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Zimbabweans can't understand why everyone is so upset over 'Cecil the lion'
Business Insider ^ | 07/31/2015 | FARAI MUTSAKA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 07/31/2015 7:17:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

While the death of a protected lion in Zimbabwe has caused outrage in the United States — much of it centered on the Minnesota dentist who killed the animal — most in Zimbabwe expressed a degree of bafflement over the concern.

The discovery that Cecil, the star of Zimbabwe national park had been lured out and killed by American bow hunter Walter James Palmer has resulted in online anger and protests at his dental clinic.

Outside Zimbabwe's environmental and activist circles, however, the reaction been muted.

"It's so cruel, but I don't understand the whole fuss, there are so many pressing issues in Zimbabwe — we have water shortages, no electricity, and no jobs — yet people are making noise about a lion?" said Eunice Vhunise, a Harare resident. "I saw Cecil once when I visited the game park. I will probably miss him. But honestly the attention is just too much."

An economic meltdown over the past few years has closed many companies and left two-thirds of the population working in the informal economy while battling acute water and electricity shortages.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cecil; cecilthelion; hunt; lion; swine
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To: seawolf101

Don’t forget to include ants. That makes as much sense as your zebra nonsense.


41 posted on 07/31/2015 9:45:40 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: SeekAndFind

in that part of africa, lions are a pest.


42 posted on 07/31/2015 9:46:16 AM PDT by zeugma (The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
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To: Tulane
Jimmy Kimmel crying in national tv was disgraceful. People really wonder where the men have gone in this country.

Oh Jimmy, how far you have fallen...


43 posted on 07/31/2015 10:24:56 AM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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To: SamAdams76
Not that I'm condoning the hunting of lion only for sport but if this hunter had butchered Cecil into cuts of lion meat for the grill, I would be fine with that. I might even ask for a cut or two to marinate and put on my Weber this weekend.

As a point of order, he couldn't take the meat, even if he wanted it - By law, the meat goes to the natives.

44 posted on 07/31/2015 10:32:59 AM PDT by roamer_1
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To: GBA
How would you, as a little kid, feel if Bambi the movie ended with Bambi and his mom dead and tied down on the hood of a car or pickup truck driving into the sunset?

By the time I was eight I had a bb gun and was trapping mice. weasels, and skunks... By the time I was 10 I had a .22, a paper route, and a trap line. Bagged my first deer when I was 12, and gutted it mostly myself.

I swear, y'all are touched in the head - I think it should be a requirement for everyone to live for one year only eating what they can kill. It would sure enough get rid of this phony-ass fuzzy bunny bull crap.

I almost pray for SHTF, just for the massive cognitive correction it will impose upon such folks.

45 posted on 07/31/2015 10:53:56 AM PDT by roamer_1
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To: Tulane

46 posted on 07/31/2015 11:18:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: dfwgator
Thanks to Disney and their "humanizing" of animals.

That idea predates Disney. It's part of the code the Original Programmer wrote into us.

Whether he grew up with it or heard it in a cowboy/western movie like I think I might have, back on the farm the old man used to tell my brother and sister not to name anything they were going to eat.

It's not a mistake you make twice.

47 posted on 07/31/2015 11:40:10 AM PDT by GBA (Just a hick in paradise)
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To: notdownwidems
Zimbabweans are too busy frying their food in toxic oil they steal from transformers to worry about Cecil.

That's Kenya! Or are they doing it in Rhodesia also?

In the former Rhodesia, yes. It was not uncommon in Zambia in the late '70s-early '80s, too.

48 posted on 07/31/2015 11:42:27 AM PDT by archy
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To: GBA

We named our breakfast, lunch, dinner and second breakfast in honor of Tolkein.


49 posted on 07/31/2015 11:42:36 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (I was mad when they changed Republican states to Red, but I now I see they were right.)
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To: archy

Nothing enhances the taste of food like PCBs!


50 posted on 07/31/2015 11:43:57 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: dfwgator
If only that zebra had a name.

