Feds move to keep big snakes off planes, out of US !

[Bravo Zulu]

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

On the Net:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: http://fws.gov

[proteus_lives]

1. The struggles of Samuel L. Jackson were not in vain.

;-)

[YOY]

2. I hope they cussed like sailors as they did.

n.t.

[Dr.Phool]

3. I thought they put Rahm Emmanuel and Liebermoron on the "No Fly List"

[bemildred]

4. Foreign snakes want to take our precious bodily fluids. nt

[sam sarrha]

6. i'd worry more about the Domestic Snakes in the Government more..!

[sam sarrha]

5. oh... i thought that was a picture of the ReThuglickins pray'n to their God...!!

my bad...

[thelordofhell]

7. In related news.......

Karl Rove to travel only by train from now on

[salguine]

8. "I'VE HAD IT WITH THESE NINE TYPES OF MUTHAFUCKIN CONSTRICTOR SNAKES

IN AMERICA'S TREASURED AND FRAGILE MUTHAFUCKIN ECOSYSTEMS!"

[8 track mind]

9. beat me to it dammit................... n/t

[salguine]

10. if I'd been cleverer I'd have spelt it "constricta"...