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BlueRoamer
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posted February 12, 2006 04:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueRoamer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Accidentally on purpose is more like it. See, guns ARE safe!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident

ASHINGTON - Vice President
Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.

Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance.

Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.

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posted February 12, 2006 05:42 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

jr- "psst...just tell 'em you thought he had wmd"

cheney-"i was actually aiming at a quayle"

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posted February 12, 2006 06:11 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

"its true....a bullet went by this close to my head!!"

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posted February 12, 2006 06:17 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"nice toy, what does this lever do?" .....BLAAMMM!!!

......................................"ooouuuch!!"-dan quayle

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posted February 12, 2006 07:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozonefiller     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Isn't it interesting that almost each and every person that has either been apart of the Bush administration or has helped Bush one way form or another, ends up getting disposed of one way form or another, after they have used up they're usefulness?

I can see it now:

Whittington: "Gee Dick, that guy in the White House has been screwing us around and now he's kissing those liberal commie ***** too at this point?! When am I gonna get my due?!

Cheney: "Well Harry, that is why I'm here. The president wanted you to know that you have done a great job on the re-election and all, but as he would like to say to all his contributors that, 'I ran for you and now your gonna run for me! heh heh heh!'. So I give you the count of 10 to start running for your life and then I'll take you to the "Big Man" in the sky!

Whittington: "Wait a minute, you can't do this to me, I've literally made you people..."

Cheney: "1,2...10" BANG BANG BANG BANG

Whittington:'No no no! Ahhhhh, that SOB got me in the face!"

Cheney: "Damn, he's still alive and I've ran out of ammo! Quick Bodyguard, call the ambulance, we have a "friendly fire" here!

Hee hee, you better start running yourself Katherine Harris. you'll soon be the next one on the "list"! What do you think Condi is doing out there in all those other countries for, it sure is not making peace or anything, it's more like looking for a good hiding place to go to!

Good luck!

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Harry M. Whittington (b. 1927) is a lawyer practicing from Austin, Texas, as well as a real estate investor. In 2006, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman referred to him as: "very rich, very stubborn and very patient". He has also been active in Texas state politics.

Biography
Whittington received his law degree from the University of Texas and began practicing law in Austin in 1950.

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Government service
Over the years, he has been appointed to many committes and commissions, including the Office of Patient Protection Executive Committee (a committee formed by the governor of Texas to ensure patients rights), the Texas Public Finance Authority Board, and the Texas Board of Corrections. He is also the current chairman of the Texas Funeral Commission. Whittington is outspoken about his doubts about the death penalty as it is applied in Texas, especially in regards to defendants who are mentally retarded.

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Land dispute
Whittington is a major land owner in Travis County, Texas, with property amounting to at least $11 million dollars. Beginning in 2000, Whittington has been fighting a legal case over the eminent domain seizure of a city block of his property in Austin. The city wants to use the land to build a parking garage. Although he has been successful so far in court (the Texas Supreme Court refused to consider the case, effectively ruling in his favor), the city went ahead and built the garage anyway. Depending on the final outcome of the trial, it is unclear what will become of the parking garage or if ownership of the land would revert to Whittington.

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Shooting
On February 11, 2006, Whittington, a George Bush-Dick Cheney campaign contributor, was shot and injured by United States Vice President Dick Cheney during a quail hunting trip, at a ranch in south Texas owned by Katharine Armstrong, who is heavily involved in lobbying, mostly with Republicans. Most of the damage from the shotgun blast was to the right side of his body including damage to his face, chest, and neck. He was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance and is expected to recover. He is currently in stable condition.[1]

Armstrong, the owner of the ranch where the shooting took place, claims that Whittington was shot when Vice President Cheney was shooting at a covey of birds. She alleges that Whittington did not alert Cheney to his location and was simply caught in the middle.

