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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That’s the life of your basic Social Justice Warrior. Create outrage with little or no evidence.
Sadly, these idiots are listened to and now we can’t even use our own bathrooms and have to hear endless whining about a stupid gorilla.
or if they gave them an evil name like “Scar” or “FrankenGorilla” people would celebrate their demise.
WTF
Yes we need to be more realistic about animals as a society and not give them human characteristics. Children need to be taught the truth about animals and have a realistic view of them. People need to understand the difference between domestic animals and wild animals too. I had neighbors for a while that would feed coyotes dog food on their porch, they learned a real lesson when a coyote they were feeding- and had named, ate their little dog.
I am truly an animal lover, doesn’t mean I would trust all animals with my life.
I must confess that when I heard this story I knew it was dinner bell time for animal rights lawyers.
FWIW, she has not had one client or group demanding changes in police tactics on the dog shooters in our local municipalities. I find that strange.
Wow, put that one down to lesson learned huh?
Yes people are full of contradictions.
Agree this story needs to go away.
Gorilla Lives Matter! LOL.
that shark in Jaws didn’t have a name?...Did, too. Bruce.
SNL?
But the wackos think a boy is a dog is a cat, etc. They think that there is no order of nature placing humans at the top. In short, they hate the “dominion over animals” thing.
But I have a peel.
It was really sad but everyone around here had tried to explain to them that you don’t feed wild animals. We had even told them they would eat dogs and cats and such. They had never lived in the country and didn’t believe any of us.
They were only here two years, it just wasn’t like they thought it would be.
“I would sacrifice my own dog (if I had one) to save another human’s life”
Honestly, for me it would depend on who the human was. A lot of humans these days have questionable value.
I still wouldn't be going ape.
My brother’s father in law lives in the country. He told me that he got a call once from the township manager griping about city people moving to the country. This lady called him at 4am and said that he needed to get someone to fix the city water.
He asked where she lived and then told her that no one on the township has city water, it’s all on wells.
He then asked if she had any idea what the whirring sound was whenever she turned on the water. Oh yea, that’s the wellpump.
I’ve got another friend who lives on about 5 acres. He came to church one Sunday after a 4-5 day regional power outage all happy because he could finally flush the toilet. I said “You have a pond!” He had no idea that his problem would be solved with a 5 gallon bucket since toilets work on gravity. Oh well.
You and your dog are walking in the woods. You come across Sid Blumenthal eating a tuna sandwich while he's waiting to pick up a cash drop for the Clintons. You suddenly see a mamma bear with cubs headed for the three of you. What do you do?
A)Run away knowing the bear can outrun you?
B)tie your dog to the closest tree as bait so you and Sid can outrun the bear?
C) Unleash your dog so it can follow you fast, and tie the leash to Sid and a tree while smearing him with tuna?
My dog is ready to sacrifice it’s own life to save me.Other people,not so much.
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