Posted on 03/03/2009 3:31:36 AM PST by Titmouse
As a boy, I spent fall weekends hunting with dad and filling the family freezer with game birds and venison.
By the time I was 10, I was harvesting my limit in a dove field or duck blind. My Winchester 42 was a 1930s-era relic with a skeet barrel, but I was a pump-action killing machine.
My first quail hunt brought me back to Earth.
Roosting quail form a wagon wheel on the ground, heads pointed outward in a compressed coil of avian energy. When flushed, a covey of 12 to 18 birds explodes like an insurgent IED.
I grew to approach such hunts with fear, like a Victorian virgin on her wedding night. Dad would swing his barrels through a moving bird, fire, swing through a second and fire again: two birds for Sunday supper.
I would swing toward one bird, see a closer second bird, get distracted by a crossing third bird, and finally fire at a disappearing fourth bird. Toward dusk, I’d be blasting in the general direction of any covey-rise, and praying the shot would intersect a bird someplace in space.
The first six weeks of the Obama presidency have been a quail hunt. The explosion of presidential energy has caught this Bush-watcher unawares.
The air has been filled with Obama speeches, Obama summits, Obama addresses and Obama orders. Presidential directives have opened third-world clinics, closed terrorist prisons, blocked al-Qaeda trials and boosted union benefits.
Do I aim at the “there is not one single earmark in this stimulus bill” statement, or do I shoot at the “middle class won’t pay one single dime” statement? Do I focus on Obama’s campaign pledge to end earmarks -— contrasting it with the 9,000 earmarks in the Democrats’ $410 billion Omnibus bill ...
(Excerpt) Read more at aspentimes.com ...
“Column on separating “the wheat from the chaff” with Obama, when the media covers for him, and won’t address his negative effect on investors and businesses. “
I do not think Obie cares about investors and businesses! They are the enemy!
Comrade hussein cares only for communism and sharia law for all.
LLS
Yesterday Jim Cramer went after him pretty hard on CNBC. He must have lost alot of $$$ in the market. :-)
Anderson Cooper sympathetically asked “Has Obama lossed his focus, trying to tackle too many things simultaneously?” (poor, poor Obama)
He looked like he was going to cry.
Talk about Nero Fiddling while Rome burned?! Ha, he's got nothing on Obama and his belle.
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By the time I was 10, I was harvesting my limit in a dove field or duck blind. My Winchester 42 was a 1930s-era relic with a skeet barrel, but I was a pump-action killing machine.
Hmmm Good shootin with a 410 at the age of 10.
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