While the shooting occurred on Saturday, February 11th, the news of the shooting wasn't released until after 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, February 12th. As of yet, there has been no explanation for the delay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Whittington

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Petron
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posted February 12, 2006 07:34 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

heheheh!!

http://www.4seasonsproductions.com/FLASH/Beanball%20Episode%202.html

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Rainbow~
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posted February 12, 2006 11:23 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Petron....you really crack me up....

...however, on a more serious note, I'd like to add that it looks like quails aren't the ONLY thing "the snarl" likes to hunt...*sigh*

I've been aware of this for a while, but have been hesitant to bring it up...because of how wild and crazy it sounds....

In a book called TRANS FORMATION OF AMERICA
an ex mind controlled sex slave speaks of Cheney's part in the operation....

Published in 1995, Trance-Formation is the autobiography of alleged CIA mind-control subject Cathy O'Brien, and describes incredible scenes of ritualized truama, perpetrated by some of Washington's most prominent figures. Dick Cheney, the then-former Secretary of Defense, plays a not insignificant role

Cathy says....

"Dick Cheney had an apparent addiction to the "thrill of the sport." He appeared obsessed with playing A Most Dangerous Game as a means of traumatizing mind control victims, as well as to satisfy his own perverse sexual kinks. My introduction to the game occurred upon arrival at the hunting lodge near Greybull, Wyoming, and it physically and psychologically devastated me. I was sufficiently traumatized for Cheney's programming, as I stood naked in his hunting lodge office after being hunted down and caught. Cheney was talking as he paced around me......"

Oh there's much more to this, but don't know if it's "postable" it's so gruesome...*sigh*

Frankly I do not put anything past him...

See why they call him the snarl?

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Petron
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posted February 13, 2006 12:09 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i wouldnt put it past them either.... ....reminds me of that child sex-slave/drug/bribery ring i posted about.....

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Rainbow~
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posted February 13, 2006 01:34 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Petron....somehow I missed that...

Would it be too much trouble to dig it up for me??? I'd like to read it...

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LibraSparkle
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posted February 13, 2006 04:08 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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Petron
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posted February 13, 2006 06:37 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
its scattered about in this thread.....
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum16/HTML/001343.html

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Rainbow~
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posted February 13, 2006 10:57 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Petron.....thank you so much.....

I spent a lot of time on that link, and still didn't get it finished....so I'm going to get back with it.....

...and I am familiar with the Franklin Coverup and Johnny Gosch/Jeff Gannon thing...

..but first I want to post this pic which everyone was making so much noise about...and tell you that I've seen it before and the lady was identified as Demi Moore....tee hee...(Bruce Willis can punch Clinton out...)

I have a busy day scheduled but when I get back I want to address the Franklin cover up thingy....

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posted February 13, 2006 11:27 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh heck, I had to get some of this down here now....it's from the link you gave me Petron, and I'd forgotten I'd posted it....and it was acknowledged by no one...*sigh*

(a hint as to Dubya's sexual preferance)


Did somebody mention Jeff Gannon???


Well, here's an interesting story.....


Gannongate threatens to expose a huge GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring


By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer


February 18, 2005—Now that is has been discovered that "Jeff Gannon" (real name James D. Guckert), a "reporter" for Talon News Service, a front operation run by the conservative Republican-oriented GOPUSA.com <http://gopusa.com/>, was using an alias as a cleared White House reporter, details are emerging that threaten to immerse the Bush administration in a major scandal.

"Gannongate," which is only now being mentioned by the mainstream news media, threatens to expose a potentially damaging GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring dating back to the 1980s and the administration of George H. W. Bush. James D. Guckert, using the name Jeff Gannon and possibly other aliases, was also running gay porn sites, one with a U.S. Marine Corps theme that solicited males for prostitution.


White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said he did not realize Gannon was using an alias until recently. However, rumors in the gay community are circulating about McClellan frequenting gay bars in Austin, Texas.


