What to do with dead squirrel?

[Billy]

Where's your trailer parked?

[Malcolm Hoar]

Good grief, man. In Berkeley, CA a dead ant is "really effed up".

It's the capital of Crazy. A city that declared Marines unwelcome and banned Marine recruitment within the city borders until the lure of some Federal funds proved more attractive than their "principles".

[Billy]

One mans crazy is another's eccenric. A degree in basket weaving from UC Berkeley is probably worth $70K/year; from Stanford $100K.

You got it effed-up. We love Marines. They do what they do very well, it's just the anal sphincters that tell them where and when to do it that we have a problem with. Don't want no recruitment office, recruiting our teenagers to become cannon fodder in the "Worst President Ever"'s vanity wars, just to make Cheney's and Rumfeld's companies rich. Just so's you won't think I'm a knee-jerk, anti-Republican, I should tell you that (D) Senator Diane Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, is making out on the wars pretty well too.

And what can you say about politicians? If they weren't psychopaths, they wouldn't be there. Take our Republican governator, 'Ahnold", (Please!). He's a multiple sexual offender, who smokes dope (see "Pumping Iron",

) and goes to Canada to smoke Havana cigars (illegal don'cha know?). What can I say? People in La La Land love him, but "posing" in big down there. People plowing their 4 wheel drives back and forth in the commute traffic, just to "look" macho. At least the women down there dress for men, not like up here. Nothing sexual, just competitive.

What jerkwater town did you say you where from?

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal.  When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.  ~Joseph Wood Krutch

[Marshall Tucker]

Ah, yet another pseudo environmentalist-wacko & Obammy-socialist weights in.

No trailer though-- gotta' 4300 square foot custom designed and built home in north Georgia...and from which I can plink squirrels high in the adjacent oak trees from my second floor bedroom window or balcony. The kids need to use a scoped .22 rifle while I can drop them with a .22 pistol-- my favorite being my vintage Browning Challenger with a 6" barrel.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

If you're talking about the Rachel Carson quote, she was right. All mature, educated people are fully aware of the truth of her statement by now.

[Malcolm Hoar]

I guess the resolution was just badly drafted (pun intended) then?

So, you reckon city government should be making the career choices for your young citizens then?

[Billy]

Sorry folks, forgot to take my own advice, and clip the offending newsgroup from the header.

We got summer in northern California, bees, butterflies, and all kinds of teeny flies working the onion flowers and the wisteria. Cranked up Andre Bocelli and I'm digging a bed for some asparagus crowns that should be here early this week.

[Chris]

STEW

[HeyBub]

Sure, Carson was right about dangerous chemicals in the air. Since time immemorial, all life has been subject to noxious things in the air: Sulfur dioxide from volcanoes, extra fine dust from drought conditions, soot from forest fires. All manner of nasty stuff. On these, Carson was irrefutably correct.

On DDT, however, Carson was wrong. Criminally wrong. Each year over 800,000 people - mostly children - die from Malaria. Malaria is a disease we know how to eradicate. We did it in North America. We did it in the Canal Zone. We haven't done it in Africa because of Rachel Carson.

May her name be erased.

[HeyBub]

Do you have a neighbor you don't like?

Does he have a wooden front door?

Do you have a nail?

[Charlie]

Yaaawwnnn.....moron. Old, old tired strawman argument.

Overpopulation is a disease also. Natural controls. Gaia doesn't want people living in some places.

Charlie

"The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams the flow, order collapses. The untrained miss the collapse until too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences." -- Liet-Kynes

[Charlie]

Predators also scavenge.

From whence come you people? ahr must be chockablock full of...........

[Billy]

Light actually bends when it goes by Bub. He withholds knowledge, twists the truth, lies, and when pressed, is actually ignorant.

