Who Can Make This Up?

Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man in the face while quail hunting.

Please. It's true. Stop laughing now.

A friend of mine, and fellow "leftist" said to me that this was proof that we need gun control. I say this is proof we don't. The victim was a Republican lawyer.

In seriousness, I am glad that Harry Whittington is going to be all right. Political agenda aside, this was a frightening thing that has happened.

It's my understanding that the White House waited 18 hours to release the information, and only did so after the owner of the ranch did. Also, Cheney was not fully legal. While he had a license to hunt, he needed a special permit to hunt quail. He did not have it at the time he shot Whittington.

Now, what would happen to you or me if we were caught in the same situation?

In other news, Saddam Hussein is threatening a hunger strike. Think of the savings the government will get on take-out alone.

However, four restaurants in Baghdad are going out of business.

The International Quail Union had this to say in a press release: "And how do you like it?"

Emily Hughes still can't find a flight to the Olympics. It's probably because all the American idiots in the media can't spell. Torino is not spelled T-U-R-I-N. It's not her fault no one knows where it is.

Riots continue in the Middle East over the cartoons. Apparently this time, it was a Peanuts cartoon that was to blame. It seems Woodstock's remark to Snoopy's question: Where's my dog dish? was "lllllllllll." This was taken as a direct affront to Mohammed.

As if they weren't profane enough, the Danish paper made notorious for initially publishing the anti-Muslim cartoons are pushing the envelope even further. They plan to publish an Op-Ed piece arguing that George W. Bush is a good leader.

And lastly, I'd like to paraphrase a lawyer joke that my best friend (who is an attorney) had told me many years ago:

What do you call a Republican lawyer who got peppered in the face with buckshot?

A good start.