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Moms mobilize to stop moth spraying [California]
sfgate.com ^ | April 15 2008 | C.W. Nevius

Posted on 04/15/2008 3:30:31 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

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To: HKMk23
There you go, injecting logic and facts into a lib.

You know that's like mixing an acid and base. The meltdown is inevitable, if mildly amusing.

L

121 posted on 04/16/2008 7:29:16 AM PDT by Lurker (Pimping my blog: http://lurkerslair-lurker.blogspot.com/)
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To: ElkGroveDan

It’s the Migden wing of the party—big tent, ya know?


122 posted on 04/16/2008 9:39:52 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: indcons

malathion is a guaranteed crowd gatherer...


123 posted on 04/16/2008 9:44:14 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp; ElkGroveDan
So, you’ve got no problem with the government spraying San Francisco once a month for 10 years, if it comes to that? There’s nothing more to say. We’re on opposite sides.

Where are you getting this "once a month for 10 years"?

The law authorizing this (SB 556) becomes inoperative on October 1, 2009, and expires (automatically repealed) on January 1, 2010.

There are already quarantines in place--do you want those to extend to all California? And allow it to continue to other states? When we can no longer produce food, then what?

124 posted on 04/16/2008 9:48:45 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Nobody wants any serious discourse around here. They just want to post snarky one-liners, songs, and graphics.

Post an article about something that people care about and you'll get a different reaction.

I see no good guys in this article. The bureaucrats probably did a really poor job of explaining why the spraying was necessary, and the moms are probably horribly uninformed and easily stampeded.
125 posted on 04/16/2008 10:14:26 AM PDT by Antoninus (Tell us how you came to Barack?)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Pesticides keep down molds, fungus, and pests. That's good for me and the food I buy. Do you live with ants in your home? Do you eat apples with worms in them? Oranges with maggots. Pesticides are good and they have resulted in immeasurable improvements in health and prosperity the world over.

Exactly. This is the kind of stupid logic that eventually leads to millions of deaths from malaria and yellow fever because "toxic" substsances like DDT are banned.
126 posted on 04/16/2008 10:21:14 AM PDT by Antoninus (Tell us how you came to Barack?)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

There are still people with kids living in San Francisco?


127 posted on 04/16/2008 10:25:24 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

BTW, did you know your area is positively inundated with dihydrogen monoxide? That stuff is positively deadly if you breathe it in. It also eats right through solid iron!


128 posted on 04/16/2008 10:26:47 AM PDT by Antoninus (Tell us how you came to Barack?)
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To: count-your-change

You were previously involved in the debate on this thread by your own volition, which allows a degree of credibility to the assumption that you have some interest in the progress of the thread. If you could care less, then don’t even bother posting in the first place, or just ignore whatever replies or pings you get from that thread. It’s not as if that ranks among the Twelve Feats of Hurcules.

AND, FWIW, pinging a half dozen previously voluntarily involved parties hardly constitutes a “shotgun” post; there were far more people posting to this thread than were pinged to my reply.

Still, my apologies for disturbing your little gilded patch of time-space continuum.


129 posted on 04/17/2008 2:15:12 AM PDT by HKMk23 (Only The Tribulation is a crucible sufficient to the emergence of a Bride pure enough for He Who IS.)
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To: HKMk23

Your “ping” should’ve been addressed to posters to whom it would’ve had relevance or is that too much trouble?
I said nothing about the moths, their spread and/or damage causing or that I consumed “organic” produce. Therefore saying you used a “shotgun” approach was accurate.
Your sarcastic attempt to sound erudite fails, it’s Hercules, not “Hurcules”. If you’re going to gripe to me at least learn to use “spell” checking and fewer pointless metaphors.
Otherwise, Have a nice day!


130 posted on 04/17/2008 7:40:46 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
I've already explained why I thought you MIGHT have had an interest in what I posted: you DID discuss the properties of the product being sprayed, and I included additional information on that exact aspect of the discussion in the post to which you were pinged.

Since it turns out you hadn't any further interest, you might at least have gone next door for the teaspoon of social grace required to simply ignore my ping to you instead of coming back with this nitpicking, snot-nosed Emperor shtick of yours.

I give you complete liberty NOT to respond further as neither I nor anyone else have any use for your royal odiousness.

Good day.

131 posted on 04/17/2008 11:52:41 AM PDT by HKMk23 (Only The Tribulation is a crucible sufficient to the emergence of a Bride pure enough for He Who IS.)
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To: HKMk23

I’ve already explained why I thought you MIGHT have had an interest in what I posted: you DID discuss the properties of the product being sprayed, and I included additional information on that exact aspect of the discussion in the post to which you were pinged.
Since it turns out you hadn’t any further interest, you might at least have gone next door for the teaspoon of social grace required to simply ignore my ping to you instead of coming back with this nitpicking, snot-nosed Emperor shtick of yours.

I give you complete liberty NOT to respond further as neither I nor anyone else have any use for your royal odiousness.

Good day
(you can have your reply back.)


132 posted on 04/17/2008 1:27:19 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: HKMk23

“You were previously involved in the debate on this thread by your own volition, which allows a degree of credibility to the assumption that you have some interest in the progress of the thread.”

I agree with that sentiment.


133 posted on 04/23/2008 8:38:47 PM PDT by indcons
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Get involved!

I'm already involved in exterminating every critter I find to be even mildly troublesome.

134 posted on 04/23/2008 8:45:03 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

I guess you heard the good news that the spraying is (at least temporarily) stopped in Santa Cruz. I can’t bear to read this whole thread—there are so many on FR that are happy to give the State complete control over their lives.


135 posted on 04/24/2008 8:05:33 PM PDT by Poincare (Hope is nostalgia for the future.)
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