Dick Cheney dies at 84

[neurosis]

Always remembered for the infamous Dick Cheney hunting accident  -

Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84

https://apnews.com/article/dick-cheney-dies-079591b529f048489650e7569bc675d2

[gcode]

I met him once back in 2000. Seemed like a pretty cool guy.
I'm sure the left-o-sphere is in rapturous celebration this morning.

[ghuns]

Always remembered for the infamous Dick Cheney hunting accident  -

I'm going bird hunting in a couple of weeks.

If I'm out with newbies, I always tell them, don't Dick Cheney me, bro.

The 40+ crowd gets it. The kids, not so much.

[Jeff]

Always remembered for the infamous Dick Cheney hunting accident 

Unfortunately this hits home with me pretty hard.
A good friend took his son (12 years old?) out duck hunting a while back. His son accidentally shot him in the face when he stood up.
He didn't survive.

[CNCAppsJames]

He put the final nail in the coffin of the SR-71 Blackbird. That was unforgivable. That is what I will remember him for most.

[jstell]

I met him once back in 2000. Seemed like a pretty cool guy.
I'm sure the left-o-sphere is in rapturous celebration this morning.

No need for celebration.  He's been irrelevant for nearly 20 years.

[Newbeeee™]

No need for celebration.  He's been irrelevant for nearly 20 years.

Long ago he earn't his money for Halliburton....

[CNCAppsJames]

Long ago he earn't his money for Halliburton....

Tell us oh wise one.... exactly how many companies there are on the planet capable of handling anywhere near the infrastructure projects on the same scale as Haliburton. I'll wait. 50 microbucks if you can name them. 

I was not a fan by a long shot, but the Halliburton deal... see the point above. 

 

[Newbeeee™]

but the Halliburton deal...

errrr...."create the problem, and then provide the solution"....comes to mind....

[jstell]

errrr...."create the problem, and then provide the solution"....comes to mind....

Always worked out well for Curious George.  Let the bunnies out, help catch said bunnies, get a gift of a bunny for being so helpful.

[CNCAppsJames]

errrr...."create the problem, and then provide the solution"....comes to mind....

That's another issue entirely. 

[Newbeeee™]

That's another issue entirely.

I'm now in the camp, that for a long time now, every solution, has been provided for the situation that was previously created/engineered.

[Elmer Fudd]

I wonder if he is in heaven or hell.

[CNCAppsJames]

I wonder if he is in heaven or hell.

He never mentioned faith of any sort... at least publicly.

 

[CNCAppsJames]

I'm now in the camp, that for a long time now, every solution, has been provided for the situation that was previously created/engineered.

Uhhhhh yeah. That's kind of a given. It's called the human condition.  

 We do dumb stuff and create a problem. Sometimes little, sometimes massive. in our hubris create a solution Sometimes something gets better, sometimes it gets a whole lot worse... being human and all we seriously never learn.  

We've (the human race "we") have been screwing things up since the beginning.  We think we're all smart and stuff, but the reality is we're making the same mistakes and poor choices today that we made in the past albeit with more technology and often with more large scale consequences.  

JM2CFWIW YMMV