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Rob Corddry: "Look, the mere fact that we're even talking about how the vice president drives up with his rich friends in cars to shoot farm-raised wingless quail-tards is letting the quail know 'how' we're hunting them. I'm sure right now those birds are laughing at us in that little 'covey' of theirs.

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Jokes about Cheney's hunt never misfire, comics find. Scripps.

Cheney's Friendly Fire: At Rolling Stone,

In the first documented vice presidential shooting since Aaron Burr dropped Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel, Dick Cheney put a shotgun blast full of No. 8 birdshot into the face of a hunting companion on Saturday.

Slow Leak: How Cheney Stalled News Reports of Hunting Accident. Time.

Cheney ignored safe hunting procedures: Bird hunters should use dogs and fewer guns -- and leave car behind. Charlotte Observer.

Official report: At The Smoking Gun, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunting Accident and Incident Report Form

Old rock never fades away:
Vault Radio is streaming late Fillmore owner Bill Graham's concert archives. CNet story .

Trickle-down PCs: Free Geek: “Helping the needy get nerdy since the beginning of the third millennium.” At DesignTechnica,

The concept is simple, really. Hire a handful of staff members, pay them the same hourly figure from the top down, train volunteers to run the business and work solely with donated electronic items to make them reusable or recyclable. In the process, teach volunteers how the business works and how to rebuild computers, allowing them to adopt a computer after 24 hours of volunteer service, giving them on-the-job training, as well as a social outlet. The result of the effort keeps harmful products out of landfills and enables schools and groups who desperately need computers to receive them at no cost. Last, but not least, make it all a democracy so volunteers and employees can participate in the direction of the collective.

Such is the way of Free Geek, a nonprofit technology recycling center in Portland, Oregon, leading the revolution in technology waste management. People donate their unwanted gizmos, ranging from computers to VCRs (excluding TVs and very few other items), then Free Geek volunteers rebuild the items to reuse, or safely deconstruct them to be recycled. Since its inception, Free Geek has refurbished approximately 6,000 computers using 5,000 volunteers and has recycled 1,000 tons of material, keeping it out of landfills. Just this month, they celebrated taking in their 300,000th donated gizmo...

Group plans to buy only essentials for a year: Out of the retail rat race:

While many people will spend countless hours this year lining up at Wal-Mart and maxing out their credit cards at Nordstrom, a small Bay Area group has declared it will do just the opposite.

About 50 teachers, engineers, executives and other professionals in the Bay Area have made a vow to not buy anything new in 2006 -- except food, health and safety items and underwear.

"We're people for whom recycling is no longer enough," said one of the members of the fledgling movement, John Perry, who works in marketing at a high-tech company. "We're trying to get off the first-market consumerism grid, because consumer culture is destroying the world."

They call themselves the Compact. They have a blog, a Yahoo group and monthly meetings to reaffirm their commitment to the rule, which is to never buy anything new....

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3 Comments

Roger Nordstrom said:

a comedian, regardless of political affiliation, lives for these moments

http://www.cafepress.com/dickwantsyou

Link | February 14, 2006 10:41 AM
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RDWilbur said:

Regardless of how the media reacted to this unfortunate accident the funniest thing to come out of it was the manner in which David Gregory made a fool of himself at the White House news briefing. The public is now aware of just how this would have been handled by the liberal press. V.P. Cheney is not a favorate of the press and I am certain he knew just how difficult it would be for his friend and the property owner if all of these headline seekers came rushing into the hospital and to the farm where the accident occured. Can you imagine what an unpleasant situation that would have been after seeing how the press conducted themselves at the White House briefing ??

Link | February 15, 2006 9:10 AM
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Sheila said:

Roger, you must be far more a political junkie than the rest of us. I have no idea what happened at the White Press conference. It was Valentine's Day and I didn't watch much TV last night.

After a man has been shot, why would one's first thought have been "how difficult it would be for ... the property owner"? (The friend had already left in an ambulance, and the property owner notified the local paper herself.)

Others are saying the delay was to cover up alcohol use or to decide how to handle the presence of the female ambassador.

Maybe it was just wanting to put it off till they were ready to deal with it.

Pick the spin that best represents your own preconceived notions. Without facts from those present, all speculation is fair game around the water cooler.

Link | February 15, 2006 10:38 AM
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