Dude, Are You Serious?
“Secretive Society of Elite Hunters” is code for “Old White Guys Doing Kinky Sex.”
The society is called the International Order of St. Hubertus group and it was founded in 1966 in at Bohemian Club in San Francisco. The Club is associated with the Bohemian Grove.
Members of the worldwide, male-only society wear dark-green robes emblazoned with a large cross and the motto “Deum Diligite Animalia Diligentes,” which means “Honoring God by honoring His creatures,” according to the group’s website. Some hold titles, such as Grand Master, Prior and Knight Grand Officer. The Order’s name is in honor of Hubert, the patron saint of hunters and fishermen.
That’s just creepy, y’all.
I couldn’t help but notice at the Washington Post put this story under National Security. That’s even creepier.
Thanks to SteveTheReturned for the heads up.
I love the idea of a “Secretive Society of Elite Hunters”. I think the elite should be hunted every day of the year, without a bag limit and with no license required. But that’s just me.
1And do you suppose Scalia paid for this trip? He had a lot of kids and was a public employee most of his life.
2Micr two thumbs up.
3It’s the KKK if the KKK were rich and wore green.
4Undoubtedly honoring by killing and eating.
5I think he said— Lets go to Texas and kill something.
6Any thing to prove we’re men.
I gave up on WaPo when Bezos bought it. And it has declined steadily since then.
7So, he was partying with the aristocracy while the peasants waited on them hand and foot – and carried the guns used to shoot defenseless animals. These are truly great and fearless men, eh? I’m with Micr on this subject 🙂
8Micr, I’d be happy to join you in the hunting. Should we have decks of St. Francis of Assisi cards printed up? We could attach a card to each carcass as our official gaming permit.
9There’s no better way to honor God’s creatures than by shooting them, that’s for sure. I don’t recall reading anything that indicated they were planning to eat the quail they shot. Now if they were out camping in the West Texas outback, hunting the quail with bow and arrow, then planning to dress, cook and eat them, AND they were saying prayers thanking the Great Spirit for the lives of the quail, well then MAYBE I’d be a little less disgusted. Quail are so cute. I would have to be an inch from starvation before I could kill one.
10Excuse me, but it seems white, “Christian”, conservative, hetero dudes get into some really weird stuff. Just sayin’…
11Imagine a secret, all-male order, where lowlifes like Scalia, and probably that creep who subjected Cecil the lion to lingering pain, suffering and death via bow and arrow, are undoubtedly more promising candidates for membership than you are. So glad to hear that Scalia expired while in such low company.
12@treehugger
RE: Quail. Try the quail egg. Smaller than the jungle fowl/domestic chicken but quite tasty and can be used in all ways, although it takes 1 more quail egg for each pair of chicken eggs in a recipe or process.
13@pkm
@1smartcanerican
@paul
Perhaps a Juanita Jean’s World’s Most Dangerous Society of Elite Hunters? I game, so to speak.
Where daChipster??? He’s GOTTA have a POV on this!
14Ralph: The Washington Post hasn’t completely gone to ruin. At least the on-line crossword puzzle is still free. Other than that, meh.
15You can imagine them now having to elect a new Grand Master or something like the Pope.
Maybe that’s what was going on when Cheney shot the lawyer in the face. Instead of white smoke they go for powder burns and things got a little out of hand.
16@pkm
Upon further reflection I’m thinking maybe a set of playing cards ala Irak 2003.
17Are we sure they were hunting animals. This was Texas after all. Down here minorities are shot all the time without consequence. My guess is they had a busy day shooting people along the border. I would imagine the green robes are the camo version of the white ones with the hoods they usually wear.
18Scalia showed up for the weekend with “a guest”. We still don’t know who she was so we also don’t know if he died happy.
19@JAKVirginia: I agree with you – why is it that these oh-so-heterosexual dudes like to join “no girls allowed” clubs where they dress up in strange costumes? Seems a bit odd…
20montag, are you sure “a guest” meant a woman? These secretive snacilbupeR luxury resorts are more likely to be hiding underage and other than female ‘recreation.’ Could have been a goat for that matter. Or, a more suitably sized quail given the compensation criteria of the ammosexual. But of course, none of that would interfere with planting a smile on Scalia’s face.
Micr, Irak style decks would work. Save the jokers for Cheney and Dubya.
21@TrulyTexan
I took each child of mine near their 12th birthday on a raft trip on the big river. All the trips were different but I wanted each kiddo to experience Santa Elena. Minime, my youngest daughter, and I were shot at by sheepherders (?) armed with .22s from the Mexican side on fairly flat water past Santa Elena. The border is a world of its own with its own rules and idiosyncrasies.
22My favorite line from the WaPo article:
The group’s Grand Master is “His Imperial Highness Istvan von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke of Austria,” according to the Order’s website.
