Dick Cheney's Skeezeball Hobby
Harry Bowman | 16.12.2003 08:37 | Animal Liberation | Culture | Ecology
Dick Cheney's shooting spree at the Rolling Rock Club near Latrobe, Pennsylvania
is an affront to the traditional values of American hunting.
is an affront to the traditional values of American hunting.
As the growing Iraq-Halliburton scandal leads to his inevitable Agnew-fication, we see a new piece of news about Dick Cheney. What does Dick Cheney do for fun? Well, now
we know....
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After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: December 15, 2003
(from New York Times)
WASHINGTON
Vice President Dick Cheney's Christmas card arrived in the capital's mailboxes last week with this suddenly apt quotation from Benjamin Franklin: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"
Franklin made the remark at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to argue that because something as small as a sparrow's death comes to God's attention, clearly God has a voice in the affairs of men. Therefore, Franklin argued, a prayer should open the daily sessions held to write the founding document of the United States. (Franklin lost the argument, but his passage won a place in history.)
All of which brings us to Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.
As a result, a lot of other people noticed the fallen birds: hunters who pursue birds in the wild, the Democratic presidential candidates and the Humane Society of the United States, which likened the shootings to the first day of the Iraq war.
"This can only be called a shooting-gallery operation," said Wayne Pacelle, the senior vice president of the Humane Society, who pronounced himself outraged. "Hunting is supposed to involve some opportunity for the animal to evade the hunter. Hunting in this setting is reduced to mass killing."
Mr. Cheney, who almost never speaks to the news media, had no comment on his trip or the identity of his hunting companions, and his office provided only sparse information. White House officials also declined to release photographs they have of the vice president in full hunting mode. But the vice president's spokesman, Kevin Kellems, did say that the pheasants were cleaned, packed and sent to those less fortunate.
"The birds don't go to waste, they go to hunger relief charities," Mr. Kellems said.
Mr. Kellems, however, said he could not provide the names or locations of any charities or soup kitchens that received the birds and did not know how they were prepared, when they were served and who in fact ate them. (Pheasant under glass was an aristocratic dish of an earlier era; today's pheasant aficionados say the birds are delicious, although bony, and can be tough if improperly cooked.)
Details of the exact nature of the hunt were also hard to come by. Officers at the private Rolling Rock Club, which meanders over 10,000 acres in Ligonier Township about a 90-minute drive from Pittsburgh, did not return numerous calls seeking comment. Employees reached in the club's dog kennels said they had been ordered not to speak to the news media. The employees added that they did not know what had become of Scott Wakefield, a dog handler at the club who was quoted by The Post-Gazette as saying that 500 birds had been released from nets for the hunt.
If nets were used, bird-hunting experts said, Mr. Cheney and his party were probably prepositioned with shotguns on the ground or in blinds in trees. Another possibility was that the birds were released from a tower, with Mr. Cheney and the others ready for them on the ground. A final possibility was that the pheasants were released early in the day or the night before, and Mr. Cheney and his companions then went after them on foot.
Whatever the case, hunters generally do not embrace any form of the practice as a substitute for the real thing.
"I don't see anything terribly wrong with it, but I don't think it should be confused with hunting," said Sid Evans, editor in chief of the outdoor magazine Field & Stream. Shooting pen-raised birds, he said, "is a great way to train dogs, and it's a great way to educate young hunters."
Mr. Cheney often hunts in the wild, and his office would not discuss how frequently he shoots pen-raised birds at private clubs. The Post-Gazette reported, however, that Monday's trip was the second time Mr. Cheney had visited Rolling Rock. The newspaper also said Mr. Cheney had spent Monday afternoon at the club shooting an undetermined number of mallard ducks.
In October, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, a Democratic presidential candidate, blew two pheasants out of the Iowa sky in two shots of his 12-gauge shotgun, a display meant to show his prowess as well as his support for the rights of hunters and an assault-weapons ban. Mr. Kerry downed the birds in a cornfield, not at a private club.