The Stockholm Convention, which entered into force in 2004, outlawed several persistent organic pollutants, and restricted the use of DDT to vector control. The Convention was signed by 98 countries and is endorsed by most environmental groups. Recognizing that a total elimination of DDT use in many malaria-prone countries is currently unfeasible because there are few affordable or effective alternatives, the public health use of DDT was exempted from the ban until alternatives are developed. The Malaria Foundation International states that "The outcome of the treaty is arguably better than the status quo going into the negotiations?For the first time, there is now an insecticide which is restricted to vector control only, meaning that the selection of resistant mosquitoes will be slower than before."[26]

Despite the worldwide ban on agricultural use of DDT, its use in this context continues in India[27] North Korea, and possibly elsewhere.[11]

"Today, about 4-5,000 tonnes of DDT is used each year for vector control."

[11] In this context, DDT is applied to the inside walls of homes to kill or repel mosquitos entering the home. This intervention, called indoor residual spraying (IRS), greatly reduces environmental damage compared to the earlier widespread use of DDT in agriculture. It also reduces the risk of resistance to DDT.[28] This use only requires a small fraction of that previously used in agriculture; for example, the amount of DDT that might have been used on 100 acres (0.4 km?) of cotton during a typical growing season in the U.S. is estimated to be enough to treat roughly 1,700 homes.[29]

Got that Bub? "About 4-5,000 tonnes of DDT is used each year for vector control." Now you can return to your gang of geeks at tx.bozos. Because everyone here knows that you don't.

Idiot.

[Billy]

Light actually bends when it goes by Bub. He withholds knowledge, twists the truth, lies, and when pressed, is actually ignorant.

The Stockholm Convention, which entered into force in 2004, outlawed several persistent organic pollutants, and restricted the use of DDT to vector control. The Convention was signed by 98 countries and is endorsed by most environmental groups. Recognizing that a total elimination of DDT use in many malaria-prone countries is currently unfeasible because there are few affordable or effective alternatives, the public health use of DDT was exempted from the ban until alternatives are developed. The Malaria Foundation International states that "The outcome of the treaty is arguably better than the status quo going into the negotiations?For the first time, there is now an insecticide which is restricted to vector control only, meaning that the selection of resistant mosquitoes will be slower than before."[26]

Despite the worldwide ban on agricultural use of DDT, its use in this context continues in India[27] North Korea, and possibly elsewhere.[11]

"Today, about 4-5,000 tonnes of DDT is used each year for vector control."

[11] In this context, DDT is applied to the inside walls of homes to kill or repel mosquitos entering the home. This intervention, called indoor residual spraying (IRS), greatly reduces environmental damage compared to the earlier widespread use of DDT in agriculture. It also reduces the risk of resistance to DDT.[28] This use only requires a small fraction of that previously used in agriculture; for example, the amount of DDT that might have been used on 100 acres (0.4 km?) of cotton during a typical growing season in the U.S. is estimated to be enough to treat roughly 1,700 homes.[29]

Got that Bub? "About 4-5,000 tonnes of DDT is used each year for vector control." Now you can return to your gang of geeks at tx.bozos. Because everyone here knows that you don't.

Idiot.

is a cite Bub. You should ask Mr. Savage for one. It's like a fig leaf for your naked stupidity.

[Malcolm Hoar]

There's also:

[Billy]

I have a horrible feeling that things may not be going well in the green pastures to which some posters said they were fleeing to (I really hate that preposition thingie). They had lots of information but double that in attitude.

Let me try something. . . Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, "Worst President Ever", Bush, Bush, Bush. Helloooooo Ann? You there?

Keep your flashlight on Charlie, just in case. If something moves, throw a rock at it.

Buenos noches, amigo

[Charlie]

Aye, well, we be havin' a bit o' fun anyway, Cap'n. Only serves to clarify me/our oft repeated point about the sorry state of affairs with which we struggle....or sumpin like that. Or the sorry state of education.......

Oh shit.........now you've done it!

Buenos nachos, hermano.

Carlito

[StepfanKing]

Throw it on your mother in law's head.

[Hedda Lettis]

Bury it and plant a tomato over it. It's excellent fertilizer. ;o)

[Dioclese]

Handle with vinyl gloves. Place in plastic bag. Empty contents on top of the nearest large ant bed. Do not re-use the bag. Ants are the biggest natural and quick disposal machine for dead varmints around here.