Posted on 08/02/2015 4:50:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Unless you live under a rock, there is no way in Hades that you have not heard of Cecil the Lion’s dreadful demise.
Matter of fact, there has been such an international uproar over his killing that Obama is now slated to do the eulogy at Cecil’s funeral. It’s also been reported that Michelle has already contacted Cecil’s pride to give them her and Barack's condolences. It’s true. Tell everyone.
Now, before I give you my two cents as a big game hunter on the Cecil situation, right before I sat down to bang out this screed my editor pointed out to me that she just posted on my entertainment site, RedHotChaCha.com, pics of two male, Cecil-looking-lions, catching and killing a magnificent kudu bull.
It was disgusting. How could lions team up on such a gorgeous antelope and be so mean? How could this happen? I’ve never beheld lions behaving like that in a movie. According to Disney and the like, lions, warthogs and various plains game animals sing “Hakuna Matata” together.
As you will see (if you clicked the link) the lions chased the kudu down, weaving in and out of vehicles, as car loads of animal lovers with their children watched in horror as The Ghost and The Darkness broke the noble kudu bull’s neck and then commenced to crunch and munch on it in front of them like Larry The Cable Guy would a platter of nachos at a Hooter’s Macho Nacho Blow Out.
It was so sad, folks. It almost made me renounce my religion. I felt led to start a Twitter hashtag campaign I titled #KuduLivesMatter in homage to the murdered bull. It also made me say to my self, “Self, I wonder if the sweet, tender, lovable and damn near human-like lion that we call ‘Cecil' ever scared, bit and/or ultimately murdered, in a grueling and truly terrifying fashion, the food he masticated upon?” Surely not, because Cecil is our official Saint Hello Kitty and he would never ever harm or hunt an animal down like he was hunted, would he? Huh?
Being an inquiring mind I wanted to know if lions' chasing down game, scaring the crap out of it and then viciously killing it is common practice amongst the Panthera Leo's; and boy, oh boy … did I land on a stack of vicious videos of lions doing some uber-nasty shenanigans to their fellow four footed fauna.
Some PETA reps would call what the lions did “evil“ because it sure as heck wasn’t an ethical way to treat an animal. Nature is a serial killer. Fo’ real, y'all.
Befuddled, I continue to investigate further and watched several other videos of lions' eating cape buffalo calves, cows and older bulls; blue wildebeests and helpless zebras; some were actually still alive. Hello! That ain’t right. I’ve never seen that bloody display on Nickelodeon or Saved By The Bell re-runs. How can this be? Because … apparently … it be. And it be bloody, filled with suffering, screams and death bellows all doled out to innocent, beautiful animals, via some dead-ringers of Cecil The Lion. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot?
Speaking of being not nice, my buddy Shaun sent me a link to man-eating lions actually killing black Zimbabweans around Lake Kariba. That was heinous. I thought #BlackLivesMatter? Apparently not to lions or Twitterers because I haven’t heard squat from them regarding these jacked up fatal maulings. We should ban lions because they’re vicious to the animal kingdom and to blacks.
Ok, I’ll stop being a cheeky douche in pointing out how daft the PETA types are and give you what I really think about the Cecil scenario.
This is what I’ve been able to deduce from true sources who are “in the know” and not some Facebook warrior going hashtag nuts with the Cecil movement while also viewing fetish porn.
Check it out…
According to my sources, professional hunters with boots on the ground in Zim, it looks like the professional hunter and the black Zimbabwean landowner did not have a lion on quota and therefore the taking of Cecil, or any lion for that matter, on the Antoinette farm that bordered The Hwange National Park was illegal meaning … he poached it. And hunters, especially, hate poachers. I. Mean. Hate,
So, did Palmer know? Heck if I know. That said, the ultimate onus is on the professional hunter and the landowner. If, in fact, Cecil was poached then the PH and the land-owner should be summarily crapped on to the fullest extent of the law because what they did was illegal and it gives true hunters a bad name.
However, if we find out, as the investigation unfolds, that the landowner, PH and the hunter did not shoot Cecil illegally then I think they're due a massive apology from Matt Lauer, Jimmy Kimmel and all the other Twitter # warriors for ruining their reputations before waiting for all the facts to come out.
Finally, if one wants to really get pissy, they should seek to overthrow Zim’s President Robert Mugabe because that son-of-a-bitch, along with his generals and ministers, have truly decimated Zimbabwe's wildlife with his brutal and greedy, iron fist.
Poach Eggs not Lions. The acronym PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals. There is even a t-shirt “There is room right next to my mashed potatoes and gravy. This story about Cecil and supposedly now his brother Jericho being taken out by hunters (poachers), should in all honesty be a non story. There are Lions that have killed Tourists in Africa and now a lion named after a British Imperialist Cecil Rhodes (rhodes Scholarship fame at Oxford - whom started the Rhodes Scholarship to increase the knowledge and belief that the British Empire should maintain he adage “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire” Do people know that Cecil Rhodes brought the Americans to Oxford for the sake of bringing the American Colonies back under British Rule?) was killed by a barbaric American using a compound bow and arrow. Those Americans are savages to use a bow and arrow to kill a Lion. I have a neighbor from Ireland whom imigrated many years ago, received a message from her sister in Great Britian - You Yanks are so barbaric that as savages you still use a bow and arrow to kill Lions.
What time did they set aside for you to worship at the shrine of Cecil the Lion?
Those are not lions they are know as the Detroit Alleycats!
Come now up here in the UP of Michigan the team to root for and make a yearly pilgrimage to the holy ground at Lambeau Field is the Green Bay Packers. The baseball team in Detroit is the Pussycats and the Hockey team is Detroit Ferals. Come now get with the program!
I’d love to see Obama go out on the Serengeti and try to pet some pride of lions. Maybe sit down with them and explain how male lions could become homosexual lions and then they would not have to kill all those little baby lions when they take over a pride. That way more little lions would survive to become homosexual lions also. Maybe all the lions, tigers, cougars, leopards, cheetahs, and kitty cats could all become homos!!! Wouldn’t that be grand!?!!??!
Cecil the Lion: What If We Find Out Cecil Was Transgendered?
What if a lion died and nobody cared?
Duh. Obama is The Lyin King, so he has to do for "his people".
#FactsDon’tMatter
#TheNarrativeIsEverything
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“Cecil is our official Saint Hello Kitty”
ROTFLMAO!!!
Plenty die from poachers and I do care! I pray they change their evil ways. In this case the poacher is becoming the poached.
Cecil is the poster cat for poached animals! There needs to be much more awareness.
Sad, but not at all shocking...
And his worshipers number in the millions.
Excellent point
Amen!
If you want to see native Africans slaughtering wildlife by the thousands, watch “Addio Africa”.
It’s an exploitation film (by the makers of “Mondo Cane”) that shows the savagery that followed the West’s withdrawal.
Not for the faint of heart.
If you are going to use a bow and arrow at least get it in one expert shot! This yahoo couldn’t even shoot the arrow properly.
Now that’s funny!
“#FactsDon’tMatter
#TheNarrativeIsEverything”
#BanAssaultHashtags
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