[JoeProBono]

Travis the chimpanzee was shot and killed by a police officer last week after it attacked a woman in Connecticut.

[ConorMacNessa]

Actually, most people characterize me as a Neanderthal.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Star Traveler]

While there may be those around who wish to make me a “monkey”... I will disagree, no matter how much one wishes to throw around the “primate” word... LOL...

If this writer has a monkey for a wife, I’m very sorry for him....

[steve-b]

And those objecting to it are still demanding what one termed "a front-page apology to the president of the United States who you have characterized as a primate" -- which Barack Obama most certainly is unless he arrived on a UFO.

I demand to see his original birth certificate to prove that he didn't arrive on a UFO.

[scottdeus12]

From the article:

“But we’ve all got apes in our family tree. A lot of us just don’t want to go out on a limb and admit it.”

sorry, but that’s bull....

[max americana]

This thread is absolute bananas.

[Buggman]

*chuckle* A few years ago, a good friend of mine who happens to be an ardent agnostic (go figure) had surgery to remove a cyst from his tailbone and insisted that his slightly-elongated tailbone was proof that humans were descended from other primates.

I finally smirked and said, "Okay, you win. I accept the fact that your tailbone proves that you personally evolved from a monkey." The room was in tears.

Shalom.

[allmendream]

Among all apes, the two closest in DNA are humans and chimpanzees.

[JoeDetweiler]

The first definition for primate in my dictionary is “...an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.”

Given this, I can truthfully say that I do not see myself as having been “descended from primates.”

In addition, the idea that “primates are wild animals, keeping them in our homes and our communities poses a serious threat to public safety and public health” seems to me to be quite sensible..........

[FredZarguna]

[dangus]

>> My wife’s a primate, and so are you <<

Mr. Jeffords-Schori? Is that you?

[a fool in paradise]

Well I’ll be... a primate’s uncle.

[Husker]

The most ironic part of the story is that the act applies to non-human primates. I bet Paul Mulshine wishes he would ahve actually read the act before he called everyone dumb.

[dangus]

Oh, then the idiot author calls Huckabee an idiot for insisting he’s not evolved from primates. Turns out the whole article is really just a back-door slam on all creationists. But, parsing Huckabee’s words, He’d have to agree with Juckabee to be consistent. See, Huckabee said he’s not evolved from apes. “From” implies separation. If primates include humans, than Huckabee is still a primate; he may have evolved from OTHER primates (if you believe in evolution)*, but not from primates in general.

*I’m an old-earth creationist, myself, so I regard evolution as a partly useful and partly misleading paradigm.

[DCPatriot]