With my advance apologies to Dave Letterman's Top Ten List:
1) It's hunt THEN drink, NOT drink then hunt Mr. Vice President...
2) Cheney's new PNAC hunting tactic: Pre-emptive hunting...shoot first ...look later.
3) Cheney's excuse: The CIA gave him bad intel...they thought there were WMDs in the bushes.
4) Breaking on FoxNews... US gets Al Qaeda's "second in command" in Texas...oh wait a minute..we missed again..
5) You're supposed to be hunting Saudi terrorist millionaires Mr. Vice President - not Texas Republican millionaires.
6) Is the Texas Parks and Wildlife Division going to cite him for hunting Republican millionaires outside of campaign season without a permit? (What are the daily and season limits anyways?)
7) You know when you aim high like that Dick, you ruin'em for the taxidermist....
8) My mistake...all this time I thought it was dangerous to give the chimp the loaded gun..
9) For all our NRA friends out there: "Guns don't shoot people...Vice Presidents do..."
10) You'll put an eye out.. you'll put an eye out... (from "A Christmas Story")
11) Who shot J.R. Ewing? - Dick Cheney...
12) Mr. Vice President!! Is that any way to treat a "Pioneer"? Maybe this is a new tactic to improve donations to the Republican party...
Seriously the Texas Parks and Wildlife Division has to be seriously miffed at the Vice President for messing up their lead story on their website about hunter safety being at an all time high:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20060213cSomebody ought to do a related parody of the TPWD site..
We all ought to go out and buy orange hunter's vests and pick a day to wear them next week just to have some fun..
I wonder whether this will ever be seriously investigated by the Texas authorities at the Texas Rangers, the TPWD, or the local Sheriff's office. There has to be a reckless endangerment case that could be made even if the victim doesn't press charges.
Seriously, at the very least Cheney owes us some PSA's about hunter safety and an "I'm sorry" to his victim.
Doug De Clue
Orlando, FL