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Jokesters firing away at Cheney over hunting accident (but the Bradys shouldn't quit their day jobs)
Scripps Howard News Service ^ | February 13, 2006

Posted on 02/13/2006 2:04:02 PM PST by presidio9

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To: presidio9
The incident itself wasn't that traumatic until Cheney's dog tried to retrieve Whittington.~/sarc off.
41 posted on 02/13/2006 2:27:40 PM PST by Deguello
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To: presidio9

For some reason, the Tom Lehrer hunting song keeps popping up:
"... the Law was very firm it, took away my PERMIT's the worst punishment I ever endured....."


42 posted on 02/13/2006 2:29:12 PM PST by ziggygrey
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To: raj bhatia

Alexander Hamilton was this nation's greatest founding father. Period.


43 posted on 02/13/2006 2:30:24 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: raj bhatia
Must confess I am not up-to-speed on Hamilton's politics.

Just learned about the duel in parochial school when I was a youngster...like everyone else back in the 50's

44 posted on 02/13/2006 2:31:37 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: DCPatriot

Most of what you hear on Hamilton is the result of a concerted smear campaign on the part of Jefforson (the nation's first liberal) and his followers.


45 posted on 02/13/2006 2:34:52 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: DCPatriot
I strongly recommend you read Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. This guy who was shot is the principal reason why the U.S. is a nation we are proud to call home.

Its a long read but I assure you, that the experience will be an incredible one.
46 posted on 02/13/2006 2:38:47 PM PST by raj bhatia
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To: raj bhatia; DCPatriot
I strongly recommend you read Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.

Excellent book. Highly entertaining as biographies go.

47 posted on 02/13/2006 2:40:27 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: raj bhatia

Thanks...I'll read it.


48 posted on 02/13/2006 2:40:43 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: Xenalyte

I like this retort: "The guy Cheney shot was one of his friends. Guess what he has in store for you?"


49 posted on 02/13/2006 2:42:06 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: Deguello

It's a good thing he only wounded him cause it would be hell skinning and cleaning him! :0)


50 posted on 02/13/2006 2:42:49 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: DCPatriot
There was a C-Span book program that addressed 3 different books on Hamilton which came out a few years ago . . . probably the 200th anniversary of Hamilton's death.

They made the point that the US as we know it is less a Jeffersonian Democracy than a Hamiltonian Republic. His commercial vision was for America as we know it.


51 posted on 02/13/2006 2:43:01 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: presidio9

This incident will probably be turned into a major Hollywood blockbuster theatrical release before the 9/11 movie comes out.


52 posted on 02/13/2006 2:45:57 PM PST by jpl ("We don't negotiate with terrorists, we put them out of business." - Scott McClellan)
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To: Dog Gone

The last time my husband went dove hunting with a bunch of guys he got pelted. No big deal.


53 posted on 02/13/2006 2:46:43 PM PST by Faith-Hope
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

He is also the father of American Conservatism.


54 posted on 02/13/2006 2:46:59 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: presidio9

So can I assume that Sarah Brady has repossessed that high-powered hunting rifle that she straw-purchased for her son a couple of years ago?

I didn't think so.


55 posted on 02/13/2006 2:47:30 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: presidio9

According to the Hunter Incident Clearinghouse (http://www.ihea.com/documents/2004_report.pdf) there were 60 instances of folks injured in 2004 by hunters "swinging on targets". Only about 10% of these incidents get reported. None of them ended up in the news.


56 posted on 02/13/2006 2:50:30 PM PST by Ben Mugged ("Television is the most perfect democracy, You sit there with your remote control and vote")
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To: presidio9

I heard on Howie Carr's show that a store in Maine will market t-shirts that read "I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney, than ride in a car with Ted Kennedy".


57 posted on 02/13/2006 2:50:50 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: theDentist
Cheney's voice comes back on the line, "Okay, now what?"

*snort*

58 posted on 02/13/2006 2:51:39 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Ben Mugged

Well, about a zillion people went to the hospital last year because they felt a tightness in their chest, but Cheney was probably the only one who made the news for that.


59 posted on 02/13/2006 2:52:55 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: BallyBill
I can't wait until the victim here comes out and says it was his own fault. The cover up conspiracy talk will go into hyper meltdown insanity.

I heard on the news that Mr. Whittington is joking about it with the nurses in the hospital.

60 posted on 02/13/2006 2:53:43 PM PST by SuziQ
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