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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-10 08:39 PM
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Getting biblical
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22980811/detail.html

NEWCASTLE, Wyo. -- Grasshopper infestations have taken on mythic tones here on the arid prairie of northeastern Wyoming -- they blanket highways, eat T-shirts off clotheslines and devour nearly every scrap of vegetation on ranches and farms.

The myth may come closer to reality this summer than at any time in decades in several states in the West and the Plains.

A federal survey of adult grasshoppers last fall indicated that parts of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska and Idaho could face costly grasshopper infestations this summer.

Ranchers and farmers as well as federal and municipal pest control agencies are praying for well-timed cool and wet weather to stifle the young grasshoppers when they hatch around May and June.

In the meantime, they're scrambling to line up the millions of dollars it will cost to battle an outbreak with aerial insecticide.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-10 09:15 PM
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1. What do those 6 states have in common?
They all provided the majority vote for McCain/Palin. If they are suggesting biblical than it must mean god is punishing those Republicans.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-10 10:20 PM
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2. so they're banding together to get some socialist government money.
Edited on Sun Mar-28-10 10:20 PM by Historic NY
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-10 10:28 PM
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3. let them pray.
if they pray hard enough, the problem goes away. Hell, their god tells them so, just like that shyster on the T & V every sunday.
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-10 11:36 PM
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4. Pray
And apply lots of chemicals. It's what Jesus would do.
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-10 07:11 AM
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5. WWJS?
Surely there's nothing that a quick spurt of Holy Water can't fix?

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