun, though, doesn’t bother me nearly so much as what he does playing with his brand new Army, Navy, and Air Force kit.</p>
<p>Cheney was going to report the incident, but he was dazed and confused, and ended up just jumping off the ferry landing to swim to Edgartown.</p>
<p>But is this the way chickenhawks feel lke they are at war…shooting little birdies?</p>
<p>He expected the quail to greet him with flowers and open wings.</p>
<p>The first question that comes to mind for me when I hear about one hunter shooting another one is whether there was alcohol involved.</p>
<p>Since the quail is the state bird of California, this whole quail shooting exercise is clearly a metaphorical attack on the Bush administration’s most-hated blue state.</p>
<p>Several years ago, his boss shot a kildeer - an endangered species - while hunting. He paid his fine and went on. Guess lawyers aren’t endangered. Will this be the next Broadway musical? “Cheney Get Your Gun!”?</p>
<p>I just heard something funny on the Stephanie Miller show:</p>
<p>“The problem is that Democrats have a pre-9/11 mentality about hunting.”</p>
<p>What is not funny is that the official line is that the man who was shot is at fault for not announcing his presence at the moment jsut before he was shot. While that may be part of the protocol of hunting, it seems to me that the person with the gun or bow always has a huge responsibility to know what he or she is shooting at.</p>
<p>Why is everyone making such a big deal about this? I don’t mean this thread (so don’t take offense please!), I just mean national news and everything. Ok, the Veep shot a man. But they were good friends and it was an accident during a recreational activity! Why don’t we hear about his Enron/Halliburton ties on national news? This sickens me…</p>
<p>People, people, people. Let’s get the story straight. When Cheney aimed his shotgun at a man, pulled the trigger, and hit him with the blast from the shell, he didn’t actually “shoot” the man. The official admininstration euphemism is that he “peppered” him.</p>
<p>We need for Chaney and Bush to go hunting together.</p>
<p>Or that cheney broker the tie vote that passed that horrid budget</p>
<p>I think he did it on purpose, really, I mean we aren’t talking about the 8billion missing, the war profittering by his friends, the budget</p>
<p>its amazing how they come up with something to distract us…</p>
<p>oh and we have some Abramoff/Bush pictures coming out at a meeting we were told Abramoff was not at</p>
<p>With the War on Terror, i would assume that the White House knows who is at every meeting, so its either incompetence they didn’t know he was there, or we were lied to…yikes either way</p>
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People that speak on topics they obviously know nothing about simply show their bias, and their lack of intelligence. When you’ve followed a bird dog over several thousand acres, on foot, on horseback, or in a truck, you can speak on the subject. Otherwise, you’re just ignorant. Hunting in Alaska is about as far removed from hunting south Texas brush and cactus as playing bridge is from climbing Everest.</p>
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Shooting at targets in Alaska is even farther removed…</p>
<p>It appears that this group was not exactly following a bird dog over thousands of acres, etc.:</p>
<p>"Monday’s hunting trip to Pennsylvania by Vice President Dick Cheney in which he reportedly shot more than 70 stocked pheasants and an unknown number of mallard ducks at an exclusive private club places a spotlight on an increasingly popular and deplorable form of hunting, in which birds are pen-reared and released to be shot in large numbers by patrons. The ethics of these hunts are called into question by rank-and-file sportsmen, who hunt animals in their native habitat and do not shoot confined or pen-raised animals that cannot escape. </p>
<p>“The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported today that 500 farm-raised pheasants were released yesterday morning at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township for the benefit of Cheney’s 10-person hunting party. The group killed at least 417 of the birds, illustrating the unsporting nature of canned hunts. The party also shot an unknown number of captive mallards in the afternoon.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/2693558/detail.html[/url]”>http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/2693558/detail.html</a></p>
<p>um, read the reports in the paper, they got out of a car and scared the birds and shoot them, this is reported from people sitting in the car</p>
<p>I at least read the articles and what our VP did</p>
<p>I am not ignorant, I read and these guys weren’t hiking for hours and days and camping in the woods, eating over a campfire, nope, they were driving around looking for prey</p>
<p>these men are in the 70s- their chauffer did all the hard work</p>