Jesus' General writes a letter to Arlen Specter re: Cheney's birdshot

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http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_patriotboy_archive.html#113998442413821344

Dear Sen. Specter,

Deputy Leader Cheney is in trouble for shooting an old man with a shotgun. Questions are being raised because his excuses don't fit the facts of the case. As the inventor of the Warren Commission's Magic Bullet Theory, you're the only person who can help him build a scenario where his excuses make sense.

The police report says that Whittington was 30 yards away when Dick shot him. It also notes that the elderly gentleman was hit in the face, chest and neck. Agents of the Ministry of Truth characterize the shooting as a "peppering." Taken all together, these things would suggest that the shot was fairly well dispersed.

Unfortunately, a more detailed look at the facts reveals something else. Our Deputy Leader was using 28 gauge shotgun shells loaded with 3/4 oz of #7-1/2 shot. That particular load carries approximately 262 BBs. The doctor caring for the wounded man said that he removed about 200 BBs. That means about 4/5ths of the shot in the load struck the man in an area no larger than about 18 inches in diameter.

That seems like an awfully tight pattern at 30 yards. It can only be explained by the existence of a magic BB that would ride herd on the other BBs, keeping them as bunched up as possible.



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[Coexist]

1. The Case of the Burrowing BB:

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"Yesterday, we learned that one of the BBs penetrated the elderly gentleman's hunting vest, shirt, skin, muscle, rib cartilage, and possibly bone, coming to rest in his heart. I'm no physicist, but that seems like a lot of energy to expend for a .095" BB weighing 1/345th of an ounce. I suggest that a better explanation would be that once the bb hit the skin, it began burrowing into the elderly gentleman's body. Since regular shot doesn't have claws for burrowing, a magic BB is the only possible explanation."

[Selteri]

2. THe distance and hte penetration of the bird shot, at 30 yards it is

a little bit less dangerous than say... 15 feet.

[understandinglife]

3. "You're the expert when it comes to mystical projectiles, so I'll let ...

... you take it from here."

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_patriotboy_archive.html#113998442413821344

:ROFL:


Peace.

[dusmcj]

4. they were fighting over the women after taking viagra, it was point-blank.

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6. Never mix beer, viagra, and guns.

Thanks for the lesson.

[bmbmd]

7. Not point blank.

Ten paces.

[Jacobin]

8. If it were point blank, he would have a two inch hole in his body

I have a client who accidentally discharged a shotgun into his crotch, pulling it out of the back of a truck.

I have the pictures of my client's injuries, and believe me, point blank is not where he got shot.

More like 15 feet.

[gratuitous]

5. Is there a ballistics expert in the house?

I'll accept the General's estimate that the shotgun load carries about 262 BBs of shot. Further, I have seen reports that Mr. Whittington was peppered with some 200 BBs. The statement that this seems like an awfully tight pattern at 30 yards seems to be a masterful expression of understatement.

If I stood at the 20 yard line at Lambeau Field (or whatever your choice is for a football stadium) with a .28 gauge shotgun and took aim at the goal post 30 yards away, how many cartridges do you suppose I would have to discharge in order to plant 200 BBs in that goal post? And how many of those BBs would lodge in the foam padding protecting the post, and how many BBs would actually pentrate the padding and hit the post itself?

Something definitely stinks about the "official" account . . .

[Jacobin]

9. K&R. This guy is a hoot. Love his blog

[Jacobin]

10. Kickin, because this is too good to sink

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11. I've read some linked Jesus' General before, but this one has

me hooked. That blog is getting regular hits from me.