The Veep who couldn't shoot straight

I wonder if the next time Dick Cheney offers to take a judge who is to hear a case against him duck hunting, the judge will think twice.

The first thing I thought of when I heard the news was – of all things – fractal geometry. Life in the large scale often resembles life in its details. According to the Wikipedia, fractals can be most simply defined as images that can be divided into parts, each of which is similar to the original object. Fractals are said to possess infinite detail, and some of them have a self-similar structure that occurs at different scales, or levels of magnification.

Dick Cheney is a man who doesn’t seem to look at the details before pulling the trigger, whether he’s shooting quail or hunting Osama bin Laden, you never know who is going to get hit. Did Cheney really think Saddam and Osama were the same bird? Did Harry Whittington’s face look like a quail? Or maybe Cheney is just a dangerous blowhard with bad eyesight and the need to look macho.

Anyway, it’s not hard to see the comparison between large scale Cheney and small scale Cheney. On every level, he’ll shoot first and make up a story later after it comes out in the papers. If you can’t trust him with that 28 gauge peashooter of his, why do we trust him at all?

UPDATE

It gets worse. The Veep who can’t shoot straight – either with a gun or with the truth – was protected from having to deal with the Law after he shot his friend in the face. CBS News reports that local law enforcement officials were prevented from interviewing Vice President Cheney .

Texas authorities are complaining that the Secret Service barred them from speaking to Cheney after the incident. Kenedy County Texas Sheriffs Lt. Juan Guzman said deputies first learned of the shooting when an ambulance was called.

Of course we get a different story from the House of Lords, or the White House as it used to be called. CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante reports that the Secret Service says that agents had informed the local sheriff of the shooting about an hour after it happened and that the vice president had been interviewed about the accident by local authorities on Sunday morning.

Did Cheney leave the scene of the accident under the protection of his private army and without speaking to law enforcement? The smoke screen is already smoking - read the transcript of Scott McClellan's three ring circus on Raw Story.

Whether this accident constitutes criminal negligence or criminal recklessness is an irrelevant matter to a group of would-be feudal Lords. They have already told us that laws, treaties and constitutional mandates are only binding upon them at their discretion. So what does it matter? All we can do is wait and hope these people go away before our country is turned into a private hunting preserve for the rich and powerful.