resorted to the slaughter of more than 400 creatures planted right in front of them as animated targets." According to another news source, "five-hundred pheasants were released in front of Cheney and his men; and the ten-man hunting party killed 417 of the birds. Vice President Cheney alone shot over 70 pheasants. The birds were then plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight back to Washington, DC."
posted by fold_and_mutilate
on Dec 10, 2003 -
76 comments

My vote for best sentence of the year: "I did not have financial relations with Halliburton." Though I would have preferred the wording "that company" to Halliburton.
posted by coolgeek
on Sep 19, 2003 -
26 comments

Watchdog's Bark Judicial Watch, the group that's been suing for access to Cheney's Energy Task Force notes, finally gets some'Suspicious package' on Lincoln bus was shopping Published duration 9 October 2018

image caption A bomb disposal team dealt with the package, which turned out to be shopping

An Army bomb disposal team were called to "a suspicious package" that was found on a bus.

Scores of people were evacuated shortly after midday when a "box with wires" was found by a bus driver at Lincoln Central Bus Station.

Roads were closed and a 100 m (328 ft) cordon was in place until 16:00 BST.

Ch Insp Stewart Brinn said the package contained "shopping with some electronic equipment" that a shopper had left on the bus by mistake.

He said the bus driver took it to the security office, and as a result "an assessment was made to treat the package as a viable