Comments on: Poison Takes a Holiday: Rio Grande Aerial Weed Killer Spraying “Indefinitely Delayed”

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:37:42 +0000

Gad! I’m glad they stopped this ridiculous idea. As if the Rio Grande isn’t poisoned enuff by the time it hits Brownsville. I’ve heard of babies born without brains

(Border Town Mystery: Why are so many Brownsville babies being born brainless?) down there ( certainly Cornyn was one of them)and that’s where the strange mutation of cats without front legs came into being.
The idiot breeder wanted to get them registered with the CFA and called them “Munchkins”. She didn’t succeed…

Brownsville is already a chemical disaster area.
If they want the salt cedar and cane out of there, go cut it down and pull it out! Talk about “shovel ready”!

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:41:07 +0000

Those reeds draw POP out of the water and clean it. They are there because there is food for them. That food is pollutants aka nitrogen and other nutrients.

By: nahant

nahant — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:08:48 +0000

Hi Kirk you always bring to fore such provocative issues! Glad this is one instance where sanity and caution won out over GREED.

By: futzinfarb

futzinfarb — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:02:51 +0000

Many of the species of “salt-cedar” in the west are aggressively invasive, non-native, and environmentally detrimental in a variety of ways. That is, they are a genuine problem. I don’t know the pros and cons of imazapyr – I tend to think that herbicide use should be a desperate last resort – but there is at least something positive to be said for the intention of a program intended to eradicate “salt-cedar.”

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:02:47 +0000

thers upstairs

mighty fine post dr kirk - standing on chair clappping

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D.

Kirk James Murphy, M.D. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:38:12 +0000

bwa-ha-ha-ha…

as does the former Secretary of State Dungeons, I’ve heard.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:38:06 +0000

This is an interesting visual on the growth of the human population

from 1 AD to the present
Someone said it looked like mold growing on an apple hmm…

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D.

Kirk James Murphy, M.D. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:36:17 +0000

Prolly not. Our overlords at Fatherland Security [Border Patrol branch office] grandly declared they’d corked their nozzles ’cause of objections from Mexican officials.

Apparently, Americans’ views - save for those in the Texas Border Coalition - just don’t matter.

Father Knows Best.

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D.

Kirk James Murphy, M.D. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:32:51 +0000

Yep.

Male brains undergo more devlopmental steps than do female brains: from a developmental perspective, that’s one more set of opportunites for mistakes.

Some (log) graphs of the declining rates of males free of learning disorders/behavioral disorders appear to nicely overlay (log) graphs of declining sperm counts, sperm motility, and fetility.

Of additional interest is the temporal fact that the above declines appear to occur within one to three of generations of human life conceived after the massive post-WWII introduction of pesticides and other POP’s into commercial use.

Bonus graphical interest may be found in increasing rates of reproductive (and hence generally endocrine dependent) tissue malignancies within those same one to three generations.

As well as - possibly - increased rates of infants born with “intersex” genitalia.

By: AZ Matt

AZ Matt — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:26:45 +0000

I guess I would wonder what the international implecations would be with Mexico and the chemical drifting over. Think they might not be happy?