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Mommy, what's the funny man doing?

The exhibit, which opened Friday, puts the three male and five female Homo sapiens side by side with their primate relatives — though separated from them by an electric fence. While their neighbors might enjoy bananas and a good scratch, these eight — chosen from 30 applicants who entered an online contest — have diverse interests, from a chemist hoping to raise awareness about apes to a self-described actor/model and fitness enthusiast.

Sadly, the exhibit only runs through Monday. Maybe the Kansas City Zoo could do this--it would be more fun than their "White Tiger" thing they've been running all summer.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs expresses frustration with the "national leadership's" inability to get the message out:

"I think it's incumbent on the national leadership, writ large, to help communicate this to the American public," said Myers, reporting on a 10-day, 18-base tour that included Iraq, Afghanistan and bases in Asia and Europe.

See also People close to Iraq soldiers support war more.

How the loony left and the wacko right are coming together to oppose the war against militant Islam:

An anguished Cindy Sheehan calls Bush "the world's biggest terrorist." And she goes on to blame Israel for the death of her son ("Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel").

Her antiwar venom could easily come right out of the mouth of a more calculating David Duke. Perhaps that's why he lauded her anti-Semitism: "Courageously she has gone to Texas near the ranch of President Bush and braved the elements and a hostile Jewish supremacist media."

Via Little Green Footballs. James Taranto at OpinionJournal's Best of the Web has also struck on the Harmonic Convergence parallel

In a speech to supporters Wednesday, Sheehan claimed the support of "tens of thousands of angels." The Associated Press reports that New York racial demagogue Al Sharpton plans to join Sheehan in Texas on Sunday, while the neo-Nazi Web site Stormfront.org says its backers will arrive tomorrow to "help put up a White Nationalist voice in the protest against Bush's War for Israel that was started by Cindy Sheehan."

Next, according to blogger Jonathan Wilson: "Celebrity boxing with Tonya Harding." The universe certainly has a sense of humor.

This would be funny if the stakes weren't so high.

I really wish I was making this up. I'm not.

So the hard left and the Islamists have established a coordinating committee, according to Douglas Davis of the London Spectator. In Britain the steering committee of the Marxist–Islamist alliance consists of 33 members — 18 from myriad hard-Left groups, three from the radical wing of the Labour party, eight from the ranks of the radical Islamists and four leftist ecologists (also known as ‘Watermelons’ —green outside, red inside). The chairman is Andrew Murray, a leading light in the British Communist party; co-chair is Muhammad Aslam Ijaz, of the London Council of Mosques.

In other words, the war on terror is to be a continuation of the old war, the war between capitalism and its various discontents that was waged throughout most of the twentieth century. Norman Podhoretz is right. This is World War IV.

This is not a surprise at all. The days when the Left stood for freedom and liberty are long past. And that is truly tragic.

Via Free Republic.

An AP poll calls into serious question the myriad of editorial decisions of the mainstream media on the Iraq war:

People with friends or relatives serving in Iraq are more likely than others to have a positive view of a generally unpopular war, an AP- Ipsos poll found.

Some of those surveyed said their relationships with troops helped them learn more about what's going on in Iraq beyond the violence. Others said their opinions of the war were shaped by a sense of loyalty to those in harm's way.

Do you suppose this might affect the daily Deathwatch of the major media?

"How many helpless soldier children died today, Wolf?"

Naahhhh...

Via Little Green Footballs.

#10: Chinese try to get chimp to quit smoking
#9: Google News is broken
#8: Rolling blackouts in California
#7: Royals slap around Schilling, Red Sox
#6: Michael Yon: New Media Star
#5: French Intelligence: Al Qaida targeting Asia
#4: Bolton wants a different kind of UN reform
#3: Iraqis continue to struggle with Constitution
#2: BRAC keeps Ellsworth AFB, closes Walter Reed hospital
#1: CIA internal report recommends disciplinary actions

Via Yahoo News:

The 26-year-old female chimpanzee has been smoking for 15 years. Her mate died recently, which caused her to smoke even more.

How does a chimp start smoking in the first place? Getting together with her buddies behind the schoolhouse? Late nights over a red beer in a smoky bar? Out in the playground at recess time?

This is what happens when you have an automated news headline generator that draws on a database of news sources hand-selected by left wing lunatics

Click here. (Via Little Green Footballs.)

Any more, I only use Google News to find a good article on a subject I already want to write about. As a news aggregation source, it's useless.

California: home of power problems:

Southern California Edison began shutting off power in areas Thursday after the California Independent System Operator, which operates the electric grid in California, declared a transmission emergency.
. . .
A transformer in Los Angeles' Sylmar section that converts power from the Pacific Northwest took itself off-line automatically Thursday afternoon when an oil flow alarm went off, said Carol Tucker, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which co-owns the transmission line.

When you take everything into account, why in the world would anyone want to live in one of Cali's major cities?

An unfamiliar group of baseball players wearing blue appeared for the second straight game at Kauffman Stadium and played like they deserved to be on the same field with the World Series champions:

The Royals continued their uplifting spurt Thursday night with a 7-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox, taking the series two games to one at Kauffman Stadium. The Red Sox's lead over the New York Yankees shrank to 2 1/2 games in the American League East.

"It just makes trying to understand this game a lot more complicated," Royals manager Buddy Bell said. "You don't understand how that streak happened. You don't understand how you can go through that and come back and play really well."

I have to say I really enjoyed writing this article's headline. Royals need to go 21-16 to avoid 100 losses.