Posted on 02/15/2006 1:09:42 PM PST by Thunder90
In the wake of his hunting accident where he sprayed a companion with birdshot, Vice President Dick Cheney is being urged by an animal-rights activist to abandon hunting and take up a less violent sport.
Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has written Cheney a sarcastically toned letter to that effect, hoping this "brush with tragedy" will convince him to rethink his recreational activities.
"May I recommend that you put down your guns and pick up a tennis racket instead?" writes Newkirk. "The risks to your fellow tennis participants would be minimal – at worst a sore elbow or turned ankle – and it would greatly benefit your heart, which I worry can't take many more frights like the one you have just experienced."
Newkirk's letter continued:
"Even when hunting tame, gentle birds who have been hand-reared (as you have been known to do), bagging a slow-moving buddy can be even less challenging, which is why there are so many hunting accidents every year. In fact, hunters pick off so many of their brethren that PETA has considered abandoning our campaign against killing for "fun" and just letting hunters finish off themselves. With the number of hunters in America rapidly declining – it fell 7.3 percent in 2001 alone, leaving a miniscule 3.9 percent of the public still taking up arms against defenseless wildlife – this may happen in the not-too-distant future. Mr. Cheney, there is so much violence in the world that is beyond our control, but you can avoid hurting innocent animals (and well-connected lawyers) by putting down your guns and taking up a nonviolent sport."
Meanwhile, as WND reported, a North Carolina columnist claimed today Dick Cheney's shooting of friend Harry Whittington was not an accident, but was meant to be a "Godfather"-style message to his former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, not to testify against the vice president in the Valerie Plame leak investigation.
That letter inspired me to take up hunting.
HEHE:) I love some of these old grandmas on here who hunt. I have to love them of course, don't want to get on their bad side:).
Very well, but you'll knead more than floury rhetoric to butter me up.
That I can dough.
You're very sage, to use your noodle like that.
It helps to pasta time.
I also relish the ability to fritter time away.
Sometimes though, you can get in a pickle or a jam, but at least in the case of the first, you just have to make some kind of dill, preferrably a big one, to get out.
I said I was logging off, but I couldn't resist the one-liners.
I hope PETA doesn't have operatives monitoring it. I don't want to meat them in a dark alley.
As long as I can bring home the bacon, I shouldn't have to fudge things too much.
Yeah, you don't want to milk the system. It's better for your own welfare that way.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says every time PETA speaks, a steak goes on the grill.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says every time PETA speaks, a steak goes on the grill.
This teacher likes that notion. :)
LOL at you two!
;o)
I wouldn't want to get too salty, lest I start muffin' things up.
Then sweeten the pot and you'll have an olestras dish.
I like this guy. Looks like the pilot light is on.
Nah, I just try to keep up with the big-shot mooguls around here.
You gotta be in the moog to do that (and carry a big gun too).
I try, but it's hard with some of the demoogogues who post here.
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