"Something here doesn't add up," said David Wade, Mr. Kerry's spokesman. "The Bush administration says the economy is improving, but their millionaire vice president has to hunt for his own food."
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Now why did I post this-- the right-wingers will say it's a knee-jerk anti-gun reaction. If they think that's it I'd like to point out that I occasionally shoot guns myself. However, unlike Dick Cheney, I was raised with a few normal American values. When you hunt, it's generally agreed in America that you actually only kill what you eat yourself. It's also not considered sporting to hunt farm animals.
This practice described above, "shooting", is a decadent artifact of Victorian England. The landed rich, of course, hunted with dogs, a practice which requires a great deal of skill. As capitalists became wealthy, they couldn't really do that because a rich person who isn't a feudal lord doesn't have time to practice. There was then a craze for this "shooting" stuff, which basically involves just going out in funny clothes to somelace in the countryside where they let loose vast clouds of birds anyone who has a trigger finger
can hit.
Another interesting question- how much does it cost to fly in from Washington, go "shooting", and come back, all in your private plane? Given what we know about farm-raised birds, aren't they at least a few bucks each? I'm sure Dick can cover the costs himself, but how can anyone like this ever possibly relate to normal Americans?
It's hard to believe "shooting" could survive into the twenty-first century, but here it is. Bizarre.
Rolling Rock Club - Private
Route 30
Ligonier, PA 15658
Westmoreland County
(724) 238-9501
Incidentally, for the animal-rights inclined, this is a picture of a bird wearing blinders--- BLINDERS--- for one
of these so-called "hunts."
http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/RESCUES/CANNED%20HUNT/Canned_hunt.htm
So, in summary- I wish our leaders would take up less sleazy leisure activities. I suggest blow jobs.
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Harry Bowman
hbowman108@hotmail.com
we know....
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After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: December 15, 2003
(from New York Times)
WASHINGTON
Vice President Dick Cheney's Christmas card arrived in the capital's mailboxes last week with this suddenly apt quotation from Benjamin Franklin: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"
Franklin made the remark at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to argue that because something as small as a sparrow's death comes to God's attention, clearly God has a voice in the affairs of men. Therefore, Franklin argued, a prayer should open the daily sessions held to write the founding document of the United States. (Franklin lost the argument, but his passage won a place in history.)
All of which brings us to Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.
As a result, a lot of other people noticed the fallen birds: hunters who pursue birds in the wild, the Democratic presidential candidates and the Humane Society of the United States, which likened the shootings to the first day of the Iraq war.
"This can only be called a shooting-gallery operation," said Wayne Pacelle, the senior vice president of the Humane Society, who pronounced himself outraged. "Hunting is supposed to involve some opportunity for the animal to evade the hunter. Hunting in this setting is reduced to mass killing."
Mr. Cheney, who almost never speaks to the news media, had no comment on his trip or the identity of his hunting companions, and his office provided only sparse information. White House officials also declined to release photographs they have of the vice president in full hunting mode. But the vice president's spokesman, Kevin Kellems, did say that the pheasants were cleaned, packed and sent to those less fortunate.
"The birds don't go to waste, they go to hunger relief charities," Mr. Kellems said.
Mr. Kellems, however, said he could not provide the names or locations of any charities or soup kitchens that received the birds and did not know how they were prepared, when they were served and who in fact ate them. (Pheasant under glass was an aristocratic dish of an earlier era; today's pheasant aficionados say the birds are delicious, although bony, and can be tough if improperly cooked.)
Details of the exact nature of the hunt were also hard to come by. Officers at the private Rolling Rock Club, which meanders over 10,000 acres in Ligonier Township about a 90-minute drive from Pittsburgh, did not return numerous calls seeking comment. Employees reached in the club's dog kennels said they had been ordered not to speak to the news media. The employees added that they did not know what had become of Scott Wakefield, a dog handler at the club who was quoted by The Post-Gazette as saying that 500 birds had been released from nets for the hunt.