How 'bout *Spot?*

51 posted on 07/31/2015 11:46:02 AM PDT by archy
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To: GBA
How would you, as a little kid, feel if Bambi the movie ended with Bambi and his mom dead and tied down on the hood of a car or pickup truck driving into the sunset?

You ever see Marv Newland's animated cartoon Bambi meets Godzilla? Runs about a minute and a half, counting the credits.

52 posted on 07/31/2015 11:50:57 AM PDT by archy
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To: afsnco
I can’t figure it out either. The guy did nothing illegal or immoral.

Must not have had a Portugese guide.

53 posted on 07/31/2015 11:51:29 AM PDT by archy
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To: Tulane
Jimmy kimmel crying in national tv was disgraceful. People really wonder where the men have gone in this country.

I'd pay some serious change to see Jimmy Kimmel eaten by a lion. Or shot by a bowhunter, for that matter.

Betcha he can't outrun the hyenas!

54 posted on 07/31/2015 11:53:12 AM PDT by archy
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To: Buffalo Bob
Oh Jimmy, how far you have fallen...

He was never even up. Once the bandleader died, and the girls quit jumping on the trampoline, all that was left was Kimmel and the chubby little kid, and people began to start wondering about Kimmel.

Zicke zacke, zicke zacke, hoi hoi hoi!

55 posted on 07/31/2015 12:01:10 PM PDT by archy
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To: 17th Miss Regt
Note the stripes.

#blackandwhitestripedlivesmatter

Blackandwhite is the new orange?

[Red and white is not.]

56 posted on 07/31/2015 12:06:03 PM PDT by archy
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To: SeekAndFind

George Orwell was a prophet. He wrote about two minute hate. Unfortunately, the dentist from Minnesota is the target of two minute hate today. Only thing he did wrong was to lure the Lion out of the protected park and then hunt him. The consequence for that should be a stiff fine, let’s say $10,000.


57 posted on 07/31/2015 12:13:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: roamer_1
I think it should be a requirement for everyone to live for one year only eating what they can kill. It would sure enough get rid of this phony-ass fuzzy bunny bull crap.

I agree. I don't have a problem if people in this country eat dog meat. I mean, why not?

58 posted on 07/31/2015 12:15:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
I agree. I don't have a problem if people in this country eat dog meat. I mean, why not?

Run a deep woods trap line some time. You won't be so picky. And you'll be grateful for what you get.

59 posted on 07/31/2015 12:26:13 PM PDT by roamer_1
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To: roamer_1
I think it should be a requirement for everyone to live for one year only eating what they can kill. It would sure enough get rid of this phony-ass fuzzy bunny bull crap.

I almost pray for SHTF, just for the massive cognitive correction it will impose upon such folks.

You beat me by a couple of years. In those years prior to getting my first BB gun, I was still catching minnows and crawdads in the creek next to the house to feed to my turtles and alligator.

Hunting and fishing are an necessary and important part of responsible conservation. Being stupid about life and the food chain is...well, stupid. And yet, for some reason "for food" is not the same as "for sport".

My first point is that those feelings I was talking about exist in all of us. They're built-in and part of the OEM design. Not having them is a serious design flaw worthy of a recall.

And, I agree with you that the more "city-fied" a person is, the stronger and perhaps more irrational those feelings can be.

My second point is also agreeing with you that nothing short of SHTF is going to change those feelings as they are generally applied by the general population today.

So, in situations like this, arguing against emotion is like spitting into a wind that soon turns into a hurricane. None for me, thanks, but hey, if that's what you're into...

Personally, I think it might work better, for example, to use The Planned Parenthood Nightmare Series currently playing like a sail, tacking tactfully into that wind to move something important together in the right direction.

There must be a better way to do that than to pick a fight over emotions, about how "wrong" one is compared to another and so is the person for having it.

Yeah, that's a winner. People love that stuff. Especially women! (Who make up about half of the population, btw)

60 posted on 07/31/2015 12:32:48 PM PDT by GBA (Just a hick in paradise)
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