Gannon bypassed established Secret Service security controls, including a background check requiring a social security number, to obtain a White House press pass that identified him by an alias, an action seen by many seasoned Washington journalists as only being possible if he had favorable treatment from White House staff, especially McClellan and his predecessor, Ari Fleischer. One White House reporter expressed revulsion over the fact that it was Fleischer who took away press credentials from the late long-time White House correspondent Sarah McClendon and handed them to Gannon.


GOPUSA.com is run by a right-wing Texan and Bush friend named Bobby Eberle. In 2003, GOPUSA.com launched a vicious anti-Semitic attack against international financier George Soros, a leading philanthropist for progressive causes and a major contributor to the Democratic Party.


In 2003, Gannon was reportedly given access by White House staff to a classified State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research memorandum regarding a CIA meeting involving the dispatch of former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate claims, which turned out to be false, that Iraq had attempted to procure yellowcake uranium from the West African country. The Wilson case ultimately led to a leak to the media by unnamed White House staff of Wilson's wife's name and identity as a covert CIA agent.


It was also revealed that Jeffgannon.com had been registered by the same Delaware-based company that had registered other Republican-oriented web sites, along with those catering to pornographic military gay themes and male escort services.


TalonNews.com <http://talonnews.com/> and GOPUSA.com are both registered to Endeavor Media Group LLC, operating from Post Office Box 891354 in Houston, Texas. The phone number provided is 999-999-9999. The registrant for a series of web sites, including Jeffgannon.com, Theconservativeguy.com, Exposejessejackson.com, Militaryescorts.com, militaryescortsm4m.com, and hotmilitarystud.com is Bedrock Corporation of 4001 Kennett Pike in Wilmington, Delaware. Bedrock is owned by Jim Guckert, the apparent real identity of Jeff Gannon. The administrative contact for Bedrock was listed as "J. Daniels," possibly another alias.


After the Gannon story broke, militaryescorts.com and hotmilitarystud.com were redirected to a secure log-in site at Cupertino, California-based www.dividezero.net/ <http://www.dividezero.net/> <http://www.dividezero.net/>, which was registered to GKG.Net, which had a contact email in College Station, Texas, the home of Texas A&M University and the George H.W. Bush presidential library. Dividezero.net had a secure log-in window but no subscription information. Experts who track illegal content on the web, including child pornography, report that such sites are common where log-in information is provided separately by regular mail so that the identities of subscribers cannot be easily tracked by online enrollment and entry of credit card information.


Gannongate is reminiscent of a huge political scandal that surfaced in Nebraska in 1989 when it was learned that Lawrence King, the head of Franklin Community Credit Union in Omaha and a rising African American star in the GOP (he sang the national anthem at George H. W. Bush's 1988 nominating convention in New Orleans), was a kingpin—along with top Republicans in Nebraska and Washington, DC, including George H. W. Bush—in a child prostitution and pedophilia scandal. King was later convicted and jailed for fraud but pedophile and prostitution charges were never brought against him and other Nebraska Republican businessmen and politicians.


The scandal, investigated by Nebraska State Senator Loran Schmit, his assistant John DeCamp (a former GOP state senator), State Senate Committee investigator Gary Caradori, and former CIA Director William Colby, reached the very top echelons of the George H. W. Bush administration and GOP. Child prostitutes from Boys Town and other orphanages in Nebraska as well as children procured from China were reportedly flown to Washington for sexcapades with Republican politicians. GOP lobbyist Craig Spence and a number of GOP officials in the administration and Congress were implicated in the scandal, including Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole's liaison to the White House. Young male members of the military in Washington, DC, were particularly sought after by the prostitution ring. During the early 1980s, a number of naval officers were implicated in a child pornography ring that extended from Oregon to the San Francisco Bay area and to Chicago and Washington, DC. The story about that ring was covered up by then-Secretary ofthe Navy John Lehman.


