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Lions kill 20 peasants in Ethiopia
Reuters ^ | 9/20/05

Posted on 09/24/2005 7:31:39 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon

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To: willyd

LOL...were this story true I'd think the peasants were the ones angry there were no more trees to climb.


41 posted on 09/24/2005 9:26:13 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
I guess the peasants weren't revolting.
42 posted on 09/24/2005 9:28:10 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Now that's reducing a story to its essential elements! Kudos!!


43 posted on 09/24/2005 9:35:17 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
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To: All

Thousands abandon their homes because of 20 stinkin' lions? Do they really need the govt to come in and take care of the problem for them? I hear the Massai are pretty good at hunting lions.


44 posted on 09/24/2005 10:33:20 PM PDT by TNdandelion
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Lions disturbed by deforestation

What I don't understand is why the lions, a plains/savannah animal, were protesting deforestation. I had no idea lions were such enviromentalists.

"The lions killed shepherds tending cattle and villagers after breaking into their houses,"

They did a public service, executing criminal shepherds, who were breaking into the villagers' houses, and then herding kidnapped villagers. Wouldn't be surprised if the cattle were also stolen from the villagers.

45 posted on 09/24/2005 11:21:29 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Marching Morons are coming...and they're breeding more Democrats beyond all reason!)
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To: Squantos
oh look, a chicken....

(/adhd)

46 posted on 09/25/2005 6:49:06 AM PDT by patton ("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
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To: abbi_normal_2; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; AMDG&BVMH; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

List of Ping lists

47 posted on 09/25/2005 4:04:20 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Deep within every dilemma is a solution that involves explosives)
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To: reagan_fanatic

What's the recipe for peasant-under-glass?


48 posted on 09/25/2005 4:06:57 PM PDT by verity (Don't let your children grow up to be mainstream media maggots.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Do you think that the lions might have been drunk if they could sleep during all that singing?


49 posted on 09/25/2005 4:18:02 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (LET ME KNOW WHERE HANOI JANE FONDA IS WHEN SHE TOURS)
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To: Mike Darancette

I can hear the lions now, "Bring them on".


"burp".


50 posted on 09/25/2005 4:19:59 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (LET ME KNOW WHERE HANOI JANE FONDA IS WHEN SHE TOURS)
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To: Vigilant1
" Lions are open-country predators. They do not live in the forest. They live in the plains and desert. So how is deforestation supposedly effecting them?"

That was exactly my first thought when I read this!

Obviously, the "reporter" is a Greenie Activist. I would love to have him substantiate his claim.

51 posted on 09/25/2005 4:56:43 PM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is...not be one of them!)
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To: Squantos
They taste just like chicken


52 posted on 09/25/2005 5:02:44 PM PDT by zeeba neighba (no crocs!)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Lions have to eat, too.


53 posted on 09/25/2005 5:11:55 PM PDT by Palladin (America! America! God shed His grace on Thee.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Lions disturbed by deforestation have killed 20 people and devoured 750 of their domestic animals in Ethiopia, a local news agency said on Tuesday.

Most lion's I have talked to in the past have explained their frustrations in detail with their concerns about deforestation and going by their in depth concerns as roared to me, I have found that a constant intake of "meat" overrides their concern for deforestation.

I really don't think that those 20 people were devoured because of the deforestation, I just think that the lions found a good chunk of meat in a conservative and let nature take it's course.

54 posted on 09/25/2005 5:12:05 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: reagan_fanatic
Oh, never mind....

ROTFLMAO....

Now I'm hungry.

55 posted on 09/25/2005 5:14:27 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: verity
What's the recipe for peasant-under-glass?

Shoot 'em, dress 'em, cook 'em and place them under a tumbler... ; )

56 posted on 09/25/2005 5:17:42 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

LOL!!! Hahahah


57 posted on 09/25/2005 5:18:04 PM PDT by Fawn (Try not--do or do not.)
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To: NC Native
Methinks there is some other causal factor for these events.

Me too,Something like....lack of lion hunting.

58 posted on 09/25/2005 7:51:49 PM PDT by HP8753 (My cat is an NTSB Standard,The Naval Observatory calls me for time corrections.)
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To: Tomato lover

Shortly after seeing "The Ghosts in the DArkness" we went to Chicago and saw the stuffed lions which killed the people of Savo. They were 2 maneless male lions. Looked small to me. They were not impressive like the lions depicted in the movie. Apparently they did the killing though.


59 posted on 09/25/2005 9:12:24 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (E)
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To: freepatriot32

BTTT


60 posted on 09/26/2005 3:08:31 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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