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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:29 AM Original message |
Border plants to be killed to reveal smugglers |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
1. sure... turn the whole freakin' planet into a war zone... |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. Isn't there wildlife that lives there. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. There's a LOT of wildlife that lives there |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
3. 130 miles total? |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
34. Give GeeDubya a case of Corona and let him loose on the brush. n/t |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
39. That's $3 a linear foot, $16,154 a mile. I'll do a mile by machete for that money? |
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Summermoondancer (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #39 |
51. Me too and it is a whole lot more environmentally friendly.. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. Or legalize the plant that is the root of the problem. |
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bitchkitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
43. Marijuana in California and Oregon is |
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Summermoondancer (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 06:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
52. Which plant? |
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silverojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:43 AM Response to Reply #4 |
55. Or quit smoking the dope that the criminals want to sell |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 11:00 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. I have never bought "dope" in my life. |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #55 |
59. What a stupid comment. |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #59 |
60. ! |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
5. What could possibly go wrong with that plan? |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
6. Aren't there several endangered species there? |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:57 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Yes, & people too |
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Summermoondancer (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 06:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
53. Yeah and animals and farms too |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
7. An even more interesting question... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:46 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. $10 needed to kill the plants. The rest is profit for some chemical company and some contractor. |
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blackspade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:32 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. How about just bush hogging it every month or so? |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:23 PM Response to Reply #18 |
36. Oh, hell I hadn't thought of that. |
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TXRAT2 (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
50. I sprayed 3 square miles of cactus for 18,000.00 a section |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
9. $2.1 Million? |
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Pharlo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
10. I say we bring the |
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watrwefitinfor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. I kick and recommend this POST. nt |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. finally a use for the POS! |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. I'll bring the stripey pajamas if we can chain Cheney & Rumsfeld to him |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
11. It's called Carrizo Cain |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. They don't have this problem on the other side. Why? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
29. It's non-native and destructive of American wetlands |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
33. Are they only killing the arundo? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:02 PM Response to Reply #33 |
47. Where Arundo gets established, no other plants grow |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
16. This is the dumbest idea I have heard when it comes to border issues. |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
17. Vietnam vets are dropping dead still to this day from exfoliants. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
19. If you were in the UK |
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jb5150 (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
20. Good Lord |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
23. Mr. Border Patrol, tear down that wall! |
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Summermoondancer (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 06:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
54. I second that post! |
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williesgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
24. Just from a cost standpoint, how could one mile's chemical cost $2.1 million? This |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. how ridiculous |
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greenbird (432 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
26. When will we ever, ever ever |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. NOOOOOOOOOO! |
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Hulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
28. Another disgusting overreaction by the US Immigration Service... |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
30. They could do it cheaper |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
31. Outrageous! |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
35. What the hell? |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
37. Just keep killing the Earth until we realize Peak Oxygen has happened. Why not? |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
38. I am getting whiplash -- one minute I am applauding the EPA halting of mountaintop removal permits |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:53 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Homeland security is exempt from all those pesky regulations. |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Gawd. |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
40. Brilliant!! That will stop them. |
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bitchkitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
44. When all else fails, poison everything! |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
45. ahhh... a page right out of the "destroy the village to save it" playbook |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
46. Infrared glasses would work better. |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
48. Jeez if dimson isn't busy |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
49. wtf? n/t |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
56. They're not going to be able to dress up like cacti, then. |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
58. More govt funded deforestation. Brilliant! |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
61. Kill them? Shouldn't we at least question them under torture first? |
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greenbird (432 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
62. Update on this claims that poisoning plans are on hold |
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