DEAR WHINEY GREEN PUKE PUDDLE GO WHIZZ UP A ROPE!!!
Posted on 07/31/2015 7:00:18 PM PDT by rickmichaels
The brutal death of a beautiful animal fills most people with sadness and disgust. It is an undeniably human response to be repelled by violence and cruelty, but there is something especially disturbing about the killing of Cecil, a dark-maned Zimbabwean lion, that has generated worldwide grief and despair.
Cecil lived in Zimbabwe’s protected Hwange National Park, and his effortless leonine magnificence was a big tourist draw. In our market-based economy, he had considerably more value as a living exhibit than as the dead carcass he became after being lured outside the park and hunted down in a perverted version of sport by Walter Palmer, an American dentist who paid $50,000 for the thrill.
But the fundamental reason Cecil is being mourned is because he so perfectly expressed the awesomeness of existence in ways we can barely articulate or appreciate until we see a lion in his habitat, living the life he was made to live – before money, human arrogance and a twisted sense of pleasure turned this wonder of creation into a pathetic trophy, the saddest selfie ever.
A death like this leaves a huge void, because the imbalance between the corpse and the killer is so extreme: It shouldn’t be this easy to extinguish the planet’s greatness just to satisfy one demented tourist’s need for self-glorification. The trivial indifference to life glimpsed in the dentist’s dumbstruck souvenir photos, where extraordinary creatures are nullified and transformed into deferential props, fuels the outrage. There is a war-crime feeling about this whole experience, even if the Geneva Convention will never apply – how bloodless and uncaring do you need to be to slaughter highly evolved creatures on this scale, celebrate yourself doing it, and feel no shame?
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Actually it was a bow and arrow.
No barf alert?
Is it me or are the Brits going more overboard than usual in their coverage of this whole event in order to get a few digs in at American society?
Zebra lives matter too!
I am really sick of hearing about this old, dead lion. I don’t care.
Good article by Matt Walsh - it’s easy to show how “loving” we are by being outraged at the death of a lion in Africa. It requires no actual action - it’s just talk and makes us feel good.
Yet the people of Zimbabwe DGAF....it’s the hand wringer liberals who dont have to live with lions that are freaking out....
Too bad PP isnt selling Lion parts...the liberals might even be miffed...much less outraged.
Yep, he thought he was the apex predator. And then he found out he wasn’t.
Racist!! #CapeBuffaloLivesMatter
If this guy’s rhetoric was any more overblown he would float away.
We cannot be men... cuz we are white? The sht we dn’t hear.
“Is it me or are the Brits going more overboard than usual in their coverage of this whole event in order to get a few digs in at American society?”
Could be, dowcaet. The Brits seem okay with Muslim savages raping 13-year-old English girls. Britain has become a nation of wimps and bed-wetters.
I never give barf alerts. They’re for people who need to be told what to think and I don’t cater to them. Barf alerts are unnecessary for those who can make up their own minds.
The Glob and Flail jumped in way too late to even pretend they give a false fart. Guess their fax ran out of ink before the DNC’s fax tranny arrived.
I don’t give a rats rectum about that animal any more than I do about 12 million chickens killed a day so I can eat. You maudlin misguided grow up!! We have the slaughter of 60 million babies to answer to God for and you idiots are worried about a fricken LION?
Thank you SargeantDave! Couldn’t have said it better! Let the limp waisted Brits piss themselves over this one. The ones who aren’t eunuchs need to start protecting their women from barbarians, rather than criticize us for being men!
A few million babies are tortured to death and their organs are dismantled like a junk car for parts and sold wholesale, not one Liberal, both on or off this forum gives a shit. But let one lion get killed and they all go foaming at the mouth insane. With not a thought of the other animals, including natives that this animal has killed and eaten.
I’m becoming concerned about our British cousins. After the rape news, I expected that the British men would rise up and start killing the Muslim scum. Guess not. I’m thinking that a good solution would be to run 100 Brit divisions thru Camp Pendleton for infantry training, and then send each man back with an M-16 and a thousand rounds of ammo to clean out the English toilet.
This happened july 1st. I wonder why something at best, a possible poaching case, suddenly explodes all over the news?
Couldn’t be the Planned Parenthood Dr. Mengele videos really hurt them, could it? I think all this Cecil BS means the videos need to keep coming and legislators need to be pressured hard to kill 100 of their funding.
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