Was Cheney on a sexual holiday? Was all the killing a big turn-on for him?

[Bozita]

Killing birds, I mean.

Was this a stimulating prologue to an evening of unbridled (or bridled, if you prefer) sex?

Think about it. Cheney attends these staged hunts. Killed seventy-something domestic pheasants during a staged release. He calls it "hunting." To me, it seems more a lust for blood and power. Cheney thrives on deciding who or what lives ... and dies.

We all know he doesn't need more money. So, what is it?

BTW, why doesn't the Swiss Miss appear in the police report?

[tcfrogs]

1. That's silly

Plenty of hunters at DU, myself included - It's all for sport.

[Syrinx]

2. I don't know of DU'ers that go on "canned kills" n/t

[tcfrogs]

3. Please

refresh my memory - what are "canned kills"? Those where targets are placed in advance to be shot? (Just my hunch)

[Syrinx]

6. tame, pen-raised birds

I hope this isn't more common than I know. Sounds pretty sick and borderline Satanic.

Vice President Dick Cheney went pheasant shooting in Pennsylvania in December 2003, but unlike most of his fellow hunters across America, he didn't have to spend hours or even days tramping the fields and hedgerows in hopes of bagging a brace of birds for the dinner table.

Upon his arrival at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, gamekeepers released 500 pen-raised pheasants from nets for the benefit of him and his party. In a blaze of gunfire, the group—which included legendary Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with major fundraisers for Republican candidates—killed at least 417 of the birds. According to one gamekeeper who spoke to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Cheney was credited with shooting more than 70 of the pen-reared fowl.

After lunch, the group shot flocks of mallard ducks, also reared in pens and shot like so many live skeet. There's been no report on the number of mallards the hunting party killed, but it's likely that hundreds fell.

Rolling Rock is an exclusive private club for the wealthy with a world-class golf course and a closed membership list. It is also a "canned hunting" operation—a place where fee-paying hunters blast away at released animals, whether birds or mammals, who often have no reasonable chance to escape. Most are "no kill, no pay" operations where patrons only shells out funds for the animals they kill.

http://www.hsus.org/legislation_laws/wayne_pacelle_the_animal_advocate/cheneys_canned_kill_and_other_hunting_excesses_of_the_bush_administration.html

[tcfrogs]

8. Thanks! n/t

[Bozita]

9. 500 farm-raised pheasants were released from nets for the morning hun

You call this sport? 83% of the birds released were killed.


http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03343/249105.stm

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Scott Wakefield, a dog handler at the club, said about 500 farm-raised pheasants were released from nets for the morning hunt. The 10-man hunting party that included Cheney shot 417 pheasants. The vice president was set to hunt ducks in the afternoon.

Cheney followed a similar hunting schedule in November 2002, when he last visited the Ligonier Township landmark.

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more...

[Raster]

11. it isn't sport, it's slaughter. pure unbridled slaughter. It's bloodlust

for the "controlled" psychopath.

[Skittles]

13. I absolutely detest it being called a SPORT

:puke:

I will think of it as a SPORT the day I see ARMED ANIMALS

[tcfrogs]

15. Let the animals be armed

and we'll fight it out!

[unschooler]

4. Cheney wouldn't survive a "sexual holiday."

[leftstreet]

5. Yeah really. Someone here would have to donate him a heart. n/t

[niyad]

7. that would be a waste of a perfectly good heart

[Bozita]

10. Swiss Miss -- Why ain't she listed on the police report?

She'd certainly back up Cheney's story.

But she's not in the police report?

I need some help understanding this one, folks.

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[Bozita]

14. Welcome to DU -- You're gonna like it here

Good post!

But then, I'm likely to agree with those who agree with me.

[fortyfeetunder]

16. Good points

and welcome to DU :hi:

[Raine]

17. I have heard that

some hunting trips are just a chance for some married guys to get a weekend away for sexual debauchery where they take their girlfriends with them. It sounds just like the kind of thing repukes would be doing. x(

[WinkyDink]

18. OMG. WHAT will the Rude Pundit do with this story?!

Gotta go check!