Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead (The manly veep has himself a lazy, "canned" pheasant slaughter)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, January 23, 2004 | Mark Morford, "Yay Dick!"

[TC Rider]

I nailed a hen pheasant with a Renault in the UK, about 1 1/2 years ago.

That's better than I've done with my Remington lately.

[Gritty]

If Vice-President Cheney's first name was something other than "Dick", Ms. Morford would not be so fond of writing about him all the time.

[Modernman]

At least now we know that the pay raise they gave themselves went to good use...

Sugar mommy Heinz probably paid for it.

[presidio9]

As it is, it seems to me that all she ever thinks about is Dick.

[MJY1288]

My favorite bumper sticker ever said this:

"When all the trees are gone, I'll wipe my ass with the Spotted Owl"

Maybe I should send Morford one of them

[Redbob]

I personally think "lazy, canned pheasants" SHOULD be slaughtered, if only for the good of the species.

[LantzALot]

Or, is it, "... coddle the barrel of your p---s and dream of homos and Hillary Clinton, just so you can shoot J.Lo and tell jokes about a few wild birds." ?

[Democratshavenobrains]

Morford thinks that if he ignores the Great White Hope of the Dems, Howard Dean, having a nervous breakdown, he can make it go away.

[JasonC]

"Tennis? You call that sport? That's not a sport. Why, nobody kills anything."

Evelyn Waugh has a description of a pigeon shoot off the hotel balcony along the Riveria somewhere, that he saw other guests engaged in. After describing it, he says "the best thing I've heard said about this is that it is 'not cricket'".

What the writer is obviously truly bothered about is the absence of a quagmire. The Iraqis were supposed to win, gosh darn it. No fair not giving them a chance and just winning. That's like, so crude. And doesn't help the Dems chances at all.

Overwhelming firepower is a welcome advantage in any situation.

[JasonC]

Doesn't even eat eggs, 'cause they are the result of oppression of the species proletariat, I'm sure...

[ExSoldier]

"get the PETA people PO'ed?"

The PETA whacko's were out in front of a KFC here in Miami yesterday protesting how inhumanely KFC treats CHICKENS. So, I roll down my window and my wife and I tell 'em how we're members of PETA too! We get the big smile which freezes on a college student's face as I elaborate: People Eating Tasty Animals! Then I add: "Remember, Ya gotta KILL it to GRILL it!" So I look at my wife and she nods, and we tell the snot nosed girl, that she has done her job we're convinced! So she starts looking happy again, until my wife loudly announces that we're having lunch at KFC! And we wheel into the drive through lane, waving at the half dozen snot nosed college kid whacko's from the University of Miami. Higher education, my butt. They're "HIGH" alright.

[ExSoldier]

Even with it's out of control liberal themes, I used to love Bloom County. I even have the books. Berkley Breathed decided to retire the comic and it disappeared for a long time. Well, it's back, at least in the Sunday Miami Herald. Just OPUS the penguin (so far) and just in time to take shots at the Republicans and corporate America in general. Just in time for the campaign season. I guess that the aging Doonesbury had gotten so banal and boring that somebody decided a breath of fresh liberal, "daisy scented" air was needed.