Rich guys pretending to be Jeremiah Johnson is one of the many fascimile editions of rawhide authenticity being successfully peddled in the media with no one willing to stop and say that inflicting unnecessary pain and suffering on animals should be a source of sin and shame, and that the decent thing to do would be to break Cheney's shotgun in two before anyone or anything else is harmed by his buffoonery.
I'd like to add that I'd prefer that the shotgun be broken over Cheney's arrogant skull. I grew up in a family where the men hunted, and we all learned to shoot a gun by the time we were 12 or so.
It's never stopped me from be appalled and sickened by this need to blow innocent creatures away. Hunters will tell you they hunt for the meat. Ain't so. They'll tell you they like to be "out in nature." That ain't so, either.
They hunt because they like to kill things. Nothing that any of my brothers, hunting friends, or aquaintances has ever said has ever convinced me differently.
When the deer and the ducks can start shooting back, I'll consider it a sport. Until then, it's just butchery.
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They hunt because they like to kill things. Nothing that any of my brothers, hunting friends, or aquaintances has ever said has ever convinced me differently.
And this is why torture, murder and unnecessary war did not prevent Bush from getting re-elected. If anything, it probably fucking helped.
I think you're right about that.
We're appalled. They're excited.
Yeah, but the other side of that is that Cheney's obvious incompetence and idiocy on the "hunting field" (shooting gallery) lost this assministration a LOT of points with the red state hunting crowd.
Nothing Cheney has said is going to register with these guys.
In the days when one hunted to eat, a case could be made for hunting. With a Safeway on every other corner now, it hardly seems justifiable. It is, as you say, an exercise in false machismo and brutality -- a sort of Hollywood set version of "nature red in tooth and claw".
As for Mr. Cheney, why does it not surprise me that he'd be hunting quail released for that purpose?
He's a real "fish in a barrel" sportsman, isn't he? And even at that, he's imcompetent.
Your last lines say it all.
Amen to that 4LG, that's all it's about, killing.
Congrats on your blog, found you thru your comments at Atrios. Always enjoyed your cat comments at Billmon's.
Mr Plushy rocks!
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