Bear with me for a sec as I wax politics…
News from Capitol Hill tends to carry a time lag, especially if you live on
the other side of the Pacific Pond…but not slow enough for this news flash
to reach us!!!
I’m sure most of you have read (and howled) at the headlines:
“Cheney shoots friend while on hunting trip”
C’mon, aiming for quail WITH A SHOTGUN???
Maybe you were hoping for a bigger catch…a moose perhaps???
Sure, his poor buddy had bent down to pick up some other hapless quail
that he had just finished pulverizing, and hadn’t noticed that he was in
the Big Dick’s line-of-sight.
Whatever the reason, Dick is off the hook (no charges filed…you sure as bet I would have!) while his huntin’ buddy convalesces in a hospital, fighting off a heart attack attributed to
“5 to 200” pellets lodged in his head and body.
THIS is the reason why I get the “Do all Americans like yourself walk around with a GUN???” one-liners from my co-workers.
Yeah, and I walk around wearing a Stetson hat, a holster, and chaps on weekends.
Okay, so I’ve probably offended the greater population of Texas with that last admission,
but please, folks…the vice-president should NOT be out hunting on a lark
(or should I say, “quail”).
Could it be that the White House P.R. staff actually doesn’t care anymore?
Does lame-duck Bush Regime status equal an automatic slacking of duties?
New leadership for the Palestinian state…
Iran’s resumption of nuclear development…
Abduction of foreign citizens by North Korea…
Quail-hunting, personally, would be very well the LAST thing on my list of things to do.
Most importantly, my fellow Americans, think of the poor quail!!!
And I’ve heard they DO taste a bit gamey (har har).