Spraying Anvil and Malathion

[Kathleen Moon]

scruffy wrote:
> 
> In article <rdowns-0610992055100001 at user-2ive6ae.dialup.mindspring.com>,
> rdowns at pipeline.com (Randy) wrote:
> 
> > In article <37FB7123.C7D0050A at ucla.edu>, Kathleen Moon <kmoon at ucla.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Randy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In article <37FAEC0F.5625 at gernsback.net>, ralph <124c41 at gernsback.net>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I've been wondering... since when do you spray vast tracts of land to
> > > > > kill adult mosquitoes that have like a 2 week generation time? I thought
> > > > > the way to eradicate mosquitoes was either drain the water where they
> > > > > breed, or lay a cover of oil over it to suffocate the larvae?
> > > > > --
> > > > Malathion kills the mosquitos but also Democrats. That's why it's the
> > pesticide
> > > > of choice for Lord Combover, aka Tsar Rudy.
> > >
> > > Let's not be stupid here.  You are just as intelligent as anyone else.
> > > If it kills Democrats, it also kills Republicans, Libertarians, Greens
> > > and so on.  The problem isn't so much that it kills as that it kills in
> > > ways that we dop not understand yet, and therefore cannot mitigate
> > > against as effectively as we should.  Of course, certain members of some
> > > political parties would rather we did spray anyway.  That way, they get
> > > more money from the survivors for their companies' coffers when we come
> > > calling for remedies.
> > >
> > Um, it's called humor.
> >
> > Help stamp out humor impairment in my lifetime.
> 
> who would have thought those zany funlovers in
> sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera would be so stodgy?

Let's get real: see my earlier reply (a couple minutes ago).  Any time
anyone gets killed by some !@#$%^ tumor, whatever party he/she might
belong to, the situation has good potential for being serious.  Let's
see both sides of this situation.
Pierre