Dick was locked and loaded all right, loaded on the good stuff.

"Dick Cheney is capitalizing on this for Valentine's Day. It's the new Dick Cheney cologne. It's called Duck!" --Jay Leno

The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News

• Iraq Body Count

• Gunmen Kill 11 Iraqi Farm Workers AP

• Iraq suicide bomber kills 10 waiting outside bank Seattle Times

• Outbursts mar Hussein trial Baltimore Sun

• Iraqis seek compensation for alleged abuse Biloxi Sun Herald,  USA 

• Taliban say attacks will increase, U.S. "helpless" Reuters

• Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities AP

Speaking of shooting victims: Katrina victims have been shot with both barrels by the Bush administration. -- Grant Gerver

Earth to Bush -- Send the Damn Trailers Down to the Katrina Victims

10,777 wide-bodied mobile homes sitting empty at Hope Municipal Airport, a sprawling former military base.

After all these months, storm victims cannot seem to get the trailers...

Disturbing News

• Pakistan clashes over cartoon row BBC News

• "Muslim nation" remark provokes anger in Australia Arab Times, Kuwait

How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion.

That's how much seven federal departments spent from 2003 through the second quarter of 2005 on 343 contracts with public relations firms, advertising agencies, media organizations and individuals, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
 

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"We can't get bin Laden, but Cheney nailed a 78-year-old attorney." --David Letterman

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Republican Shenanigans

• Rice hearing postponed due to Senate votes Reuters

• Chertoff's testimony on Katrina response postponed Reuters

• Chertoff says there will be reforms at FEMA Providence Eyewitness News, RI

• Chertoff Jokes About Regulating Weather AP

• Frist: GOP on clear course facing nasty fight Whittier Daily News, CA 

• White House: Rove Calls Abramoff 'Casual Acquaintance' Boston Channel.com

• Abramoff Said to Claim Close Ties to Rove AP
   

Dick Cheney & the Quailers: "I shot my best friend, but I did not shoot the President...-- Grant Gerver

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Rock-The-Voter News

• Iraq Vet Abandons Ohio Political Races AP

• Swann favors ban on abortion Allentown Morning Call

Wanted: Judicial Temperance

People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are "idiots," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.

Good News

• Lawyers group says Bush exceeds his powers Seattle Post Intelligencer

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EXCLUSIVE: First Photo of Cheney Shooting Victim

"Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird." --Jon Stewart

Oil Company Welfare

The government may waive up to $7 billion in royalty payments from companies pumping oil and natural gas on federal territory in the next five years, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing administration officials and budget documents

Biz/Tech News

• US still gives illegal aid to exporters, Europeans say USA Today

• Oil extends fall, dips below $61 CNN International

• Enron jury hears 2 hours of conference call tapes USA Today

• U.S. Grant Web Site Doesn't Work With Macs AP

“President Bush's latest budget proposal slashes funding for public television by $157 million over the next couple of years. A lot of changes on Sesame Street. The Cookie Monster will be known as the ‘Government Cheese Monster.’”-- Jay Leno

Some AHNC Viewers Comments on Cheney Shooting a Man

• Maybe if Cheney hadn't dodged the draft he'd be a better shot.
  jen in dallas

• Shoot First...Leak Blame Assessments Later

• Hi Lisa,
  Was just wondering if you would use your site and influence to take up a collection to Send George and Dick on a big Game hunting Safari. Then Just maybe............
  Later Drew.

• So six gun Dick finally gets involved in a "war"-and I use that term extremely loosely-and what does he do?
  Shoots one of his own men in the back.
  Whaddaya think?
  JD

Dick needs to be hunting bin Laden not quail.

• Cheneys reflex shot may have been due to Whttingtons impersonation of a wascally wabbit asking 'what's up doc'.
  Democratic senate hearing members and Valerie Plame investigators should be issued body armor, when he comes to testify.
  Dennis S

• Happy Valentines Day Lisa,
  A friend informs me that in certain European countries a hunter who accidentally shoots someone loses their hunting privileges for the rest of their life. Is this true? (In Texas do they give a trophy for this?)
  Gary from Oshkosh
   

I have no idea Gary.

Happy Valentines Day to you too.

lisa@allhatnocattle.net

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• UN Draft Decries US On Detainee Treatment Washington Post

• US Citizen's Transfer to Iraq Is Blocked Washington Post
   

"Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction: It's Dick Cheney." --David Letterman, on Cheney's shooting accident

Go-F***-Yourself News

• Slow Leak: How Cheney Stalled News Reports of Hunting Accident TIME

• Senators: Look at Cheney in probe Detroit Free Press

• Duck! Here come the Dick Cheney jokes Seattle Times

• PETA takes aim at Dick Cheney MSNBC

• George Clooney ribs Dick Cheney at Oscar lunch Reuters

Just to give you an idea of how tight security is at the Olympics, today Italian police arrested three guys from Denmark for attempted cartooning. -- Jay Leno

I hope you had a good time today. I did.

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Odd News

• US Navy rescues ship attacked by pirates-captain Reuters AlertNet, UK

• Air Marshals Charged With Drug Smuggling ABC News

• Married To The Mob: Mafia Wife To Sue HBO CBS 4

• Experts to Test Possible Joan of Arc Bones AP

• Bacteria hone in on shopping carts - survey Reuters

• "Missed Connections" site offers Valentine hope Reuters

• Valentine's Day boon for spies tracking infidelity AFP

• Youth gets all tied up in foldaway bed Reuters

Happy Valentines Day everyone. Two flamingos are seen forming a heart shape as they walk past each other at the London Zoo. (Photo by Carl de Souza)

Peace.