Althouse: The consciousness of the world cannot contain 2 lions.

July 31, 2015

The consciousness of the world cannot contain 2 lions.

The Milwaukee lion melts into unreality.

41 comments:

David said...: Jesus, take a look at the firepower the cops assembled on that bridge.; 7/31/15, 6:29 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: The city's money problems would be solved if they auctioned off the opportunity to kill the lion with bow and arrow.; 7/31/15, 6:51 AM
Rusty said...: Michael Sears

Police and wildlife officials set up perimeter near N. 31st St. and W. Cameron Ave. on Sunday after a report of a lion sighting that day.

None of whom has shot, let alone sighted in, their rifles in over two years.

Eric's idea has merit. It will, therefore, not be implemented.

Place a bounty of $5000.00 on the lion. Within a week every lion in Milwaukee will be dead.; 7/31/15, 7:17 AM
Tank said...: Rusty said...

Michael Sears

Police and wildlife officials set up perimeter near N. 31st St. and W. Cameron Ave. on Sunday after a report of a lion sighting that day.

None of whom has shot, let alone sighted in, their rifles in over two years.

Eric's idea has merit. It will, therefore, not be implemented.

Place a bounty of $5000.00 on the lion. Within a week every lion in Milwaukee will be dead.

Of course, you might lose a few large dogs and small children too.; 7/31/15, 7:27 AM
Michael K said...: Maybe the dentist got it. Anybody checked his photo album since he got back ?; 7/31/15, 7:36 AM
Barry Dauphin said...: It will eventually work out so the dentist has his own shown on MSNBC as a PETA representative.; 7/31/15, 7:39 AM
JRoberts said...: "Of course, you might lose a few large dogs and small children too."

Dang, I'd use it as a pretext to go after the squirrels and chipmunks tearing up my yard.; 7/31/15, 7:47 AM
Rae said...: Like I said before, it was a tawny colored house cat. All we ever had was a crappy picture of a crappy picture.; 7/31/15, 7:49 AM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: The consciousness of the world cannot contain 2 lions.

The consciousness of the world generally does not contain Milwaukee, or anything therein.; 7/31/15, 8:20 AM
robother said...: Give it a name.; 7/31/15, 8:24 AM
Big Mike said...: Efforts to ensnare the creature — especially meat-laden live traps laid out earlier this week by animal control, police, and the state Department of Natural Resources — have been thwarted by curious residents.

People began taking photos with the traps and closing them in order keep the "Milwaukee lion" from getting caught [emphasis mine]

If the lion is real, whether a mountain lion or some not very bright person's legal-but-very-dangerous pet, and if it catches and eats somebody's kid, those people closing the traps will have a lot on their consciences.

(Except for Democrats because Democrats have no conscience.); 7/31/15, 8:34 AM
rhhardin said...: A third lion out back this morning.; 7/31/15, 8:40 AM
Marc in Eugene said...: I pity Lt Stanmeyer, who has to face the press, who presumably are enjoying lionizing the lion and to deal with colleagues who are presumably not as amused as the media are by it all.; 7/31/15, 8:52 AM
garage mahal said...: But what about Planned Parenthood?; 7/31/15, 9:05 AM
Dave Greene said...: Connecting-the-dots-between-Cecil-the-lion-and-fetal-bodyparts:

Planned Parenthood has a Minnesota dentist problem.

There's no conclusive proof that either has broken a law. But in the court of public opinion, that;'s not really what matters.

A whole lotta people feel revulsion at the trophy photos of Cecil the lion corpse next to the grinning dentist. And a similar number feel similar revulsion at pictures of tiny baby parts being poked at in petri dishes as lab techs talk of high-quality specimens and not-very-likable physicians alternate between euphemistic, five-syllable doc-speak and jolting talk of crunchy skulls that everyone can understand.

In a way, these antiseptic fetus-part photos are creepier and more shocking than the bloody-mess photos that anti-abortion propaganda has used in the past.; 7/31/15, 9:07 AM
mikee said...: We have skunks once in a while in my neighborhood. My dog, sprayed once, has learned to stay well back and bark at them rather than charge them, like he does with rabbits and squirrels and lizards and opossums and raccoons, none of which he has ever caught, either. Coyotes howling in the distance terrify him, quite sensibly.

Perhaps the people of Milwaukee will learn something similar if enough pets are eaten by the mountain lion.; 7/31/15, 9:10 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: I once got sprayed by a skunk and found that the smell became much less offensive with tomato juice.

Oh, in a glass with vodka, worcestershire, tabasco and a celery stalk.

Works every time.; 7/31/15, 9:25 AM
Gahrie said...: But what about Planned Parenthood?

Apparently garage has had a total meltdown, and they've upped his meds.

Get better soon garage, the world needs more trolls.....; 7/31/15, 9:25 AM
Alexander said...: The Milwaukee lion melts into unreality.

Strangely enough, that's how I feel about Milwaukee.

Whether I'm trying to name professional baseball teams in that part of the country, my mind always goes "Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis... and I think there's something else."

Probably doesn't help that they switched leagues - yeah it's been a long while now (wow, 1998! Didn't think it had been that long.) but like the baby elephant the standings table had already solidified in my head. So when I go through both leagues there's always a sense that I've jumped someone, and inevitably its the Brewers.

