Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
mom, in the Georgia mountains there were several varieties of wild blackberries. Some were very tart but some were as sweet as strawberries.
Please don't tell us.
tell us ... tell us!
okra?
Damn.
You saw the sun.
My toes are developing webbing.
Spot on correct with Ms.Carson and her DDT hysteria.
It made big chem a huge fortune to have that product taken from the shelves.
Glad that our west coast types are enjoying some nice weather...now give it back to Texas, please.
Thanks for the report.
Cheers.
Do you think Ms 'Silent Spring' author was in cohoots with the chemical industry? Just curious.
Great Baja report: I got lost bumping around down there.
Thanks.
Great question about Rachael...I really don't know what she did after quitting the Department of Agriculture and writing her book.
I do know that growing up, we would mix up the DDT in a five gallon bucket, using our hands and arms to put it into solution with the water, and then spray all our cattle for the various flies and critters that would torment them in the summer.
Maybe that's what got my Grand Dad at 94...Daddy's struggling with it at 86, and all in all, I feel ok; as does my younger brother.
What a hoax she perpetrated on the entire world.
Catpuppy ! :)
Pope Hospitalized With Breathing ProblemsClick to continue
By Victor L. Simpson, AP
ROME Feb 1, 2005 — Pope John Paul II was rushed to the hospital urgently Tuesday night after he suffered inflammation of the throat and had difficulty breathing while battling the flu, the Vatican said.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told The Associated Press that the decision to hospitalize the 84-year-old pontiff was "mainly a precaution."
He pointed out that the pope was not in intensive care but in the same 10th floor suite of rooms where he has been during several previous stays at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic.
The pope has the flu and acute laryngeal tracheitis, Navarro-Valls said, acknowledging the pontiff had a "certain difficulty in breathing." The spokesman, who has a medical degree, denied Italian news reports that the pope had a CAT scan at the hospital.
Navarro-Valls said more tests will be done on Wednesday. The Vatican planned to issue a medical bulletin on Wednesday morning sometime after 9 a.m. (3 a.m. EST), the spokesman said.
The Vatican said in an earlier statement that the pope suffered from "an acute laryngeal tracheitis and larynx spasm crisis."
Tracheitis, an inflammation of the trachea, requires hospitalization and usually a breathing tube to keep the airway clear. The spasms are likely a complication from the respiratory illness he's had.
It's possible his Parkinson's disease has made his condition more serious and his breathing more labored.
A Vatican official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the pontiff, who has had the flu since Sunday, had apparently suffered a "breathing crisis."
A close member of the pope's staff, American Archbishop James Harvey, said the pope had congestion and a slight fever during the day.
A State Department official, who asked not to be identified, said the pope would be held overnight for observation but there was no indication he was gravely ill.
Cars with Vatican license plates were speeding toward the Catholic hospital, where the pope had been taken, according to an AP correspondent at the scene. "
Mine, too, and they're freezing.
As a child, I remember my family loading up the old pump spray with whatever brand of DDT they used, at dusk. They would spray it all over the house and onto the ill fitting window screens. Like your family, mine is long lived also, except for cardiac failure in the males at an early age.
People are dying because of that book and the elimination of DDT and most don't even know the real story. Sad
I just posted a link to the story about the Pope at #2676 on this thread.
Good evening!
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