When will it ever end

The folks at City Hall were kind enough to send me a news release containing the information that folks from the Africam Safari, the place in Mexico where Dallas Zoo officials planned to send Jenny the Elephant until all hell broke loose, have trekked all the way up here to hold a news conference at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the City Hall's Flag Room (also known as the City Council's sixth floor lobby) to tell their side of the story.

It seems these folks feel their reputation was unfairly maligned by all the animal rights people who insisted (and still insist) Jenny should be shipped off to some sanctuary in Tennessee. (For those not keeping score, the Zoo has decided to keep Jenny here and expand her habitat.) Joining them at the ceremony will be council member Steve Salazar.

According to the release, the Safari people will "clarify the misconceptions" surrounding their joint in particular and the city in which the safari is located and "Mexican wildlife protection laws" in general. They will also "address how the collaborative relationship between the Dallas Zoo and the Africam Safari will be in the future."

Why, oh why is this saga continuing? Don't the folks at Africam know that the animal rights maniacs don't give a damn about Jenny or what's happening south of the border? They just constantly protest the ideas of zoos and circuses. The Dallas Zoo could build a habitat as big as the entire state of Tennessee and it wouldn't satisfy the animal rights people. So anything these people from Africam will be saying tomorrow will fall on deaf ears and I doubt they are going to convince that many Dallas residents to drive down to Puebla, Mexico, and visit their sanctuary. So why bother, especially at City Hall when the City Council (regardless of what council member Angela Hunt, who has become nothing more than a pawn in the anti-zoo campaign, says) should have absolutely no say in this matter whatsoever, according to the Dallas City Charter.

Please, can someone with some semblance of sanity put a lid on this thing.