Cheney’s gun malfunctioned during an antelope hunting contest in Wyoming. But, unlike the former No. 2’s 2006 hunting accident, nobody was hurt this time.
By Adam Edelman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Photo Copyright Jim Robertson
Published: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 .
Former Vice President Dick Cheney suffered another hunting accident over the weekend, but this time nobody was injured.
Cheney’s gun malfunctioned during an antelope hunting contest Sunday in his native Wyoming, preventing the former lawmaker from getting his shot off.
Cheney said the gun failed due to a “problem with the manufacturer.”
“I don’t take it personally,” he told Wyoming’s K2TV. “I’m sure there was a small problem with the manufacturer. But I will be back next year.”
Cheney, an avid hunter, nearly killed his hunting partner in 2006 in a another shooting accident.
Cheney seriously injured Harry Whittington, his quail hunting partner after he accidentally shot him in the face, neck and chest.
Whittington, a Texas lawyer and contributor to the Bush-Cheney campaign, suffered a heart attack during the incident but ultimately survived.
Exposing the Big Game 
Too bad it wasn’t more. Maybe next time.
:…”avid hunter” hey. What a dick Dick Cheney!
There’s a reason he’s called that.
Dickhead works for me…. he is the perfect example of Tom Lehrer’s ‘The Hunting Song’! If you have never heard him, oh boy are you in for a treat! Vintage stuff! (…I’ve got ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters and a purebred Gurnsey cow!)
Sometimes the friend you think you know is far more dangerous than the enemy you have never met
All too often
Cheney is an EVIL Man that is responsible for so many crimes against all humanity, let alone the animals, too much to try and tell people if they don’t know and aren’t receptive to it, but.. according to Transformation of Amerika, he has a hunting ranch in Shasta Mt. that he likes to hunt humans, as well as engage in child molestations, these are no accidents..
Actions speak louder than words. Just a list of his major stock holdings and boards of directors positions is freaky enough. It doesn’t matter if he is a bad shot, he’s got his own black-ops team to take care of minor details. He’s the kind of guy you have as VP if no matter what DC scandel you are linked to, nobody will kill you because then they get stuck with Cheney at the helm!
What was the accident? There is no report that the gun misfired, the barrel exploded, or anything else. This is just another bullshit report to show the popularity of hunting and how even an uber-dick like Cheney can fail in “getting his shot off,” giving solace to all the other gonadally-challenged contest-hunters that fail to get their shots off except when they’re back at the lodge, drunk. and practicing their Greek ‘wrestling’ moves on fellow contest-hunters.
Lest my post (above) seems intemperate, and full of sexual entendre, here is a short quote from a NY Times blog that illustrates the bizarre bestial fetish-fantasies of hunters:
“At the outdoor store, I waded through aisles of camouflaged accessories and vials of urine taken from elk in heat (a “sexual attractant” used by hunters).”
If that is good enough for America’s newspaper of record, then it’s good enough for me.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/fishless-in-seattle/
Sec. Jewell says that the outdoor industry is about $650B/yr of U.S. economy. She also says that hunting and fishing is a big chunk of this sector but didn’t give numbers. Do you have current stats? I found USFWS stats for 2003 that differentiate retail sales and fedl tax revenue which together does not make a big chunk, but these numbers are 10 years old with the supposed total being current. I’d like a reference if you have it.
I don’t have those figures offhand. Anyone else?
No, the USFWS does not keep any updated reports on Wildlife, which is completely irresponsible as well as criminally negligent at the least.You have to go to each State and work the #’s yourself, I did for CA last year to access the percentage of Hunter’s that actually cause all this horror on the rest of us, I can’t find my figures but remember it was 2.3 % Hunters, and the revenue they generated was less than the government subsidies that TAX payer’s fund. Peter Muller of http://www.humanevoters.org/ Joe Miele – President of C.A.S.H. http://www.all-creatures.org/cash/index.html might have National Stats available.
Thanks for the info Dominique.
Anything to help combine efforts to stop these sociopath’s, Jim.
Much appreciated.
Possibly the reason we can’t find accurate data is simply that there is very little if any? Not just that but how do they figure the difference on the revenue end from a store like Wal-mart even though different departments tally up separately at closing, not everyone in the sports department is buying camo to hunt! Or game cameras to rig a hunt. We may well be doing so to protect private property, animals and find out who is poaching on our land so we can give the evidence to make a case against them. Theoretically, all of us who buy things we need to do our thing in the woods could be thrown into the same profit catagory as hunters? Which is why I suspect fuzzy math, at best!
Absolutely! The numbers are manipulated by Fish and Wildlife in D.C. and by state game agencies. Hunting and trapping are declining, but efforts are afoot to keep the numbers artificially high. They are doing this by including everyone from the cradle to the grave, so to speak, to inflate numbers. That is why we see a push to get more women, children, blind people, etc., out in the killing fields. And the effort now includes opening up our National Parks to hunting, as well, thanks to the likes of Sen. Martin Heinrich of N.M.
Exactly what they have been doing, counting people more than once for lifetime memberships, & if they buy a tag for Deer, then Bear, then??? These Jugheads are corrupt to the highest degree..I would like to push them out to sea on their yachts, one way trip to drink themselves to death!
Please see my comment above (or below–wherever it might be) regarding the National FHWAR Survey. One problem we have as wildlife advocates is that the Pittman-Robertson Act dictates that states must use some of the generated funds to encourage hunting, and also the allocation method of funds to the states. Secondly, we do not have direct mechanisms, generally, to fund F&W departments, so they do not see us as ‘contributing’. We have tried to address that in Washington State by raising fees on wildlife plates and on vanity plates, with the increase going to support fish & wildlife.
