The Monkey Lady's back!!

[RevCheesehead]

On MSNBC, NOW!!!

[truedelphi]

1. Whose the Monkey Lady?/

Don't have the energy to turn on the boob tube just now, but please enlighten.

[RevCheesehead]

3. The woman who's crying because her pet monkey is being taken away.

They're threatening to euthanize him, because he's illegal.

It's one of MSNBC's top stories today, apparently. :sarcasm:

[Ino]

11. If the publicity saves the poor monkey, I'm all for it.

It's the only thing that might save it. I'd be crying too.

[Maddy McCall]

2. I just saw that.

Very very sad. :(

[RevCheesehead]

4. I truly do feel badly for her.

But still - - is this really newsworthy?

[Maddy McCall]

5. Naw, not newsworthy...

well, maybe in local press, because it deals with a law that was passed outlawing monkeys as pets, but didn't grandfather in people who already had monkeys as pets.

So, yeah, on the local level it's newsworthy.

Nationally? Uh uh.

[onenote]

8. Its a local story here in DC. I had no idea that it had become national

Pretty lame as a national news story. Makes sense as a local story.

[Javaman]

6. MON-KEY. nt

[shance]

7. Why is that so not funny? And the Bush Fourth Reich is simply trying to set a precedent

to be able to take other peoples pets, family members and personal property, and is simply using the monkey and other 'inconsequential stories to condition' us and get us used to the fact they can illegally take things that are NOT theirs to begin with.

All these things. All those natural

Its sad there are those who think this is funny.

Its not to "monkey lady" and it wouldn't be to any of us if they were claiming they could take my pet.

In addition, it may look humorous and sensationalistic because that is the medias job to keep feeding us stupid, seemingly irrelevant stories - to distact us, divide us, disarm us and condition us into total apathy while they build up our local police forces into small militias and militarize this country with companies like Blackwater, etc.

The Bush people will be having the last laugh as you continue to call him "stupid".

They aren't stupid.

But you are VERY stupid if you believe they are dumb.

However, its yet another grander theft being attempted by this Administration under the radar.

To take everyones personal property and their livlihood ANYTIME they want.

This is a precedent folks. Wake up.

Thats what all this is about if Americans would turn on their brains and use them.

[RevCheesehead]

9. Although I'd usually respond with "you have a solid point,"

the fact that the "news" anchor made no such connection, other than offering sympathy & crocodile tears, shows this story to be what it is: fluff.

I can't help but wonder why, when the networks cry that they don't have enough time to do real news stories, they somehow manage to find time for stories like this one.

[shance]

10. Well, I think there is a reason. See my other post.

Whie they wave for us to look at one hand,

the one we should be looking at is the hand behind their back.


THAT'S where the real stuff is.

[truedelphi]

12. I Know someone who illegally owned a tortoise

And no they themselves had not taken it from the desert -- someone else did and then sadly abandonned it in Marin County

But the adopting family lived in fear that their hand fed tortoise might be found out. Then it could be taken from them and then returned to the wild.

There conceivably the tortoise would die of heart break (It really was atached to its human family) and also the fact that it would not know how to scavenge for food and water