Indifference is a weapon of mass destruction.

From Dennis Kucinich's speech on the House floor. I think that this man is on par with Jay Hammond, which will probably only mean anything to Juliana, but if anyone else remembers my comments on Hammond's recent passing, you will know that this is about the highest compliment I could give a politician.

Like, explain how you could leave the Wild Animal Park after only a morning.

Well, we left at about 2:00 PM because it was 1000 degrees and sunny and not much shade. Also, we have reservations to go on a sleepover there in late October. So we didn't feel compelled to see everything this time. We didn't even make it up to the condor ridge.

What we did do:

Took the monorail around the park. There were issues with power from PG&E so our train was stopped for about 15 minutes. We were super early so we got to see a ton of rhino farily close to the train. The prey animals (you know, those with hooves) are so much more impressive at the Wild Animal Park where they get to hang out and roam more than they are at the zoo.

We walked around for a little bit, including going to Lion Camp. Listening to the male lion roar was unsettling. The females were markedly unimpressed. I like the fact that with the Lions you casn see them relatively close to through the windows or you can see them across the ravine.

We then headed through the newish "Heart of Africa" enclosures. These are both beautiful, shaded and pretty awesome. The primates on primate island were hiding, but you could see them in a hole in the log. We got a refill of lemonade (yay lemonade!) in our animal sippy cup that we bought last visit and then we watched the giraffes. you could feed them acacia leaves. We opted not to feed them, but the keeper came. As soon as they saw her, they were grabbing branches out of her truck, she'd gently push them away. Keep in mind that a full grown giraffe's head is about half the height of keeper.

Eventually a baby came walking up. The baby giraffe apparently still had an umbilical cord attached. Baby so didn't understand what was going on, but was cute nevertheless.

On our way out, we stopped at the nursery and at the ring-tailed lemurs.

We didn't go gawk at the big cats (the tigers etc) because the night before we got to see all the big cats (jaguars, leopards etc) super active at the zoo. Early evening is the best time to go, apparently. It was mid morning afternoon by the time we would have seen the cats at the Wild Animal Park and that didn't seem worth it.

FTR, I still love the saimangs and orangutans (at the Zoo). AND the teen panda was super active.

I'd like to pay the minor fortune to see the cheetahs run.

I tend to agree with libkitty and brenda about Bush. I also think this was just sheer incompetence at the Federal level, and is as--or nearly as--disturbing as either ignorance or malice. I know nothing about Brown or Chertoff, except that they should have been fired on Thursday morning.

— an egotistical self-absorbed prick whose one good quality is that he isn't a bigot.

Perzactly.

I also think this was just sheer incompetence at the Federal level, and is as--or nearly as--disturbing as either ignorance or malice.

I think, after tossing this around in my mind the last few days, that it's a combination of single-minded focus on their own priorities tied in with utter confidence that conseqences are things that happen to other people.

It's just their bad luck, or rather, the luck running out, that this one is too big to handwave.

Well, we left at about 2:00 PM because it was 1000 degrees and sunny and not much shade. Also, we have reservations to go on a sleepover there in late October. So we didn't feel compelled to see everything this time. We didn't even make it up to the condor ridge.

Now I am jealous that you live close enough to say 'maybe next time'. I go by the philosophy of "Live each visit to the San Diego Zoo and/or Wild Animal Park as if it were your last. Ooh, condors!!"

We didn't even make it up to the condor ridge.

Wha????

I go by the philosophy of "Live each visit to the San Diego Zoo and/or Wild Animal Park as if it were your last. Ooh, condors!!"

I can see the smoke from a brush fire that is 18 miles away from me. This is wrong. I kinda hope they get it under control about five minutes ago.

The one good thing about my dad moving to the central coast is that LA will be just as inconvenient to fly into as Oakland, so I might actually get a chance to see the San Diego Zoo and/or Wild Animal Park for the very first time.

I've never seen the Animal Park. The zoo is great, though.

Just because I drove you past one armed robbery???

Hey, it's more than anyone else thought to do for me while I was in the States.

Y'know, I reckon Jack Bauer's probably lost more than one lover because he insists on changing the safe word on a nightly basis.

I reckon Jack Bauer has the most vanilla of sex.