Primate Expert (Goodall) Blasts Bush

[doxieone]

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/6996221.htm

Primate expert blasts Bush
WHITE HOUSE POLICY BAD FOR APES, SHE SAYS
By Frank Sweeney
Mercury News

The biggest threat to chimpanzees, the African apes that are the closest relative of the human species, may be hunters seeking bush meat, renowned primatologist Jane Goodall told a Silicon Valley audience Saturday. But in the past three years, she said, another threat to endangered animals around the world has emerged -- the Bush administration.

Goodall, famed for her research with chimpanzees in Tanzania since 1960, was harshly critical of President Bush's environmental record while delivering the keynote speech at the second annual Wildlife Conservation Expo at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills.

``What the Bush administration has done over the past three years to overturn environmental laws is unbelievable. It's shameful. We must not sit still and do nothing,'' she said.

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[joeybee12]

1. Good for her!

Although according to The Simpsons, she's involved in forcing her chimps to work in diamond mines!

Anyone recall that episode?

[Rose Siding]

2. A chimp not even Jane can love

:D

[Blecht]

3. And she knows her chimps

:silly:

[nolabels]

5. n/t

http://www.toccionline.com/creations/photofun/bushchimp.html

[dand]

Excellent!

A sentient being and a scabbie little Texan, thanks nolabels:toast:

[Myra]

17. Hee hee

Good one party-line.

[Jack Rabbit]

22. She should tell us that . . .

. . . to refer to Bush as a chimp is an insult to chimps.

[Guaranteed]

4. Hee hee!

<insert joke about throwing feces here>
I'm not creative or disciplined enough to come up with one. If you guys do, though, lemme know!:hurts:

[Philosophy]

6. I knew a girl who died from a monkey throwing feces at her

She worked in a lab where they were doing experiments on some infectious disease, and a monkey threw its feces in her face and some got in her eye, then she contracted the disease and died from it.

[Guaranteed]

8. Are you being serious? n/t

[Philosophy]

9. Serious

They did an episode of 60 Minutes on it.

[Philosophy]

10. Here's the AP story

http://www.aegis.com/news/ap/1997/AP971209.html

[Guaranteed]

11. Man...

...I'm sorry to hear that. Were you two close?

[Philosophy]

13. I didn't know her that well

We were just in the same church Sunday School class when we were teenagers.

[hlthe2b]

14. Yes... monkey B virus-- at Yerkes Primate institute...

It happens...

[Maddy McCall]

20. Was she not aware of the dangers of her job before she took it?

[Nottingham]

7. Whoo Hoo JAne! Your so right!

:bounce:

[TreasonousBastard]

12. You'd think the sumbitch...

would at least try to support his family.

[tabasco]

15. brrrwaaahahahahaha whoooohoohoohoo

Thanks!

[arcane1]

16. Jane is a treasue

:loveya:

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. Y'all should read the WHOLE thing - Dis gurl Not be shy !!

..From the Article:

Goodall said she is especially angered by a Bush administration proposal to interpret the Endangered Species Act in a radical way to allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import animals that are on the brink of extinction in other countries.

This runs counter to the course followed since President Nixon signed the act in 1973. The original law prohibits importing endangered animals or their parts into the country.

The Bush administration is now arguing for a change, seeking to allow U.S. interests to pay poor countries to take fixed numbers of endangered animals and fund conservation programs for animals that remain.

``This will mean it's going to be possible to shoot any of the endangered animals and just say the money goes to conservation,'' Goodall said. ``It stinks, quite honestly.''

In a later interview, Goodall said the proposed change wouldn't hold officials accountable in the countries where animals would be captured or killed. They ``don't have to say how the money is going to be used,'' she said. ``It's an open door to corruption. It's disgusting.''


``It's an open door to corruption.

Way to go Jane ! she knows these Bushies well !! :bounce:

another quip - ". The bush meat trade is lining the pockets of the officials.''

hmmm - "bush meat" - No pun intended do we think ??

[stevedeshazer]

19. The bush meat trade is lining the pockets of the officials.

I am SO restraining myself right now.

It angers me that our primate relatives are treated in this way.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Goodall says:

"They are capable of extreme brutality, of hatred or fear of strangers, of competition over territory. We've inherited some aggressive traits from our common ancestor. We are unique, but less different than we thought."

Chimpanzees, or the Bush administration? You decide.

[Julien Sorel]

23. Republicrats, Democans,

just remember: there is no difference. Saint Nadir said so.

[Donna Zen]

24. And Jesus wept...

n/t