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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Hawk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
More generally, to mean small to medium-sized birds that are members of the Accipitridae, the family which includes the true hawks (Accipiters) and also eagles, kites, harriers, buzzards, and Old World vultures.
In February 2005 the Canadian scientist Dr Louis Lefebvre announced a method of measuring avian IQ in terms of their innovation in feeding habits.
Hawks were named among the most intelligent birds based on this scale.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Hawk   (202 words)

  
 Chickenhawk (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although also a name for a type of bird, in political usage chickenhawk is a compound of chicken (meaning coward) and hawk (meaning someone who advocates war, first used to describe "War Hawks" in the War of 1812).
Mason used the word as a compound oxymoron to describe both his fear of combat ("chicken") and his attraction to it ("hawk"), a slightly different use of the term which nonetheless might have inspired the current usage.
A "chicken hawk" is someone who not merely advocates a war, but believes that their advocacy is proof of the courage which those who will actually fight the war in combat require.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chickenhawk_(politics)   (1844 words)

  
 Red-Tailed Hawk (DesertUSA)
The Sharp-shinned Hawk, the Cooper's Hawk and the Goshawk are Accipiters.
They are the broad-winged, broad-tailed soaring hawks that are more readily seen because of their habit of circling high in the air or perching in dead trees or on telephone poles along the road.
In the rare case of an individual raptor or hawk that engages in active predation on domestic birds or animals, such a bird may be judiciously removed in accordance with current regulations.
www.desertusa.com /aug96/du_hawk.html   (1279 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Return of the 'Chicken Hawks'
"Chicken hawk" is interesting as an insult because it is such a pure example of reactionary thinking or, rather, the substitution of reaction for thinking.
Chicken doves have no more standing than "chicken hawks." We must leave all the decisions to the generals and the veterans.
I am myself not technically a "chicken hawk," as I was, thank God, a few years too young to serve during the Vietnam War and too old and too untrained to be of any military use during the next significant war, the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A38447-2002Oct29?language=printer   (689 words)

  
 Chicken hawks are hard to miss - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Chicken hawk season, you might have noticed, is in full swing with the colorful, hard-to-miss creatures turning up just about everywhere.
The chicken hawk's American flag bumper sticker or a closet full of rifles is usually enough to fool people into believing he would gladly give his all for God and country.
During the years that most chicken hawks could be backing up their rough talk with service, they're in colleges and universities or working far, far away from the shooting.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/columnists/s_99257.html   (592 words)

  
 Shark Blog: Dead Tree Chicken Hawk Squawk
Chicken hawks are defined as creatures who belligerently advocate violent military solutions to political problems, but who dodged opportunities to serve in uniform during wartime...
Chicken hawks believe that you should be willing, even grateful, to make the supreme sacrifice in spite of a crumbling economy, mega-billion-dollar thievery in corporate boardrooms and the gang-rape of the environment.
Among the "chicken hawks" it cites are George Bush, Ann Coulter and SEC chairman Harvey Pitt.
www.usefulwork.com /shark/archives/000245.html   (378 words)

  
 Does the "Chicken" Cook? | TPMCafe
That said, I will continue to shy away from the term "chicken hawk." You, and I think most who use "chicken hawk," seem to suggest use of the term is warranted because it reveals undeniable hypocrisy and solipsism (If I misinterpreted your argument, please let me know).
"Chicken" hawks and doves are equally qualified to evaluate a war.
In sum, the Chicken Hawks are not only arguing policy -- in fact, they seem rarely to do so -- they are claiming a moral authority that I do not think they can claim, based on the amount of sacrifice they ask of others and the amount that they have contributed.
www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/8/23/02728/3191   (1593 words)

  
 Foil The Chicken Hawk
After the biddies are born, I keep them in the kitchen for a while, putting the box in the yard for a few hours on sunny days to let them get used to the outside.
When the little critters are about two weeks old, I transfer them to a fencedoff corner of the chicken pen, and they spend another couple of weeks there until the older fowl are accustomed to having them around.
The stakes around my chicken pen, made from mill trimmings, are a foot or so higher than my head.
www.motherearthnews.com /library/1980_May_June/Foil_The_Chicken_Hawk   (898 words)

