Like that other brave man,rocker Ted Nuggent
do think the both of them have not balls for
a real hunt,something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFsQe9T_KM

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I am more horrified than ever about the evil puppetmaster behind this "war" in Iraq. He is truly twisted. The word 'bloodlust' comes to mind. The "man" who had "other priorities" during the Viet Nam war readily sent our finest into the hellhole uranium depleted sands of Mesopotamia. I think that during one of his heart attacks he really died, but was given the option of more life by Beelzebub....only Bub had a few things he wanted to do while in control of DeadEye Dick's body....little things like WWIII, Armegeddon, the destruction of everything America used to stand for, little things like that. If there is a hell, there is a special place reserved for that blood crazed maniac. He was probably a child who tore the wings off flies and stuck lit firecrackers into frogs' mouths, only he never grew out of it. Embodiment of evil? You decide....

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The articles makes the point why Cheney has no business being in such a position of power and needs to be removed. Others who defend this man and call him honorable are deluded. But the truth of it is that Cheney is a common man, an ignorant man in the wrong place at the wrong time in American history and needs to go. Quickly, before it's too late. Don't give him a chance to leave peacably in January of 2009. There is a form http://www.democrats.com/impeach-cheney-congressional-record everyone can fill out online for those who support Dick Cheney's impeachment. This will support Kucinick's drive to get him out. The initiative he started may have been put to the side for now but it's not over. This is doable, if the people once and for all will get their heads out of their ...

Pointless

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His former childhood playmates love to recount the story about how, as a young boy, the First Fool used to love to catch frogs at a creek near his home, stuff two or three firecrackers dowb their throats, and blow the little darlings to smithereens in mid-air. Gratuitous cruelty to small animals: the one common childhood denominator of most mass murdereds (You see where I'm going with this, don't you? I knew you would). Seriously: is anyone surprised that the VP likes to kill defenseless little birdies?

And while we're on the subject, the fact is Dick Cheney has been having sex with a blow-up doll for decades now. Have you ever taken a real close look at Lynn?

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
With Democrats Like These...

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during the Vietnam War.

These neo-com pigs sicken me...................

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Remember now, it's because he can't shoot wild animals without shooting his hunting partner that they don't let him off the farm now. Just be glad he's now contained on the farm with the rest of the bird brains!
I agree....only a pathetic person would enjoy such hunting...this is no surprise...

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wh ydoes this surprise you since he likes to murder people in middle eastern countries by the umpteen thousands, alos likes to shoot his hunting partners too.

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is there something wrong with having sex with blow up dolls?

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If Mr.Chaney like shooting so much lets send him to Iraq

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What more can be said about a person who would treat a life with such disrespect. I hope some day this pitiful excuse for a human being gets what he deserves and I'm alive to see it. I'd like to keep him crammed in a cage for a couple of years with a goggle over his sick face and then kick his ass to try and make him fly. Same with those disgusting people who would provide such a revolting form of entertainment (?). All that suffering just to make a buck. Shame on anyone involved in such a disgusting form of cruelty. This is a time when an eye for an eye is warranted.

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We all know Dick Cheney should be spending time in prison rather than hunting but since the Democrats didn't have the courage to back Kucinich that isn't going to happen. The hunting attacks are indicitive of PETA nuts running around lamenting the hunting of any animal. It just shows that some people really need to get a life. As for the Confederate Flag, well People really need to go get a serious history lesson. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson have two things in common. They both pretend to be reverends and they are both frauds.

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If the sick bastard wants to hunt penned birds, well, that's his perogative as a sick bastard. But why should taxpayers foot the bills for transportation, security, etc.? I'd like to know who paid the actual fees for the hunts. Could be misappropriation of public funds.

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No. No. Hunting is not at all like having sex. Yes, there is a real or faux hunt or chase. Yes, there is a gun. Yes, there is an explosion. Yes, some guys smoke apres event. No, hunting is not like sex. Hunting is like getting your kicks out of killing defenseless animals. Cheney would do less harm having sex with sheep... if he could find one that would have him.

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If people want to prove their expertise at shotgun shooting, why not take up the olympic sport of clay pidgeon, or skeet shooting?

The sport of game shooting in the USA is a sad industry. Birds are raised on farms, and either let loose for phoney hunters like Cheney to shoot very easily, or they have their necks broken or are decapitated to be sold in supermarkets.

My guess as to the reason for this is that to raise game birds in the wild requires the hiring of game keepers, to protect the birds from animal predators (Pheasants are notoriously stupid birds), or poachers. Gamekeepers are relatively skilled, and have to work loong hours, demanding more pay than those who will take a "McJob" to feed birds in cages. There also seem to be some very wierd laws about, preventing the selling of game which has been shot to the public.

