Kingbee: If you would take the time to follow my link (and accept my challenge) you WOULD know more. It doesn't surprise me that you don't care to know. To tell you the truth I put it under "humor" because the whole point of the game was to make fun of people like you. You want to spout off rhetoric but ignore the facts that I spoon feed you.

ROFL!!!!

ignore the facts that I spoon feed you

what facts? i don't dispute your assertion that hunting accidents receive very little coverage.

you're ignoring (or possibly have blinded yourself to) the fact that this wasn't a run-of-the-mill hunting accident. not so much because of the celebrities involved but the way cheney et al handled it.

i'm still very sure you couldn't tell the sheriff you'd talk to him tomorrow any more than i could.

since you're so sure i'm wrong, i'm open to you providing me some documentation of that kinda thing happening regularly.

If the average person isn't going to face charges for this kind of accident, how is Cheney being given any preferential treatment? I provided you with a whole website of documentation, but you choose to ignore it and dismiss it. Well, I lived up to your challenge, but you chose to sidestep mine.

how is Cheney being given any preferential treatment?

cheney shoots his friend. his friend is sent to the hospital. deputy shows up to find out what's up and is told to go away...cheney will give statement tomorrow. cheney & friends spend the rest of the night having dinner and discussing what to say.

it's not about the accident. it's not about being charged with anything. i keep asking and you keep avoiding the question: if you're involved in a hunting accident (or a car accident for that matter) can you tell the cops to buzz off and i'll talk to yall later?

i don't think so.

Keep telling yourself there is a point to be made here Kingbee.... someday you might actually start believing it.

Plain and simple, the national press got their precious little feelings hurt, so they made a mountain out of a molehill. How does it feel to be feasting on nothing?

Keep telling yourself there is a point to be made here

i guess i'm gonna have to clarify a few things to help you see the point.

a. i have no problem whatsoever with dick cheney (or any other politician of his ilk) shooting wealthy republican-donating texans in the face or elsewhere. in fact, i'd encourage them to do it much more frequently using more accurate and powerful weapons.

b. i don't want to see a prosecution if some vice-presidential dick sprays his load all over a friend's face unless it's determined to have been intentional.

c. i don't believe there's any excuse for cheney to enlist the aid of his assigned secret service agents to interfere with local law enforcement officers. if they're sworn to the same duty as all other peace officers, i don't understand why or how they're permitted to do so in the first place (nor, for that matter, what excuse was proffered by the ss agents guarding the bush twins for doing the same thing when they were apprehended for violating texas criminal statutes).

d. some weeping is called for. we should all be mourning the transition from constitutional republic to monarchy. you keep ignoring the obvious contradiction between the way this woulda played out if it involved you or anyone else who isn't a member of the ruling elite. do you really imagine you woulda been able to refuse to speak with the local sheriff when he showed up at the door? or that you'd be able to refuse to speak to him for an additional 18 hours, giving you that much time in which to consult with your advisers and attorneys. how about that 'sombre roast beef dinner'?

dunno about you ted, but i wouldn't have been able to take any dinner--much less sit down and formally dine--whether or not i had bodyguards keeping the law at bay.