  
 The Rubber Chicken | Tony Hawk 3 For GCN Before Holidays!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games were introduced a few years ago and all of them have been insanely popular.
The Tony Hawk games have always shown clear, perfect graphics, so this will probably be one of the Cube's most impressive games.
Obligatory Fine Print: The Rubber Chicken (TRC) is a collective of various voluntary writers who have nothing better to do with their time.
www.n-chicken.net /news/games/tonyhawkgcn.shtml   (224 words)

  
 Birds » Raptors » Hawk - Red Tailed Main Page
This beautiful Hawk generally hunts in open areas, though it is often seen perching on poles, posts, and haystacks, patiently waiting for pray to approach.
The Red Tailed Hawk is said to be one of the easier raptors to tame in captivity, making his popularity among falconers come as no surprise.
Natural savanna is probably the most common habitat for this hawk, though they are also seen in a variety of other areas, including prairie groves, woodlands, plains, farmlands, open country, and mountains, and people in more populated areas have reported seeing them along roadsides.
www.centralpets.com /animals/birds/raptors/rpt2938.html   (1620 words)

  
 The Houston Conservative: Putting the “Chicken Hawk” Label to Bed
Next time you hear some idiot Liberal identify a Conservative as a “chicken hawk,” tell him or her to go buy a gun.
One is immediately led to the realization that this term is a meaningless blanket insult intended to evoke an emotional response in the target, in hopes of preventing him from expressing a reasoned argument.
Maybe it’s the guy working high steel in construction, or maybe the guy who’s replacing a transformer on one of the electric company’s domestic lines, maybe they are the “chicken hawks” to which you on the Left are referring.
mensnewsdaily.com /blog/malven/2005/11/putting-chicken-hawk-label-to-bed.html   (1028 words)

  
 Newsvine - The 'Chicken Hawk' slur
That makes you a ``chicken hawk" -- one of those, as Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, defending John Kerry from his critics, put it during the 2004 presidential campaign, who ``shriek like a hawk, but have the backbone of a chicken." Kerry himself often played that card.
That is simply not what "chicken hawk" means, and it is less than forthright of Jacoby to mis-define the concept in order to argue against it.
Although there is no formal definition for it, the "chicken hawk" criticism is not typically made against someone who merely (a) advocates a war but (b) will not fight in that war and/or has never fought in any war (although, admittedly, there are those who mis-use the term that way).
ballew74.newsvine.com /_news/2006/07/24/298511-the-chicken-hawk-slur   (1432 words)

  
 Foreign Policy In Focus | Global Affairs Commentary | Chicken Hawks as Cheer Leaders
The anecdote illustrates what some are now calling the "Chicken Hawk" factor, which could play an important role in the increasingly intense and personalized debate over the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq.
At a time when the moderate multilateralists and realists in the Republican camp are already balking at the crusading mentality of the administration's neoconservative strategists, Cohen's comments may serve to push U.S. veterans toward the "justice not war" camp on the center and left.
The Chicken Hawks are warning the uniformed military to keep their reservations to themselves.
www.presentdanger.org /commentary/2002/0209chickenhawks_body.html   (1098 words)

  
 Newport Cycle Parts - Chicken Hawk Racing Tire Warmers
The best tire warmers you can get, Chicken Hawk is the warmer of choice for 2002 AMA 600 Supersport champion Aaron Yates, 2002 AMA 250 GP champion Chuck Sorenson, 2002 Formula USA Superbike champion Michael Barnes and many other top professional racers.
Chicken Hawk tire warmers have the highest watt-density - rear warmers draw 600 watts, fronts draw 550 watts for the most watts/square inch available.
These tires are made of special, sticky compounds and have different density carcasses and require specific tire warmer sizes and heating calibrations which are not appropriate for use with other racing tires.
www.newportcycleparts.com /categories/race_equipment/ch_tire_warmers.htm   (436 words)

