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It’s a gorilla, get over it
National Post ^ | May 31, 2016 | Christie Blatchford

Posted on 05/31/2016 11:19:37 AM PDT by rickmichaels

It’s getting so there’s nothing to parody anymore.

Is it not galling enough that the death of any human being with any sort of profile is marked by a ghastly memorial of flowers and stuffed animals (that these maudlin displays have been around so long now they’re the furthest thing from “makeshift” doesn’t preclude that still being the favoured descriptor), a demand for a change in some law or another and a vigil or two?

Now, as an American blogger named Matt Walsh tweeted Monday, “A vigil for a freaking gorilla. God help this country.”

(I felt Walsh’s pain. In fact, for a minute I thought of proposing Matt’s Law, which would prohibit such mawkish public behaviour, and lock up offenders in tight quarters with one another, where they could fight for the rapidly depleting oxygen and put flowers meant for memorials in each other’s hair.)

Then, of course, Walsh proceeded to lose his mind and was soon tweeting, “While You Were Crying Over a Dead Ape, 125,000 Babies Were Just Murdered,” that a reference, if not exactly a segue, to abortion, there being no bad time to talk about “the mountain of dead human bodies piled in medical waste dumpsters outside abortion clinics …”

The poor gorilla, of course, is Harambe, a just-turned-17 western lowland gorilla who was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday after a little boy went under a rail, through some wiring and over a moat wall, and found himself the focus of Harambe’s attention.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cincinnati; cincinnatizoo; gorilla; gorillakilled; harambe; ohio; zoo
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To: Fido969

ROFL!!!


41 posted on 05/31/2016 12:15:34 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: cyclotic

Yes we have seen all that, several years back someone advertised land here to city people and several moved here. None of that group is here now. They just don’t know how things really work outside of a city and when they find out if there is enough of them they try to change everything to their ways. One of my pet peeves! If I decided to move, I would make sure I wanted to live there as it is.


42 posted on 05/31/2016 12:25:38 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Tammy8

For a while, my mother in law’s township was mailing manure scratch and sniff cards to prospective homebuyers to let them know what spring was like.

I can’t stand when I hear of people complaining about gunshots, tractor noise, airplanes and animal smells which were all there long before they were.


43 posted on 05/31/2016 12:34:58 PM PDT by cyclotic (Guns don't kill people. Abortion clinics kill people)
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To: cyclotic

Zoos are archaic and barbaric anyway. There’s no need for them anymore. Kids can learn about the animals through multimedia, without any need to sentence some poor animal to jail for life.


44 posted on 05/31/2016 12:39:15 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

> It may be worth debating whether it was good policy to shoot the gorilla

How’s that? Whomever shot this animal was an extremely well-prepared hero.


45 posted on 05/31/2016 12:43:21 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: thoughtomator

Zoo’s are cool and they perform a function. Not everything should be learned and seen on a screen. If I had my way, very little would be learned on a screen when it can be experienced.

You can watch people go camping too, but it’s nothing at all like the real thing. The pitter patter of rain on your tent, struggling to find the comfort sweet spot on the air mattress, waking up early and seeing the dew burning off the ground and thanking God your tent didn’t leak. (or trying to figure out why after ten years of dry, your tent leaked like a sieve) Walking down to the creek for some fresh water and the awesome smell of eggs and bacon on the campstove.

Can’t get none of that on a screen.


46 posted on 05/31/2016 12:52:10 PM PDT by cyclotic (Guns don't kill people. Abortion clinics kill people)
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To: Tammy8

Save the whales. Kill the babies.


47 posted on 05/31/2016 12:52:34 PM PDT by petercooper (All the world's problems are caused by the sandrats, hoodrats, gimmedats, democrats and commiecrats.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

-—If these people want to see a cruel death of a gorilla, watch a film of gorillas fighting in the wild. The winning gorilla brutally attacks and kills the weaker gorilla. A shooting is much more merciful.-—

Wait’... you mean in the wild, gorillas are wild animals and don’t sing kembya after a disagreement is resolved...


49 posted on 05/31/2016 1:07:17 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Popman

“It’s the Circle of Life.”


50 posted on 05/31/2016 1:07:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cyclotic

You don’t really see animals as they truly are in a zoo, any more than looking at a prisoner in a jail can teach you about humans.


51 posted on 05/31/2016 1:12:26 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: blackdog

D) Sic the dog on Sid. When Sid yells and drops the sandwich, grab it and get behind Sid and lob it at the bear. When the bear goes for Sid, call off dog and watch the bear eat Sid from a distance. Tell the dog what a good boy he is! Go home counting blessings.


52 posted on 05/31/2016 1:30:16 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: bluejean

“Good Bear”


53 posted on 05/31/2016 1:34:50 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: thoughtomator

Yea, but for $10 it’s a whole lot better than $8000 for a safari or nothing.


54 posted on 05/31/2016 1:43:07 PM PDT by cyclotic (Guns don't kill people. Abortion clinics kill people)
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To: rickmichaels

“Presumably, these folks have never had a slippery four-year-old in their charge. “

One thing about hard core liberals is that they DESPISE CHILDREN. That’s just who they are, so the presumption above is very likely true.


55 posted on 05/31/2016 1:55:10 PM PDT by BobL
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To: rickmichaels

I’m happy that the guy had a good enough shot to only take down the beast.


56 posted on 05/31/2016 1:57:55 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
It may be worth debating whether it was good policy to shoot the gorilla, but the outpouring of sympathy and maudlin emotion on the gorilla’s death shows what a bubble we live in. If these people want to see a cruel death of a gorilla, watch a film of gorillas fighting in the wild. The winning gorilla brutally attacks and kills the weaker gorilla. A shooting is much more merciful.Or the poachers in Africa that kill them and cut their hands off to make ashtrays.

But hey! Actually more to the point, "I'm sick of these dolphins."

57 posted on 05/31/2016 2:09:36 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: Fido969

And Elmer the cow is glue...


58 posted on 05/31/2016 2:22:12 PM PDT by Salamander (Disco bloodbath boogie fever...)
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To: rfreedom4u

Depends on the person whether I would sacrifice my dog. Probably not. You’d think I’d sacrifice my dog to save the life of Barack Obama or Bernie Clinton? A Black Chimps Matter activist? - not likely


59 posted on 05/31/2016 2:24:57 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: blackdog

Nope...... http://jaws.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_%28Shark%29


60 posted on 05/31/2016 2:57:26 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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