<p>OK, serious question: Have you Ahabs finally latched onto something bigger than a great white minnow? Or are you just a bunch of Wile E. Coyote Democrats? Sorry for the mixed literary metaphor. Pfft.</p>
<p>Why DID he get kicked out of Yale? ;)</p>
<p>i can only hope that poetic justice, at the very least, is in store for the war monger.</p>
<p>mini - I don’t have first hand knowledge of course, but I have read that Cheney was kicked out of Yale for purely academic reasons, nothing nefarious. A rich, influential man persuaded Yale to admit him, and he flunked out. The same guy persuaded Yale to let him back in for a second chance, and he flunked out again. He graduated from U of Wyoming I believe. </p>
<p>But he will have to address some of the questions being raised. Why did he wait so long to tell anyone what happened? No one is suggesting this incident was anything but an unfortunate accident. Why not handle it according to protocol? Why does the secret service have a right to tell the police they cannot interview the VP following the accident? This all seems very strange.</p>
<p>driver you make no sense at all</p>
<p>and we must not forget that libby testified that Cheney told him to leak classified information</p>
<p>And anyone else think that maybe they might have had a little nip of the bottle, but just a thought sense he didn’t talk to the police</p>
<p>imagine, shot someone in Texas “hunting” and you don’t talk to te cops</p>
<p>and don’t forget, Cheney told libby to leak information</p>
<p>hayden - to answer your questions, the rules don’t apply to him.</p>
<p>One more thing, the man shot was knocked to the ground, is in the hospital with almost a dozen pellat things in him, and will have them in his face forever, and you need THAT to kill a quail?</p>
<p>OK, I was trying to give a clue to the clueless. Now I’ll just spell it out for you coyotes: The entire issue is about notifying the press. Period. That’s it. Any legal issues appear to have been appropriately addressed. Goodnight, Ahabs.
You guys are amazing. Back to the DailyKos!!!</p>
<p>OMG. The Smoking Gun just weighed in. OMG.
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<p>Oh, the legal issues may may be addressed or not.</p>
<p>But we still have the issue of the WH sitting on the issue…you’d think they’d want to get control of this by being the ones that released it. Their justification for not doing so, leaving it to the property owner, is flimsy. You’d think they’d have learned about time being of the essence in damage control from Katrina. You’d think. Maybe not.</p>
<p>Beyond that, there’s the sheer sport of it. The farce is just too good to pass up. Cheny got his shots at captive birds, we’re getting our shots at a Cheney captive by events…parity (and parody) is preserved.</p>
<p>“mini - I don’t have first hand knowledge of course, but I have read that Cheney was kicked out of Yale for purely academic reasons, nothing nefarious. A rich, influential man persuaded Yale to admit him, and he flunked out. The same guy persuaded Yale to let him back in for a second chance, and he flunked out again.”</p>
<p>Highly unlikely in that period of time. My doorstop could have graduated from Yale in those years. (actually, I think he did.) Probably football wannabe. Drank too much. Shot at imaginary mice in his dorm room. Thought his roommate was one of the mice. </p>
<p>What about Clinton?</p>
<p>I’ve tried, but I just can’t resist:
I heard that Cheney thought the guy was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
Also, better to fight him there than in Washington.
Since it was a fellow Republican, I think it counts as “friendly fire.”</p>
<p>Driver,
I am not clueless…and I am not the press…I am upset that they sat on telling the American people that our VP shot a person while hunting. They should have told the American people about this instead of sitting on the information for as long as they did. The iron clad commitment to control the news by the office of the VP results in delays of making information available to the American people. While I know that it is not as bad as China or other non-Democratic countries, it feels like the VP doesn’t believe in a free press, or freedom of information…or that we have the ability to make our own judgements. I am upset that he didn’t have to be interviewed by a police officer to determine if there had been drinking…was he under the influence of alcohol or medication…we will never really know the answer to that now, will we? Unfortunately, I do not trust the word of the VP. I should trust my VP but this one does not do anything to earn my trust, his focus, in my opinion, is that he only wants the trust of CEO’s…and Republicans. Unfortunately, I am only an American…and that is not a constituency he is interested in…as evidenced by his disdain for the area impacted by Katrina when he visited 11 days after the disaster hit. </p>
<p>The fact that you think this is just about releasing it to the press makes me sad. This is about telling you and me… </p>
<p>My favorite quote was the one from Mary Maitlin saying that the VP hadn’t done anything wrong…that just slays me…I think it is wrong to shoot a friend…even if it was a mistake, admit it was a mistake. Instead, they are saying Whittington made the mistake by not making sure the VP always knew exactly where he was…apparently line of sight wasn’t enough warning. LOL…</p>
<p>All right - sac laid out the real reason for the shooting: The Veep got some bad intelligenge. There were so many similarities with 9/11. The World Trade Center tragedy happened on the 11th of the month and if you look at the Accident report, you’ll see that it happened on the 11th of the month. The time was 5:30pm, which in the military time with which Cheney would be so familiar, it was 1730. And it’s apparent that those digits also add up to be 11. The victim, a Mr. Whittington has 11 letters in his last name. The Game Law Code that was violated was 43652. If you add the first and fourth digits (9) and the second, third and fifth digits (11), you get 9/11. Cheney was born on 1/30/41 and is 65 years old. If you add the digits of his birthday (9) and the digits of his age (11), you end up again with 9/11. If you take all of the digits in Cheney’s address (No. 1 Observatory Circle, Wash, DC 20008) , you again arrive at 11.</p>
<p>But there are some secrets in the numbers that say that there is much more going on. If you add all of the digits in Mr. Whittington’s address (3201 Greenlea, Austin, Tx 78703), it adds up to 31. If you add up all the digits of Mr. Whittington’s hunting license number (6406000008232), it also adds up to 31. But also add up the digits of Mr. Cheney’s hunting license (135360000166). The answer? 31! Hmmmm… What dark plots are afoot? </p>
<p>Try to refute that numerology!!!</p>
<p>My question is does Whittington get a Purple Heart for each pellet? We Republicans may need to nominate him if Kerry runs again. Then again we could just have Cheney shoot whoever they do nominate.</p>
<p>Reading between lines, the old geezer that the Veep shot was probably injured rather severely. Severely enough that he was helicoptered from the local hospital to a larger facility in Corpus Christi, where he is still hospitalized.</p>
<p>The Veep probably put the clamp on information until he was sure the guy wasn’t going to croak. His health status was the information that kept “trickling in to the White House” overnight.</p>
<p>I heard that so many American athletes had blown their “sure thing” golds and that the American medal count was down so much that . . . the Biathlon team is considering asking Cheney to join them. (Disclaimer: I did not make this up - I really did read it online so it must be true)</p>
<p>digmedia – lol… wait, maybe you were serious. I heard the quail hunting stamp he failed to buy cost (drumroll here) SEVEN dollars, and that he’s now sent in a check for that amount. Oh, the terror, I mean the horror…</p>
<p>The lines on “The Daily Show” were terrific. I taped so that I may transcribe tomorrow. For those who missed it, it’s rebroadcast again the following evening in an earlier time slot (8pm Pacific…dunno about the other time zones). In the words of Arte Johnson, “This, is a goody.”</p>
<p>Just an idle question re national security protocol: Should VPs (or anyone high up in the line of succession) be allowed to play with guns at all, given the potential consequences? </p>
<p>It could so easily have been the other way around – Cheney could be the one in the hospital with a face full of birdshot, and with a heart condition to boot. Not that I would be mourning too much if that were the case…</p>
<p>the mean-spiritedness of these posts brings no surprise</p>