The vice-president believes he dodged a bullet (even if his good friend Harry still got peppered) as Harry Whittington left the hospital, and, showing what a good loyal GOP team player he is, apologized to Dick Cheney for all the trouble he caused by getting in the way of Dick’s gun. Is that a friend? Ladies– see if this man is single… He’s not only loaded… he’s ready to go when his friends are locked and loaded. We all (when I say “we”, I’m referring to the 70-80% of the American people who actually believe that Republicans are capable of...

The President, as usual, expressed full confidence in his vice-president and the President stated he was satisfied with Dick Cheney’s explanation and his conduct of how he trickled out information regarding it to the press in derogation of the usual White House press channels and how he successfully avoided investigation of his probable inebriation at the time of the shooting. Except, of course, that this won’t do. This won’t do at all. There are lots and lots and lots of non-stories out there, that there’s no point in us talking about, like the scathing UN report demanding that Gitmo be...

The Vice-President broke his half-week long silence today by giving a statement in the friendly confines of Fox News to Brit Hume… Cheney admitted that it was his own damned fault that he shot his good friend Harry Whittington, and Cheney noted that he had “a beer with lunch”. This is the clearest confirmation possible that there indeed was at least some level of alcohol involved, and hence, there was significance in the fact that local law enforcement officials were kept at bay until the following morning. “One beer” of course could be a 12 ounce can, a pint glass,...

While the post-title reminds one of the old Dana Carvey SNL character Massive Headwound Harry, we are speaking of course, of hapless Harry, specifically Harry Whittington, the Austin, Texas based attorney who Dick Cheney accidentally shot full of pellets intended for farm-raised quail. More specifically, Mr. Whittington had a “mild” heart attack as a result of one or more of the pellets lodged in or near his heart bringing about a “fibrilation”. While the recriminations will fly over the apparent breaches of protocol and procedure associated with the nearly day-long delay in announcing news of this unfortunate accident to the...

Thankfully, help comes from Gary Farber and the Amygdala blog… most of the links can be found in comments to my posts below (thank you, Gary!), but I’d like to point out, in particular, this post on Administration lies associated with Guantanamo. Consider that our friends at the UN have issued a rather scathing report of their own about Gitmo. Of course, you discerning reader, know all this, because you’ve been getting it straight from the mouths of the horses who have been telling it… to the dog… who vouchsafes it on to you. Gary has lots of other posts...

Cross-posted to Sisyphus Shrugged, while Julia continues hiatusing. While sitting here amidst New York’s second largest snow fall ever of 22.8 inches, and pondering going back out to shovel, I was suddenly alerted to the fact that the Vice-President of the United States shot a man. My dreams of reading about Dick Cheney having challenged Senator Pat Leahy to a duel a la Burr and Hamilton were dashed, when I saw that, in fact, it was a hapless 78 year old political crony and campaign giver, Texas lawyer Harry Whittington, who was, in fact, shot while hunting with Dick Cheney....

Could things be changing in the Taiwan Straits? Well, our overdue visit to our comrades from Eurasia over at Pravda gives us this examination of that question. The piece notes that in a somewhat unusual move, the United States has rather vociferously taken sides, this time with Beijing, to tell the “independence minded” in Taiwan to… shut up. Basically, the official fiction is that China and Taiwan are, were, and always will be, one country, with Taiwan in effect “a renegade province”. This is why Taiwan was kicked out of the U.N. (the KMT government of Chiang Kai-Shek, based on...

Cross-posted at Sisyphus Shrugged. This tagline refers to both the yawning national trade deficit with the rest of the world of over $700 billion more goods and services imported over exported, and of course, what I sound like repeating the mantra that this presents “some kind of a problem.” The fact is, Americans’ view of things is always “so what’s the problem?” As long as one’s credit card has enough of a credit limit to cover anticipated forward spending until past the next billing cycle… what’s the problem, right? Why worry about the fact that we’ll be broke in a...

This post is cross-posted over at Sisyphus Shrugged… Evidently the reluctant-designated-Katrina-fall-guy former FEMA chief Michael Brown testified before a senate committee… and disabused the nation of much of what the White House had been spinning with respect to the President’s professed ignorance about just how bad things were in New Orleans. Brown noted that he spoke to a Deputy White House Chief of Staff, advising of the situation in New Orleans; he called claims that the White House and top Homeland Security Department officials that they didn’t know there were levee breaches in New Orleans “baloney”. Brown fenced with members...

This post is cross-posted over at Sisyphus Shrugged, where I am but a bit player on a very, very deep bench filling in for Julia… Anyway, let’s bring you the latest from the international all star assembly of the-worst-jihadists-that-the-Northern-Alliance-and-Pakistani-security-forces-could-sell-us… Camps X-Ray, Delta, Echo, etc. at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Our pals at the NY Times give us this article discussing the new and improved means of force-feeding our guests at Gitmo… I’ve recently posted an interview of Josh Colangelo Bryan, one of whose clients is evidently participating in the hunger strike. In the next few days, I should be putting up...