Chimps, Obama, the economy, and the New York Post!!

[MrFun]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02192009...tim_155962.htm

apparantly male chimps can be aggressive. I did not know this. Then again, I have never really cared about male chimps before.

This NY Post article doesn't mention it, but I think another tabloid mentioned the woman was very intimate with the ape. Not in that way, though I couldn't help but wonder. Still bathing with the chimp seems unusual... and disgusting.

down with chimps. I say beat them down like the seals.

Dude, you didn't know that much about chimpanzees then.

I have seen a documentary one time that showed wild chimpanzees in western African rainforest hunting, catching, and then tearing apart a monkey. They also have incredible strength.

[Dis]

they can't be that strong. They only weigh like 200 pounds. I'm sure a 200 pound man could take one Not me as I don't weight 200 lbs.

in fact, this would make a good pay per view special. man vs. beast.

[SlowwHand]

You mean a guy and his wife?

[Darius871]

See also Meet the Epic Spartans Disaster Date Movie.

Oh don't even get me started...

[MrFun]

they can't be that strong.

Tell that to the poor, frightened monkeys.

[Tuberski]

Let's see, Obama's stimulus package, but the author referenced in the cartoon is supposed to be Congress . . . and apes and monkey have been used to depict Black people for hundreds of years, but this time it's Congress . . .

It's 2 current events that were tied together to try and make a funny. A poor choice with the president that we have being black, but, if done in December, no one would know or care.

Here's something far more important:

Attorney General Eric Holder: We're cowards on race



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February 18, 2009


FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues.
In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” said Holder, nation’s first black attorney general.
Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, Holder said, but “we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”
He urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for honest discussion of racial matters, including issues of health care, education, and economic disparities.
Race “is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation’s history, this is in some ways understandable,” Holder said. “If we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another and tolerant enough of each other to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.”
He told hundreds of Justice Department employees gathered for the event that they have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding.
Even when people mix at the workplace or afterwork social events, Holder argued, many Americans in their free time are still segregated inside what he called “race-protected cocoons.”
“Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad,” said Holder.
As a presidential candidate last year, Barack Obama gave a landmark speech on race relations during the hotly-contested Democratic primaries as he tried to separate himself from the angry rhetoric of his then-pastor. Holder cited that speech by Obama as part of the motivation for his words Wednesday, saying Americans need to overcome an ingrained inhibition against talking about race.
“If we’re going to ever make progress, we’re going to have to have the guts, we have to have the determination, to be honest with each other. It also means we have to be able to accept criticism where that is justified,” Holder told reporters after the speech.
Holder is headed to Guantanamo Bay early next week to inspect the terrorist detention facility there. Obama has assigned Holder to lead a special task force aimed at closing the site within a year.
Holder’s Justice Department will have to decide which suspects to bring to U.S. courts for trial, which to prosecute through the military justice system, and which to send back to their home countries.

It's stupid crap like this cartoon and the overblown, knee jerk reaction to it, that Holder is talking about.


ACK!

[Imran Siddiqui]

I thought apes stopped being racist wrt political cartoons during the Bush Admin.

No, see... that would prevent liberals from race baiting on this issue.

[notyoueither]

What color are baby seals?

The best ones to brutalise are fluffy white ones.

[MrFun]

It's stupid crap like this cartoon and the overblown, knee jerk reaction to it, that Holder is talking about.


ACK!

Uh, I didn't realize Holder's speech had anything to do with the knee-jerk reaction to the editorial cartoon.


And Imran, I resent your remark about liberals.

[Tuberski]

Uh, I didn't realize Holder's speech had anything to do with the knee-jerk reaction to the editorial cartoon.


And Imran, I resent your remark about liberals.

It doesn't, directly:

“If we’re going to ever make progress, we’re going to have to have the guts, we have to have the determination, to be honest with each other. It also means we have to be able to accept criticism where that is justified,” Holder told reporters after the speech.

You keep focusing on the stupid things like this cartoon and the reaction to it, you can never have any real discussion on race relations.

Focusing on this stuff is "cowardly". By everyone.

ACK!

[MrFun]

You keep focusing on the stupid things like this cartoon and the reaction to it, you can never have any real discussion on race relations.

Focusing on this stuff is "cowardly". By everyone.

ACK!

Soooo sorry.

[SlowwHand]

It's such a crappy cartoon that no one can even definitively say what is meant by the content. All a matter of personal interpretation. The abstract cartoon. I hate abstract.

[GePap]

they can't be that strong. They only weigh like 200 pounds. I'm sure a 200 pound man could take one Not me as I don't weight 200 lbs.

in fact, this would make a good pay per view special. man vs. beast.

Chimps are much stronger than people- a two hundred pound man without a weapon will get badly mauled if no killed by a chimp of the same size.

Chimps are much stronger than people and smart enough to know that they are stronger, so tryin to keep one of them as a pet is extremely stupid. Even trained chimps should be treated with utmost respect.

As for the hand thing, chimps generally first attack the hands and feet of enemies, essentially to disarm their opponent.

As for the Post, it is still a money loosing tabloid and that cartoonist has always been rather unfunny.

[Naked Gents Rut]

The Post is the second-best paper in NYC, after Gay City News.