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King Juan Carlos breaks a hip hunting elephants in Botswana
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| April 14, 2012
Posted on 04/14/2012 11:53:23 AM PDT by billorites
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Meanwhile, the King's 13 y.o. grandson is hospitalized after shooting himself in the left foot. Family is having a tough time.
To: billorites
Quite a fall to do that kind of damage.
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:56:52 AM PDT
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: billorites
I can’t shake the feeling that a “hold m’beer” moment allowed an elephant to display the versatility of it’s trunk
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:57:04 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: billorites
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:58:40 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: billorites
I hate what they are doing to that poor elephant making him pose like that.
That being said, I do like King Juan Carlos because he told Chavez to “shut up”
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:59:29 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: billorites
One has to be quite the marksman to shoot an elephant during a Canned Hunt.
To: nuconvert
I have no sympathy
Me neither for a monarch/ruler/dictator/president who goes off vacationing while his country is going through financial meltdown.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:07:08 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: billorites
I don’t feel sorry for him in the least. There is nothing good in killing a pachyderm.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:07:54 PM PDT
by
clashfan
(know your rights)
To: unkus
"Quite a fall to do that kind of damage."A more detailed account in the the Madrid newspaper makes it sound like he fell on some stairs. Drawings of the injury show it involves the proximal end of the femur. He's suffered from an arthritic hip so the surgeons plan to do an implant while repairing the other damage.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:10:48 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Meanwhile 20,000 more Muslim immigrants arrived in Spain, with 5 new Mosques opening up.
European royalty is almost entirely useless. The last one I heard say something sensible was the Danish Queen.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:11:36 PM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
("None of the above" ain't running.)
To: Uncle Slayton
One has to be quite the marksman to shoot an elephant during a Canned Hunt. Looks like the king got some karmic payback.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:14:36 PM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: clashfan
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:16:10 PM PDT
by
Manic_Episode
(Politics is fake. I think it's owned by Vince Mcmahon)
To: nuconvert
“The Monarch appears on the web page of the safari company, Rann Safaris, who charge some 30,000 for killing an elephant in Botswana”
I wonder how much they’d charge the elephants to kill a monarch?
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:18:01 PM PDT
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: billorites
Thanks for the details, billorites. That explains that kind of damage.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:18:17 PM PDT
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: clashfan
agreed. serves him right.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:21:25 PM PDT
by
hecht
(Murray use your coaster)
To: billorites
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:27:16 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: nuconvert
I thought he was the one that was "still dead."
Must have my Spanish rulers mixed up.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:31:37 PM PDT
by
daler
To: Don Corleone
You realize that as a constitutional monarch, the King of Spain does not make policy? That is up to the President of the Government (Prime Minister) of Spain, not the King.
The Government and the General Court (parliament) have to sort the mess out.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:33:05 PM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
To: Don Corleone
who said anything about Obama? (kidding)
To: GreenLanternCorps
I remember years ago seeing some nutty pastor on TV proclaiming that King Juan Carlos was the Anti-Christ.
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posted on
04/14/2012 12:35:37 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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