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  •  Someone else has pointed out (4.00 / 3)

    that quite apart from the understandable need for a stiff one after the devastating experience of shooting one's friend/acquaintance/campaign donor/whatever, Cheney may have fixed himself a drink so as to make any blood alchohol test on him that night unreliable as to whether he'd been under the influence at the time the shooting took place.

    "Mom, did you hurt yourself, or are you yelling at the TV again?

    by litigatormom on Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 07:36:00 AM PDT

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    •  Mixing or fixing his own drink (none / 1)

      is to me the most offensive of all the shenanigans. Anybody near Cheney in his right mind should have stopped this, unless your reading of it is the operative one, that it was a clear conspiracy to cover any blood alcohol test that could have been administered.

      by Compost On The Weeds on Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 08:07:44 AM PDT

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    •  The alcoholics that I have known (none / 0)

      don't think like that. They won't admit (or don't think) they are drunk in the first place. They get to a buzzed level and then keep drinking to maintain that buzz. I think Cheney was starting to sober up and realize the gravity of the situation and 'needed another drink'.

      It wasn't until the next morning that the shit hit the fan for Cheney. He was absolutely tanked when he shot Whittington.

      Some of my family are 'real hunters'. They get up at 3:00 in the morning and are home by afternoon, they clean their guns and get cleaned up themselves. They crack open the beers and start talking about the morning hunt.

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      Drink shade grown coffee!

      by mad ramblings of a sane woman on Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 09:03:17 AM PDT

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    •  Another thing (none / 0)

      Sorry if someone made this point, but I was thinking about this:

      Cheney said that Whittington was standing in a gulley, so he didn't see him.  Of course, we know he got shot in the face.  So, if half of Whittington's body was standing in a ditch (assuming he's 6 feet tall), that would mean the shot was about three feet off the ground.  Seems a little low to me. (I don't hunt, so perhaps some hunters could comment).  If indeed this is low shot for a quail hunt, that could also indicate that Cheney's coordination and judgment were impaired.

      by turning blue on Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 11:46:36 AM PDT

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      •  You are correct (none / 0)

        The explanation is ridiculous on its face unless we are to believe that Cheney shoots DOWN at birds on or just above the ground.  The sporting thing to do - the actual "hunting" part of it - is to shoot the birds as they fly.  Birds on the ground are 'fish in a barrel', so to speak.

        So, either he accidentally shot Harry because he was drunk and he slipped, or he was literally slaughtering birds on the ground. Swinging to "follow the flight of a quail" is B.S.

        by YucatanMan on Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 01:01:18 PM PDT

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