I do not buy the “hunters pay the bills” arguments, as there are many variables that go into “the bills,” anymore than I would claim that I have rights to a movie because I saw it in the theater and bought a big bucket of popcorn. But, as wildlife advocates, I believe we have to start getting smart and showing that the public trust has dollar value well in excess of its tag and license dollars. In this twisted universe called the United States, it is more damning to say that a legislator voted to waste hard-earned taxpayer dollars than to say he kills wolf-puppies. Washington cattle ranchers paid the state less than $200,000 in business taxes–the state spent about half of that to kill the Wedge family of wolves because a rancher lost some cattle. The WA State Office of Fiscal Management figures ranchers get an $8 to $10 Million tax break each year. That should buy a few meals for wolves. How much do the taxpayers pay each year as the legislature wastes time on 10 to 12 legislative bills regarding hunting, hounding, trapping, depredation compensation? It’s obvious to me that many in the legislatures lack moral or ethical grounding, and people don’t seem to care, so let’s beat them up on their lack of fiscal responsibility and show how they are pissing dollars on a minority of special interests–while killing cute little puppies and kittens. Demonize the correct groups, the statistics are in our favor, don’t denigrate the stats.
Exactly!! The statistics are in our favor, we really have to do the research to show the public how WE, as Tax Payers are funding, and/or allowing waste of funds for a very small special interest group that should not even have a say in how to manage our wildlife, let alone be completely in control. Here is CA, we have the “Share Program”, that use’s tax funds to supplement hunting, by, offering homeowners funds to plant certain foliage (that attracts the Wildlife) or to be able to trespass on property to be able to follow wildlife wherever it goes. I pointed out at a local county level proposed child bow hunt in a populated area, that pets and children would be endangered, and that I would hold them personally responsible if they passed and anything occurred. That is another statistic we need to expose, the hunting accidents. C.A.S.H. is the only org that I know of that keeps track. I suggest, we form a very strong coalition of Wildlife advocates with proven scientific researched evidence to replace the administration in place in F.&G/W, and better yet, all volunteer.
The numbers for wildlife-associated spending are based on a survey performed every five years. The current survey results are the 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Related Recreation (FHWAR), available on the web. Once they publish the National Survey, they publish state data in alphabetical order. The state reports are all available now on the US Census website.
Finally, interested parties (governmental or not) use Input/Output models to determine the likely ripple effect, or multipliers, of the various dollar categories to get to numbers such as jobs supported, tax revenues, associated payroll dollars, and so on. These models use the work of Wassily Leontief, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics (as have three of his students).
I have spoken with several of the people that develop the FHWAR, and believe that they are honest statisticians doing proper work to develop the publication. I had concerns about the preliminary numbers for Washington State, and they explained the development of the numbers, and also did a double-check since I brought it up. They contacted me to let me know that they were solid numbers for WA: Hunting-$356 Million; Fishing-$1.03 Billion; Wildlife Watching-$3.17 Billion. These numbers show that recreational fishing dollars were almost flat, hunting grew slightly, and wildlife watching doubled from the 2006 Survey. Unfortunately, the budget for the 2011 survey was decreased, so while the techniques were the same as 2006, the sample size was smaller, which means the confidence intervals are wider (eg, in 2006, a number that is +/- 1000 might be +/- 1500 in 2011).
For the US, total reported FHWAR recreation was $144.7 Billion: Hunting-$33.7B; Fishing-$41.8B; Unspecified-$14.3B; Wildlife Watching-$54.9B. We would have to look elsewhere to determine the dollars spent to go camping or hiking, say, but with no intention to hunt, fish, or look at animals. Secretary Jewell’s number is probably post-multiplier calculations. If all it counted was FHWAR, then her multiplier of 4.5 seems a bit high to me, but it’s hard to know without details.
I do not dispute that USFWS seems to spin the statistics to make the hook & bullet group look great, but I believe the underlying statistics are as solid as we’ll get. Our Congress has been cutting financing for statistics for years–when you’re drunk-driving, you don’t need a speedometer or temperature gauges–and you may not know that the Census Bureau no longer publishes the Statistical Abstract of the US. I would give a link to the FHWAR, but currently our government websites are non-operational, as has been our US House of Representatives. However, I believe this is the link (from my favorites): http://www.census.gov/prod/www/fishing.html
Well explained. I am sorry if I made the good folks who crunch the numbers look bad, it was not my intent. The problem is the political end of the equation. They have big doners who demand big favors in return for their ‘investment’ in the politician’s future. Those figures never really see the light of day. Many of these remote hunting trips are where these deals get made! Away from prying eyes and earsof the press and public.
You might be surprised by this but they are like greasy used car salesmen…may the best sociopath win… the more dysfunctional they are, the higher they rise in the political rungs, eventually when they reach their final most highly paid and least functional position, they retire to write their autobiography, because after all, to them it is all about them. You give a booklet of stats to a personality like this and they will bend the results to mean anything they want the people to believe! Look at what is going on in DC…one big unhappy dysfunctional family! Throwing budget numbers around, but not understanding what they mean. Fearmongering, posturing, blaming the opposition. They slam down their bills like fire and brimstone preachers thumping a Bible on a pulpit. They can’t see the truth through all their lies, so they manufacture it. No wonder they are cutting back funding statistical studies!