Cheneys hunting buddy has a heart attack

Not IN his heart - on the outside. It was in the loose material near the muscle.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

wayne mak wrote:

There is something like keeping your opinion to your self. If it is found an opinion is damaging - just cause was shown.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

Ed Huntress wrote:

I don't know what that is supposed to mean, but if it means that someone is guilty of slander here, it's wrong.

-- Ed Huntress

Too bad you don't know shit my friend. a) it would be a libel suit, and b) cheney is a politician. In the US you can say whatever you want about politicians. It's basically 'open season' on them, to make a bad pun....

Jim

Not that bad..

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Too bad you didn't learn to read very well. Reread the above again. I excluded politicians.

Verb: slander

1. Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

It was a bad pun.

Slander = Spoken

Libel = written.

Remember the S goes with the S: SlanderSpoken

The original comments were WRITTEN therefore if a lawsuit resulted it would be a LIBEL suit, not slander.

A small technical point I know but I suggest you attend law school before pontificating.

Jim

Jim, I'm curious, and I'll bet your wife would know. Does usenet convert private individuals to public figures the way things like news interviews and such do?

Also, it is important to cite relevant legal definitions rather than dictionary entries.

i

Libel is the written or broadcast form of defamation, distinguished from slander, which is oral defamation

Mark Rand RTFM

Good point. I was afraid we were going to wind up arguing over Webster's dictionary for a legal understanding of slander.

-- Ed Huntress

I'm jealous - the boy's a junior and we're just starting the college selection and application ordeal. It's going to be a long year.

Ned Simmons

I'll have to remember that one.

Ned Simmons

Oh, yeah, it's a very long year. This is the nail-biting time: he has nine applications in and two acceptances, but he won't hear from the rest of them until the end of March.

Try to have some fun with it and brace yourself for sticker shock.

-- Ed Huntress

Basically, Cheney made a horrible mistake, in that he shot a lawyer out of season.

Lawyer Season begins on "Law Day", May First. At that time, they are still plump, and have not yet started breeding.

Ever try to clean one of those things?

Id have thought the Lefties would have been overjoyed. After all..the victim was a Republican lawyer.....

Gunner

"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

- Proverbs 22:3

Well, DAMN! That makes him a RARE PROTECTED ENDANGERED SPECIES. That's why there is so much fuss.

Harry Whittington is apparently a pretty decent guy, with enlightened ideas:

That said, skeet high-houses are pockmarked w/ shotgun pellet imprints, even though the idea is to hit the pigeon while it's flying over the field. Accidents happen, and Mr. Whittington seems to be doing well. All of us who have ever fired a gun should remember "there but for the grace of [deity-of-your-choice] go I." Stand BEHIND the shooter....ALWAYS.