Given the story today about the poaching of elephants, this video on Reddit caught my eye. It part of a show called Under Wild Skies What is this shit? For some reason, NBC Sports Network has been airing an NRA-sponsored hunting show called Under Wild Skies, which apparently airs on NBC. This video shows a lobbyist named Tony Makris shooting an elephant in the face. I am surprised to see NBC airing the scene. It shows that, while one cannot swear on television or show certain types of intimate scenes, you can still shoot a elephant in the face. [WARNING The video contains graphic and disturbing images]
I am also confused why this is so impressive. The elephant is standing there and you shoot it at close quarters in the face with a powerful weapon. The elephant however does not die after two shots but lingers in pain before it is finally put down. The episode ends with celebration with what appears to be champagne.
The program identifies Makris as a lobbyist. Some stories identify him as an NRA lobbyist. Other stories describe the show as “sponsored by the NRA.
The episode is filmed in the Botswana wilderness where he is led to around 20 feet from an elephant. While the number of elephants continue to fall in the country, a ban on trophy hunting will not kick in until 2014. That leaves people like Makris rushing to kill elephants while they still can.
I am not surprised at anything that NBC does any more. Do you know that chuck Todd has said that if a journalist hears a lie or knows that he is being told a lie he is not to correct it or even ask about it. A “journalist” in Mr. Todd’s view and that of NBC News is nothing more than a stenographer. David Gregory fits right in and of course it is a lot less work.
Shorting elephants is the face , well its what people do so they show it. They don’t care! That is LEANING FORWARD!
Gene H.
1, September 25, 2013 at 11:12 am
It takes a big man, usually with a small penis, to think that trophy hunting is some test of manliness.
*****
Little penis, undersized frontal lobes, shrunken conscience…
“how many of you could face down a charging lion?”
That’s the wrong question, Bron.
“How many of you would think it is necessary to ‘prove your manhood’ by purposefully putting yourself ‘at risk’ to kill an animal doing what only comes natural to it simply so you can claim to have big balls by killing it in a manifestly unfair contest?”
If your buddies want to impress me with their testicular fortitude? Kill a lion like the Maasai of old did. Use a spear.
Otherwise, you’re simply a coward pretending to be hot stuff in a contest that is really no contest at all.
Dang, wordpress seems anger this morning.
Dang,
I see wordpress has eaten another of my post this morning. Oh well, I’ll just redo it as I hadn’t saved it correctly.
None of the experts know the exact date of the next time the globalist banks fail, but I can assure you former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker understand clearly the danger this nation is in in regards to this piece below.
It won’t be like the last time.
**
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction From Derivatives
Posted: 09/18/2013 1:25 pm
Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a hidden government guarantee in the form of safe harbor status under the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street. The result is to create perverse incentives for the financial system to self-destruct.
Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd-Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows:
[B]anks are pulling back their balance sheets from the fringes of the credit markets, with more and more risk being driven to unregulated lenders that comprise the $60 trillion “shadow-banking” sector.
Increased regulation and low interest rates have made lending to homeowners and small businesses less attractive than before 2008. The easy subprime scams of yesteryear are no more. The void is being filled by the shadow banking system. Shadow banking comes in many forms, but the big money today is in repos and derivatives. The notional (or hypothetical) value of the derivatives market has been estimated to be as high as $1.2 quadrillion, or 20 times the GDP of all the countries of the world combined.
According to Hervé Hannoun, Deputy General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, investment banks as well as commercial banks may conduct much of their business in the shadow banking system (SBS), although most are not generally classed as SBS institutions themselves. At least one financial regulatory expert has said that regulated banking organizations are the largest shadow banks. **
Can we get Dick Cheney to shoot this guy in the face? It’s the one thing he’s good at.
