Cheney / BYU visit TOON

[helderheid]

Edited for clarity:

BYU allows Cheney protest
But campus rally will be weeks apart from vice president's visit
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_5554542

[Buzz Clik]

1. Interesting image, those mounted heads.

Let me preface by saying that I am no bunny hugger.

I visited the BYU campus some time back while attending a smallish conference. During my tour of the campus, I stumbled upon a museum funded by some BYU alum. In part of the museum, he had no less than 200 mounted heads of animals he had slaughtered -- many of them endangered species. BYU clearly didn't give a shit; the guy had built buildings all over campus.

The cartoon in the OP is quite ironic from that perspective.

[helderheid]

2. I didn't know that! HUH! Interesting!

[bryant69]

3. Yeah I've seen that

I don't think they are recent though - been a while since i was there but got the impression that the heads were collected in an earlier time.

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[Buzz Clik]

5. Yes, that's true.

When I visited the museum, the old donor was already dead. I'm guessing he did most of his hunting in the 1940s and 1950s. Regardless, it was an Ace Ventura moment for me to see that massive tribute to death. Back then, the Big Game Hunter was quite romanticized.

[Sal Minella]

4. Wonder if this guy was one of the pioneers in deducting the expensesof hunting expeditions

because they'd donated trophy heads to public institutions for display. I believe Sen. Chuck Grassley just recently shut down this boondoggle for Safari Heroes getting free hunting trips at taxpayer expense.

Never ceases to amaze me how these "citizens" manage to avoid paying their taxes.