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Monday, February 13, 2006

Insert Chuck Norris Joke Here

Ezra Klein (via John Cole) on a hunting trip Vice President Cheney took a few years back:
One thing to be clear on: Dick Cheney wasn't hunting. He wasn't doing what Ted Nugent does, or what Indians used to do. Cheney was killing things.

Apparently, they just pen-raise a massive number of birds, then release them to be slaughtered en masse by wealthy patrons. Cheney's group killed 417 of the 500 birds released, and Cheney himself bagged over 70.
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2 comments:

  1. Mark3:50 PM

    If you're not wealthy what hunters do is shoot prairie dogs, which are apparently quite a pest in the Dakotas. When struck by a high caliber rifle round the p-dog basically disappears I am told. Seems like the same sort of sport.

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  2. David Schraub3:55 PM

    At least the Prarie Dogs are a) pests and b) wild. Domesticating birds just so they can be mowed down by the rich (and I think Dick Cheney qualifies as wealthy) seems quite a different type of sport.

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