Why do I need to defend Dan Quayle? What specifically did he ever do wrong as Vice President or Senator? And I detailed the one incident where he was in charge where he performed well by any measure.
Fairbanks and Anchorage have a lot of them. Matter-of-fact back in the early 80's a couple of black guys ran an X-Rated video rental in Fairbanks and got a holy-shit-lot of business from the soldiers & airmen at the local bases. On post PX/BX wasn't allowed to carry them.
OMG I just remembered - back in the day Mutual Of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom"! Marlin Perkins would always have Jim the assistant do all the dangerous shit. Joe Biden can be Obama's "Jim" and lure the bears away before they ever get near Obama!
I remember that well!!! My brother in law used to do a great impression of Marlin Perkins flat monotone, analytical voice over. I can remember one vary notable instance where a huge snake (python perhaps) had Jim literally encircled from neck to thighs, and Perkins was saying "Notice the distinctive coloration of underbelly of this magnificent creature. This marks him as a male."
Poor Jim! I bet on their final episode Jim slit Marlin open from neck-to-nuts and left his corpse for the coyotes & buzzards. Marlin did come to my neck of the woods in Wisconsin in the late 70's. Of course condensing a week of footage into 1/2 hour presented an unrealistic view of how much wildlife we had. "look there's a bobcat! And right over there is our friend the pine marten, but I hope he doesn't get trampled by that herd of deer that were startled by that raccoon......etc."
sounds like a good use for a VP. Except for Cheney who would probably find some bear cubs and bite their heads off. He was a scary powerful evil dude. I have never heard of someone being able to shoot someone in the face and have them apologize to him for the negative effects their injury had on him. That was some bad ass criminal overlord shit there. I do not even think hitler had that much bad ass behind him. I would not be surprised if the reason cheney has survived this long is because hell is afraid of him.
So Cheney wanted his hunting partner to apologize to him for accidentally getting shot? Please explain, I must have missed this.
The friend of Cheney's basically apologized for the embarassment the incident had caused Cheney during a press conference after he was treated at the hospital. Note, the guy wasn't seriously injured.
Yea, this is about as real and totally not thought out by a room full of PR pros in week long sessions as his recent Spotify playlist Really. Can't they just stand above such things. Oh wait, no they can't. That's why I'm organizing politician visits three times a week. I'm sure they all just care about the well being of the elderly (my employer cares for) and it's not about the photo ops for the upcoming elections. Nahhhhh, never. It's just a coincidence I won't do it again for exactly four years
Wiki page for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney_hunting_incident More details than I can remember.
For those of you who don't hunt, when the quail (or grouse or partridge or pheasant or duck or whatever) takes off you only have a couple of seconds to detect the target, adjust for the required amount of "lead" (meaning moving targets mean you have to put the pellets ahead of where the bird actually is - called lead as in advance, not the type of metal the pellets are made of ) so that the bird and the pellets intercept. Thus quite often you "swing through" the bird and pull the trigger at hopefully the right time. IMO I don't think old people should hunt moving targets where you have to have fast, accurate reactions. They have the legal right, but it's kind of like driving. An old person might drive okay creeping down a country road they have driven hundreds of times. Would an old person do okay on a fast moving, crowded freeway in an unfamiliar city? This is what I'm saying. Older hunters should stick to large game, where you move slowly - the slower the better which is safe and effective.
I bet Obama still enjoyed that fish whatevering on him more than what he has to put up with in Washington every day.
GHWB never invoked the 25th. Quayle was in the Situation Room during the coup attempt, but Bush wasn't in surgery, he was in a plane on his way to Manila. This story, which is extremely complimentary toward Quayle in its tone, makes it clear that Bush was very involved. And Colin Powell said later that Quayle's influence was exaggerated.
Going to Alaska to promote protection of the environment would be a whole lot better if he hadn't just approved drilling there.
If drilling is done right, there is minimum impact on the land. It doesn't have to destructively invasive.
I found that to be pretty ironic myself. Hopefully Alaska won't have to deal with the type of mess that Louisiana and Florida did after that BP oil spill.
No, but he did jump back pretty fast and put the salmon back in the water. He said the fish must have just been happy to see him though reportedly there was a rather nasty stain on one of his shoes.
Hmmm.......kind of seems like "Hey! Let's get the new guy to squeeze a spawning salmon. It'll be hilarious!"