State purists may be thinking, "He forgot Cincinnati", but I didn't - I just think of the Reds as the Southern team for those who for whatever reason need an alternative to the Braves. Florida doesn't count.; 7/31/15, 9:31 AM
Alexander said...: As an aside to my admittedly OT aside: it's astonishing to think there are children who were born Nationals fans, and people who knew nothing but Diamondbacks and Devil Rays can now legally drive. Rockies and Marlins fans can drink beer.; 7/31/15, 9:37 AM
Michael in ArchDen said...: Rockies...fans can drink beer.
Thank goodness for small mercies!; 7/31/15, 10:31 AM
mccullough said...: Alexander,

no one now alive can remember the Cubs of winning a World Series. The Cubs total mediocrity unites all baseball fans.; 7/31/15, 11:26 AM
Drago said...: Garage certainly seems to enjoy the thought of carved up babies and the selling of their parts. But then,thats a big revenue stream for the left so his joy is comprenensible.; 7/31/15, 11:33 AM
Marc in Eugene said...: I wish the lion were in Madison rather than Milwaukee.; 7/31/15, 11:47 AM
n.n said...: Zimbabwe offers training courses for managing predatory lions. Planned Parenthood offers training courses for managing and profiting from unwanted and inconvenient [wholly innocent] human lives.; 7/31/15, 12:11 PM
sunsong said...: Looks like Zimbabwe does care: American lion killer's extradition being sought; 7/31/15, 12:36 PM
n.n said...: Mugabe only cares about public opinion in order to secure financial aid.

In addition to inviting hunters to manage Zimbabwe's predator population, they are also inviting white Africans back to manage the farms in order to stave off mass starvation.

That said, it looks like human and civil rights activists do not care about human lives. Planned Parenthood et al will continue to kill millions of human lives and resell their parts and tissue to improve "decent" people's quality of life. Cecile and animal rights activists will continue to prey on the human population.; 7/31/15, 1:13 PM
Big Mike said...: @sunsong, how can you kill an American lion (Panthera leo atrox)? According to Wikipedia the American lion went extinct back during the Quaternary Extinction Event. Wiki closes its article with the note that "human predation may have contributed to its extinction."; 7/31/15, 1:18 PM
SeanF said...: Rusty: Place a bounty of $5000.00 on the lion. Within a week every lion in Milwaukee will be dead.

I'll find him for five, but I'll catch him - and kill him - for ten. For that, you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.; 7/31/15, 1:55 PM
traditionalguy said...: The consciousness of the World is about to meet up with the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. He is an all time attention getter.; 7/31/15, 2:25 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: SeanF said...

I'll find him for five, but I'll catch him - and kill him - for ten. For that, you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

We're gonna need a bigger Consciousness of the World.; 7/31/15, 2:47 PM
Rusty said...: Of course, you might lose a few large dogs and small children too.

Tank. I give the general public more credit than that. However every fat tabby is fair game.

I'm afraid it's too late for you to be aborted. They did, somehow, get your brain.; 7/31/15, 2:51 PM
n.n said...: The situation with Cecil the Lion is analogous to Cecile the Abortionist. The contractor in the former, a dentist, was deceived about the circumstances of the planned hunt, as were the contractors in the latter, "mothers", deceived about the planned abortion for preservation of the babies' "trophy" brains, hearts, etc. and subsequent sales for profit (as if that matters).

As for Zimbabwe, they should contract with Planned Parenthood et al, which has demonstrated a proficiency, not only to hold, and secure, but to kill trophy babies with few survivors. They can apply the lessons in reverse in order to secure their animal sanctuaries and preserve the lives of their captive lions.

I wonder if Farrow is willing to hunt both Dentist the Hunter and Cecile the Abortionist. It would add some credibility to her personal perspective and angst. Conservation is a common interest. Although, Dentist the Hunter should be presumed innocent until it is proven that the sanctuary guard, hunt guides, and perhaps Mugabe did not sanction the hunt. Farrow should move the crosshairs until she is certain of his guilt. Her class demonstrated poor judgment in their most recent hunt for Zimmerman, family, friends, and complete strangers.; 7/31/15, 3:18 PM
n.n said...: traditionalguy:

The experiment must go on. The "wheat must be separated from the chaff". There are still a lot of decent, not perfect, human candidates.; 7/31/15, 3:21 PM
furious_a said...: Man. those lions are a surly bunch.

The victim has her window rolled down. Bad kitty.; 7/31/15, 4:46 PM
furious_a said...: Wisconsin, we have cougars!.; 7/31/15, 5:07 PM
Marc in Eugene said...: Why should those Wisconsin cougars have to sacrifice their lives to preserve Kitty and Fido's existence? and perhaps it would be a good thing to amend the law to make it clear that the Wisconsin cougars aren't to be killed when their human prey has been only newborn children and weak old people. Or any adults stopped in a car with its windows rolled down.; 7/31/15, 5:44 PM
rhhardin said...: Derbyshire podcasts about the lion from a new host, among other topics.; 7/31/15, 6:22 PM
Nancy Reyes said...: I wonder why no westerners lamented when President Mugabe ate a lion and two elephants at his birthday party last March.; 7/31/15, 8:16 PM
Michael K said...: "Man. those lions are a surly bunch.

The victim has her window rolled down. Bad kitty."

I have a couple of those stories in my book but none were fatal. We used to have "Lion Country Safari" in Orange County and a few people rolled down windows they shouldn't have. Also we have had some horrendous mountain lion attacks, some of which were fatal.; 7/31/15, 8:42 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Nancy Reyes: "President Mugabe ate a lion and two elephants at his birthday party last March". I hope you mean that he ate parts of a lion and two elephants. I'm not sure even an entire birthday year would have been enough for one elderly man to eat a lion and two whole elephants. Unless he has tapeworms . . . .; 8/1/15, 8:17 AM