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2005-06-17 Africa: Subsaharan

Zimbabwe extends demolitions to rural areas

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-17 11:06|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 a baboon can never harm a person

You might want to talk to the guy bringing the birthday cake to his old pet chimp - a baboon looks a lot stronger than the chimps that took him half apart.

Posted by VAMark 2005-06-17 11:34|| 2005-06-17 11:34|| Front Page Top

#2 ...and attempting to sabotage Zimbabwe's failing economy.

How do you sabotage a failing economy?

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-17 12:31|| 2005-06-17 12:31|| Front Page Top

#3 1)If Dick Durbin had reserved some of his vitriolic rhetoric aimed at the Gitmo soldiers for this regime he might not be in the hot water that he is.
2)Just hope that not a penny of the aid slated for Africa is going to Zimbabwe.

Posted by GK 2005-06-17 12:32|| 2005-06-17 12:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Per Encyclopaedia Britannica:

Baboons "are very destructive to crops, and, because of their large canines and powerful limbs, they are dangerous adversaries, especially since they travel in troops."

Reinvented Pol Pots are dangerous too.

Posted by mom 2005-06-17 13:01|| 2005-06-17 13:01|| Front Page Top

#5 of informal homes

Martha said it was the new way?

Posted by Moshe Shipman 2005-06-17 13:38|| 2005-06-17 13:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Pal, anything with four-inch fangs and a brain the size of a chimp's can seriously hurt you.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-17 14:29|| 2005-06-17 14:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh no! Not the Brutal Zimbabwe Winter!

Temperature in Harare has been ranging from 48F at night to 75F in the day.

Posted by Pappy 2005-06-17 14:40|| 2005-06-17 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I remember one night in Liberia when the night watchman for the compound knocked on the door to ask for a blanket, because it was too cold for him to sleep. (It had dipped below 60.)

Posted by James">James 2005-06-17 16:34|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-06-17 16:34|| Front Page Top

#9 When I was child I remember a documentary over baboons. There was a leopard who had killed a gazel and before he could draw his prey to a tree for eating it, a baboon appeared fought the leopard. None was seriously hurt but the leopard abandonned his prey. Baboons can't rake with their claws for disemboweling like leopards do but their teeh are bigger than those of the leopard.

For chimpanzes they don't have baboon's teeth but an animal who spends his life in treees will develop inmensely powerful arms.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-06-17 17:50|| 2005-06-17 17:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Yep

, big brains and crazy strong arms.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-17 19:55|| 2005-06-17 19:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Baboons are the brownshirts of the ape world. Alone they are dangerous, but they prefer to attack in packs.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-17 21:47|| 2005-06-17 21:47|| Front Page Top

#12 like Jackals or Sigma Chis

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-17 22:12|| 2005-06-17 22:12|| Front Page Top

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