the concept of a marine park is deadly, man, but emblematic of how weaponized k12 is, and how daily life is a land mine field, as each step into our lives is filled with Capitalist Snipers
Yeah, I protested Sea World. Yeah, I protested the Oregon Zoo and the elephants with huge knots and sores on feet. Yes, remember Mona?
She was beaten, caught on camera: After El Paso underwent a media maelstrom in 2005 with the community calling for the elephants at the Zoo to be sent to a sanctuary and the enclosure shut down permanently, the city council promised to come up with a plan to greatly improve the Zoo’s inadequate elephant exhibit. It’s reported that the Zoo will add a “whopping” 5,000 square feet – less than oneeighth of an acre – bringing total space for Juno and Savannah to little more than an acre. Elephants in the wild easily walk tens of miles a day, which serves to maintain foot and joint health. If this is the best El Paso Zoo can do – or can afford – it should give up keeping elephants.
[In Defense of Animals Announces: 2005 List of Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants]
Oh, those alligators in downtown El Paso, and my friend, Luis Jimenez did a sculpture remembering that bizarre slice of history: The alligators were first removed in the mid-1960s due to pranksters from nearby University of Texas at El Paso, then known as Texas Western College, as well as vandalism. Students from the college once removed an alligator from the plaza and, as a prank, placed it in the office of a geology professor. There were also many cases of people throwing rocks at the alligators, and one alligator had a spike driven through its eye. After a brief return in the early ’70s, the alligators were permanently moved to the El Paso Zoo.
Now now, his piece is being replaced, man, so much for a dead artist’s art: And those alligators?
When the alligators where first brought here in the 1880’s, they were a huge success!! people from all over the country would come and visit the alligator park. Even tho the alligators were the talk of the town, many thought they were a huge danger to humans, especially curios little kids.
It turned out that it was the other way around!!!!!
The poor harmless alligators were being tortured. Kids and careless people would throw rocks and things to the alligators to get them to move or to do something crazy.
There was also a 1953 incident in which pranksters took an alligator named Oscar out of the plaza pool and put him in a professor’s office at Texas Western College. Four months later, Oscar was again snatched from the pool, but he was thrown back in before police arrived. Oscar was found dead in the pool soon after.
In 1965, two soldiers were arrested for throwing rocks at the alligators.
An alligator named Chama died immediately, and another, Zal, died a short time later.
The alligators were moved to Washington Park Zoo in late 1965.They were brought back to the plaza in 1972 and were surrounded by clear plastic shielding. They went back to the zoo in 1974. Humpy, the last of the plaza alligators, died at the zoo in the mid-1990s. (sources)
Sadism drives the human soul, unfortunately.
Yep, Flipper’s trainer, and the Cove:
Ric O’Barry, the animal’s trainer, has told how after Kathy ended up in a tiny tank, she was driven to the brink in captivity and forced herself to stop breathing.
The shocking incident in 1968 is one of a number of apparent dolphin suicides – said to be possible because of the self-aware creatures’ famously high intelligence.
“The suicide was what turned me around,” O’Barry previously told Time. “The industry doesn’t want people to think dolphins are capable of suicide, but these are self-aware creatures with a brain larger than a human brain.
“If life becomes so unbearable, they just don’t take the next breath. It’s suicide.” (source)
Just a year after she left America’s TV screens, O’Barry was holding Kathy in his arms at the Miami Seaquarium when she simply began holding her breath until she died.
After letting her go, he explained she sank to the bottom of the tank.
“Every breath they take is a conscious effort,” O’Barry said. “So they can end their life whenever they want to and that’s what Cathy did.
“She chose to not take that next breath and you have to call that suicide.”
Back to Tijuana:
Dumb tourist tour while our spouses and partners were at the clinic getting ready for stomach surgery, banding or stomach cutting to stop or help stop the obesity.
Dumb Americans in a van, and a sad sad of a Tijuana native playing up all the goofy tings about Tijuana — soccer stadiums, IMAX, this and that western ugly thing, including Costco?
Then this fellow told the stupid white lie of the code of statues of horses: I remember being told this decades ago, about equestrian statues and how there was a ‘code’ that sculptors and designers followed. Simply put, if the horse has all four hooves on the ground then the rider died of natural causes. One hoof raised means as a result of injuries in battle. Both hooves raised means the rider died directly in battle.
So, this fellow took these Americanos around town to look at statues:
Ahh, so the driver said there are Hondurans here, and those from Haiti.
Thousands of migrants with hopes for the U.S. are living in limbo in Tijuana as a legal battle over whether to end a pandemic-era policy that has restricted asylum access for nearly three years heads to the U.S. Supreme Court. (source)
So Tijuana has people coming here with money, too, and taking up the best properties, leaving the residents and natives who work hard here with fewer and fewer affordable housing choices.
Three million people in Tijuana, and the guide says they all want to stay, and many want to go to USA.
But this fellow doesn’t give the full picture for slap happy Americanos looking for trinkets.
“Where it used to cost around $1,000 to make the journey from Central America, it now costs up to $12,000, making shuttle migration impossible,” said Elizabeth Oglesby, an associate professor at the centre for Latin American studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “The only way for families to stay together is for women and children to migrate.”
More often US intervention in the affairs of these small and weak states has been deliberate, motivated by profit or ideology or both.
“The destabilisation in the 1980s – which was very much part of the US cold war effort – was incredibly important in creating the kind of political and economic conditions that exist in those countries today,” said Christy Thornton, a sociologist focused on Latin America at Johns Hopkins University.
Just a little two and two together makes for four, and the onion skin has to be pulled back whether on the crimes of zoos and Sea World’s, or the crimes of American policies in Central America.
But Americans are drunk on stupidity, and myopic, and ugly in overt and accidental ways just a tourists.
Paul Haeder, Author 