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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe condemns ‘white’ safaris, eats baby elephant at birthday bash
The Washington Post ^ | March 2, 2015 | Terrance McCoy

Posted on 03/02/2015 2:44:33 PM PST by Plainsman

When considering what to get Robert Mugabe for his birthday, one first must understand that Zimbabwe’s president is a man who demands the finest.

His birthday parties don’t cost hundreds of thousands; they cost millions. His parties aren’t attended by thousands, but by tens of thousands. And they don’t eat elephant; they eat baby elephant.

This was the predicament in which one local landowner named Tendai Musasa found himself when figuring out what he would get Mugabe for his 91st birthday party, which cost $1 million and was held this past weekend. “We regard him as our father,” Musasa said to the Los Angeles Times of a leader who has been in power for 35 years and is widely criticized for his human rights record, disastrous economic policies and impoverished citizenry. “Our provider, our hero. We regard him as a very courageous man.”

For such a courageous man, who years ago instituted violent and contentious land-redistribution policies, Musasa would bring out the big guns. He would kill a baby elephant.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: africa; hunting; zimbabwe
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1 posted on 03/02/2015 2:44:33 PM PST by Plainsman
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To: Plainsman

Did Obama attend the birthday bash for Mugabe?


2 posted on 03/02/2015 2:46:02 PM PST by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: MeganC

Obama doesn’t do elephant. He does dog.


3 posted on 03/02/2015 2:47:10 PM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Plainsman

One of Holder’s people. One of Obama’s sons if Obama lived in the 1920’s.


4 posted on 03/02/2015 2:47:37 PM PST by rickmichaels
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To: MeganC
Did Obama attend the birthday bash for Mugabe?

No, they weren't serving dog for dinner so he sent his regrets. And last time I made a moochelle comment it irritated the moderator, so............

5 posted on 03/02/2015 2:48:52 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Plainsman

Baby elephant just doesn’t sound tasty to me. I think I’ll pass.


6 posted on 03/02/2015 2:51:17 PM PST by boycott
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To: Plainsman

There are few people I wish death on in the world, but RM is at the very top. Please die already.


7 posted on 03/02/2015 2:51:27 PM PST by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Plainsman

Fake, but accurate.

8 posted on 03/02/2015 2:53:54 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

He’s got some cool chicks!


9 posted on 03/02/2015 2:54:26 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Plainsman

He’s everything Obama would like to be at 91. /S


10 posted on 03/02/2015 2:54:57 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: nascarnation

..the Royal Bathers.


11 posted on 03/02/2015 2:55:45 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Plainsman
This was the predicament in which one local landowner named Tendai Musasa found himself when figuring out what he would get Mugabe for his 91st birthday party, which cost $1 million and was held this past weekend. “We regard him as our father,” Musasa said to the Los Angeles Times of a leader who has been in power for 35 years and is widely criticized for his human rights record, disastrous economic policies and impoverished citizenry. “Our provider, our hero. We regard him as a very courageous man.”

The black American electorate has an almost identical view of Obama. It's a very African tribal-nationalist attitude common in Africa, and it explains in part the catastrophic political history of postcolonial Africa. Obama clearly is an admirer of this political culture and wants to import it philosophically, as well as literally through immigration.

12 posted on 03/02/2015 2:59:07 PM PST by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Plainsman

Gosh, I remember when Mugabe was a noble rebel commander ousting the Evil Rhodesians.

The Liberals loved him then.

But of course they condemn him now for his racism, corruption and brutality.

Right?

Right?!


13 posted on 03/02/2015 3:00:55 PM PST by Regulator (Guess Not)
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To: Crazieman

“Obama doesn’t do elephant. He does dog.”

Obama don’t dig on pachedyrme.


14 posted on 03/02/2015 3:12:38 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: Plainsman

Baby Elephant - The other White Meat.


15 posted on 03/02/2015 3:15:01 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: boycott

In last weeks “Million Dollar Critic”, Coren ate seal in Quebec City, commenting on the “First Nation” eatery, that seal and other paleolithic culinary delights, were what people ate 4000 years ago because they had no choice.

There’s no real reason or need to eat them nowadays.

(He neglected to comment on poutine, for some reason. French fry snob?)


16 posted on 03/02/2015 3:40:41 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Crazieman

Is that why the elephant takes its frustrations out on school lunches?


17 posted on 03/02/2015 3:42:52 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: TexasCajun

King Jaffe Joffer of Zamunda.


19 posted on 03/02/2015 4:07:45 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Plainsman; MeshugeMikey; Slings and Arrows; GeronL

“Maybe the dictator ate yor’ baby!”


20 posted on 03/02/2015 4:10:16 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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