Just when you think you live in a democracy, you see shit like the guy Dick shot apologizing to Cheney for putting his face in the way of Cheney’s shotgun pellets. And having a heart attack. And not taking out his dentures when he fellated the vice King.
I think we’ve got a new standard bearer for the picture next to “sycophant” in the dictionary.
Proof that I need to get back to going to the gym on my lunch hour.
I penned these words to be sung to the tune of The Ballad of Jed Clampett
Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Dick
A rich Wyoming rancher, not a common country Hick
He was hunting quail in Texas down at Katharine Armstrong’s Place
When he pulled down on his buddy and shot him in the face.
Ooh, that looks like that hurts
Worst Day of Dick’s life
Harry’s too
Well the next thing you know, old Dick is running scared
Karl Rove said, “You need to get away from there”
He said “Get to the Ranch House now, before the press gets near
Because they all might figure out that you’ve been drinking beer”.
Yuengling’s that is
Black and Tan
Texas Dr. Pepper
Well now its time to say goodbye to Dick and all his sins
All the Fox News talking heads say this has got to end.
You’re all invited back again to this locality
To have a heaping helping of Dick’s mendacity
Dead-Eye Dick
That’s what they call him now.
Safe Hunter
Y’all come back now, hear?
There are lots of people on the conservative side moaning that the left side is using a “tragic accident” as a metaphor for all that is wrong with Bush Administration and scoring “cheap political points”. Personally I think a story about the VPOTUS carelessly shooting his friend in the face tells us a lot more about the people in power. It certainly tells a lot more than a story about the erotic use of a cigar in the oval office.
I think that it is more than relevant to point out that a man who puts his fingerprints all over administration decisions to use our armed forces has demonstrated that he excercises poor judgement even in the use of a personal firearm for recreational purposes. In the report issued Monday by the Texas Park and Wildlife Department the main contributing factor leading to the accident was listed as “hunter’s judgment factor”. I realize that it isn’t news to many of us that Bush and Cheney exercise poor judgement but it is nice to see it written in an official report. Do American’s want poor judgement a heartbeat away from the nuclear trigger?
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Hard to compete with Cheney’s buffoonery this week, so I’m not even going to try. I’m just going to pile on. Some democratic staffers on the hill have been passing around this quote published in the Houston Chronicle during the 2000 campaign:
(Dick Cheney is) somebody who is going to shoot straight with the American people.–George W. Bush
Katharine Armstrong wasn’t even trying to be funny when she said:
This happens, and my God, I’ve never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship.
Yeah, I’ll bet the first thing Harry is going to say to Cheney when he gets out of the hospital is “Dick, I didn’t realize how much I loved you until you shot me in face! Lets go quail hunting this weekend”.
… against buses arriving before their scheduled time. Grr.
Yeah, I know, not a lot of substantive posts from me lately. Sorry. First, thanks to KeithS for doing the heavy lifting, second my optimism as to the fate of our democracy is at an all time low, and finally… it’s baseball season, baby!
I’m usually a fairly even tempered kind of guy. It takes a lot to get me really pissed off. It usually takes someone being what I call “deliberately stupid”. In other words, someone who takes some literal but obviously unintended meaning from something in order to justify doing the wrong thing. Such are the people who currently make up the executive branch of our government. If you haven’t already read this article, you aren’t even going to believe what these Bushivick assholes tried to pull this time.
Okay, I know he was shooting Quail….. and Homo Sapiens, but that lacked the alliteration. I am a songwriter/singer, at least part-time after all. Call it poetic license.
I absolutely love to read the stories about how rich guys like Dickhead Cheney “hunt wild Quail”. Let me just say that I had a little experience hunting both small game and big game while I was growing up in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania. That experience of sitting long hours on a log waiting for game or walking miles to a farmers field to scare out some rabbits or pheasants was a far cry from the “hunting” that Dead-Eye Dick does down in Texas. I know that Dead-Eye was chaffing a little under the criticism that he was hunting raised-and-released pheasants on a hunting preserve in Pennsylvania so he made sure to emphasize that this time, by God, he was hunting “Wild Quail”.
There is more after the fold.
It might not be “Just one beer” when the beer morphed from a Dr. Pepper. Soft drinks that have magically changed into malted beverages are proven to be larger and have higher alcohol content than beverages that begin life honestly as beers or ales.