If nets were used, bird-hunting experts said, Mr. Cheney and his party were probably prepositioned with shotguns on the ground or in blinds in trees. Another possibility was that the birds were released from a tower, with Mr. Cheney and the others ready for them on the ground. A final possibility was that the pheasants were released early in the day or the night before, and Mr. Cheney and his companions then went after them on foot.
Whatever the case, hunters generally do not embrace any form of the practice as a substitute for the real thing.
"I don't see anything terribly wrong with it, but I don't think it should be confused with hunting," said Sid Evans, editor in chief of the outdoor magazine Field & Stream. Shooting pen-raised birds, he said, "is a great way to train dogs, and it's a great way to educate young hunters."
Mr. Cheney often hunts in the wild, and his office would not discuss how frequently he shoots pen-raised birds at private clubs. The Post-Gazette reported, however, that Monday's trip was the second time Mr. Cheney had visited Rolling Rock. The newspaper also said Mr. Cheney had spent Monday afternoon at the club shooting an undetermined number of mallard ducks.
In October, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, a Democratic presidential candidate, blew two pheasants out of the Iowa sky in two shots of his 12-gauge shotgun, a display meant to show his prowess as well as his support for the rights of hunters and an assault-weapons ban. Mr. Kerry downed the birds in a cornfield, not at a private club.
"Something here doesn't add up," said David Wade, Mr. Kerry's spokesman. "The Bush administration says the economy is improving, but their millionaire vice president has to hunt for his own food."
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Now why did I post this-- the right-wingers will say it's a knee-jerk anti-gun reaction. If they think that's it I'd like to point out that I occasionally shoot guns myself. However, unlike Dick Cheney, I was raised with a few normal American values. When you hunt, it's generally agreed in America that you actually only kill what you eat yourself. It's also not considered sporting to hunt farm animals.
This practice described above, "shooting", is a decadent artifact of Victorian England. The landed rich, of course, hunted with dogs, a practice which requires a great deal of skill. As capitalists became wealthy, they couldn't really do that because a rich person who isn't a feudal lord doesn't have time to practice. There was then a craze for this "shooting" stuff, which basically involves just going out in funny clothes to somelace in the countryside where they let loose vast clouds of birds anyone who has a trigger finger
can hit.
Another interesting question- how much does it cost to fly in from Washington, go "shooting", and come back, all in your private plane? Given what we know about farm-raised birds, aren't they at least a few bucks each? I'm sure Dick can cover the costs himself, but how can anyone like this ever possibly relate to normal Americans?
It's hard to believe "shooting" could survive into the twenty-first century, but here it is. Bizarre.
Rolling Rock Club - Private
Route 30
Ligonier, PA 15658
Westmoreland County
(724) 238-9501
Incidentally, for the animal-rights inclined, this is a picture of a bird wearing blinders--- BLINDERS--- for one
of these so-called "hunts."
http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/RESCUES/CANNED%20HUNT/Canned_hunt.htm So, in summary- I wish our leaders would take up less sleazy leisure activities. I suggest blow jobs.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Harry Bowman
hbowman108@hotmail.com
Harry Bowman
e-mail:
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Odes To Cheney
23.02.2004 18:45
Cheney Odes
and elsewhere
CHENEY POEM ATTEMPTS
CHENEY
Cheney blasts birds out of the sky
for sheer pleasure
but Iraqi and Afghani and Colombian
children
he bombs
for power.
CHENEY'S PENNSYLVANIA SLAUGHTER
Lay by the far bridge
many a spent cartridge
417 birds killed that day
but alive neath the star ridge
the pear tree's partridge.