  
 Word Spy - chicken hawk
These people who were too chicken to go to war (or even serve in the military) become middle-aged hawks looking for an opportunity to send others to kill and be killed.
The red-tail hawk is known in certain parts of the U.S. as a chicken hawk.
And although many people of a certain age would be hard-pressed to tell you what a chicken hawk looks like, they know the term well having been brought up watching Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, many of which featured a young chicken hawk named Henry.
www.wordspy.com /words/chickenhawk.asp   (440 words)

  
 The Girlie Chicken Hawk- Senior Savvy - Atlantic Highlands Herald - New Jersey
There are the Chicken hawks who themselves never fought a war and then there are the double Chicken Hawks whose children also do not go to war.
Much tittering, chuckling, clucking, and flapping of chicken wings was heard from the elite gathering of preferred poultry.
The Girlie Chicken Hawk was expressing his thanks for the thousands of dollars they had each just plunked down to hear him squawk.
www.ahherald.com /senior/2004/ss040923_girlie_hawk.htm   (932 words)

  
 The 'chicken hawk'?
They are also on both sides of the legitimacy of the term chicken hawk.
New York Times columnist Bill Keller employed the term chicken hawk the other day in a typically mealy-mouthed column whose vaporous point was that the Scruples of Sen. John Kerry about attacking Baghdad must be taken very seriously because of his Vietnam War record.
I thought that "chicken hawks" were what the advocates of NAMBLA were called.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/750128/posts   (1351 words)

  
 The Chicken Hawk Factor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The famous "chicken hawk" rhetoric is a favorite left wing ploy to try to distract people from the fact that conservatives are better at keeping us safe than liberals are.
As I understand the term, "chicken hawk" applies not only to someone who advocates a war that other people fight, but also avoided (usually by creative means) serving in an armed conflict themselves.
For the record, a Chicken Hawk is a man who managed, or manages, to overcome his fears of combat, as well as our normal instinct to get away from what causes harm...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/747576/posts   (1303 words)

  
 Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source
And what is known suggests the existence of two major groups - an "in-group" of hawks whose captain is Vice President Dick Cheney and which has had a decisive influence on President George W Bush himself, and an "out-group" of "realists" headed by Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage.
Hence the moniker "Chicken Hawks", defined as individuals who favor military solutions to political problems but who themselves avoided military service during wartime.
The notion that the Chicken Hawks were morally superior, not just to Saddam Hussein or the "terrorists" or "Ba'athist dead-enders" whom they've been fighting since the war ended, extended even to the "realists", who were denounced in internal battles as "appeasers" or worse.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/FE13Aa01.html   (852 words)

  
 Chicken Hawks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Depending on where you are, locals may call red-tails, rough-legs, red-shouldered, Swainson's, ferruginous, broad-wing, or several other species "chicken hawks," with red-tails the most likely referred to because of their wide range and open country hunting behavior.
After going through the types of hawks that were commonly seen in that part of the country, I was asked about the "chicken" hawk.
I asked if it looked like any of the birds I had displayed in my presentation and the interested individuals claimed that the birds I had presented did not resemble the "chicken Hawk" they were referring.
www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/zoo00/zoo00527.htm   (275 words)

  
 Chicken Hawk Paintball Field (Carnesville, Georgia) - pbreview.com
Chicken hawk is by far the best place so far, there crew is cool, and willing to help any one out, My boyz at the field reasonly took a GOLD MEDAL in the GPPS tourney!!!
Last but not least a chicken house was turned into an indoor playing field.
chicken hawk rules its the best field round these parts the have a x ball field another blow up field indoor fields and woods fields theve come along way from their opening they have had cfoa tournys (carolina field owners association) and all that.
www.pbreview.com /fields/reviews/1862   (1480 words)