It might not be “Just one Beer” if it was consumed in TexASS Texas. Texas is the land of bigger everything….(e.g. Ten Gallon Hats, 50,000 acre ranches, busiest execution chamber, world’s biggest Liars). I’ve seen a few Texas-size beers. The smallest ones come in quart bottles.
I’ll get more serious after the fold.
The Angels agreed to terms this morning with free-agent pitcher Jeff Weaver on a one-year contract for about $8.5 million.
What does this mean? What this means is that Bavasi sucks and needs to be fired immediately.
Not only is the investigation into the illegal warrantless wiretaps in doubt, but the GOoPers are about to add a post hoc authorization for such unconstitutional behavior.
Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.
The Senate intelligence committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a Democratic-sponsored motion to start an inquiry into the recently revealed program in which the National Security Agency eavesdrops on an undisclosed number of phone calls and e-mails involving U.S. residents without obtaining warrants from a secret court. Two committee Democrats said the panel — made up of eight Republicans and seven Democrats — was clearly leaning in favor of the motion last week but now is closely divided and possibly inclined against it.
Yeah! Who needs the Constitution, anyway! All hail King George!
And once again we are in the unenviable position of having to rely upon the character and fortitude of a small handful of lawyers and judges strong enough to stand up to this banana republic despotic authoritarian power grab.
Frankly, I’m not optimistic.
Also, if I hear anyone call Olympia Snowe a “moderate” or “conservative” or someone who has “seen the light” again, I’m going to kick them in the nuts. scAlito and this investigation put an end to that debate.
Lawmakers cite senators such as Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) to illustrate the administration’s success in cooling congressional zeal for an investigation. On Dec. 20, she was among two Republicans and two Democrats who signed a letter expressing “our profound concern about recent revelations that the United States Government may have engaged in domestic electronic surveillance without appropriate legal authority.” The letter urged the Senate’s intelligence and judiciary committees to “jointly undertake an inquiry into the facts and law surrounding these allegations.”
In an interview yesterday, Snowe said, “I’m not sure it’s going to be essential or necessary” to conduct an inquiry “if we can address the legislative standpoint” that would provide oversight of the surveillance program. “We’re learning a lot and we’re going to learn more,” she said.
With a couple of days to think through all that has been said about Cheney’s Hunting mishap, I’m convinced his handlers have cooked major parts of the story. The least offensive interpretation is that they didn’t want Macho Man to look like a pussy who doesn’t know the business end of a gun from his ass, while the most offensive is that he and his buddies enjoyed a few beers at a picnic lunch before bounding out into the field to whoop it up and kill a few helpless birds for sport.
The first point that I would make is that the only “witness” to this event who is talking is the owner of the ranch, Katharine Armstrong. She says among other things that the victim came up behind the VP without announcing himself. I have to say that the woman has exceptional hearing to be able to testify to that fact. After all, she was in a closed vehicle at least 100 yards away from the event. How the hell can she say that Wittington didn’t announce himself? I think it is disgusting that the people that actually witnessed the event up close and personal aren’t talking to the press.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1918.
Newegg let Anandtech publish photos of their operation. Pretty sweet. Thank you, Satan!
Today’s transgression?
The disc they held in the queue yesterday, they put in the shipping queue today… to arrive Friday. I live 30 miles from their shipping center. It takes one day for shipped discs to arrive. This means that today, Tuesday, they have set the disc to be shipped on Thursday. Even if I’m being generous and ignore their previous actions, this means they aren’t shipping until Wednesday and expect a two-day transit … which they’ve never expected before.
Bitches.
Media Matters has a study of talk show guests from 1997-2005
The Sunday-morning talk shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC are where the prevailing opinions are aired and tested, policymakers state their cases, and the left and right in American politics debate the pressing issues of the day on equal ground. Both sides have their say and face probing questions. Or so you would think.
In fact, as this study reveals, conservative voices significantly outnumber progressive voices on the Sunday talk shows. Media Matters for America conducted a content analysis of ABC’s This Week, CBS’ Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press, classifying each one of the nearly 7,000 guest appearances during President Bill Clinton’s second term, President George W. Bush’s first term, and the year 2005 as either Democrat, Republican, conservative, progressive, or neutral. The conclusion is clear: Republicans and conservatives have been offered more opportunities to appear on the Sunday shows – in some cases, dramatically so.