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You want framing? Use this: Republicans are LIARS! | 16 comments (16 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

They lie when they talk about sanctity of life (4.00 / 4)

Monday's hunting trip to Pennsylvania by Vice President Dick Cheney in which he reportedly shot more than 70 stocked pheasants and an unknown number of mallard ducks at an exclusive private club places a spotlight on an increasingly popular and deplorable form of hunting, in which birds are pen-reared and released to be shot in large numbers by patrons. The ethics of these hunts are called into question by rank-and-file sportsmen, who hunt animals in their native habitat and do not shoot confined or pen-raised animals that cannot escape.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported today that 500 farm-raised pheasants were released yesterday morning at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township for the benefit of Cheney's 10-person hunting party. The group killed at least 417 of the birds, illustrating the unsporting nature of canned hunts. The party also shot an unknown number of captive mallards in the afternoon.

"This wasn't a hunting ground. It was an open-air abattoir, and the vice president should be ashamed to have patronized this operation and then slaughtered so many animals," states Wayne Pacelle, a senior vice president of The Humane Society of the United States. "If the Vice President and his friends wanted to sharpen their shooting skills, they could have shot skeet or clay, not resorted to the slaughter of more than 400 creatures planted right in front of them as animated targets."

Disgusting! No real hunter would go to such a place. But, what else would you expect from a five-deferment dick.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

by Damnit Janet on Mon Feb 13th, 2006 at 02:23:55 PM EST

Re: They lie when they talk about sanctity of life (4.00 / 4)

Yeah. I'm kind of ambiguous in my feeling about hunting and hunters, but I've known several who know and care about the animals and the environment that supports them. They also take the idea of "sport" seriously. Cheney's love for essentially shooting fish in a barrel must appall real hunters as much as it does animal-rights folks. This is the kind of thing that really lifts the curtain on what kind of alleged person Cheney is.

The victim was peppered with buckshot, apparently from his face to his crotch. Wow -- what sportsmen these guys are -- they need a yard-wide rain of shot to bring down a little bird, no aiming, no skill required. What a bunch of heroes we have making life or death decisions for us all.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Mon Feb 13th, 2006 at 02:43:30 PM EST
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Saw an interview with an emergency... (none / 1)

room doctor earlier who was talking as if this happens all the time. I guess these jokers shoot each other on a regular basis.

by Ed J on Mon Feb 13th, 2006 at 03:12:00 PM EST
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Re: They lie when they talk about sanctity of life (none / 0)

Janet, tell me he did not actually go "bird hunting" Two days after he shot a hunting buddy of his?! If by Monday, you mean today, this is just over the top!

We need to push for Progressive change, now more than ever.

by keepinon (jaukkuri@sbcglobal.net) on Mon Feb 13th, 2006 at 08:57:45 PM EST
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Re: They lie when they talk about sanctity of life (none / 0)

Imagine, if you will, a farm. A farm where the owners stock Republican Vice Presidents who are assholes. (a data set of one). Imagine further that the owners of this farm are quail, pheasants and assorted birds (kind of a George Orwell type farm). And finally imagine with unrestrained joy that the purpose of this farm is to let the Vice President run through a shoot, above which are many bird perches with many bird asses taking many bird shits on this shithead's head.

Now, dammit, admit that life is good.

All Progressives need to become ardent supporters of the Second, as well as the , First Amendment

by phronesis (swwiener@gmail.com) on Mon Feb 13th, 2006 at 11:19:56 PM EST
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