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Turtle named for Obama freed on Independence Day
AP ^
| July 4, 2009
| AP
Posted on 07/04/2009 5:21:21 PM PDT by proud_yank
KEY WEST, Fla. – A sea turtle named after President Barack Obama that was rescued just before Inauguration Day has been set free on Independence Day.
Obama the loggerhead sea turtle was found ailing off a Key West beach on Jan. 19, the eve of the inauguration. Suffering from an intestinal impaction, the 200-pound female was nursed back to health with a diet of squid and mineral oil at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon.
Turtle Hospital administrator Ryan Butts said the turtle was set free Saturday on a Key West beach as about 100 people watched. He says it was appropriate to give the loggerhead its liberty on the Fourth of July after being rescued at a historic moment.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: independenceday2009; messiah; obama; turtle; wildlife
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To: proud_yank
On man v wild, Bear Grylls showed everyone how to gut and cook a turtle.
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:23:38 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: proud_yank
Hooray for the turtle but they could have given him a better moniker.
To: proud_yank
To: proud_yank
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:24:38 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: proud_yank
Ah, another Goebbels-inspired tongue bath cream puff piece from the enchanted media.
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:24:55 PM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: proud_yank
>> A sea turtle named after President Barack Obama... suffering from an intestinal impaction
What a coincidence! Bambi’s suffering from an intestinal impaction too! He’s had his head jammed up there for so long it’s like it’ll NEVER come out.
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:25:57 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: proud_yank
Seeing Obama leave the United States heading towards Cuba never to return is a dream of mine. The story helped me live my dream, and so it made me happy.
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:27:00 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
(The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
To: Perdogg
>> On man v wild, Bear Grylls showed everyone how to gut and cook a turtle.
If the Lord didn’t mean for us to eat turtle stew, then why’d he put a bowl on their backs?
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:27:19 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: eclecticEel; JoeProBono
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:30:33 PM PDT
by
proud_yank
(Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
To: proud_yank
"Turtle named for Obama" What did the name it?
Post Turtle
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:31:08 PM PDT
by
skimbell
To: proud_yank
Better looking than Obama, I'd say. And it would do a better job in the White House.
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:34:13 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: proud_yank
This is too easy...
Can we send the turtle’s namesake out to sea now?
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:35:54 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Question O-thority!)
To: Cicero
And I bet it comes with its proper papers too.
To: proud_yank
I suspect that when amongst his seafaring turtle friends he’s gonna ask them to just call him Bob........
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:39:44 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
To: proud_yank
Today I saw a little kid wearing a Penguins for Obama shirt.
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:40:24 PM PDT
by
Miss Didi
( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
To: proud_yank
Why’d they call the turtle Traitor?
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:44:09 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: proud_yank
the 200-pound female They must have named it for Michelle.
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:49:10 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: skimbell
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:51:28 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Excellent-I’m keeping that one!
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posted on
07/04/2009 5:56:22 PM PDT
by
skimbell
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