  
 White House plays chicken with a war hero - The Boston Globe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
THE WHITE House is so deluded, it actually believes it can turn a soaring hawk into a scrounging chicken.
Stung by the call by US Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania to pull out of Iraq, Scott McClellan, President Bush's press secretary, said this week, ''It is baffling that he is endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme...
This hawk still soars, above the scrounging chicken hawks.
www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/11/19/white_house_plays_chicken_with_a_war_hero   (785 words)

  
 The Strata-Sphere » Blog Archive » Neck Deep In Chicken Hawk Droppings
The Chicken Hawks are all out strutting in clucking that they defeated their demeons.
I do not include you as a chicken hawk, mainly because you are not opposed to the deal simply because these folks are Ayrabs.
Notice that you have had to backed the troops dying in Iraq and then cowered when THEIR ally was all of a sudden in the news doing business here (as they have already).
strata-sphere.com /blog/index.php/archives/1459   (3576 words)

  
 The Moderate Voice - Why The Chicken Hawk Argument Isn't An Argument At All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In any case, the whole premise of the ``chicken hawk" attack -- that military experience is a prerequisite for making sound pronouncements on foreign policy -- is illogical and ahistorical.
The chicken hawk 'argument' is mere rhetoric, that's all is.
The whole concept of "chicken hawk" is that it's about people promoting warfare as the solution who have never participated in such practice as a solution before.
www.themoderatevoice.com /posts/1153764159.shtml   (9380 words)

  
 Zooass Forum - Bizarre Dreams - Chicken-Hawk
I once dreamt that I was a hawk, perched on an old wooden fence overlooking softly rolling hills covered in tall tan grasses.
As the chicken, my vision was not as good as before but I could see the hawk flying in the sky above me. I started pecking the ground looking for bugs I guess and noticed a tiny group of people living in some sort of prehistoric village.
During this dream I would repeatedly go back to be the Hawk only to replay the motions of Seeing the chicken, Becoming the chicken, and watching the little people evolve more and more.
www.zooass.com /forum/read.php?f=2&i=102&t=102   (208 words)

  
 Chicken Hawk warmers group buy - 13x Forums
I'm gonna talk to the bossman tomorrow, but I'm thinking along the lines of $360 for the standard chicken hawk warmers.
You can get the standard chicken hawk warmers from Lockhart Phillips using the racers discount cheaper than that, and with a group buy it probably be even less.
You can get them free if you just wait for someone to take them off and steal them when they are not looking.
forums.13x.com /showthread.php?s=&threadid=41386   (1151 words)

  
 SEND IN THE CHICKEN HAWKS
The hypocrisy of chicken hawks is just as rank as that of limousine liberals.
Imagine a platoon composed entirely of chicken hawk politicians' sons staging a midnight raid on Baghdad.
The leader of the Chicken Hawk Brigade ought to be none other than Vice President Dick Cheney, who served as Secretary of Defense during Gulf War I even though he never spent a day in uniform.
www.geocities.com /fountoftruth/sendin.html   (618 words)

  
 AlterNet: The Chicken Hawk Factor
The statement "generated riotous applause," according to an eyewitness quoted in the Nelson Report, a private newsletter subscribed to by foreign-policy heavyweights and embassies in Washington.
The incident revealed the growing importance of the "Chicken Hawk" factor in the increasingly rancorous debate over the Bush administration's push toward war on Iraq and beyond.
The attitude of rightwing hawks was best summarized last week in the Washington Post by Eliot Cohen, one of the four signers of the PNAC letter who actually served in the Army reserves, albeit in the war-free 1980s.
www.alternet.org /story/14070   (895 words)

  
 The Rubber Chicken | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Before Tony Hawk's Pro Skater debuted on the N64 it had shown up on what seemed like every other console available.
There was Dreamcast, Gameboy, and Playstation, but Nintendo fans had yet to play it on their favorite system.
You have the option of controlling with either the D pad or the control stick, so it is easy no matter which one you are used to.
www.n-chicken.net /reviews/someperson/tonyhawk.shtml   (914 words)

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