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From Knight Ridder by William Douglas – White House blames the man Cheney shot
WASHINGTON – The White House blamed the 78-year-old man whom Vice President Cheney shot during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas for the incident, as officials struggled Monday to explain why they waited nearly 24 hours before making the news public.
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Several hunting experts were skeptical of McClellan’s explanation. They said Cheney might have violated a cardinal rule of hunting: Know your surroundings before you pull the trigger.
“Particularly identify the game that you are shooting and particularly identify your surroundings, that it’s safe to shoot,” said Mark Birkhauser, the incoming president of the International Hunter Education Association, a group of fish and wildlife agencies. “Every second, you’re adjusting your personal information that it is a safe area to shoot or it’s not a safe area to shoot.”
Safe-hunting rules published by the National Rifle Association and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department echo Birkhauser’s advice.
This is just sad… We expect our leaders to be examples of integrity and accountability. It’s called taking responsibility, not obfuscation.
Should we expect the same from government employees, businesses, and welfare recipients? No, we expect responsibility and accountability from them.
So it goes…
It seems like the initial Western reaction to the most recent Muslim extremism has passed into the humor and satire phase.
Thankfully, we are allowed to laugh. Unfortunately our humor will be short lived because such extremism doesn’t react well with human traits, kind of like a Star Trek matter-anti matter episode (Episode: The Alternative Factor. Pertinent quote from Mr. Spock: “Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.”)
Anyway, a recent blog posting and editorial make my point:
St. Jimbob of the Apokalypse in his blog Shaking Off Sleep has a posting on Invoking Muhammad (Lord, have mercy on us)
In almost all Islamic adherents, I’ve noticed that they immediately append a blessing when invoking the name of Muhammad, saying —Peace be upon him—. In print, the name of Muhammad is followed by (Peace be upon him), or the acronym (pbuh).
I’ve got another idea.
Muhammad’s sins grieve our Father no more than our own sins, though his may be more notorious. So, I propose a protocol of praying for God’s mercy every time Muhammad’s name is invoked, reminding us to pray for his soul, along with the conversion of those who follow in his footsteps. Immediately append a (Lord, have mercy on us), shortened to (Lhmou) subsequently…
I won’t reprint excerpts from the editorial here. A little too off-color for my blog, but you might want to check out The Q***r Muhammad: an experiment in tolerance by Mike S. Adams over at townhall.com.