American pheasants are not usually good to eat, since they are not left hanging up to age before being plucked and drawn. The best ones I have had west of the pond have been shot by friends who have given them to me with guts and feathers, so I could age and dress them myself. Of course, in Europe, they still do employ gamekeepers, and pheasant shooting is an expensive sport, but you can buy hunted birds which have been aged before sale by licenced game dealers.

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Dick Cheyney didn't go out to hunt. He went out to kill. But that's not news.

There is no real challenge to the kind of hunting Dick Cheyney participates in, no real sport.

He just likes to kill.

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Like all bullies, he's pathetic.

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“Valley Rod & Gun Club” (she said rod, but seriously folks, what’s going on with those “diverted school buses”?)

“…small Confederate flag hanging inside a garage on the hunt club property, which prompted civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton to demand that Cheney "leave immediately, denounce the club and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people.” Isn’t the club a private organization, and not unlike the Boy Scouts discriminating against homosexuals, the Constitution protects that right. As to whether Al and others feel Cheney should take that stance, I see little point in attempting to force Cheney to do anything he doesn’t care about, and you know he doesn’t care what we think so Al is grandstanding again…

“Some hunters say shooting the pellet-ready tame animals, which offer no resistance, is like having sex with a blow-up doll.” Is this supposed to mean that these hunters speak from personal experience? “Well, it’s kinda like having sex with them blow-up dolls, but I really get off killing thangs” (Southern accent not unintentional).

“…despite all the "negative publicity it has generated for him" suggests a deep psychological disorder… and “…criminologists have long recognized that premeditated, sadistic treatment of animals is a strong predictor of criminal and homicidal violence.” Sorry, but I think the author has this backwards; the killing of people half a world away runs concurrent to killing animals. His full support of this type of killing is worse than the killing of animals, or the way animals are killed, for pleasure or food, is still killing, but we already know Dick doesn’t care about anything except himself and his family. I’d say he does care about his family and nothing else.

By the way, hasn't anyone realized that it takes a certain type of personality (disorder) to be this type of success?

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The type of "hunting" practiced by Cheney and his cronies is, of course, not hunting at all. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, which is also not fishing or hunting either. The entire thing is disgusting.

I also understand the antipathy many people feel toward killing animals for food. However, I do not sympathize with those who eat meat but don't like the idea of hunting for it - as if someone else's raising and killing animals for food is somehow more moral than killing it yourself. (No one here has expressed this sentiment, but I run into it more often than one can imagine.)

Here in my part of West Virginia, there were no deer for a long time. I have an acquaintance who is now in his early 60s. He told me that, although he lived in a very rural area, he never saw a deer until he was at least 10 years old. That would have been around 1955. Aerial photos show that in the first half of this century, all the land around Rockport, where I now live, had been clear cut. There were no trees at all for a time.

Since then, woods have been allowed to grow back and the deer population has exploded along with turkeys, rabbits, and other wildlife. I believe deer were reintroduced sometime ago, but there are few natural predators to go with them. There are coyotes (or more likely coydogs), but they are certainly not enough to make a dent in the thousands of deer that inhabit the woods and fields.

The deer are now so prevalent, they are not only a nuisance to rural landowners, they have come into the cities and towns, and residents find them grazing in their backyards. It's virtually impossible to have any kind of garden without fences. They have even been known to come onto people's porches to eat their flowers from planters!

Without natural predators, overpopulation of deer makes them weak, small, and often unhealthy. Perhaps the answer to the problem is to bring in wolves, wildcats, or other carnivores. But I'm not sure I believe that's very different from hunting to thin the herds. (I'm sure many vegetarians will disagree with this premise and say that we should set ourselves apart from predatory animals. I concede this point to those who eat no meat at all.)

In any case, humans have interfered with nature to the point where nature often cannot take care of itself. I have no problem with anyone hunting on my property - in fact, I welcome it - and I certainly am more than willing to accept their gifts of venison in return. It keeps the deer population down to a more managable level, it provides food for my friends and me, and it is not the same kind of sadistic, mindless activity as that practiced by Cheney and his ilk.

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Does anyone remember how this sadistic SOB got the job of Vice President ? He was chosen to evaluate running mates for the Dufus Gov of Texas as EVERYONE felt the Doofus would NEED an experienced hand beside him ESPECIALLY in areas concerning Foreign Policy .
After an EXHAUSTIVE search it turned out that the perfect man to select for the job was : well that guy doing the SELECTING . What a DEAL !!
There then came a slight manner that the President and Vice President can NOT be from the smae state which quite frankly was a surprize to ME as well as to DICKLESS who had to hurridly leave Texas .
The sad part is that at ONE point Cheney actually seemed to have it RIGHT about Invading Iraq . He made a great case in defending Poppy Buh's decision NOT to persue a broken Iraqi Army as they retreated from Kuwait . He even acknowledged that removing Saddam was not WORTH the lives of American Servicemen . Funny how GREED changes one's once sound vision .

