Hunting?

[poliphilo]

Correct me if I'm wrong but

the birds that Dick Cheyney and his elderly playmates were wasting at the time of the unfortunate accident were

flightless
tame
And herded in front of the guns

and Dick and his elderly playmates were blasting them from a distance of about 3 yards.

What sort of a sick fuck would want to be doing something like that?

If this makes Dick a hunter then the guy with the bolt gun down the abattoire is Buffalo Bill.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I read that these were specially reared birds, but you could well be right. I haven't come across a definitive account of the incident.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I've never reared quails, but I've reared pheasants. (To be set out on my grandfather's land for hunting purposes...) Now, first of all these game birds are not easy to tame. I tried with two pheasant chicks, but they would not be tame, even though they were surrounded by humans and constantly picked up and held etc... They remained as wild as their siblings, and they kept the same natural instincts. (When a predatory bird flies over, a chicken will lie as still as possible; a pheasant will run. The pheasant chicks did what their instincts told them to, rather than adapt the behaviour of their surrogate mother who was an exceedingly docile and tame hen...)

So I agree that Dicky is a - well; a dick , but for other reasons.

(Oh, and to round off the pheasant story: My grandfather loved hunting, but was an exceedingly poor marksman. Only one of my 26 pheasant chicks is known to have suffered an untimely death and ended up on the dinner table... -She was delicious!)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Hunting brings out the class warrior in me.

But having said that, I have to record that my grandfather and my father (as a young man) both owned shotguns.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

My grandparents on my father's side probably belonged firmly in the lower middle class. They did own their land, but it was in a region with notoriously bad farm land and has always been a poor area. So I don't see hunting as a class-issue at all.

And obviously, being a meat eater I can hardly object to the concept of killing your own dinner; if you can't kill an animal, don't eat it! I've only ever killed animals with an axe or with my hands, but I have nothing against the notion of shooting them, presuming of course that the hunting is done in a responsible and decent mannre. (I.e. no "canned shootings", respect for hunting seasons, not over-hunting, ensuring that the population of game is provided with good living conditions and making attempts to minimise the number of injured - as opposed to killed - animals.)

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

"I haven't come across a definitive account of the incident"

i doubt any of us ever will. i think the white house prefers it that way.