Dick Cheney: A Coward and a Racist

Dick Cheney's latest cowardly fiasco involves hunting again. This time, he went "hunting" at the Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club in Dutchess County, Ney York. "Hunting" in this context means that Dick was driven to the club, which is a fenced facility. Before any "hunters" arrive, pheasants are released into the wilds of the closed, controlled facility.

I grew up on a farm in Eastern Washington State, where among other things we grew asparagus. In the fall, the asparagus is allowed to fully fern, which makes a beautiful sight, and which makes for great pheasant hunting. Pheasant do not run around while people are hunting. Once you get pretty close to one, it will panic and take off with a great squawking and flapping. Compared to other fowl, they are relatively easy prey. And that's when they have not been captured and placed in a closed facility for "sportsmen" to shoot.

As a side note, if you had shot someone in the face with your shotgun on a previous hunting trip, would you be that eager to get out there with your gun again? Wouldn't you think twice, perhaps consider that you are not as careful as you thought, hell maybe even give up hunting? Maybe not, if you're a coward who enjoys stroking his barrell while searching for a bird that somone else trapped for you to shoot, and while consumed with bloodlust left unsatisfied by hundreds of thousands of civilian and military dead in an unnecessary war that you prosecuted because you are a small man on the inside, riddled with anti-social personality disorder. Hey, coward Dick Cheney! Do you fish in a barrell too?

But wait! It gets better, or worse depending on your point of view. At this particular Cowards Club, a reporter from the New York Daily News took a picture of a Confederate Flag on Club Property. But I'm sure Dick didn't know anything about that, and that race never comes up at the club. Lots of people with civilized views on race choose to keep the Confederate Flag around for decorative purposes, right? Display of that particular image does not convey any strong feelings on race, does it?

Dick Cheney. Vice President. Racist. Sociopath. Warmonger. Coward.

Olbermann Right on the Money Again

TPM/Veracifier Video on Campaign Betting Sites

Definitely worth a look for a different perspective.

That Will Come Back To Haunt Her

"You can take horse manure and roll it in powdered sugar and it doesn't make it a doughnut."

-- Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, on the House Floor, debating the S-CHIP Program that provides health insurance to children in poverty. Those Republicans are elegant wordsmiths, no doubt. Picture: Rep. Brown-Waite speaking on the House Floor on non-doughnut/manure issues of the day. At right; children enjoying doughnuts at Rep. Brown-Waite's last meet & greet fundraiser.

Do Not Forget

The incompetence, corruption and malfeasance of the current evil-doers in the White House overwhelms with its sheer volume and variety. Republican spokes-criminals present this as if the White House was the victim - of unjustified Bush bashing.

On the contrary, the acts, decisions and policies of the Bush White House make more sense viewed in the context of Bush presidential history. We can now see patterns of poor judgment, patterns of eliminating dissent within the Executive Branch, patterns of incompetence, patterns of corruption, and most of all, patterns of cowardice. Cowards are not great leaders. George Bush and his thugs are all cowards. As president, perhaps one act of frozen cowardice was telling us more than we realized about the character of George AWOL Bush. This is as close as I could come to the full seven minutes of paralysis that revealed our president in a moment of genuine, ultimate crisis. The words that Bush heard from Andy Card were, "Mr. President, the nation is under attack." What would you do if you were the president in that situation?

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Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic

At the link. Hardly surprising.