posted on August 16, 2005 06:04:33 AM new
Here's another story from March we must have missed.
Internet casino buys monkey naming rights
$650,000 from GoldenPalace.com will go to wildlife park monkeys. These two monkey in Madidi National Park, Bolivia, belong to a newly discovered species of "titi" monkey that will henceforth be known as the "GoldenPalace.com Monkey."
An infinite number of newly discovered monkeys trying to name themselves could have pounded on their keyboards a long time before coming up with this one: GoldenPalace.com.
The Internet casino paid $650,000 for the right to name the foot-high primate, online auction house CharityFolks.com announced Wednesday. GoldenPalace.com won a March 3 online auction that raised money to help manage Madidi National Park in Bolivia, where the species of titi monkey was discovered by a Wildlife Conservation Society scientist last year.
A statement from GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe suggested the company was looking for a publicity-generating investment more enduring than an item it paid $28,000 for in another online auction last year: a 10-year-old, partly eaten cheese sandwich thought to contain the image of the Virgin Mary.
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"This species will bear our name for as long as it exists," Rowe said. "Hundreds, even thousands of years from now, the GoldenPalace.com Monkey will live to carry our name through the ages."
The GoldenPalace.com monkey, one of about 30 species of titi monkeys found in South America, has a golden crown and a white-tipped tail. Its formal name will be Callicebus aureipalatii — Latin for "golden palace."
Scientific staff at the Wildlife Conservation Society believe the new name will comply with the rules of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, according to Alison Power, a spokeswoman for the society.
posted on August 16, 2005 07:20:24 AM new
Bet they have already named one of them MINGO...
"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." --Robert E. Lee
posted on August 16, 2005 07:51:56 AM new
OH Bear That was so funny! How clever of you! Why I do believe you should be writing for Leno or Letterman ! But no, in you humbleness you chose to have nothing better to do than entertain us.
Boy, all that talent wasted in here.
I do love you posts Bear. They're always one of two things...so nice to see total predictability in our old folks nowadays
It means you're on your meds and not chasing little boys anymore.
You either insult someone or do a "I wanna be like LindaK" long boring C&P.
But at your age what with those prostate problems and all I guess you have a lot on your mind.
Insult away Bear...it's all ya got and kind of pathetic but I realize that when old men's ballsandbackbone dry up thet have nothing left but their big, hard, macho KEYBOARD
posted on August 16, 2005 09:07:54 AM new
It's not just monkeys. They've filmed birds taking sticks and pushing them into the ground to retrieve grubs.
I do not think there is enough statistical evidence to call liberals "bird brains" though.
posted on August 22, 2005 05:25:02 PM new
Every year Americans pay trillions of dollars in taxes to our local, state and federal governments. It's no secret that these tax dollars are often spent on the pursuit of squirrel world domination.
Sometimes the abuse is not so obvious, as in money laundered through our educational institutions. Other times, it's a slap across every Patriot's face.
Take for example the studies done at The University of California at Davis to determine how California ground squirrels know when a rattlesnake is about to strike - a surreptitious scheme to waste state and federal monies.
Or what about the biggest tax scam of them all, the billions paid in Social Security benefits to the aged, blind, and disabled - many of whom use your tax dollars to aid and abet the bushytail horde (see feature link below).
One of the most recent examples of blatant skwerlfare is a $600,000.00 federal grant to study the sex lives of South African ground squirrels (click SA g-skwerl for it's comment)...
Last year, American taxpayers funneled nearly a trillion dollars into the U.S. treasury. Hundreds of millions of those dollars funded scientific research aimed at finding a cure for cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. But millions of American tax dollars have also been spent on studies that critics say have little benefit for taxpayers.
The study about the evolution of squirrel breeding is a prime example. Government waste groups contend that studying the sex habits of African squirrels is exactly the kind of research taxpayers shouldn't be paying for
Jane Waterman is the researcher studying squirrels, through a National Science Foundation grant. The University of Central Florida biologist travels to Africa as part of a five-year project to observe ground squirrels.
"What I study is sex and squirrels," Waterman said.
She says the furry animals are fascinating because male African squirrels are so friendly to each other. They only time they spend with females is for sex and they don't fight over females as American squirrels do.
"They hang out in large male bands and they like each other," she said. That is a remarkable thing to see in a ground squirrel and a mammal. Waterman believes that studying the evolution of squirrel breeding gives us a better understanding of our environment, and ourselves.
America should stop wasting money on de squirrels
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on August 22, 2005 08:29:39 PM new
"Take for example the studies done at The University of California at Davis to determine how California ground squirrels know when a rattlesnake is about to strike - a surreptitious scheme to waste state and federal monies."
I bet you wouldnt think so if you were a ground squirrel.
