Posted on 05/31/2016 11:19:37 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Its getting so theres 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 theyre the furthest thing from makeshift doesnt 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 Walshs pain. In fact, for a minute I thought of proposing Matts 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 others 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 Harambes attention.
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Gorillas in the wild are doing nothing less than what God intended them to do. Is God at fault for one of his particular creations and the emotions HE gave it?
Humans trump gorillas.Every...single...time.
What was the MAKE, model, and CALIBER of the rifle used to dispatch the beast? Why is that info so secret?
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