A goat is a terrible thing to waste.

Gee, I wonder if their social worker marked that family down as having a lack of leadership qualities?

Pretty sure there would be a big tick beside 'bloodthirsty' for them.

Whatever became of the word `savages'?

British civility would seem to be wearing off. Never heard of queuing up? First come first served?

Barbarism is expensive.

Is anyone aware of a country where a similar ceremony is held for ex-wives instead of goats? I like goats. (No, not in that way)

Does anyone really know what they mean by "sacrificing" a goat? The act of sacrifice can mean different things to different cultures.
Was this a Boy goat or a Girl goat?
No wonder they all wanted first dibs on the goat.

Oh, oh, time to order them to take some Liberal anger management courses.

Can somebody remind me again? Colonialism was bad because........?

Meanwhile,real goats, American goats fight back

http://tinyurl.com/282lxrt

Why make fun out of a tragedy? Where is your class, people?

I direct your attention, once again, to the dead gopher at the top of the page.

"Why make fun out of a tragedy? Where is your class, people?"

Who's making fun of the tragedy?

Its the morons we are making fun of because they are so moronic.

Lighten up dude :)

Its not a tragedy Johan, its the inevitable outcome of barbarity. Stuff like this happens in India every week.

Never mind the ritual slaughtering of the goats, it happens when a new -movie- comes out. People died in the crush at the ticket counter to see Batman II dubbed in Hindi.

Me first, f- you. No restraint, no civility. Barbarism.

Expensive in lives and treasure, like I said.

Thirty...THOUSAND? One hopes they at least eat them afterward. Where's PETA on this?

On the plus side, fewer potential immigrants.

I love goat curry. Gopher curry not so much.

Mmm, goat curry! Jamaican food in general. Jamaican music in particular.

Jamaican homicide rate - not so much.

Speaking of my bro mo and my other bro mo;

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/arrested+punching+Good+Samaritan+stealing+after+northwest+Calgary+crash/3654163/story.html

No woman, no cry.

Damn savages, crawling in through some worm hole from the wrong century, said worm hole being opened by liberals.

Pagans, savages, barbarians and just plain sickos get their jollies in uncivilized acts even in this 21st century. Hard to believe they even belong to the human race.

Johan i Kanada - how solemn can you be about mass rioting for one-upmanship at a goat-sacrifice jamboree? If you get dead in an orgy of stupidity, people will mock you afterwards.

Colin from Mission B.C. - colonialism was bad because pre-industrialized cultures were peaceful, matriarchal in a non-bitchy way, nurturing, respectful of the individual and in tune with Nature. The West, on the other hand, is evil all the way down to its dead shrivelled heart; it has contributed nothing to humanity but misery.

Don't you see what a mess Africa is? A vibrant, morally superior mess, but, you know... That's because of colonialism; this absolutely proves how bad colonialism was, and therefore how wonderful all of Africa was before the age of Empire. Can't you think logically?

(Correction: There is no such thing as the West; an Anthropology prof. explained that to me. It never actually existed; it is however responsible for all the bad in the world.)

Colonialism was the best thing that happened to Africa, and the only reason the place is in a mess is because liberals chased all the colonialists out.

The overwhelming majority of problems in the world today can be traced to liberal ideas, that formed in the 50's and 60's, and for which we are now seeing the negative results.

Hippies, feminists, multiculturalism lovers, etc. should all be assigned to mowing our lawns, and mopping our floors.

^"Was this a Boy goat or a Girl goat?"

LMAO. The world is going to HIAHB and we're asking these types of questions!

Thx for making my day.

TJ - I don't want hippies on my lawn.

This is almost on par with the ritual of throwing babies off the temple roof:

"For 500 years, worshippers at a Muslim shrine in western India have continued the tradition -- a rite considered to bring good health and good luck to the children."

"The infants land and bounce on a bed-sheet held taut by men 50 feet below, and are quickly passed through the crowd to their mothers"

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/01/babies.tower/

I must agree with most comments. Any civilizations that requires a blood sacrifice to the gods is as close to the definition of barbaric that I can find. One can only assume that it doesn't stop at goats. Why would it?

Typically, I only read about ritual killings in epic fantasy novels. THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FICTION YOU MAROONS!!!!

@Black Mamba - right on as usual. Loved your faux-liberal reply to Colin.

And +1 on the no hippies on my lawn. :)

40,000 people and 70,000 beards.

Gillette is really missing the boat here.

Seriously? Where's your class? I think getting drunk and dying at a goat killing ceremony is the ultimate "you deserved it" way to go.

Charming people, quaint customs, throwing babies from roofs, fighting over Goats. Tell me once again how wonderful Multiculturalism is.

Re TJ's enthusiasm for European 'helpfulness' in the Dark Continent; not so much, I think.
http://www.suite101.com/content/belgian-colonial-policy-in-africa-a114432
http://www.answers.com/topic/king-leopold-ii

On the main topic, seems that the goats are still way behind on the scoreboard.

were they made in China goats?????

I bet the goats were watching and laughing...

"The infants land and bounce on a bed-sheet held taut by men 50 feet below, and are quickly passed through the crowd to their mothers"

let me finish that sentence for ya..

..so that they may become chattel and sexual objects for depraved fathers in, say, 7 more years.

The gnome in the picture told me 10 wasn't nearly enough, but it is a good start. He's a hater ya know...

They got my goat as well.

Of course, what's contemptible is not that they were sacrificing goats. It's that they couldn't conduct a sacrifice without slaughtering each other.

I myself frequently sacrifice goats. When doing so, I like to sing a rousing hymn, like: "Goat, tell it on the mountain, to let my people go..."

40,000 individuals, most of them drunk on moonshine, get into a fight and 10 people die.

Way to go with the generalizing nonsense. I suspect 40,000 drunk Christians could do even more damage. Kind of like those parades in Ireland (or Toronto for that matter).