The Nebraska pedophile scandal was similarly covered up on orders from the highest levels of power in the senior Bush White House. Caradori and his young son were killed in a suspicious plane crash in Illinois in 1990. Colby was found floating dead in the Chesapeake Bay, near his home, in 1996. Craig Spence allegedly committed suicide in 1989. Witnesses, many of whom were abused themselves, were intimidated and subsequently jailed in Nebraska and the investigation of the pedophile scandal eventually collapsed. The entire military aspect of the King-Spence scandal is now being repeated in Washington in Gannongate.

(to be continued)

eeee......I'm gonna be late for my Dr. appointment...

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AcousticGod
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posted February 13, 2006 11:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That doesn't look like Demi Moore.

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posted February 13, 2006 03:41 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You're right AG....it doesn't look like her, does it...

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posted February 13, 2006 06:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You guys see the news today? The administration is explaining the delay in reporting the story of the shooting.

So you think he shot that guy to take the focus off the Libby investigation?

Howard Dean is calling for Dick Cheney to step down (for the Plame incident), and I'm thinking that Dick's becoming the best thing for the Democratic Party ever!

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posted February 14, 2006 01:24 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
For Immediate Release
Office of the Vice President
February 13, 2006

Statement by the Office of the Vice President

It has been brought to the Vice President's attention by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department this afternoon that, although he had acquired a 125 dollar Texas non-resident season hunting license, he lacked a 7 dollar stamp for hunting upland game birds. To address any questions about the licensing:

-- A member of the Vice President's staff wrote a check for 140 dollars understanding that this would purchase a Texas non-resident season hunting license that would permit the Vice President to hunt quail in Texas. It appears now that the license itself cost 125 dollars, and an extra 15 dollars covered the cost of a Federal migratory bird stamp. The Vice President did not need the Federal stamp, as he already possessed one.

-- The staff asked for all permits needed, but was not informed of the 7 dollar upland game bird stamp requirement.

-- Because the requirement is new, the Department has informed us that it is issuing warnings, and the Vice President expects to receive one. He will take whatever steps are needed to comply with applicable rules.

-- In the meantime, the Vice President has sent a 7 dollar check to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which is the cost of an upland game bird stamp.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/02/20060213-10.html

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posted February 14, 2006 01:30 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"its all fun and games til someone loses an eye!!"

"i wonder how much for a game human stamp?? huh??!!"

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posted February 14, 2006 02:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The shooting victim had a minor heart attack today.

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Rainbow~
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posted February 14, 2006 09:16 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Shooting victim was SHOT in the heart...

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posted February 14, 2006 09:19 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Petron said...

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"i wonder how much for a game human stamp?? huh??!!"

I wonder if he had his game human stamp when he was hunting down poor little terrified Cathy O'Brien?

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posted February 14, 2006 10:31 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Col. Jessep Goes A-Hunting

By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, February 14, 2006; Page A15

I told you people Dick Cheney was dangerous.

Let's all wish a full and speedy recovery for Harry Whittington, the man Cheney accidentally shot on Saturday while they were out in the Texas boonies hunting quail. As for the trigger-happy vice president, let's hope he takes this unfortunate episode as a hint to pack up his shotgun and go home. Lord knows he's done enough.

Ready, Fire, Aim
Let's hope the vice president takes this unfortunate event as a hint to pack up his shotgun and go home. He's done enough.

The man is out of control.

Then again, out-of-control is the way this whole administration operates: Ready, fire, aim. Global war on terrorism, global war on poultry, what's the difference? You see something moving, shoot it.

Sorry, Harry, my bad.

It's been clear for some time that Cheney came to office with a revanchist agenda, and he has pushed so hard in his campaign to assert autocratic powers for the White House that even his allies on Capitol Hill have begun pushing back. No wonder, given the way he treats them. On electronic spying, Cheney has essentially told Congress that if any members would like to discuss checks and balances, they're welcome to talk to the hand.