I was a patient many years ago at a pain clinic run by a psychiatrist/pain specialist. I had been advised that “rational suicide” was acceptable in my case (given the level of pain and I had tried all knkown treatments at that time). The doctor tried very hard to convince me that suicide was not the way to go no matter how bad the pain (too long a story why I did not choose that avenue).
meanwhile the meeting room in the clinic had numerous animal heads up on the walls, souvenirs of a hunting club comprised of psychiatrists. To him, killing was okay, even animals that were just living their lives and would be nothing more then a head and a story. I do not know how he could reconcile his stance, that life is sacred at all costs, unless you are an animal.
That’s enough for me for now.
I’ll let the Commie/Nazi gungrabbers have the floor back as I’ve got to go club some baby seals for the NRA.
🙂
Sarc Off!
None of the experts know the exact date the globalist banks collapse again but I can assure you former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker understands clearly the disaster that is headed straight for us.
This time will not be like the last one.
**
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction From Derivatives
Posted: 09/18/2013 1:25 pm
Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a hidden government guarantee in the form of safe harbor status under the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street. The result is to create perverse incentives for the financial system to self-destruct.
Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd-Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows:
[B]anks are pulling back their balance sheets from the fringes of the credit markets, with more and more risk being driven to unregulated lenders that comprise the $60 trillion “shadow-banking” sector.
Increased regulation and low interest rates have made lending to homeowners and small businesses less attractive than before 2008. The easy subprime scams of yesteryear are no more. The void is being filled by the shadow banking system. Shadow banking comes in many forms, but the big money today is in repos and derivatives. The notional (or hypothetical) value of the derivatives market has been estimated to be as high as $1.2 quadrillion, or 20 times the GDP of all the countries of the world combined.
According to Hervé Hannoun, Deputy General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, investment banks as well as commercial banks may conduct much of their business in the shadow banking system (SBS), although most are not generally classed as SBS institutions themselves. At least one financial regulatory expert has said that regulated banking organizations are the largest shadow banks. **
http://ellenbrown.com/2013/09/17/the-the-armageddon-looting-machine-the-looming-mass-destruction-from-derivatives/
I agree with Gene. But even tho “Little Dick” as they call him, was doing something legal in that pirate territory, he needs to have his weenie cut off and stuffed in his lobbyist mouth. Shooting an elephant in the face! NRA- National Retard Ass’n.
I’ve not time to weave the thread right now so I’m just making jump to focus On Topic right now.
I would hope professor Turley & those in the upper levels of power are disguising how to form an interim govt to manage this transition we’ve entered into as the Traitors to the US become increasing exposed to the general population, police & military.
The phrase Broken Arrow comes to mind as the piece below is but one spoke in the wheel.
Bron,
Look at what the Commie/Nazi Traitors are up to today.
That Globalist Banking type Trash wants Americans to become defenseless domesticated sheep for slaughter like England, North Korea, Mexico, etc…
** Senator Warns Obama Not to Implement UN Arms Treaty
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Kerry to sign controversial treaty today
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
September 25, 2013
U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, has warned President Obama not to implement the controversial UN Arms Treaty, which John Kerry is likely to sign today, without congressional authorization.**
http://www.prisonplanet.com/senator-warns-obama-not-to-implement-un-arms-treaty.html
I know a couple of guys who hunt all over the world for big game. they may have litte p’s but they have big balls. Some of the stories are pretty wild.
how many of you could face down a charging lion?
Professor Guth was unavailable for comment.
I wonder how much revenue an elephant hunt brings to the country and how many people are fed from one elephant?
I would assume they shoot older elephants which allow the younger males to breed.
All in all it seems beneficial on a number of levels. Of course the old guy would disagree.
This is probably a hunt allowed for herd management or maybe this elephant was a bad actor.
What Gene said!
Further the short video seems very insensitive to””” legitimate hunting”””.
Many will likely see this vid & be outraged by it & then come lunch/dinner they’ll go eat their battery raised chicken/pork/beef inhumanly raised on a Wallst Corporate farm.
It takes a big man, usually with a small penis, to think that trophy hunting is some test of manliness.
If you aren’t going to eat it?
Leave the creatures be.
They serve other more important purposes in the web of life than slaking your primate bloodlust and ego.
We’re an awful species.
Crazy people do crazy things…. You have to have money to be eccentric….