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In reply to the discussion: the best yelp review for teh asshole dentist who killed cecil the lion [View all]John1956PA
(4,979 posts)35. +100. Over eleven years ago, here in Western PA, Cheney slaughtered dozens of fowl.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/morford/article/Dick-Cheney-Kills-Birds-Dead-The-manly-veep-has-2808606.php
It was never clearly reported what happened to the slaughtered birds. The above article suggests that they were gutted, de-feathered, cleaned and vacuum packed. I suspect otherwise. I think they were thrown in a ditch and covered over with dirt. No spokesperson from the club ever made a detailed statement. As I recall, the one worker who spoke up in the first instance never made a follow-up statement.
Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead / The manly veep has himself a lazy, "canned" pheasant slaughter, and we are so impressed
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Published 4:00 am, Friday, January 23, 2004
So then about a month ago the vice president of these beautiful and deeply confused United States, he of the struggling defibrillator and the shockingly nefarious wife and the gnarled calluses from working Dubya's puppet strings, he of the thin-lipped sneer that makes babies cry and women wince and foreign policies crumble like feta cheese in the freezer, well, Dick goes himself a-huntin
Not just any ol' regular, camouflage-wearing, man-versus-nature hunt out in the wild, mind. Dick is far too fragile and unskilled and spoiled and scared of the open woods and icky furry monsters for that. Assumedly.
Nossir, our man Dick, he has himself flown over, in Air Force 2, on the taxpayer's tab, accompanied by his most favoritest shotgun, to the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier, Westmoreland County, in rural Pennsylvania, to have himself a nice, cushy "canned" pheasant hunt.
This is what it was: Dick and about nine other overfed white guys sitting in a comfy luxury blind with their manly shotguns, waiting for the Westmoreland guy stationed behind them on a hill to release clusters of stunned, fat, tame game birds from a net. Then they shoot them.
. . .
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Published 4:00 am, Friday, January 23, 2004
So then about a month ago the vice president of these beautiful and deeply confused United States, he of the struggling defibrillator and the shockingly nefarious wife and the gnarled calluses from working Dubya's puppet strings, he of the thin-lipped sneer that makes babies cry and women wince and foreign policies crumble like feta cheese in the freezer, well, Dick goes himself a-huntin
Not just any ol' regular, camouflage-wearing, man-versus-nature hunt out in the wild, mind. Dick is far too fragile and unskilled and spoiled and scared of the open woods and icky furry monsters for that. Assumedly.
Nossir, our man Dick, he has himself flown over, in Air Force 2, on the taxpayer's tab, accompanied by his most favoritest shotgun, to the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier, Westmoreland County, in rural Pennsylvania, to have himself a nice, cushy "canned" pheasant hunt.
This is what it was: Dick and about nine other overfed white guys sitting in a comfy luxury blind with their manly shotguns, waiting for the Westmoreland guy stationed behind them on a hill to release clusters of stunned, fat, tame game birds from a net. Then they shoot them.
. . .
It was never clearly reported what happened to the slaughtered birds. The above article suggests that they were gutted, de-feathered, cleaned and vacuum packed. I suspect otherwise. I think they were thrown in a ditch and covered over with dirt. No spokesperson from the club ever made a detailed statement. As I recall, the one worker who spoke up in the first instance never made a follow-up statement.
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the best yelp review for teh asshole dentist who killed cecil the lion [View all]
rdking647
Jul 2015
OP
The dentist would enjoy a fair trial in Zimbabwe as much as Snowden would in the US.
erronis
Jul 2015
#16
I remember a Tarzan episode from when I was a kid. I have no idea if the practice was created
jtuck004
Jul 2015
#21
I was very young when I saw this, but I think it was for those situations where the courts
jtuck004
Jul 2015
#25
Thrill killing animal torturers sooner or later graduate to killing people.
Jack-o-Lantern
Jul 2015
#26
+100. Over eleven years ago, here in Western PA, Cheney slaughtered dozens of fowl.
John1956PA
Jul 2015
#35