An independent student newspaper at Clemson University that last week published Danish cartoons of Muhammad is sponsoring a drawing this week for an AK-47 assault rifle, stirring some student and faculty protests. Bwahahahaaa!!

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Here is a copy of the original affidavits relating to Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting accident. They come via USA Today and the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

They are .pdf copies of the original affidavits filed by the Kenedy County Sheriff's Department. Click here to see them.

You'll notice that all involved agree this was an accident. No quantities of alcohol were consumed. That the Sheriff's department was notified almost immediately, etc. So much for the conspiracy theories and tirades about a 'cover up'.

For his part, Harry Whittington is apologetic about all the fuss that has been caused by being shot and looks forward to hunting with Cheney again in the future. more...

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1 Personally, I don't think the Veep was involved. It was someone behind a grassy knoll. P

Posted by: Vonski at February 17, 2006 01:10 PM (Srmrz)

2 Right. The Cuban mafia. Oh, and LBJ.

Posted by: Rusty at February 17, 2006 01:21 PM (JQjhA)

3 It could have been worse! Cheney could have struck him while backing out of the driveway in an SUV! Just imagine what would be said and talked about then!

Posted by: hondo at February 17, 2006 01:44 PM (fyKFC)

4 No, no, no. It was the Louisiana mafia that had ties in Dallas. Have you ever even been to the Grassy Knoll Rusty? I have and let me tell you, there are still members of the Louisiana mafia there just in case the ghost of JFK comes strolling by oh Commerce Street.

Posted by: Chad Evans at February 17, 2006 01:48 PM (+DXHJ)

5 You mean the "alien" angle on this has been debunked? Dang.

Posted by: Oyster at February 17, 2006 02:31 PM (YudAC)

6 The liberal media sharks smell blood and its afeeding frenzie

Posted by: sandpiper at February 18, 2006 09:24 AM (162Hn)

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To the tinfoil crowd, lack of evidence is always proof of a coverup. And, FYI: there is a major difference between reporting a crime to the police (eg, CHAPPAQUIDDICK) and notifying the media of an accident. The media, despite what many on the Left believe, are not the nation's police force.

Decision '08: Smearing Dick Cheney

Dan Riehl: Lawrence O'Donnell Is Scum

Radio Equalizer: Fact free zone.

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It's just like those Quakers, babies, and nuns to make international phone calls to suspected al Qaeda terrorists. And all this time I've been dialing Osama bin Laden for my two year old! Do you think Julie Aigner-Clark will come out with a Baby Einstein video to help my apparently retarded kid learn to first dial 0-1-1?

Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.

UPDATE: Related ACLU propaganda and a guide to this week's NSA hearings.

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Strictly Speaking this sort of thing doesn't bother me all that much. I mean, it's true that western media are kind of bending over backwards, matrix-style, to placate muslin sentiment, but the backdrop is that we're more afraid of what we might do, than what they might do. Consider that human beings, as a rule, are not really that different from one another in spite of modest differences in local and regional culture. We basically all have the same sense of fairness and usually recognize the same constraints against the First Commandment. And the thrust of history that substantiates the reform and progressive movements in Western Culture (individual freedom, anti-slavery, anti-totalitarianism) are not merely "Western" but human, in a sense that's vastly larger than the regional appeal of a Seventh Century Prophet who "shall not be disobeyed." And while the world of Islam has been offended, yet again, by our iconoclasm, we have yet to see the awakened offense of Western Culture to the affront of being challenged and blasphemed by the regional superstition of "low Islam," before it has even awakened itself to a righteous indignation about chattel slavery: a conflict that cost the United States in excess of a million untimely deaths. (And in my own case, almost 50% of the progeny of our Arkansas hillbilly family.) If the sense of Jacksonian offense at being taken for granted by a lesser cultural light is ever genuinely awakened, the modest threats tossed out by the Islamic world as a thin figleaf against its own shameful past will seem anemic and pale by comparison to the wrath that will be loosed on that poor excuse for "progress."

Do not get me started...

(Cross-posted to Demosophia)

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By 'threats' I don't mean the problems associated with an open border. I mean actual threats...against police officers along our borders...by the Mexican military.

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Is that pronounced "boner"?

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Man, that was a classic episode of South Park last night, wasn't it? And, call me a geek if you will, but the history of lumber mills is wicked cool. And no, I regret not watching that other show about as much as I regret not watching Desperate Housewives.

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