Cave News

Denver zookeeper mauled to death by jaguar

A woman who works at the Denver Zoo was inside the cage of a 6-year-old 140 pound male jaguar when the animal turned on her. She later died of her injuries at Denver Health Medical Center.

According to emergency protocols, staff members responded to the enclosure with weapons.

The jaguar then approached the staff members, who were trying to assist the zookeeper, and the animal was shot and killed inside of its enclosure.

The jaguar came to the Denver Zoo from the Santa Cruz Zoo in Bolivia, in March of 2005.

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The Clinton Obama feud heats up

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama are really beginning to slug it out.

The best quote in years “Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clinton’s] do it with such ease, it’s troubling,”

Obama is at a disadvantage. He isn’t a very good liar - yet. Wait until he has been in politics as long as Hillary.

Anyway, this feud will be fun to watch. Pop the popcorn, kick back in the recliner, turn on the news and enjoy. It’s the Obama Omama show.

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Against conventional wisdom

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This is a rerun of an entry we put in the humor category two years ago.

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A businessman opened up the first tavern in a small village. A group of Christians from a local church were concerned and planned an all-night prayer meeting to ask God to intervene. Soon after the prayer meeting lightning struck the tavern burned to the ground.

The owner of the tavern sued the church claiming that the prayers of the church members were responsible.

The church hired a lawyer to represent them in court and argue that they were not responsible.

The presiding judge, after his initial review of the case, stated: “no matter how this case comes out, one thing is clear. The tavern owner believes in prayer and the church members do not”.

Rats running rampant in NYC restaurant

A Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell restaurant in Greenwich Village, on 6th Avenue and West 4th Street was closed today by the Health Department because of a rat infestation.

WNBC4 photo taken at the KFC/Taco Bell

The New York City Department of Health recently said the restaurant had a clean bill of health. However, after the rats were captured on video, the Health Department vowed to do another inspection.

This restaurant has had many problems with the Health Department before, having been cited in 2006, 2005 and 2004. Just two months earlier, the restaurant had been cited with having "evidence of live mice" but since then, the Health Department Web site shows that the issue was resolved.

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Moto V325 cell phone with a 1990’s antennae

While browsing the Verizon kiosk at the Ft. Collins mall, I spotted a cute mobile made by Motorola. It was a new flip-phone that has GPS capability called the V325 (shown on the right).

What struck me about the V325 was the pull-out antennae. It seemed so 1990’s! Shown below are three of our old mobile phones from the 1990’s with pull out antennaes.

Another thing that turned me off on the V325 was the circular 4-way navigation key with what appeared to be four little hooks that looked as if they were there to keep the disc from falling off.

I rejected the V325 even though it may be a very good phone. But what else would you expect from an old Studebaker owner?

Smarter at age 60 than at 21

They say by age 60 your brain holds 4 times as much information as it did at age 21.

Then why did I think I knew everything when I turned 21?

Immature schoolgirl in House of Representatives

When I was in the sixth grade there was a whiny girl who thought everything should go her way on the playground. If another kid said something she didn’t like, she would go whining to the teacher whether the comment was true or not. She just couldn’t stand to have her views questioned.

Hmm … maybe her name was Nancy … I don’t remember for sure.

Anyway, Fox News reports:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [pictured] on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney’s comments that the Congressional Democrats' plan for Iraq would "validate the Al Qaeda strategy."

Pelosi, who said she could not reach the president, said Cheney's comments wrongly questioned critics' patriotism and ignored Bush's call for openness on Iraq strategy.

Pity her call could not be completed so she could complain to the teacher about the playground comments she didn’t agree with.

Schoolyard tattletale instincts are hard to break.

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Cattle worse than vehicles for greenhouse gasses

There is an article here titled: “Humans' beef with livestock: a warmer planet.”

As Congress begins to tackle the causes and cures of global warming, the action focuses on gas-guzzling vehicles and coal-fired power plants, not on lowly bovines.

Yet livestock are a major emitter of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. And as meat becomes a growing mainstay of human diet around the world, changing what we eat may prove as hard as changing what we drive.

People often joke about gasses emitted from cattle and they’re not just referring to belching. One jokester advised attaching catalytic converters to cows rumps and said we are lucky the dinosaur is extinct.

It's not just the well-known and frequently joked-about flatulence and manure of grass-chewing cattle that's the problem, according to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Land-use changes, especially deforestation to expand pastures and to create arable land for feed crops, is a big part. So is the use of energy to produce fertilizers, to run the slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants, and to pump water.

Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems.

The same comedian who advised catalytic converters for cows also said that if a significant portion of the population became vegetarians, humans would give off a lot more greenhouse gasses.

U.S. appeals court backs Bush: denies Guantanamo detainees

A federal appeals court upheld a key provision in President Bush's anti-terrorism law by ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that civilian courts no longer have the authority to consider whether the military is illegally holding foreigners.

Liberal activists are sure to challenge the ruling.

One thing to remember is that Guantanamo detainees are terrorists. They are not detained for singing too loudly in chuch!

Are there some detainees at Guantanamo who shouldn’t be there? Yes, there probably are, but that does not mean we should treat them all as innocent and deserving of special favors. They are prisoners of war and should be treated as such.

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Crime turns New Orleans into Big Uneasy

Did the recent violent crime on New Orleans streets affect the Mardi Gras revelers?

New Orleans, the "Big Easy" city famous for its good times and relaxed attitude, has become the Big Uneasy in recent weeks as its murder count has soared and anger grown at local leaders unable to stop the violence.

The homicide total for a still-young 2007 climbed to 27 on Saturday with the dead of a man shot at a nightclub on Friday.

He was one of nine people shot in separate incidents in a seven-hour span on Thursday and Friday, and the third of them to die.

New Orleans has not recovered from Hurricane Katrina and doesn’t need increased violent crime.

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