Posted on 03/04/2011 8:43:46 PM PST by george76
I thought this article was about the Democrats coming back this summer. My bad!
Had a scorpion try to get into my boot in a jungle hut in Tikal, Guatemala. I think the smell had weakened him so I finished him off with my foot long knife. Mercy killing. You’ve never smelled my boots.
Kept my boots straight up in Nam.
Yet another benefit of no immigration laws.
Either way it is lousy news.
I was in Las Vegas awhile back and had seen so many reports of bedbugs on The strip at bedbugregistry that I took black plastic garbage bags, and kept my luggage in them, in the bathtub.
At least the Palazzo has all white bedlinens, so if I would’ve gotten bit, or if one was crawling around on the sheets, or duvets, you probably would’ve seen evidence of them.
I think the Wynne has specially trained Jack Russell terriers on staff to sniff them out.
Bed Bugs are a prelude to socialism and communism.
The USSR had that market cornered; oh have times changed....
Hopefully you didn’t have any candles lit.
#24: Great picture of Nancy Pelosi. Where did you get it?
You really didn’t need to post that image. Now I’m going to TRY to go to sleep!
Thanks for posting . Saved me the time .
A friend of mine is an independent pest control contractor. Bedbugs were 10% of his business 3 years ago. 25% two years ago. 50% last year. He’s 20% ahead of his gross receipts so far from this time last year. He’s hiring. Bedbugs are very, very good to him.
So, you’re at a hotel and want to make sure you don’t get bedbugs? He says that’s a good thought, because he figures 1 in 10 rooms have them - regardless of the quality of the hotel. Here’s what to do.
Pack two garbage bags in your luggage.
Open the door.
Open your bag.
Put your luggage down on it just inside the front door.
Take the other bag and a small flashlight (those new LED ones are great) over to the bed.
Kneel down on the bag next to the headboard.
Shine the flashlight onto the headboard.
Examine it and the crack between it and the wall.
If you see any small waxy-white pellets (~ 1 mm or a little less), you have found bedbug eggs.
If you see some small brown dots, they are either bedbug feces or part of the finish.
If so, go to the bathroom, wet some toilet tissue, go back and wipe the dots.
If the dots stay there, they’re part of the finish.
If the dots wipe off, they’re bedbug feces.
You also examine the frame of the bed in similar fashion.
If you see any of this, go back to the front desk and ask for a new room. If they give you any trouble, start raising your voice as you talk about bedbug shit. You’ll get a new room.
When you leave the room, put all your clothing you’re not wearing in one of the bags. Put that back in your luggage. Put the other bag around your luggage.
When you get home, open the bag, open the luggage, take out the clothing bag, and close everything else back up. Take the clothing bag and empty it directly into the washing machine. Wash the clothes. Take the clothes out. Note that if there were any bedbugs in them some are likely to have survived. Put them in the dryer and dry them for an hour. NOW the bedbugs are dead.
The luggage in the bag? That all depends on how often you travel. If you only travel once a year, just leave the bag closed up. They’ll be dead after a year. But if you travel more than that, you’ll need to fumigate it - or heat it to 140 - 160 degrees for an hour - to get rid of the bugs.
This is what a pro tells me, and he’s making a very good living these days killing bedbugs.
A friend of mine is an independent pest control contractor. Bedbugs were 10% of his business 3 years ago. 25% two years ago. 50% last year. He’s 20% ahead of his gross receipts so far from this time last year. He’s hiring. Bedbugs are very, very good to him.
So, you’re at a hotel and want to make sure you don’t get bedbugs? He says that’s a good thought, because he figures 1 in 10 rooms have them - regardless of the quality of the hotel. Here’s what to do.
Pack two garbage bags in your luggage.
Open the door.
Open your bag.
Put your luggage down on it just inside the front door.
Take the other bag and a small flashlight (those new LED ones are great) over to the bed.
Kneel down on the bag next to the headboard.
Shine the flashlight onto the headboard.
Examine it and the crack between it and the wall.
If you see any small waxy-white pellets (~ 1 mm or a little less), you have found bedbug eggs.
If you see some small brown dots, they are either bedbug feces or part of the finish.
If so, go to the bathroom, wet some toilet tissue, go back and wipe the dots.
If the dots stay there, they’re part of the finish.
If the dots wipe off, they’re bedbug feces.
You also examine the frame of the bed in similar fashion.
If you see any of this, go back to the front desk and ask for a new room. If they give you any trouble, start raising your voice as you talk about bedbug shit. You’ll get a new room.
When you leave the room, put all your clothing you’re not wearing in one of the bags. Put that back in your luggage. Put the other bag around your luggage.
When you get home, open the bag, open the luggage, take out the clothing bag, and close everything else back up. Take the clothing bag and empty it directly into the washing machine. Wash the clothes. Take the clothes out. Note that if there were any bedbugs in them some are likely to have survived. Put them in the dryer and dry them for an hour. NOW the bedbugs are dead.
The luggage in the bag? That all depends on how often you travel. If you only travel once a year, just leave the bag closed up. They’ll be dead after a year. But if you travel more than that, you’ll need to fumigate it - or heat it to 140 - 160 degrees for an hour - to get rid of the bugs.
This is what a pro tells me, and he’s making a very good living these days killing bedbugs.
I think that the timing may be a result of the emergence of the super-resistant bugs, rather than an upsurge in transplantation. The cited article notes that a single pregnant female can found a large infestation, so I think this outbreak may be analogous to introductions of alien species, where a very small founding population grows explosively.
The fact is that the DDT craze is and was far worse than even the Global Warming BS we have to put up with now. DDT was banned because of a lousy book and a woman, Rachel Carson, who is the #1 serial man-slaughterer in the entire World. It was through her junk science and poorly written crap book, ‘Silent Spring’ that we all itch today.
DDT is not only the answer, it is the safe answer, particularly for indoor use. Since it has had a World wide ban for four decades it is highly likely that no pests have any residual immunity to it what so ever.
If I was in charge, particularly if was President, I would write an executive Order today to reestablish the use of DDT for the renewed elimination of this and other 3rd World pests.
Also end chain migration from the cesspools of the World. Must we have every form of low life , uneducated malcontent in this country. Nobody ever crying because of a lack of Somalis in their neighborhood
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I’m bookmarking that. We’re traveling to NYC this Summer, we got some excellent U.S. Open tickets at a fund raiser auction.
It is disgusting. Our Grandparents worked so hard to make a nice life for all of us; and here we sit with the nitwit generation that has been in charge for the last two decades having given us back such wonderful gifts as bedbugs, TB, Leprosy, etc...not to mention another depression.
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