23Vonda N. McIntyre, good catch. Guess that MoFo’s line didn’t end with Ferdinand. Born in Mexico, 1961. Perhaps on a family vacation, up from Argentina. Probably T-Rump’s idea of the ‘good’ Mexican.
http://www.constantinianorder.org/commissions/luxembourg/hirh-istvan-franz-von-habsburg-lothringen.html
24Where is Primo? Istivan was born Esteban in Mexico City in 1961.
25Score one for the wildlife.
26“Honoring God by honoring His creatures,” doesn’t quite compute with what was going on at that place!!
27O Lordy! I recall Reagan being with this group in SF when he was mainly in California. I think this is where he came up with the groaner that trees put more carbon monoxide in the air than cars! Anyone remember that? And yes this story belongs under National Security. My oldest kid once wen to a Christmas dance sponsored by a sorority which around here made the members highly suspect. Yes. It is just that tight inmuy neck of he woods.
28So honoring means killing. That sums it up.
29“Honoring God by honoring His creatures.”
Therefore “Killing God by Killing his creatures”.
Reminds me of the Vietnam poster
30“Join the Army, travel the world, meet interesting people, and kill them”.
I was hunting with a guy near the border when he suggested going to Mexico for a drink. Naive as I was, I was thinking the Cadillac Bar. He said, turn here, turn there and the next thing you know we’re in the middle of boystown. I was scared that I would catch something just by breathing the air. We went into this bar, and every man in there but the bartender was dressed like a South Texas deerhunter, almost all married. Now that’s a secretive hunting society. A woman came up to me and asked me in Spanish if she could sit down. I responded in Spanish and spent my time waiting for my friend to return from his dalliance teaching English to her and her two sisters. I am by no means a prude but I was glad to get back to camp.
31This wins the internets for Micr today: “I think the elite should be hunted every day of the year, without a bag limit and with no license required. But that’s just me.”
I read that Wapo story earlier today, and felt like I needed to shower immediately thereafter. I wonder what kind of “hunting” it was? Probably like Darth Cheney’s, where semi-domesticated critters are offered up for point blank shots by the Great White Slaughterers.
32Micr says:
“…The border is a world of its own with its own rules and idiosyncrasies.”
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33There you go, Micr, with the understatement of the month. I lived most of my life within a few miles of that Rio, and you pretty well sum up living ‘En La Frontera del Valle’ right there. It is very, very different from most of the rest of the US…could I tell some tales…
I’m sure most of the denizens of TWMDBS just have no concept whatsoever of how different things are down here/there. I’ve lived near the Canadian border too, and there is simply no comparison (there is not a lot of difference between either side there, except near Quebec to a degree of course).
I’ve written a little bit here (and elsewhere) about some of those ‘elite’ ‘hunting’ gatherings, indeed lots of other stuff can take place (no need for some of them to hit the DR for a little ‘fun’, like Limpballs was caught at).
The December 2013 group photo of the investiture in Madrid of The International Order of Saint Hubertus depicts members garbed in very fashionable robes.
http://www.iosh-usa.com/about_us
As elegant as they may be, however, from the standpoint of sartorial splendor, they come in second to the uniforms of the International Order of Friendly Sons of the Raccoons, of whom Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton were proud members in the Bensonhurst chapter.
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/fraternities/raccoons.html
Borrowing from that website’s description:
The handshake involved touching elbows (first right then left), followed by a “Woooooo” sounding cry as they wiggled the raccoon tail on their lodge hat. They ended by chorusing: “Brothers under the pelt.”
Had there been a chapter in his neighborhood, the Raccoons no doubt would have been pleased to have Scalia as a member.
34… And in fairness to these “Old White Guys Doing Kinky Sex,” most of them are too old for sex of any kind – kinky or otherwise – or even in their dreams. Just dress them up in their rupture easer trusses, give them a glass of warm milk and tuck them in early.
35UmptyDump… saw that robed picture and all I could think was… Hogwarts… Glee Club… alumni reunion.
(Yes… I am weird.)
36Dear me, I thought the article said he WAS a guest, not that he had a guest? I’m sure they were trying to quash it…the pillow over his head sounds possibly more sinister now.
37He was a guest of the owner. Y’know, I disliked Scalia as much as anyone could without going foamy at the mouth rabid, but he’s dead now. He was a sick old man with multiple health problems. What silly club he belonged to doesn’t matter. Whether he knew he was dying and didn’t want to die in a hospital…or wanted to get the heck out of the noise and pressure of D.C. for awhile before the next Supreme Court session next month and just died there…we don’t know, won’t know, and it doesn’t matter because he’s dead. Kicking the corpse is…undignified.
38Elizabeth Moon, of course, you’re right, but that schadendfreude can be a bitch.
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