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Bravo Zulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 09:09 PM
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Feds move to keep big snakes off planes, out of US !

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, left, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sam Hamilton lift a boa constrictor at a press conference at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Salazar announced a proposed ban on bringing Burmese pythons and eight other kinds of large snakes in the country, saying they threaten the environment.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal officials want to keep nine kinds of constrictor snakes out of the United States, saying they belong to invasive species that pose the single biggest threat to the nation's environment.

"This is the story of the invasion of the snakes in the United States of America," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday, standing near a live python at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

He said the Burmese python and the other "alien snakes" are destroying some of the nation's most treasured - and most fragile - ecosystems.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NY_SNAKES_OFF_PLANES?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: http://fws.gov
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 09:12 PM
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1. The struggles of Samuel L. Jackson were not in vain.
;-)
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 09:13 PM
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2. I hope they cussed like sailors as they did.
n.t.
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 09:28 PM
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3. I thought they put Rahm Emmanuel and Liebermoron on the "No Fly List"
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 09:33 PM
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4. Foreign snakes want to take our precious bodily fluids. nt
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 09:41 PM
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6. i'd worry more about the Domestic Snakes in the Government more..!
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 09:40 PM
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5. oh... i thought that was a picture of the ReThuglickins pray'n to their God...!!
my bad...
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thelordofhell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 10:01 PM
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7. In related news.......
Karl Rove to travel only by train from now on
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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 10:23 PM
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8. "I'VE HAD IT WITH THESE NINE TYPES OF MUTHAFUCKIN CONSTRICTOR SNAKES
IN AMERICA'S TREASURED AND FRAGILE MUTHAFUCKIN ECOSYSTEMS!"
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8 track mind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:40 PM
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9. beat me to it dammit................... n/t
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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:49 PM
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10. if I'd been cleverer I'd have spelt it "constricta"...
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