How in the hell did Cheney shoot his buddy in the face...

[fooj]

if the quail were wingless? Where the hell was he aiming? I heard on TDS that the quail were wingless. WINGLESS!!! How pathetic can this rat bastard be?

Peace.

[HeeBGBz]

1. They flutter about

I think they have wings. I think they are short flighted birds. Like tiny unplucked chicken mcnuggets.

[madokie]

6. Their defense is to flush a short distance, hit the ground and run

like hell. Quail don't/can't fly long distances. When startled say in your yard they will freeze in mid whatever position they are in. Half eye close, leg slightly off ground whatever.
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[txindy]

7. "Like tiny unplucked chicken mcnuggets."

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

[ariellyn]

Cheney is obviously crazy paranoid. nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. If they tied sinkers on them to keep them on the ground for the

dick.... Whittington would be missing a few toes... which would be better if you think about it.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. The quails have wings, but

I believe that some have said quails raised for canned hunts have certain feathers removed at birth so that they can't fly as high or for as long. Having raised quails from eggs and released them to the wild, I can't imagine anyone wanting to raise these birds simply to be slaughtered.

[fooj]

8. Me, neither.

:cry:

Thanks for the clarification.

Peace.

[ClayZ]

13. My father feeds wild quail in his yard.

I have watched them for hours. It is especially nice in the spring when they have babies. They run behind MOM in a single file line. When really new, they look like peanuts. Larger Birds flutter to the top of the shed. They do not fly like sparrows or robins.

There is a Buddhist Tale about "The Baby Quail Who Could Not Fly Away"


Once upon a time, the Enlightenment Being was born as a tiny quail. Although he had little feet and wings, he could not yet walk or fly. His parents worked hard bringing food to the nest, feeding him from their beaks.

In that part of the world, there were usually forest fires every year. So it happened that a fire began in that particular year. All the birds who were able, flew away at the first sign of smoke. As the fire spread, and got closer and closer to the nest of the baby quail, his parents remained with him. Finally the fire got so close, that they too had to fly away to save their lives.

All the trees, big and small, were burning and crackling with a loud noise. The little one saw that everything was being destroyed by the fire that raged out of control. He could do nothing to save himself. At that moment, his mind was overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness.

Then it occurred to him, "My parents loved me very much. Unselfishly they built a nest for me, and then fed me without greed. When the fire came, they remained with me until the last moment. All the other birds who could, had flown away a long time before.

"So great was the loving-kindness of my parents, that they stayed and risked their lives, but still they were helpless to save me. Since they could not carry me, they were forced to fly away alone. I thank them, wherever they are, for loving me so. I hope with all my heart they will be safe and well and happy.

"Now I am all alone. There is no one I can go to for help. I have wings, but I cannot fly away. I have feet, but I cannot run away. But I can still think. All I have left to use is my mind - a mind that remains pure. The only beings I have known in my short life were my parents, and my mind has been filled with loving-kindness towards them. I have done nothing unwholesome to anyone. I am filled with new-born innocent truthfulness."

Then an amazing miracle took place. This innocent truthfulness grew and grew until it became larger than the little baby bird. The knowledge of truth spread beyond that one lifetime, and many previous births became known. One such previous birth had led to knowing a Buddha, a fully enlightened knower of Truth - one who had the power of Truth, the purity of wholesomeness, and the purpose of compassion.

Then the Great Being within the tiny baby quail thought, "May this very young innocent truthfulness be united with that ancient purity of wholesomeness and power of Truth. May all birds and other beings, who are still trapped by the fire, be saved. And may this spot be safe from fire for a million years!"

And so it was.

The moral is: Truth, wholesomeness and compassion can save the world.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. Thank you very much for that beautiful story

Svaha.

[ClayZ]

16. You're welcome!

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

[fooj]

17. Thanks for sharing that. Really.

Peace.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Apparently Dick's Line of Fire

was CIRCULAR !!!???

[ClayZ]

5. "Pathetic" does not even touch it. Maybe "evil pervert" does!

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1215-07.htm

Published on Monday, December 15, 2003 by the New York Times
After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots
by Elisabeth Bumiller

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's Christmas card arrived in the capital's mailboxes last week with this suddenly apt quotation from Benjamin Franklin: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"

Franklin made the remark at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to argue that because something as small as a sparrow's death comes to God's attention, clearly God has a voice in the affairs of men. Therefore, Franklin argued, a prayer should open the daily sessions held to write the founding document of the United States. (Franklin lost the argument, but his passage won a place in history.)

All of which brings us to Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.

As a result, a lot of other people noticed the fallen birds: hunters who pursue birds in the wild, the Democratic presidential candidates and the Humane Society of the United States, which likened the shootings to the first day of the Iraq war.

<snip>

[TomInTib]

9. 70 Ring-Necks? That is effing psychotic...

Having hunted (no longer) those beautiful birds myself, I simply cannot imagine shooting that many in a week.

Bastard.

You should post this.

[Lindacooks]

10. I'd like to know how Dick-less shot him in the face if Whittington was

'sneaking' up on him?

[Cleita]

11. They have wings and they can actually fly up into trees.

Their usual habitat though is to look for food on the ground, like domestic chickens.

[KerryOn]

12. He shot his buddy in the face, because....

He was stupid and forgot a few rules on gun safety published by the NRA.

Know your target and what is beyond.
Be absolutely sure you have identified your target beyond any doubt. Equally important, be aware of the area beyond your target. This means observing your prospective area of fire before you shoot. Never fire in a direction in which there are people or any other potential for mishap. Think first. Shoot second.
(Cheney didn't think, and he didn't look around him.)

Never use alcohol or over-the-counter, prescription or other drugs before or while shooting.
Alcohol, as well as any other substance likely to impair normal mental or physical bodily functions, must not be used before or while handling or shooting guns.
(Cheney is probably on a lot of medications.)

I wounder if he has ever taken a gun safety course?

There is no such thing as an accident with a gun. The problem comes when stupid CRAZY people own them. And just for the record I'm not anti gun.

[Cleita]

18. It's incidents like this and other careless handling of guns like

leaving them where kids can get them that makes people anti-gun.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. The Cheney buttkissers are probably breathing a sigh of relief that they

didn't go hunting with him. Whew!