Tuesday Open Thread 02-24-15
Submitted by Cordelia Lear on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 7:45am
Good morning 99percenters!
I love the zoo. If I visit a city that has one, there's a good chance I'm going to check it out. The animals are great, but the best part is hearing the questions little kids ask their parents about the animals.
"Dad, if those are lions why don't they have, um, fur all over?" (Child lifts hand and and pretends to outline their face.)
Yes, kids do say the darnest things.
The photos below the fold were taken at the Atlanta Zoo.
This is an open thread, so talk about anything that strikes your fancy, or pass on a good link.
Comments
I love aquariums
If there is an aquarium in a city that I am visiting, I always try to go.
I have been out of town for the last several days and am trying to catch up on my reading until I go out of town again this weekend.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
I will never catch up on my reading.
The amount of articles I go thru in one day is pretty high and there's only so much time to read.
This informed citizen thing is damn hard work.
Chicago police giving Americans the "CIA black site" treatment
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-ame...
The Asahiyama Zoo — an inspiring true story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahiyama_Zoo_Story:_Penguins_in_the_Sky
Chicago PD
looks like they internalized and adopted the tactics of one John Burge who was a commander on the south side in the department who was prosecuted and convicted of torture tactics and brutality. They made an example of him so it looks like they cleaned house, now they are doing exactly what he did. He is still alive. I wonder what he is thinking if he is aware of what the department is doing now.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge
I have a good friend...
who is on the Cook County DEA and swat team, the stories he tells me after after a few soda pops will make your blood curdle, and he is quite gleeful retelling them. That rabbit hole runs a lot deeper than most folks even dream of.
The most fantastical zoo of them all
is in Washington D.C. It's in the Halls of Congress.
All sorts of weird animals there. People go visit and look at them and
are amazed such creatures inhabit the earth.
Reminds me of an H.L. Mencken quote
Someone asked him why, if he's so critical of this country, he chooses to stay here. His response: "For the same reason men go to the zoo."
Once people are tired of observing that zoo
the one with the lions and tigers and bears (oh my!) is free and just a few steps away from a subway stop. It's where Tammany's "tiger at the door" pix was taken.
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone
it's a zoo with incredible varieties of rare species...
but they don't clean the place often enough, it stinks of corruption.
The Pittsburgh Zoo was free on weekdays
We would skip school and hang at the zoo, with the other school skippers. It's all happening at the zoo.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
"At the Zoo" is one of my favorite Simon & Garfunkel songs
Though I'm still trying to figure out what makes zebras 'reactionaries."
Love Zoos and Aquariums! This is a treat--thank you, CL! I'm
curious to know if this was taken at the old Atlanta Zoo, just off of Park Avenue?
The last time that we visited the Zoo was in about 1978 or 1979, and it was still in the old location. (I do believe that they FINALLY built a new Zoo.)
(My Mother was a native Atlantan, and my parents married at the Baptist Church near that location. Mr. M and I planned to marry there, until we found out that the minister who married them had just retired. Instead, we married in a beautiful secular setting, and asked the new Pastor of the same Church to officiate.)
Having spent some of all my summers 'growing up' there visiting Family, as well as having lived there as a young adult (college student), it brings back quite a few memories to hear about 'the Atlanta Zoo.'
So thanks for the walk down Memory Lane!
Mollie
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
This was just a few years ago
The zoo and Cyclorama were next to each other at the time.
I'm gald the diary made you smile. We need more of that in our lives.
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone
That's for sure! ;-) N/T
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.