Great. Now it's the conservative's fault that the Bonobos are up a creek. I'm responsible because these sissy versions of more macho chimps are in trouble.

How the hell do conservatives and Christians come into the Bonobo problem anyway? Are they even good to eat?

There are probably eighteen "conservatives" on the entire continent of Africa, so that can't be the problem. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that the Congolese who hunt them and eat them are probably not Baptists, so that can't be the problem either.

And I know for a fact that it's been weeks since I last violated the "rights" of a Bonobo in the United States, so that doesn't seem to be a problem either. Get off my case already.

And no. Animals deserve consideration, but they do not have "rights" in the political sense. To get into this requires going back to what individual rights actually are, not the broad version of "rights" touted by the Left which includes everything up to and including a "right" to free beer.

I'm beginning to think that the Left's constant depiction of conservatives as heartless storm troopers that would destroy anyone and anything in their way has more than a little bit of psychological projection involved. The history of Leftist regimes on this planet, both in human rights and care of the environment, speaks for itself.

For a lot of liberals, being "for" the whales, dolphins, gorillas, and everything else is easy. It doesn't cost you anything, except maybe the price of a bumper sticker, to make yourself feel good and flaunt how much more sensitive you are than those unenlightened types who worry more about people than animals.

Well, at least Greenpeace has the balls to get out there and defend the whales and seals in person.