Dick Cheney Hunting Accident

First of all, Dick Cheney has admitted having a little to drink:

We'd taken a break at lunch -- go down under an old -- ancient oak tree there on the place, and have a barbecue. I had a beer at lunch. After lunch we take a break, go back to ranch headquarters. Then we took about an hour-long tour of ranch, with a ranch hand driving the vehicle, looking at game. We didn't go back into the field to hunt quail until about, oh, sometime after 3:00 p.m... The five of us who were in that party were together all afternoon. Nobody was drinking, nobody was under the influence.

"A beer", eh? Could it have been one of those "ice" beers with increased alcohol content? Perhaps even a 40 of King Cobra could be called "a beer" under the right circumstances.

And, thinking ahead, Peggy Noonan offers "Hit Refresh: Why Bush may be thinking about replacing Cheney".

To save time, and since nearly every other message at DUmmieland is about Dick Cheney shooting Harry Whittington, so let's mine their collective intelligence for clues.

First up, there are a couple prior pictures of Cheney hunting here and here. Notice anything about those pictures that might cast doubt on part of Cheney's explanation? Yes, that's right, he's wearing ear protection. One DUmmie supposes that the Secret Service probably is in contact with him through those earphones and could have broadcast something such as, "Harry is walking behind you".

And, "The Swiss Miss...the VP... & UBS Enron?" tries to find links between the various members of the hunting party.

See also "Poll question: How big of "a Beer" did Cheney Consume at lunch?"

There are penetration test for shotgun loads here. That would tend to cast a bit of doubt on how such small pellets fired from such a (stated) distance could cause such penetration.

Another angle involves "Funeralgate", a Texas scandal apparently involving the Bush Gang and Whittington. See also this and this.

And, a public defender in New Hampshire offers obsessive coverage including raising the possibility that Cheney engaged in felony witness tampering and questioning the time of the accident.

I wondered about the sunny/dusk discrepancy earlier.