His uncompromising drill-and-guzzle position on energy makes a lot of oil industry executives sound like tree-huggers. When the subject turns to measures that could actually begin to lead this country toward energy independence, such as conservation and alternative fuels, Cheney begins checking his watch and barely tries to stifle his yawns. But let someone raise the prospect of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which couldn't even begin to slake America's energy thirst, and he lights up with such glee that it's impossible not to think of Mr. Burns on "The Simpsons."

Conservation sounds like one of those sissified foreign ideas. Drilling, now that's what America is all about -- at least the America that spends its weekends on a 50,000-acre ranch in south Texas with a bunch of fellow millionaires, shooting at quail.

Typically, Cheney's office didn't bother to tell anyone for more than 18 hours that the vice president of the United States had shot someone. A vice presidential shooting doesn't happen every day, and I, for one, would appreciate being informed whenever the man who's just a heartbeat away from the presidency peppers a 78-year-old attorney with birdshot. But Cheney apparently is taking his cues from Jack Nicholson's character in "A Few Good Men," the ultrapatriotic Col. Nathan Jessep: "You can't handle the truth."

Cheney seems to believe that we want to know far too much about what our government is up to. He doesn't have to tell us who came to the White House and engineered the administration's "Happy Days" energy policy; he doesn't have to tell us whom the National Security Agency is spying on or how it's doing it; he doesn't have to tell us anything about the conduct of the war on terrorism that this administration is waging in our names. Anyone who leaks information to try to keep us informed, such as the unnamed whistle-blowers who told of the secret CIA prisons and the unauthorized domestic surveillance, will be hunted down. (No shotguns involved, one hopes.) Of course, at times when public opinion is trending perilously the wrong way, Cheney apparently is happy to play the Washington game and leak information that bolsters his argument and tears down his opponents. According to press reports last week, Cheney's former aide Scooter Libby now says it was his "superiors" who instructed him to do the kind of leaking that has him facing trial on federal charges.

Foreign policy wise man Brent Scowcroft, who served with Cheney under George Bush the Elder, famously said that he doesn't recognize the man who now occupies the vice presidency. I wonder what happened.

A pop psychologist might speculate that Cheney was shaken by two stunning blows. One of them -- the Sept. 11 attacks -- was suffered by all Americans, but it's hard to overstate the extent to which George Bush the Younger and his inner circle took Sept. 11 personally. The other blow is Cheney's personal health crisis, which has entailed a series of heart attacks and operations. It's easy to imagine that the fear of a new, even more catastrophic terrorist attack, combined with the intimation of his own mortality, could produce the kind of out-of-my-damn-way inflexibility we see in Cheney today.

But I doubt the vice president would have any patience with this sort of navel-gazing. Just lock and load. The rest of you, don't forget to duck.

It was radio host Tom Joyner who came up with Cheney's Valentine's Day poem:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Say something I don't like,
And I'll shoot you, too.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/13/AR2006021301572.html


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posted February 15, 2006 06:07 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Rainbow ~ you are a warrior princess!

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posted February 15, 2006 12:01 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Salome....how pretty!

What an impressive symbol to represent a "warrior Princess."

Thank you....

Luv,
Rainbow

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posted February 15, 2006 02:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is there any law in the US that automatically reviews/revokes someone's gun licence if they're involved in such a case as this as the shooter?

I know accidents can happen but if you are involved in a car accident as the driver for instance, they look at the circumstances i.e. whether you were drinking, were you driving with due care and attention etc. If he's managed to miss a flock of birds and hit a man I think perhaps it calls into question whether his skill with a shotgun is adequate for him to continue shooting. Arguably I don't know much about shooting so please correct me on this but wouldn't you say that Mr Whittington would have been relatively easy to see amongst the birds even if he didn't alert Cheney to his location?

I hear Mr Whittington has now had a heart attack and is back in intensive care - really hope he recovers soon, poor man.

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