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Thursday, December 7, 2006 12:00 AM

What Mary Cheney should expect while she's expecting

Forget morning sickness and weight gain and get ready for nine months of right-wing hand-wringing and embarrassed silence.

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  • Thursday, December 7, 2006 08:58 PM

    "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service"

    While in the abstract gay couples should be left to choose whether or not to rear children, in this particular situation I am skeptical that any good will come of perpetuating the DNA of a present day warmonger who, when he ran out of student deferments during the Vietnam War era, literally fucked his way out of the draft--on October 6, 1965, the Selective Service lifted its ban against drafting married men who had no children. On January 19, 1966, when his wife was about 10 weeks pregnant, Dick Cheney applied for 3-A status, the "hardship" exemption, which excluded men with children or dependent parents.*

    This unfortunate child combines the DNA of a pus-gutted coward grandfather and a quisling mother.

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    *Hat tip to Wikipedia

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