One of the rumors flying around the Cheney shooting states that this type of accident occurs regularly in hunting. It turns out that is not really the case.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas only had 2.7 hunting accidents per 100,000 hunting licenses. Perhaps, Cheney does not count because he did not get the [...]
The Smoking Gun got their hands on the official incident report filed by Texas Parks and Wildlife.
According the report, the conditions were the following:
Topography: Flat
Visibility: Fair
Type of Cover: Light
Lighting: Sunny
Weather: Clear
Distance from Muzzle to Victim in Yards: 11-50
Light cover, fair visibility, sunny and clear weather? Hmmm.
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As almost everyone knows now, our Vice President shot a 78 year old man in the face and chest last Saturday with a 28-guage shotgun. It turns out, to no ones surprise, that Cheney tried to stall the presses on the issue as reported in Time.
Even worse, his victim suffered a minor [...]
You cannot hide the truth forever, especially when it has been photographed. Last week, both photos and emails with Bush and disgraced lobbyist, John Abramoff, were released to the press. The NY Times was the first to print the following picture from a 2001 meeting with Abramoff, Bush, Rove, one of Abramoff’s clients, [...]
Things are not looking so good for Cheney these days. On the heels of Scooter Libby’s testimony that he authorized the Valerie Plame leak, he ends up spraying a 78 year old lawyer with shotgun pellets on a hunting trip. Official details are yet to be released, but the article has an interview [...]
I got this from J-Luv this morning:
The ellusive cuts to 141 programs in Bush’s budget were finally digested and publish late yesterday. If would be unfair to say that they are being cut in order to increase the defense budget and free up “emergency funds” for wars in Afgan. and Iraq…….. if it weren’t [...]
Even after Gonzalez spent all day Monday defending Bush’s illegal wiretap program, more and more conservatives continue to break rank and call for a special investigator. The latest republican to jump ship is no regular congressperson. House Representative Heath Wilson (R-NM) is chairwoman of the committee that oversees all the NSA programs. [...]
It looks like Bush might even be losing some of his religious right these days. A group of 85 evangelical Christian leaders are supporting a bill that would curb America’s emissions of green house gases. The article pulls a great stat that really puts our place in causing global warming in perspective:
The United [...]
On the heals of Bush’s claim to reduce our oil dependency on the Middle East 75% by 2025, Exxon replies it is impossible and not worth trying. From Reuters:
“Realistically, it is simply not feasible in any time period relevant to our discussion today,” Exxon Mobil Senior Vice President Stuart McGill said, referring to what [...]
President Bush’s appointee at NASA, Geoorge C. Deutsch, resigned yesterday as growing controversy continues to surround his position. As mentioned previously, Deutsch was responsible for trying to gag NASA’s lead climatologist, James Hansen, from disclosing his research about global warming. Not only did he try to muzzle NASA’s scientists, he tried to tell [...]