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"But others say hunting itself is like sex with a blow up doll and that the 10 percent decline in hunters seen in the United States since the late '90s -- from 14 million to about 12.5 million -- coincides exactly with the debut of impotence drugs like Viagra."

There are a lot of us that see hunting as an affordable and responsible way to feed yourself and your family. I also find it enjoyable despite my lack of sociopathic tendencies. Analogies like this are pure horse-shit from dumb city-dwellers that don't understand the realities of rural living. Hunting is how a lot of people survive in the U.S.

With that being said the idea of paying thousands of dollars to go shoot some birds sounds pretty outlandish to me as well.

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Remember George W put firecrackers in frogs and blew them up when he was a little boy!

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Reports from police case files:

Russell Weston Jr., tortured and killed 12 cats: burned and cut off their tails, paws, ears; poured toxic chemicals in their eyes to blind them; forced them to ingest poison, hung them from trees (the noose loose enough to create a slow and painful death.) Later killed 2 officers at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.

Jeffery Dahmer staked cats to trees and decapitated dogs. Later he dissected boys, and kept their body parts in the refrigerator. Murdered 17 men.

Kip Kinkle shot 25 classmates and killed several in Springfield, Oregon. He killed his father and mother. Said he blew up a cow once. Set a live cat on fire and dragged the innocent creature through the main street of town. Classmates rated him as "Most Likely to Start WWIII.

As a boy, Albert De Salvo, the "Boston Strangler," placed a dog and cat in a crate with a partition between them. After starving the animals for days, he removed the partition to watch them kill each other. He raped and killed 13 women by strangulation. He often posed bodies in a shocking manner after their murders.

Richard Allen Davis set numerous cats on fire. He killed all of Polly Klaus' animals before abducting and murdering Polly Klaus, aged 12, from her bedroom.

11-year-old Andrew Golden and 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson tortured and killed dogs. On March 24, 1998, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Golden and Johnson shot and killed 4 students and 1 teacher during a fire drill at their school.

After 16-year-old Luke Woodham mortally stabbed his mother, killed 2 classmates and shot 7 others, he confessed to bludgeoning his dog Sparkle with baseball bats and pouring liquid fuel down her throat and to set fire to her neck. "I made my first kill today," he wrote in his court-subpoenaed journal. "It was a loved one...I'll never forget the howl she made. It sounded almost human." In June 1998, Woodham was found guilty of 3 murders and 7 counts of aggravated assault. He was sentenced to 3 life sentences and an additional 20 years for each assault.

Theodore Robert Bundy, executed in 1989 for at least 50 murders, was forced to witness a grandfather who tortured animals. Bundy later heaped graves with animal bones.

At 4-years-old, Michael Cartier dislocated the legs of rabbits and hurled a kitten through a closed window. He later shot Kristin Lardner 3 times in the head, before shooting himself.

Henry Lee Lucas killed numerous animals and had sex with their corpses. He killed his mother, common law wife, and an unknown number of people.

Edward Kemperer cut up 2 cats. He later killed his grandparents, mother and 7 other women.

Richard Speck threw a bird into a ventilator fan. Killed 8 women.

Randy Roth taped a cat to a car's engine and used an industrial sander on a frog. Killed 2 of his wives and attempted to kill a third.

David Richard Davis shot and killed 2 healthy ponies, threw a wine bottle at a pair of kittens and hunted with illegal methods. Murdered his wife, Shannon Mohr Davis, for insurance money.

Peter Kurten, the Dusseldorf Monster, tortured dogs, and practiced bestiality while killing animals. Murdered or attempted to murder over 50 men, women and children.

Richard Trenton Chase, "The Vampire Killer of Sacramento," bit the heads off birds, drained animals for their blood, killed animals for their organs, and later killed 6 people in random attacks. One police officer present at the scene of the first murder, confessed to having nightmares about the crime for months afterwards.

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It's no coincidence that America gleefully outlaws real cures for peace and happiness while at the same time vigorously defending massive amounts of firearms, fastfood loaded with DANGEROUS CHEMICALS, and drugs with VIOLENTLY DANGEROUS side effects !

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but I don't see much difference in the suffering of these animals killed by Cheney and the suffering of the animals that end up on your dinner plate each night. Ummm...big brown juicy turkey....

