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Exploding Toads in a Hamburg Pond Baffle Scientists
Environmental News Network & Associated Press ^
| April 27, 2005
Posted on 04/28/2005 12:34:11 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
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I think they might find out it is fast food. Perhaps Michael Moore is suffering from the same thing.
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Toads should eat bugs not beans.
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posted on
04/28/2005 12:38:12 AM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Global warming.
No, I take that back, it's Bush's fault.
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Aww nawww!
My toaded, she 'sploded!
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:19:43 AM PDT
by
Woahhs
(America is an idea, not an address.)
To: Woahhs
What!? Islamic fundamentalist toads now?
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:47:23 AM PDT
by
Bazooka
(Just say what you think. They hate our guts anyway.)
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Lovely. Wait until it spreads to humans.
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:50:28 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: Caipirabob
Looking at the obesity figures in the United States, some might claim it already has.
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Looking at the obesity figures in the United States, some might claim it already has.Coffee everywhere...Darn, this was a new monitor, too...LOL!
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:57:17 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: Woahhs
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:57:58 AM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Could a prankster, as an elaborate joke, be gluing bits of Alka-Seltzer or Brioschi to grasshoppers or moths and setting them free in the area? Toad eat, toad bloat, toad die.
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:59:15 AM PDT
by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state and Georgia, the rotten peach, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
I watched an interesting National Geographic program that noted how 40 species of frogs have been wiped out in the last few years. They focused on the plight of the Leopard frogs in North America. It was found that they're numbers have diminished because of hermaphroditism - too many of their males' testes become laden with eggs. Evidence suggests that pesticide runoff from agricultural lands cause this.
The unusual part is that lesser amounts of the chemical (Atrozine) per billion liters of water causes more damage than higher amounts. It is thought that the amphibians' immune systems detect the higher levels but effectively ignore the miniscule levels that cause the worst damage.
This program asked the disturbing question "If we've introduced 70,000 inorganic compounds to our ecosystem in the relatively short period of 60 years, and have no possible means to track how all of those compounds can interact with each other in the natural cycle, how can we know what effects this will have on plants, animals and we humans who also ingest the water these molecular compounds find their way into."
God only knows what IG Farben has unknowingly unleashed on Germany over the years.
To: Bazooka
What!? Islamic fundamentalist toads now? Whatcha mean by "now?"
;o)
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:04:22 AM PDT
by
Woahhs
(America is an idea, not an address.)
To: Bazooka
I wonder if we could get Registered to make up THAT life-cycle chart?
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:06:58 AM PDT
by
Woahhs
(America is an idea, not an address.)
To: TASMANIANRED
Toads should eat bugs not beans.It's bush's fault
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:09:46 AM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(If you want to change government support the libertarian party www.lp.org)
To: NewRomeTacitus
Among other things you are talking about endocryn disrupters.
There is some nasty stuff out there and some Freepers will tell you that nothing man can do can harm the planet. These Freepers are pretty stupid and very blind.
Frogs are important to pay attention to because they are canaries in a mine shaft for all creatures.
They live in water and on land and have an anatomy not so far off from humans (which is why we disect them in high school).
Nature is an infinite sink and will eventually repair itself over time. But even an infinite sink can get full, because the drain off is not infinitely large.
See my tag line.
To: TASMANIANRED
Oh no! Those frogs have been eating pop rocks and coca-cola!
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Maybe its a gang of 9 year old boys stuffing lit firecrackers in them.
To: Nightshift
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posted on
04/28/2005 4:20:28 AM PDT
by
tutstar
( <{{--->< Impeach Judge Greer http://www.petitiononline.com/ijg520/petition.html)
To: nuke rocketeer
I was going to suggest they look for a boy with a bicycle pump.
But I guess people have seen them puff up and die without outside interference. This is really strange.
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posted on
04/28/2005 4:24:06 AM PDT
by
ahayes
To: nuke rocketeer
Maybe its a gang of 9 year old boys stuffing lit firecrackers in them. Hehehehe...
My thoughts exactly.
? I only know if this from reading about it in books, btw.
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posted on
04/28/2005 4:25:48 AM PDT
by
KidGlock
(Get in the pit and try to love some one)
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