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Big Red - 1964

StukaFox says...

They got so much right on that one! Today, we actually have trucks and they use engines -- who could have possibly foreseen such wonders in the darkest ages of the late 1960s?! Surely, this is the result of witchcraft combined with technology and just a wee pinch of leaded gasoline and DDT.

Next week on "Our Amazing Future": an astounding device will wait until your wife is asleep and then deliver an unstoppable deluge of pornography directly to you from all over the world -- in COLOR!!

Military scientists are already hard at work on the "inter-net", by which the conveyance of rank smut into your bedroom will forever put to rest that embarrassing walk over to BIG TONY'S TIT-A-TORIUM for your weekly purchases of "Giant Goddamn Asses" and "Judy Hopps Confidential." Apparently you'll also be able to get news and culture and all that other who-cares bullshit, like anyone gives a fuck since there's gonna be way hella titties! And grey fur.

Can someone please recommend a good mental health specialist?

The Mosquito Killer Billboard

AeroMechanical says...

I'm fairly certain that attempting to kill the adult mosquitos (short of major DDT fumigating, which is frowned upon except in extreme situations) isn't considered very effective. It's the larvae you need to get, mostly by cleaning urban areas of old tires and other places where water collects unnecessarily.

Pro-lifers not so pro-life after all?

B-Boy Battle: Drifters vs. Rivers Crew (Armory Cup Final 06)

LASER barrier to keep insects out

TDS: End O'Potamia

Hundreds of Bed Bugs in a Cup

Michele Bachmann chooses STD's

blankfist says...

I think the point of this parody is to mock Bachmann's stance against Rick Perry's mandatory HPV vaccine of young girls in public schools, but it sure does come off as anti-immunizations. I'm against compulsory immunizations, too. That doesn't mean I'm anti-vaccination. I just don't think it should forced onto people, as there are a immensely small percentage that have fatal reactions to them. But fuck them right?

DDT used to be compulsory, too. Just sayin'.

Jefferson Memorial Dancing on June 4 2011

smooman says...

as someone stated earlier, the point of civil disobedience is to NOT resist arrest. In the video that spurred this one (the one with the snap-suplexes and DDT's) the "protesters" are spoiled children, not freedom fighters. unfortunately what gets media attention, or at least, internet attention, are these asinine breed of dissidents that intentionally goad the police into arresting them, then spasmodically resist, all the while crying tyranny.

there's a certain dignity in civil disobedience, but these numbnuts (the ones in the previous video anyway) have none

Chomsky on Egypt

quantumushroom says...

Way to post that pdf in every video about Chomsky, and hide when someone points out that its full of shit. Go back to posting inane, pun riddled one liners; your ad hominem attacks makes FOX news look classy and intelligent.

It takes less time to shoot a mugger than explain to him why his actions are morally wrong.

Facts are to liberals what DDT is to bugs. If you are over age 25 and still believing the likes of Chumpsky, you are one of those Lincoln referred to as "some of the people fooled all of the time."

BTW your "anti-capitalist" hero is worth 2 million dollars, which he hid in a trust to avoid taxation---taxation he demands for everyone else.

Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk

quantumushroom says...

Life is risk and fortune favors the bold. Presently not one of the dweebs in DC would have the balls to sail to the New World on the Mayflower. The milksops should stick to what they're good at: whining about the fat in school lunches. Everything else they should leave the hell alone, even for a year.


Rachel Carson? Bad, bad example. By lying about the risks and consequences of using DDT, which caused it to be banned, Carson and the then-head of the EPA are guilty of 30-plus years of eco-genocide.

WL: US bullies Europe on behalf of Monsanto

criticalthud says...

and i will add that scientists, while doing some amazing things, also routinely kill people.
pcb's, bovine growth hormone, nuclear radiation, nuclear bombs, bio-warfare, missile technology, ddt, malathion, agent orange, you name it, scientists, in the name of profit, have compiled a laundry list of chemicals, compounds, and weapons that accidentally or purposely kill people.
Western medicine, in their wisdom, also routinely kill people. it's called "iatrogenic death" - or, death by doctor. One of the most common ways to die.
Monsanto exists to make a profit... period.

Clueless Sports Writer Is Very Serious About Black Ops TV Ad

Monsanto (Blog Entry by jwray)

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Skeeve says...

While indiscriminate spraying of DDT is obviously stupid and dangerous, the rise in worldwide malaria rates in response to the restrictions on DDTs use have killed hundreds of thousands to millions of humans.

Now, unfortunately, it's too late. Like not using all of one's prescribed antibiotics, we allowed mosquitoes to develop a resistance to DDT when we stopped using it and it doesn't work anymore (at least not as well).

By the early 1960s we had malaria cases in India down to almost zero from 75 Million in 1947. Sri Lanka went from 2.8 million cases in 1946 to 17 cases in 1963. Malaria was on the verge of extinction in these places.

Then we lost DDT thanks to Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring". By 1976 there were 6.4 million cases in India. Today it sits between 2 and 3 million cases a year and India is one of the luckier ones. Throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa more than 50% of all children are infected. In Zambia, in 2005, there were 1353 cases for every 1000 children under 5 years old. That means a huge percent of the children are infected more than once a year.

Was DDT dangerous to spray indiscriminately? Absolutely. Was it saving millions of lives? Without a doubt.



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