Think of Cheney when you're sucking the meat off the bones.

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Richard William Leonard's grandmother forced him to kill and mutilate cats and kittens when he was a child. He later killed Stephen Dempsey with a bow and arrow. He also killed Ezzedine Bahmad by slashing his throat.

Tom Dillion murdered people's pets. He shot and killed Jamie Paxton, aged 21; Claude Hawkins, aged 49; Donald Welling, aged 35; Kevin Loring, aged 30; and Gary Bradely, aged 44.

At 9-years-old, Eric Smith strangled a neighbor's cat. At 13, he bludgeoned 4-year-old Derrick Robie to death. Smith lured the little boy into the woods, choked him, sodomized him with a stick, then beat him to death with a rock.

David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam," poisoned his mother's parakeet out of jealousy. He later shot 13 young men and women. 6 people died and at least 2 suffered permanent disabilities.

Arthur Shawcross repeatedly threw a kitten into a lake until the kitten drowned from exhaustion. Killed a young girl. After serving 15-1/2 years in prison, he killed 11 more women.

Michael Perry decapitated a neighbor's dog. Later killed his parents, infant nephew and 2 neighbors.

Jason Massey's killing resume began with cats and dogs; at 20 he decapitated and disemboweled a 13-year-old girl and fatally shot a 14-year old boy. He claims to have killed 37 cats, 29 dogs and 6 cows.

Patrick Sherrill stole neighborhood pets, tethered them with baling wire and encouraged his dog to mutilate them. He killed 14 co-workers and himself in 1986.

Keith Hunter Jesperson, "Happy Face Killer," bashed gopher heads and beat, strangled and shot stray cats and dogs. He is known to have strangled 8 women. He said: "You're actually squeezing the life out of these animals...Choking a human being or a cat--it's the same feeling...I'm the very end result of what happens when somebody kills an animal at an early age."

Carroll Edward Cole, executed in 1985 for an alleged 35 murders and reputed to be one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history, confessed that his first act of violence was to strangle a puppy under the porch of his house.

Robert Alton Harris murdered two 16-year-old boys, doused a neighbor with lighter fluid and tossed matches at him. His initial run-in with police was for killing neighborhood cats.

Where does the slippery slope begin? A Soviet study, published in Ogonyok, found that over 87 percent of a group of violent criminals had, as children, burned, hanged or stabbed domestic animals. An American study by Dr. Stephen Kellert of Yale found that children who abuse animals have a much higher likelihood of becoming violent criminals.

A 1997 study by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) reported that children convicted of animal abuse are five times more likely to commit violence against other humans than their peers, and four times more likely to be involved against acts of property.

Rachel Carson wrote:

"Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is whether its victim is human or animal we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity."

Cesar Chavez similarly observed:

"Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cockfighting, bullfighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves"

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...like screwing a blow up doll... or raping a country kept numb by vapid media sponsored by big drug companies.

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Everything about this scene - the armed caravan, the caged victims, the secrecy - shows a man who is viciously unstable, having lost the basic sense of respect for life.

He is the one who should be in the cage, and when justice is finally served, he will be.

However incompetent Bush may be, he is certainly not served by this kind of example.

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Wouldn't it be the perfect solution to just let him go to Iraq and participate in the continuous murder of innocent people? Except, that of course the citizens of Iraq probably aren't as tame and "domesticated" as the pheasants in New York...

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Would you expect anything else from america's dick.

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. . . Not the disease.

Even at $120,000 a day for this sick entertainment Cheney is not supporting the whole industry of shooting farm birds with goggles. We are in deep doodoo in this country and we can't blame it all on Bush and Cheney

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It occurs to me that this kind of emporwerment has degenerated to the lowest leve possible in torturing captive prisoners.

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You know what they say about "birds of a feather"...

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Excerpt from Trance-Formation of America by Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips

Dick Cheney, then White House Chief of Staff to President Ford, later Secretary of Defense to President George Bush, documented member of the Council on Foreign relations (CFR), and Presidential hopeful for 1996, was originally Wyoming's only Congressman. Dick Cheney was the reason my family had traveled to Wyoming where I endured yet another form of brutality -- his version of "A Most Dangerous Game," or human hunting.

It is my understanding now that A Most Dangerous Game was devised to condition military personnel in survival and combat maneuvers. Yet it was used on me and other slaves known to me as a means of further conditioning the mind to the realization there was "no place to hide," as well as traumatize the victim for ensuing programming. It was my experience over the years that A Most Dangerous Game had numerous variations on the primary theme of being stripped naked and turned loose in the wilderness while being hunted by men and dogs. In reality, all "wilderness" areas were enclosed in secure military