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Bhaisahab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:29 AM
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(Delhi) Zoo closed during Bush's India visit
The Delhi zoo will remain closed on Thursday and Friday during US President George Bush's visit to the capital, an official order said today.
The zoo is next to Purana Qila (Old Fort), where the tightly guarded visiting dignitary is scheduled to address Indian parliamentarians and other select dignitaries.

The official order made it clear that no visitors will be allowed to the sprawling 200-acre home of over 2,000 animal and bird species for the two days.

Elaborate security arrangements are being made in Delhi in view of the high profile visit of the US President. Extra vigil is being maintained also because many organisations have planned anti-US protests during this period.

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http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=263986&n_date=20060228&cat=India

OK, let's have some bush-zoo jokes! :)
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:31 AM
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1. is he staying with the rest of the chimps or do they have a special
section for him ?
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:25 AM
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15. JUDGE FOR YOURSELF EVERYONE
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:01 PM
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22. YIKES! Well done. n/t
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:46 PM
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34. That is the best!
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:29 AM
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35. HAHAHHAHHAHAH
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:33 AM
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2. As an aside, Who has read "Life of Pi"? Dimson was the jellyfish. nt
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:40 AM
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9. That's a great book
By "jellyfish" do you mean the island that was a giant Venus flytrap? That sounds more like Dimson.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:01 AM
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11. I honestly forgot about that island. That book was a bit trippy.
I almost left it, but didn't because of the buzz I heard. I really like the
comments about agnosticism and because I have the book, I will infuriate some
people on DU only to educate. Made me think!
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:35 AM
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3. Send in the bu$hit flags...
www.madeyouthink.org
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:36 AM
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4. It's to protect the chimps at the zoo...
Junior is looking to mate.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:44 PM
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32. They don't want to mistake dimwit for the real chimps...
and capture him because he is loose.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:52 AM
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5. E.Z.
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Greylyn58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:20 PM
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31. Yikes Botany
That's really freaky!!!



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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:58 PM
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33. And this is what chimpy was doing while Katrina was raging...


:puke: :hurts:
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corporatemedia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:29 AM
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6. The ZOO is traveling on AirForce One: See the talking chimp! eom
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:22 PM
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26. .....he crawls on his belly, he talks like a human, step right up
and pay one thin dime to see this amazing cold blooded thing that real humans voted to be their President of the United States.
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antonialee839 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:37 AM
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7. We should loan out our monkey the same way other countries
loan out pandas and white tigers.
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ignatius 2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:38 AM
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8. Thank God, the monkeys butts are red enough without George on the
prowl.
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montana_hazeleyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:33 AM
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14. LOL!!!!!!
This whole thread is funny as hell but this one is hysterical! LOL :rofl:
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badgerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:45 AM
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10. Think we might need PETA in on this one...
...if the humans want to subject themselves to abuse by proximity to Bush that's their lookout and problem, but the poor critters are in cages and have no choice in the matter!
:hide: :yoiks:
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:06 AM
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12. Latest Steve Bell 'toon from the Guardian
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:52 PM
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37. gotta love Steve Bell
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:18 AM
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13. Bill Clinton in India
http://www.dayafterindia.com/june205/international5.html

President Clinton went to India in March 2000.

....

In the year 2000, New Delhi was literally re-painted — fresh tar on roads, road-dividers painted bright yellow, zebra crossings turned ivory white, in honor of Clinton, the most powerful man on earth. Clinton arrived in India with 200 foreign journalists, a delegation of diplomats and businessmen, 200 secret service agents, 100 US Marines, 30 bullet proof cars, one dozen choppers, two US Army trucks and a Labrador to snuff out explosives.

Pakistani terrorists (Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and Al-Badr) in Jammu and Kashmir timed the massacre of 35 Sikhs in Anantnag, with his visit. The Americans were also very worried about terrorist attacks on Clinton. They resorted to some trouble to use elaborate decoys and ruses. They shipped Clinton not aboard Air Force One or a C-17 Galaxy but in an unmarked Gulfstream executive jet which itself was mirrored by another Gulfstream with American markings!

more....

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Stockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:43 AM
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16. Will he adress the Parliament in the worlds greatest democracy?
If this trip is such a big deal he should and it would give the poor journalists something to work with.
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Bhaisahab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:57 AM
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17. he won't be addressing parliament
turns out the considerable left contingent in parliament refused to accept the government's request that they not heckle the american chimpanzee. and since bush cannot handle heckling, the address to parliament is off the agenda.
as someone pointed out here, Clinton came here with not more than 500 agents. the roads of delhi were painted and everyone was excited about clinton's stay in delhi. Bush comes with 5000 troops, and with bush about to land this evening, delhi's as dirty as ever, and people are bitching about the hundreds of road blocks that will be organized during rush hour - when people head home from office - to make way for the monkey. i'm waiting with bated breath for the inevitable foolish statement from the monkey. i wish he makes a good one, indians need to understand the leader of the free world is nothing but a chimp in a 1000-buck suit.
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:04 AM
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18. The sheep are scared. Horses too.
The zoo creatures are being cautious.
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:09 PM
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23. Animals can SENSE evil, ya know....... n/t
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:58 PM
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27. I was thinking of the * milking ability and Scooter's bear
However, you are quite right about animals sensing evil. I'm surprised the WH puppies haven't run away.
They must be hostages.
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Tripmann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:05 AM
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19. If he DOES visit the zoo..
..hopefully he won't try to milk the elephants.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:02 AM
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20. Hide the Goats!
The Llamas, too, if Rumsferatu's going along for the ride...
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:46 AM
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21. Well, frankly
I think it's a good idea. We wouldn't want the zoo monkeys to come in contact with the chimp who might or might not have some sort of communicable disease which makes people who listen to him totally stupid and moronic.

On the other hand, it's a damned good idea if they did this when Dickhead might be around. We don't know how many canned hunts he might want to organize.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:41 PM
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24. They didn't want the public to mistake him* for a loose monkey.nt
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:51 PM
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25. It's a good time to close the zoo.
Nobody would go there anyway when the MISSING LINK is running around town.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:05 PM
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28. He was the one at the helm when U.S. troops used the animals in the
Baghdad zoo for target practise immediately after the invasion.

He's no "Friend of the Zoo."
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:12 PM
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29. They gunned down lots of animals in the zoo
and some of them took pride in gunning down a "few animals" in the streets (Their words)
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:19 PM
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30. I just remembered one of the first things they did, after killing zoo
animals was to catch some human "suspects" and force them to walk completely naked through the streets of Baghdad. It was never explained why they were treated that way, back before the bloodbath really got underway.


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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:51 AM
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36. THIS IS THE PHOTO



On 25 April 2003, the newspaper Dagbladet (Norway) published photos of armed US soldiers forcing Iraqi men to walk naked through a park.

On the chests of the men had been scrawled an Arabic phrase that translates as "Ali Baba - Thief."

A military officer states that the men are thieves, and that this technique will be used again.

No word yet from the newly liberated Iraqi people about some of them being summarily found guilty of theft, forced at gunpoint to strip, having a racist phrase written on their bodies, and then made to walk naked in public. No doubt the Arab/Muslim world is impressed by this display of "democracy," "freedom," "due process," and "no cruel or unusual punishment."



THIS WAS THE START OF THE CHIMPANZEE'S WAR CRIMINAL TROOPS TO DISCIPLINE THE (their words Ragheads)
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