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(417 birds altogether killed in Ligonier Township at Rolling
Rock in Pennsylvania in December 2004 by Senator Cornyn
of Texas, Roger Staubach of the Dallas Cowboys, Cheney
and others .. 81 by Cheney.. these were cage raised birds
released in a net in a canned hunt which can be compared
to shooting sardines in a barrel. Some postulate the hunting trips served as cover
for secret govt. meetings and (some such as authors
Phillips and O'Brien of Trance Formation allege) sex?)
(With 2 jets and multiple Black Hawks, with the coopting
of local law enforcement and the shut down of airport
commercial traffic, each of his trips costs millions.. and
the total is in the hundreds of millions.) (His hunting trips have
included 3 days in South Dakota, trips to Poughkeepsie
NY in the weekend after Sept 11, Louisiana to an oil exec's
estate, Maryland.. where he is perhaps behind the effort
to make bear murder lega.
AIR FORCE TWO USED AS A FREEZER
Secret Service used as bird dog retrievers
millions for 2 jets 2 Black Hawks
and their expensive receivers
Air Force Two used as a bird freezer
.. all for 2 serial killing geezers
(Jan 5 2004 Scalia and Cheney go duck hunting
in violation of conflict of interest.. as 3 weeks earlier
the Halliburton case became active in the court)
(Dec 2003.. 81 mallard ducks and pheasants
at Rolling Rock in Pennsylvania
were slaughtered in 1 day by Dick Cheney
who took their defeathered degutted
vacuum packed corpses back with him)
(Bush killed 5 birds to start the New Year.
Kerry killed 2)
Wesley Clark's total is unknown..
he has bombed animals on 3 continents at
least (Asia's Vietnam, Waco's America
and Europe's Kosovo). He is a hunter
with 20 guns and a war profiteer who lobbied
for Axiom and many other war profiteer corporations.
OMNIPRESENCE
Dick found it pleasant
serially to kill pheasants.
For plutocrats:
corpse presents.
Overlooked .. the poor
'peasants'.
Yet he will learn God's
Omnipresence
and each being's
divine essence
TERRORIST DISARMED
Cheney said 'the civilized
world must disarm terrorists'
Someone obeyed him..
went to his home
and removed the rifle
with which he had killed
so many innocent birds.
AQUARIAN
Every once in a while
come fiscal
ties antiquarian
to one who is born under
stars aquarian
GREEN POOLS
Cheney loves the woods
.. the greenleaf pools
.. his billionaire and centimillionaire
friends can afford private green
spots..
While he seeks these private
green spots.. his policies
are causing them to shrink
around the world
WHY?
Some say Cheney's weekend trips
are sex related
Others that he is conducting secret
regime meetings
Others that he is a serial killer of
animals and enjoys hunting
Perhaps all 3?
TENS OF MILLIONS FROM USA POOR
Each Cheney huntig trip whether to Ligonier Township Pennsylvania
where 417 birds were killed in 1 day by Senator Cornyn, Roger
Staubach, and others,or to Louisiana with pen-armed serial killer
Scalia,
to Poughkeepsie NY, to South Dakota, to Camp David where
the animals live in constant fright.. costs millions
.. 2 jets... several Black Hawks,... local backup
.. loss of revenue to airports when other flights cancelled etc.)
JAY LENO
Dick Cheney is currently out in South Dakota on a three-day hunting
trip. What better place for a man who has had four (now five) heart
attacks than to be carrying a big gun and a backpack through the snow
looking for red meat.
MARYLAND BEARS
Is Cheney behind
the attempt to
make legal the
slaughter
of Maryland bears
by wealthy men
.. animals
call stalkers
SCHENECTADY SYNECDOCHE
War profiteer cartels
and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime
are called The United States
by warwhore news teams.
Everywhere including
peace loving Schenectady
the American people
dislike such synecdoches.
BRIAN HUTTON CALLS HIMSELF LORD
Brian Hutton calls himself 'lord'
he who for BP has oft warwhored
but murdered David Kelly to tell the truth
needs no pawn of 'elite' warlords
JOHN ASHCROFT
John Aschroft
clothes statues..
and strips
prisoners
like that medieval
Pope who cut the stone
genitalia off of
scultpure
WHY IS THE CARLYLE WAR PROFITEER BALD
It is not age which has made
The thieving vulture bald.
