You know what Mattlage meant by "dove hunting" don't you?

[goodboy]

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He's talking about Peace-Makers...doves.

[Libby2]

1. I thought the same thing....n/t

[goodboy]

3. at least I'm not the only one (nt)

[benburch]

2. Of course.

He means to threaten and intimidate the protesters.

A common bully.

[goodboy]

4. yup....(nt)

[Stirk]

5. Is there really a "dove season" there at all?

I'm curious.

[benburch]

12. Yes.

Two dove seasons. A month starting late September, and then after Christmas to mid-January. That's from memory.

[ohio_liberal]

13. Yes

Starts in September. But this is all just an excuse to intimidate some protesters that are annoying him.

[KyndCulture]

15. yeah they hunt doves in the south.

He wasn't talking about bird season however... doves are more of a sport hunt I'm sure...they don't offer much in the way of meat.

I was so damn frustrated with all the "take him a pie" shit on here yesterday and no one listening to what he actually said. This man made an out right threat of shooting peace protesters and he was forgiven. I think he's damn lucky he's not behind bars right now.

[TX-RAT]

39. Yep, starts the first of September, in most county's.

[stellanoir]

6. Who the heck hunts doves?

They're not exactly a varment, cause no harm whatsoever and have very little meat on them.

Oh, they also mate for life.

[goodboy]

14. I guess some people will kill anything, huh? (nt)

[KyndCulture]

20. yeah, it's a sport hunt. My boyfriend is a hunter and he says it's

practice for other bird hunting..he only hunts for food btw, I'm cool with it as long as we're eating what he shoots... and he doesn't support sport hunting.

[Beelzebud]

18. The same people that shoot squirrels, ground hogs, and rabbits.

Dumbass red-necks, that support their republican war-time presnit.

[yorkiemommie1]

25. mate for life

and rotate sitting on the nest. if the parent that is off duty gets killed, then the remaining parent and babies are doomed from what i read.

every year we wait for doves to come and build their nests. they must like the Peace Dove Plaque on my front door.

duh... i never thought when the larry guy said ' dove ' hunting, he meant human doves. how sinister.

[sattahipdeep]

43. buzzards

Who does Fitzgerald report to?

Doves dont fly with Buzzards....

Patrick J. Fitzgerald began serving as the United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois on September 1, 2001. Mr. Fitzgerald was initially
appointed on an interim basis by Attorney General John Ashcroft before being
nominated by President George W. Bush. The United States Senate confirmed his
nomination by unanimous consent on October 23, 2001, and President Bush signed
his commission on October 29, 2001.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/aboutus/patrickjfizgerald.html

[Shrek]

49. Lots of people hunt doves

Including John Kerry.

John Kerry eats dove. Even better, he shoots them. From behind the stalks of a Southern cornfield, he'll watch them flutter and dart, and fire.

"You clean them. Let them hang. It takes three or four birds to have a meal," said the Massachusetts senator. "You might eat it at a picnic, cold roasted. I love dove."

They're quite tasty and a sporty bird to hunt because they fly so quickly.

[KyndCulture]

7. thank you!! I've been saying this since yesterday...

He was not talking about birds....

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who LISTENED to what he actually said.

[goodboy]

10. I thought about it all night. I wanted to wait to see if anyone else

picked up on it. Leave it to Pukes to want to kill the peacemakers.


"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9)

[rkc3]

26. That's the pre-9/11 Bible there.

The post-9/11 version reads -

Blessed are the Peacemakers, they make good cannon-fodder.

[KyndCulture]

29. or they are unarmed... nt

[ohio_liberal]

8. I don't think that trifling fool is capable of metaphors

He was making excuses so he wouldn't get in trouble. But I guarantee he'd like to pump birdshot into some hippie's ass right about now.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. That was the FIRST thing I thought too!

[Beelzebud]

11. When does Chicken-Hawk hunting season begin?

I'm almost ready to sign up for that...

[goodboy]

16. They're very hard to hunt, because they're always runnin' away and

hiding.

[benburch]

17. Me too.

They can be hunted with baseball bats.

[goodboy]

19. and enlistment papers! HAHAHAHAHAHA (nt)

[Beelzebud]

24. That has been my trump card lately: THEN GO ENLIST

Shuts them up every damn time.

[Beelzebud]

31. Ok, we're liberals we'll compromise.

Taze them.

Use the Baseball Bat on them.

And then stuff enlistment papers in their mouths.

LOL :D

[Beelzebud]

22. Don't forget tazers.

Like the above poster mentioned, they like to run.

It works best to taze them, then get out the bat.

:evilgrin:

[katmondoo]

30. When Bush was running for Pres in 2000 he shot an endangered bird

by mistake?? Since then I have not seen any reports of his shooting any thing. Cheney shoots animals in controlled grounds. A real sportsman.

[benburch]

33. Birds are often killed to fuel black magick rituals.

And that fits Cheney...

