Monday, September 30, 2013

NBCs UNDER WILD SKYS CANCELED

NEWS FLASH  
 
The NBCs NRA sponsored Sports Show "Under Wild Skies" has been canceled.  thanks to the Americans that are tired of the Anthony Makis of the world 
 
I am not an expert on African wildlife only from my travels in Eastern Africa and my research on the animals I sculpt.  My first bronze was an African Elephant that I saw in an African hunting brochure for big game hunters.
I started to learn of the African Elephant when I read "The Roots of Heaven" in the 1960s about Ivory Hunters after the Second WW and the real beginning of the great extermination of Africa.  In my process I learned about elephants their behavior, their uncanny insights, their memories, their compassions for each other, other creatures and man.

I had a friend tell me how elephants could be saved by killing them for money or basically by harvesting them, he also told me about old elephants dying of starvation because their teeth were so warn down that they could no longer eat, that hunting them and their tusks would improve the environment and that hunters have done more for conservation than tree huggers ever have in Africa.  Soooooo I googled "Tourists vs. Hunters in Africa and came up with astoundingly high figures for tourist over hunting.
I also found a web on lies perpetrated by the African (and also American) hunting groups about hunting is good for the environment.

 At the death of a man that re-habilitated elephants after poaching traumas.  The elephants came from three days away to stand at his home they had never been to before. Standing in what seemed to be respect they waited  for several days then suddenly departed as silent as they had arrived.  I have read about proof of superior intelligence of elephants and their extraordinary perception of being.

 
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Friday, September 27, 2013

cont. NRAs MAKIS and AMERICA

If you read my last blog posted yesterday 9/26/13 about the killing of a bull elephant on  national television by NBCs Sports Series "Under Wild Skies" by an NRA lobbyist Tony Makis.  The shooting of this magnificent intelligent beast is bad enough but Makis's inability as a gun person and a hunter which he espouses caused undue stress and torture to a being under the pressure of Ivory poachers.  Added to this ineptness his comments should enrage true hunters by blaming the escaping elephant to be "cheeky" for Makis's poor shooting.  (Watch the outdoorchannel.com/under-wild-skies).
In my opinion Makis is a paying poacher that has less excuse than Al Shabaab that poach ivory for war. 
I don't blame people like Tony Makis for their blood lust and greed, I blame the American people for their indifference and support of NBC programs like this
I appeal to Americans to look into their souls and decide if we are tired of hate, greed and think, what do we stand for and how long will we support destruction of everything in the name of greed.  BOYCOTT NBC'S UNDER WILD SKIES by not watching crap like this.


Do you care about selfishness and greed or the wild free creatures of the world.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

NRA AND THE THRILL OF THE KILL

I haven't written on my blog sight now for several months, but today I read something that demands my outrage to be expressed.  I read today that NBC Sports Network an NRA sponsored program "Under Wild Skies" about hunting in Africa. Tony Makris an NRA Lobbyist kills a bull Elephant on national TV and poses bravely with the dead bull.  See m.theaustralian.com.au 
I have in my past life been a hunter but I found no great pleasure in killing and only for food.  I cannot believe that Christian Conservatives fall for the NRAs line and support them for killing humans and animals.  I suggest that those of you that buy their line of BS that you drop the Christian part because you don't fit the description.  Tony Makris and the "Under Wild Skies" should be boycotted by the American people. 
I believe that part of America is in love with their guns, I hope that a smaller part of America is in love with killing.  This godless latter bunch that don't give a flying F for murdered children enough for any compromise, in false fear of their guns being taken, do not care for their own children's heritage of the world.