His skullfeathers
have been ripped off in repeated sticking to
cadavers gluey
to corpses gooey
(Baldness is correlated to high uric acid in the diet
.. trioxypurine or preurine in animals' muscle cells.
Meat's oxypurine is stronger than caffein which is
dixoypurine.)
All of us are in bodies getting older every second.
Time robs us all eventually of exterior beauty.)
*
GOVERNOR EASLEY KILLS SO EASILY
Governor Mike Easley
kills so easily
.. prisoners on death row
.. Smithfield pigs
.. Duke primates
caged with $ from Bill Gates..
all silenced... sacrificed
in a trice
What is it of Georgia
Oklahoma, Florida
and Texas, Virginia..
as if the hotter the sun shines
the colder the heart?
MAD CHICKENS AND MAD CHICKENHAWKS
Murdered chickens no longer flew
their dead bodies giving flu
and avian spongiform encephalopathy
daily here and in Aviano grew
RADIO ANNOUNCER
The dj said that
when Ted Nugent (who is an
animal stalker like Bush)
got 40 stitches from a chain
saw
deer were laughing
in the underbrush
JIM TALENT
Jim Talent
has buried
his Godgiven talents
ARIEL SHARON
How many poeple and donkeys
at checkpoints blown apart
by the man who fancies
himself a modern Bonaparte
PAUL BREMER
Paul Bremer has not been
forthright
about how many Iraqis
were murdered
this fortnight
TOM DELAY
Tom Delay used to
kill little bugs
.. for money them exterminate
.. now for power he kid
soldiers terminates
BILL FRIST
Bill Frist hooker
for Eli Lilly
has sent many animals
to lie dead in the lilies
ARMOR AGAINST ARMOUR
against thyroid made with
sweet little mad pigs
is there any earthly armor
pigs whose loving amour
was stabbed away by Armour
DIEBOLD
The votes of many in New
Hampshire and Missouri
Minnesota and Colorado
and several other states
.. they all died bold
killed by the software
of the GOP-FBI- Battelle-
Diebold
(Diebold CEO O'Dell is a frequent
visitor to the Bush ranch)
http:/www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html
http:/www.votefraud.org
US SUPREME COURT JUSTICES SCOTCHED WITH PENS
Physician Swango killed
with syringe
while Supreme Court 5 scotched
with pens.
Jack the Ripper
dispatched with knives
while Supreme Court 5 with
signature
ended lives.
Jackal .. he killed
with guns
while with their quills
do the Five kill.
But Ryan with his
plume
emptied the death
rooms
and Glendening
with ink of amber
did shut down
execution chambers.
(Pens and pencils may not be brought into the Supreme Court)
(The unelected members of the Supreme Court are one
factor in the United States' not being in the column
of democratic nations)
BILL LOCKYER AG OF CALIFORNIA PRESSING FOR EXECUTION
to God's voice
Bill Lockyer
can
unlock his ears
PATAKI
A foe is
New York's Governor Pataki
of every child, animal
and tree Iraqi
COLIN POWELL
Who was the commander
of Medina and Calley in My Lai
..it was Colin Powell
me no lie
When you hear the name
Colin Powell
do you think of fleshblocked
colons
or Mad Cow bowels?
Do you think of Iraq's
Highway of Death
where 250,000 seniors
and children and animals
took their last breath?
MAD CHICKEN GENERATORS
They feed 1 animal's feces
to an animal of another species
They feed cow's blood
to the chicken's brood
**
(Some say that prions contain a mixture of the genes
of more than 1 species
e.g. feeding sheep brains to cows
feeding pig parts to chickens
feeding lamb bone meal to fish. When animal waste is
fed to animals it is sometimes called 'wastelage')
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