[Beelzebud]

35. Yeah I'll bet Cheney is a proud, but quiet, member of the Grove.

It's for real. And it seems like a place made for guys like Dick Cheney.

The Bohemian Grove.

[goodboy]

42. He is a member for sure! Here's some others:

There are over 2,700 "Bohos" (members and guests). The waiting list is about 10-15 years long (almost as bad as getting tickets to Letterman), so don't hold you breath. Most of the gatherers are American. Some of these include:

* George HW Bush
* Dick Cheney
* Dwight D. Eisenhower
* Malcolm Forbes
* Gerald Ford
* Newt Gingrich
* Alan Greenspan
* Alexander Haig
* Herbert Hoover
* Jack Kemp
* Henry Kissinger
* Richard M. Nixon, who had his own opinions of the Grove (see timeline!)
* Colin Powell
* Ronald Reagan
* George Schultz
* Caspar Weinberger
* Art Linkletter
* William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
* Charles Scripps, of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain
* Jack Howard, also of Scripps-Howard
* David M. Kennedy, history professor from Stanford Univeristy
* Nathan Myhrvold, Former Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft.
* Seth Shustak, astronomer, SETI Institute
* Jesse H. Choper, law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren
* John Major, former Prime Minister of U.K.
* John Keegan, military historian
* William Davidow, author & "Venture Capitalist"
* James R. Lilley, former ambassador to China and Korea
* John M. Barry, writer & scholar
* William Casey, former CIA director
* John Lehman, former Navy Secretary (delivered speech that claimed 200,000 Iraqis were killed in first Gulf War)
* Tom Johnson, president of CNN and former publisher of the Los Angeles Times
* David Gergen (although he is reportedly no longer an attendee)
* A.W. Clausen of the World Bank

[ixion]

21. that was my first thought

but of course it's all in good fun when your a repuke threatening progressives.

I wonder what the reaction would have been if the shots had been fired around the Peace House?

[Cassandra]

23. Yep!

[kliljedahl]

27. This from BushSpeaks, also on AHNC

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[windbreeze]

28. First thought

that crossed my mind....a dove is the symbol for peace...and then when he said...that it was up to us to figger it out fer ourselves...I thought, in other words, Cindy and everyone else there, has had their life threatened...well, that creep belongs in Crawford obviously..right along with the other underhanded, sneaky, war mongering dogs...(why do I think that if anything untoward happens to anyone down there, that this country will erupt?)
windbreeze

[liveoaktx]

32. No, he is not. STOP IT. We have Dove Hunting Season in Texas

and it starts in September.

[KyndCulture]

36. YES HE IS. Listen to what he says.

He outright tells the reporter there is more to what he is saying. "You figure it out" he says.

Stop defending him. He said it and he can take responsibility for making those threats.

Nobody is trying to say texas doesn't have a dove season... ok? We have them all over the country. it's what he said after that.

[lonestarnot]

38. Second that "stop defending" this freak!

[titoresque]

46. I found you

MUHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! (sinister laughter, head thrown back)


(note to moderator:we're friends, and my restraining order just expired j/k)

[goodboy]

44. I think there was a deeper meaning in his words...just my opinion

[pitohui]

34. absolutely that's what he meant

if he was bird hunting in august, why hasn't he been ticketed

[ohio_liberal]

37. Listen to the entire rant on TV

CNN had it on and the iconoclast website might have the full audio. He says he was out practicing for dove season(which was of course a bullshit excuse). And the protesters are scaring off his game. I don't believe this guy is capable of that kind of nuance. But he was definitely trying to intimidate the protesters.

[KyndCulture]

40. remember this? Liberal hunting permit

I'm not so easy to believe he didn't have a deeper meaning and veiled threat to what he said. And I listened to the whole painful thing.

[Generic Other]

41. Doves with olive branches

MLK told us that non-violence was the most power force in the world!

Scares the hell out of some folks.

[Sgent]

45. I think your giving the man

entirely too much credit.

Dove season starts here Sept 3, and I already have my field picked out. I've been praticing my shooting for the last week or so.

Yes, he might of meant more by it, but Dove hunting is probably the most popular shooting sport in the southeast -- its cheap, good food, and a chance to "shoot the shit". A lot of businesses rent fields for their employers and customers, there are public fields, etc.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

47. Worked with a guy who said the same thing.

(Edited out unnecessary information.)

He said he was going dove hunting one fall. (I think it was right before the invasion of Iraq started.
I asked him what he meant, as we didn't get dove hunting permitted until after 2004, and thus it wasn't permitted, as far as I knew.

And he just smiled at me and said "war protestors".
Apparently he was just "kidding" with me, because he didn't go and shoot up a whole bunch of peopel opposed to the Iraq invasion (I was one), but still, that smile chilled me... :scared:

[Ladyhawk]

48. Do you really think he is smart enough to make that connection?

I don't think so.

He's just a poor, uneducated hick who's tired of the protesters interrupting his quiet life. I think the best approach would be trying to befriend him somehow.