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Your schtick on this has already been coopted by the left. Move along.

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If I were you, I'd keep my yap shut for a few days, criminal. You better hope you got some fans in the state attorney's office.

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On (b), my comment is that he looks like fuckup jackass and he's in the public eye. Like, Brittany has NO constituency, and I think that driving with the baby in her lap AND her pathetic explanations for it are annoying and stupid.

Cheney is a representative of the administration and of the GOP, and he's helping make both of them look bad/stupid/whatever in a whole new way to me. Which is kinda cool.

Is this true?
 

Liability for every adverse effect from any activity/drug should be knowingly waivable. But then some fucking lawyers will come along and claim the waiver wasn’t “informed” or some such shit to make a buck out of someone’s irresponsibility.

This is America. Responsbility isn't your business - thats a legal issue, to be decided by a jury.

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I think this issue will die when Cheney says “I haven’t spoken because I shot my friend, and if you’re as human as you all claim to be when you call me a soulless scumbag, you’ll of course understand how distraught this has made me.”

Of all the issues the press could glom onto, the cover-up of this incident (which isn’t a cover up at all) is the least salacious. The press is a fucking embarrassment.

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I don't see it as a cover-up -- it's a fuck-up. They should have done a press release quickly, and had Cheney give a short statement saying how concerned he is about his friend's health. Both should have mentioned that they wants to respect the family's privacy as much as possible. The whole story would be dead, with the whole heart attack demoted to a short little blurb.

It's not rocket science. Where the hell is Rove?

eta I wish the media would shut the fuck up about this other than to give a one-line update when his condition changes dramatically. And that only because total silence would be weird after all the attention. They were interviewing doctors about how those heart attacks work, for chrissakes. WHO CARES.

For Hank Only
 

• (CNSNews.com) - Reportedly armed with 12 hours of Saddam Hussein's audio recordings, the organizers of an upcoming "Intelligence Summit" are describing the tapes as the "smoking gun evidence" that the Iraqi dictator possessed weapons of mass destruction in the period leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
  
  The U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which according to the New York Sun has already authenticated the Saddam tapes, has reopened its investigation into the possible existence and location of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD). But some long-time liberal skeptics are showing no inclination to change their minds.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.as...20060215a.html

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Maybe some of us are caring people and concerned for this guy.

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Go find some poor sick orphaned family and friendless person to be concerned for and visit him/her in the hospital. This guy is covered.

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I can do both. Don't i always answer your PMs?

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I agree. They fucked this up. But then they fuck everything up.

But its only a fuck up when viewed in terms of what an admin which gives a damn about the Beltway and the Press should do.

The Beltway and Press don't loathe this Admin because they're left-leaners who hate Bush's policies. They hate this Admin because it refuses to play their game. It doesn't kiss the Press' ass or follow the Policy Wonks' and Beltway Professionals' book of "how to do things." The Beltway is incestuous and protective - they don't like this disrespect in their own backyard. The Press also wants to be considered important enough to get a briefing on these types of things. Cheney's tell them all to go fuck themselves. In that regard, I kind of like him. I don't agree with his politics, but I respect anyone who tells a bloated pack of haughty assholes protecting their wasteful system and egos to go fuck themselves.

We ought to fire most of DC, so Cheney's attitude, IMO, is a good start. If nothing else, he's proven to future leaders that you can step all over the established bureaucrats and get away with it (well, if you're not running for anything next election, that is...).

InaniTy
 

Sorry to be late to respond but ...

By definition, Christians are crazy. They believe in something without evidence. And, they wallow in it. "Faith" means "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence." http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=faith . That is essentially the same as "crazy" - "marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness." Id. If it were not for the amount of Christians, i.e. if there was only one of the stupid fuckers, s/he would be committed.

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You are 180 off on this. This Admin seems to expend a ton of effort on figuring out what message the media gets and then being consistent with it. Managing communication, at least in the 1st term, was a huge huge thing for them, which is why no statement -- including no vanilla boring cliched statement of concern for his buddy from Cheney -- seems even more like a misstep to me.

But unlike much of the press, I don't think it's really a cover-up or anything -- I just think it's a communications fuck-up.

What the hell does Cheney do, anyway? It seems like VPs are exactly the people to come up with canned statements of sympathy for families and shit like that.

Mnnnn, Danish
 

Better now than tomorrow, or next year, or the next. Technology only advances. We currently have and advantage. Tomorrow, we may not.

InaniTy
 

Again, I need to subscribe to your newsletter.

I believe in a "God" on the rational basis that some creating energy had to start everything (If there's a flaw in that thinking, I'm comforted to know its a flaw in my rational thought, rather than me deluding myself with some religious voodoo stories).

I also believe there is no bigger waste of time - or absurd endeavor - than organized religion. Its the root cause of just about every rotten thing in society today. By definition its destructive - it asks a person to throw ssense to the wind and elevate the fantastic over the concrete. What good could come of that jackassery?

Mencken was right about religion 60 years ago. Grow up, you chickenshits, and deal with your mortality already...