Title: Cheney returns for S. Texas hunt
Description: Cage the birds & hide in the car.
Description: Cage the birds & hide in the car.
al001 - February 9, 2008 01:02 PM (GMT)
Dear God...their giving Cheney another gun and real ammo. If your concerned about your safety, stay in doors...stay low Anne.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestne...ex.php?id=10909
MICHAELMOORE.COM
February 8th, 2008 8:50 pm
Cheney returns for S. Texas hunt
Armstrong Ranch hosts his annual trip
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
It's quail season in South Texas, a natural draw for Vice President Dick Cheney, who is making his annual trek to the Armstrong Ranch this weekend for a private visit and hunting trip with his longtime friend Anne Armstrong.
"I have not told anybody except my family," Anne Armstrong, 80, said Thursday. "He will be at the ranch (today). We have a wonderful quail crop, and he is a fabulous shot. We have mainly family here this weekend."
Since 2006, the Armstrong Ranch is probably best known as the place where Cheney accidentally shot and wounded hunting companion Harry Whittington.
Cheney has been friends with Anne Armstrong, a former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and former presidential adviser, for more than 30 years. Cheney has been at the ranch every year for years but was forced to cancel last year with a scheduling conflict, Armstrong said. This year is the first time he has been back since he sprayed Whittington with birdshot and made world news.
Cheney's press secretary Megan Mitchell said the vice president will give a speech in Pennsylvania today before flying to South Texas, where he is scheduled to stay through Sunday afternoon.
"It's a private visit with no public appearances," she said.
Whittington, who has recovered completely from the hunting accident two years ago, hunted at the Armstrong Ranch last year but could not make it for this weekend's festivities, Anne Armstrong said.
The sprawling 50,000-acre ranch, which takes up a sizeable piece of Kenedy County, is a place that the well connected have come to relax for years. Anne Armstrong is widely known as a legendary hostess, and a visit to the ranch is a coveted invitation, friends said.
The drive from U.S. Highway 77 to the main house on the ranch winds a long distance into the property on a well tended road through tall grass and trees. Hunting camps, where the Armstrong family and their guests picnic and shoot birds, are miles into the property.
That is one of the draws for the who's who of the Republican Party structure who visit regularly, friends said. Armstrong and her late husband Tobin and their five grown children have hosted groups including President George W. Bush, his father, George H. W. Bush, Bush's former adviser Karl Rove, former secretary of state James Baker and U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn.
Thursday, Armstrong was making her last-minute preparations and had laid out a menu, including grilled quail for a picnic lunch and a Mexican food supper for her VIP guest and others who will stay at the ranch over the weekend.
"He likes Mexican food and so do we, of course," Armstrong said.
Rule one: Try not to shoot your friends.
Rule two: Don't give Cheney a real gun.
Rule three: Shoot only birds that can fly.
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http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestne...ex.php?id=10909
MICHAELMOORE.COM
February 8th, 2008 8:50 pm
Cheney returns for S. Texas hunt
Armstrong Ranch hosts his annual trip
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
It's quail season in South Texas, a natural draw for Vice President Dick Cheney, who is making his annual trek to the Armstrong Ranch this weekend for a private visit and hunting trip with his longtime friend Anne Armstrong.
"I have not told anybody except my family," Anne Armstrong, 80, said Thursday. "He will be at the ranch (today). We have a wonderful quail crop, and he is a fabulous shot. We have mainly family here this weekend."
Since 2006, the Armstrong Ranch is probably best known as the place where Cheney accidentally shot and wounded hunting companion Harry Whittington.
Cheney has been friends with Anne Armstrong, a former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and former presidential adviser, for more than 30 years. Cheney has been at the ranch every year for years but was forced to cancel last year with a scheduling conflict, Armstrong said. This year is the first time he has been back since he sprayed Whittington with birdshot and made world news.
Cheney's press secretary Megan Mitchell said the vice president will give a speech in Pennsylvania today before flying to South Texas, where he is scheduled to stay through Sunday afternoon.
"It's a private visit with no public appearances," she said.
Whittington, who has recovered completely from the hunting accident two years ago, hunted at the Armstrong Ranch last year but could not make it for this weekend's festivities, Anne Armstrong said.
The sprawling 50,000-acre ranch, which takes up a sizeable piece of Kenedy County, is a place that the well connected have come to relax for years. Anne Armstrong is widely known as a legendary hostess, and a visit to the ranch is a coveted invitation, friends said.
