October 14, 2003
Today on MorningWood
Today on MorningWood 4 to 6AM WMNF 88.5 FM, Tampa, or streaming at wmnf.org. Listener sponsored community radio.
First, I’d like to thank everyone who called in last week and pledged their support to the station during marathon. The station raised enough dough to keep broadcasting for another 6 months, and even a little extra for our new building. Thank You!
Well, if you’re a regular MorningWoodster, you know that I often take cues from current events when planning a show. The past coupla weeks Tigers and other jungle animals have dominated the news. First, Roy, of Ziegfried and Roy, was mauled by one of their big cats. Then, in New York City, police found a full grown tiger in a public housing apartment complex. They were tipped off by suspicious hospital workers who had treated the owner’s “dog” bites.
Finally, just a couple of days ago, the Bush administration proposed relaxing import rules on endangered species. They have somehow convinced themselves that killing these animals is the only way to save them.
With all this in mind, I present to you the Jungle edition of MorningWood!
Bush calls for Orwellian changes in conservation rules
A timely article I just spotted From Today's Tampa Tribune, but it inexplicably fails to mention Bush's rules change proposal which will make the trade in these species even more profitable and common.
The following essay is not off-topic: it mentions Niger, and Niger has big game. So I’m gonna read it. Here’s a smattering.
Ben Tripp: CIA FU!
Bush's people, and I use the word 'people' loosely, decided to make the CIA take the fall for the one canard out of several thousand that a slumbering nation happened to catch on its way into the swamps of the Mesopotamian desert in the name of anti-terrorism. This canard also happened to be one of the few that the CIA specifically suggested Bush not espouse as an excuse for his little camping trip to hell, so we have a painful insult/injury compound already, vis-à-vis the CIA. Shortly thereafter, same Bush people, in a moment of good-natured backstabbing retribution, exposed one of the CIA's own assets, and by extension all the other assets to which she can be connected by a reasonably bright foreign intelligence agency with access to a telephone. I'm just guessing here, but it seems to me that an agency willing to overthrow the government of Guatemala in the name of banana imports ought to have no problem saying "screw you right back" to a bunch of venal, inbred frat boys blundering their way through their last terms in public office.Posted by Norwood at October 14, 2003 01:19 AM
