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Minifig Famous People # 17: Dick Cheney
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Minifig Famous People # 17: Dick Cheney

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Go tell Genuine to “Duck!”

I know, I know. I said I was done talking about Dick and his itchy trigger finger. But one more thing and I’ll quit. This came to me when I heard he would “break his silence” by giving an exclusive interview to Fox. Yeah, I can’t wait for that ;)

Wanna know what I wanna see?

I wanna see somebody with a Perazzi (not cheap, but you know Dick - only shoot with the best) fire at a target at 30 yards with some birdshot.

And I wanna know if it makes this tight of a pattern (look on the right side for a diagram). That’s pretty impressive for ninety feet away, isn’t it?

(4) distant range: birdshot from any gauge weapon except .410 produces a 3/4 to 1 in. round entrance at ranges from contact to 2ft.; a 7/8 to 1 1/4 in. entrance with scalloped margins by 3 ft.; a 1 to 1 3/4 in. entrance with scalloped margins and satellite pellet holes by 4 ft.; a definite cuff of satellite pellets by 6 to 7 ft.; beyond 10 ft. there is great variations in pellet pattern size depending upon ammunition type choke, the actual weapon and range (published formulae are unreliable); measurements of the pellet pattern should ignore “fliers”. For buckshot at 3 ft a hole with scalloped margins, at 4 ft a few satellite pellet holes appear by, 9 ft there are generally individual pellet holes.

Nice gun you got there. (walks away, singing “Cheney’s got a gun..”)

I’m thinking that all these “life long hunters” involved in this bullshit need to revisit what they mean by “peppered.”

Hunter shot by Cheney has ‘minor heart attack’

Ya know, most people “peppered” with birdshot don’t even visit the hospital, much less have a heart attack caused by it.

Gah, I’m done with this bullshit. If I’d sent some millionaire lawyer to the hospital with my shotgun, accident or not, do you think I’d still be walking free?

(update on that thought, inspired by Mr. Fabulous: what if the positions were reversed, and Mr Rich Lawyer shot Mr. Vice President, who later had a heart attack. Would be be at work today, and refusing to talk to the press about it? Something to think about)

Visual Hunting Aid

Heh.

Bloggers are a threat to the US.

Why? We’re outta control. A single phone call to CNN or Fox or ABC and the govt. can squelch a story. They don’t even have to do that, these people have employees in the press corp with the president and at the white house pretty much all the time.

But bloggers? There are millions of us. And we’re everywhere. And it scares people.

U.S. concludes ‘Cyber Storm’ mock attacks

Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose “Web logs” include political rantings and musings about current events

So even my joking about whether Cheney should be allowed to have a gun will probably get notice by whatever super-secret govt. agency is now in charge of these things.

I think this is a good thing. We need a government that’s afraid of it’s people, instead of the other way around. These are interesting times, my friends.