I've got honey bees - Page 6

 




    I'm sure you've heard something similar before but, as a young man,
I had no idea Australians referred to your country as "Oz". Later, in
the pre-"usenet" dark ages of Fidonet, private BBS services, etc. before
there were such things as NNTP headers, I thought folks referring to
living in "Oz" were flagging themselves as gay because that's what
"living in 'Oz'" meant, over here, and gay folks were, "friends of
Dorothy".

    Where I live, mosquitoes are a nearly year-around problem. Nowadays
the local agency makes a show of "controlling" them with low volume
aerosol sprays (tiny whips and chairs might be just as effective) but
when I was a child, they used thermal fog. Most likely, the fog was
pyrethroids. We kids used to follow the trucks closely on our bicycles
not just becoming totally invisible to motor vehicle traffic but also
inhaling enormous quantities of insecticidal fog.
    In the late 1950's we had an infestation of "Mediterranean" fruit
fly. Every morning, while walking to school, children (including myself)
were exposed to high-volume sprays of malathion from low flying DC-3
aircraft.
    We've pretty well established that, if those events did any dain
bramage, no one here would notice ;-) But it might explain a lot about
our politics and/or foreign policy, what there is of it....
    Where I live now, many small farmers grow highbush blueberry
hybrids that have been specially developed for the hot humid climate of
the USA's Gulf (of Mexico) coast. Due to the warm winters, most of those
varieties require chemical defoliation; at least, in Florida, they do
and I expect the same applies to all of the Gulf states. Agent Orange
remains alive and well. Hell, it might even be gummint surplus.
--
the Balvenieman
USDA zone 9b, peninsular Florida, U.S.A.

 




    You apparently missed my reference to their importance to the
large-scale monocropping agriculture as practiced in most of the
so-called "developed" world and on which we now depend. However, the
predictable behavior patterns that make them so valuable to agriculture
also make them easy to control.
--
the Balvenieman
USDA zone 9b, peninsular Florida, U.S.A.

 


You're right.  I did miss that reference amonst all that verbage.

 




    ...and you are compelled to read it? Suggest you get yourself a
competent newsreader and ask a grownup to explain "killfile". I could
give a shit. Sheesh!
--
HTH,
the Balvenieman
USDA zone 9b, peninsular Florida, U.S.A.
    

 



You are a shit.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html