The drive from U.S. Highway 77 to the main house on the ranch winds a long distance into the property on a well tended road through tall grass and trees. Hunting camps, where the Armstrong family and their guests picnic and shoot birds, are miles into the property.
That is one of the draws for the who's who of the Republican Party structure who visit regularly, friends said. Armstrong and her late husband Tobin and their five grown children have hosted groups including President George W. Bush, his father, George H. W. Bush, Bush's former adviser Karl Rove, former secretary of state James Baker and U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn.
Thursday, Armstrong was making her last-minute preparations and had laid out a menu, including grilled quail for a picnic lunch and a Mexican food supper for her VIP guest and others who will stay at the ranch over the weekend.
"He likes Mexican food and so do we, of course," Armstrong said.
Rule one: Try not to shoot your friends.
Rule two: Don't give Cheney a real gun.
Rule three: Shoot only birds that can fly.
:rules: :rules: :rules: :rules: :rules: :rules: :rules: :rules: :rules: :rules: :rules:
ALGOREismylife - February 9, 2008 05:57 PM (GMT)
Since I have pet birds, I feel that shooting any bird is a total unacceptable disgrace. Well, you can't expect anything decent out of an evil man like Dick HEAD Cheney. :bad: :bad: :angry: :angry:
The Paraclete - February 10, 2008 07:38 PM (GMT)
Of course Dickey Boy loooves Mexican FOOD! I heard Mexicans taste GREAT with a little TABASCO SAUCE! Besides, Dickey Boy prefers to SHOOT Humans anyway! :dripple:
Also I want to KNOW what kind of DRUGS Bob Novak is actually taking! He said that Conned-and-Seizeda Rice would make a GOOD VP for McCaine! I say YES! Why? If I was HIT by a MACK TRUCK on Election Day 2008 and LIVED through it, I would have them DRAG my mutilated body into a VOTING both to vote AGAINST not ONLY McCaine...but also AGAINST this b#tch who when she was NSA Director could NOT decipher 'evil chatter' before 9/11...and couldn't WIN if there was ONE DOT to connect!...Just to PROVE I am NOT predjudiced here...I would do the SAME if McCaine chose Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Hadley, Negroponte, or ANY vestige of the BU$H Regime as a VP! :mad:
To NOTE: Liberals HATE Rice as MUCH as Conservatives HATE Clinton! :wacko:
McCaine's ONLY chance of winning comes from Huckabee...Like Clinton or Obama's ONLY chance of winning comes from each OTHER! :!:
I would love for McCain to take a 'poison' pill and run an EX-BU$HIE as a VP! THAT would BE the KISS OF DEATH! ;)
Maybe McCain should CHOOSE...Heart Attack Dick!...or Karl "the Doughboy" Rove...(that's sarcasm as is MOST of this post)...But I WOULD LOVE IT IF HE DID! IT WOULD BE AN AUTOMATIC WIN FOR DEMOCRATS!...A LANDSLIDE! :good:
Line 'em up! Dick's a comin! :!:
ˇFuncione por sus vidas! ˇDick Cheney que viene a Tejas del sur! :!:
Also I want to KNOW what kind of DRUGS Bob Novak is actually taking! He said that Conned-and-Seizeda Rice would make a GOOD VP for McCaine! I say YES! Why? If I was HIT by a MACK TRUCK on Election Day 2008 and LIVED through it, I would have them DRAG my mutilated body into a VOTING both to vote AGAINST not ONLY McCaine...but also AGAINST this b#tch who when she was NSA Director could NOT decipher 'evil chatter' before 9/11...and couldn't WIN if there was ONE DOT to connect!...Just to PROVE I am NOT predjudiced here...I would do the SAME if McCaine chose Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Hadley, Negroponte, or ANY vestige of the BU$H Regime as a VP! :mad:
To NOTE: Liberals HATE Rice as MUCH as Conservatives HATE Clinton! :wacko:
McCaine's ONLY chance of winning comes from Huckabee...Like Clinton or Obama's ONLY chance of winning comes from each OTHER! :!:
I would love for McCain to take a 'poison' pill and run an EX-BU$HIE as a VP! THAT would BE the KISS OF DEATH! ;)
Maybe McCain should CHOOSE...Heart Attack Dick!...or Karl "the Doughboy" Rove...(that's sarcasm as is MOST of this post)...But I WOULD LOVE IT IF HE DID! IT WOULD BE AN AUTOMATIC WIN FOR DEMOCRATS!...A LANDSLIDE! :good:
Line 'em up! Dick's a comin! :!:
ˇFuncione por sus vidas! ˇDick Cheney que viene a Tejas del sur! :!: