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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Marty Carpenter
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According to the Guardian Unlimited (UK), Cheney has doctors with him at all times, and his own private ambulance standing by.
The owner of the ranch, Katharine Armstrong, witnessed the incident.
"The vice-president didn't see him," she told the Associated Press news agency. "He picked out a bird and shot and, my God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good.
"It broke the skin," she said. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."
Mrs Armstrong added that these things happen "from time to time - you know, I've been peppered pretty well myself".
Fortunately for Mr Whittington, a millionaire lawyer from Austin, the vice-president's medical team, on permanent call due to his sometimes fragile physical condition, were nearby.
"Fortunately, the vice-president has got a lot of medical people round him and they were right there," Mrs Armstrong said.
"He has an ambulance permanently on call and it came immediately."
Although the incident occurred at 5.30pm, Mr Whittington was not admitted to the nearby Corpus Christi Memorial hospital until 8.15pm. He was treated for birdshot injuries to the neck, chest and face, and was said to be in good condition and good spirits.
Yesterday, he was visited by Mr Cheney at the hospital.
Source://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1708599,00.html
On one of the blogs, I saw that Cheney was reported to have been in Pennsylvania in 2003, shooting farm-bred pheasants that were released in batches of 500. Cheney's party allegedly shot 416 of them, with Cheney personally bagging 70 of his own. This is called "canned hunting," or skeet shooting using live targets. Cheney was reported to be using a 28 gauge shotgun, which some hunters call a "lady's gun," because it doesn't have much kick when you shoot.
Some questions from the blogs: Was this trip also a "canned hunting" trip? Where was Lynne while Dick and the ambassador lady were out hunting together? Did anyone ever get around to filing a police report, said to be required by Texas law, even if an accident? Was Cheney drinking? Did my taxes pay for this whole trip or only part of it (the SS and traveling hospital)?
Now every company or institution that has suffered layoffs will be vying for Bush to come and talk to them. Does this mean a bail-out for Ford and GM, too? I'm glad these people got their jobs back, but I'm not happy about the reason.
Mercury poisoning in the tuna! Yummm. Just what I wanted to stave off the flu. Rats under the bed fighting with the ants and roaches for the powdered milk, oatmeal, and sugar? How appetizing. What, no duct tape to fasten the cache to the floor? Our venerable secretary is slipping. Surely, he might have thought of duct tape, since we all have so much of it left over from the orange and red alerts.
It's not surprising to see incompetence again, but it is surprising to see it presented so brazenly, only a short week after the Dubai Ports World debacle. Is the entire cabinet in a competition to see who can look the most incompetent?
For me, anyway. I would like to read that pdf doc from Fitzgerald, but I can't locate it. He usually puts his proceedings up on his web site, and I can't find it there, either. The link to the Sun story isn't working, either. Could you look into that, please?
Thanks.
There is a Thank You, Stephen Colbert site at the blog, dailykos. Anyone who wants to register support can go there and sign on. I e-mailed Comedy Central to thank them as well, and I am recommending stories about the lack of news coverage to keep them in front of reader's eyes.
I am thoroughly ashamed, as I was in the 1950s with Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and a few other comedians being the only persons willing to criticize what our McCarthyite nation had become. I never thought I would live long enough to see it happening all over again, and even worse. Who can sensible people rely on these days? Not the corporate media. Not our elected leaders. Only our satirists like Colbert and Jon Stewart, and a few songsters and rappers. And the media will do their best to suppress any opposition.
Thousands dead and maimed, and our president makes jokes about it and smirks. The world has gone ape. I hope to live long enough to vote in November of 2006 and 2008. It's all I have to give.
whose letter appears in these pages, still doesn't get it. Colbert's character is a send off of all the sycophants in the media who worship their own egos and fawning over officialdom more than they value the truth. Bill O'Reilly is included there. To criticize Colbert for his egoistic run over to his seated guests on his TV show is to entirely miss his point; it's the egotistical behavior that he is satirizing, and satire must exaggerate to be funny. Don't confuse Colbert with the persona he is spoofing.
A good satirist never breaks character, and Colbert never broke character on Saturday night, either. One person asked him afterwards if he had been too tough on the president. "Not at all," he replied.
Wake up, brother bob. Your story isn't worth the paper it's rotten on. (Quip stolen from Dorothy Parker.)
And thank you, Michael Scherer, for recognizing true art when you see it. Perhaps the D.C. press corps will slowly wake up?
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http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/
37,161 people had written thank-you notes to Stephen Colbert. And they just keep coming in, too. The more the video gets around, the longer the list gets.
I guess the reason we need big changes in D.C. is that those who have been around for too long, believing in their old, bipartisan rhetoric, weren't paying attention while our government was stolen from us. NO WAR ON IRAN! OUT OF IRAQ!
IMPEACH!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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