[Battle Axe]

pinging anthrax list

[Battle Axe]

Here in Amish country, West Nile wiped out many horses about 3 years ago. They vaccinate now. As many as 70 a day.

Also had a neighbor who was repeatedly hospitalized with it.

[ExtremeUnction]

Our crows died off for awhile in Sacramento. But they’re back and most are probably immune. My doctor told me that in this area most humans have probably had a mild form of the disease and are now immune (like the new batch of crows). So if this was intentional, it was a puny effort to kill us off.

[mylife]

Since when is encephahitis a jihadi plot?

[donmeaker]

We have bunches of Ravens (Corvus coraz) in the desert of California.

Be glad to lend you a few... They feast on the rabbits and pets killed on our roads.

Of course there are many many species in Genus Covus. They interact well with man. I don’t think we have a single species of crow in common with Israel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Corvus

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

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[Smokin' Joe]

I grew up in Southern Maryland, and crows were pretty common--to the point where a farmer across the creek from my grandfather who raised produce had a propane cannon to chase them off.

It appears highly likely to the point of being a statistical certainty, to me at least, that this clown Saddam Hussein had been sitting there taking various kinds of potshots at us for a number of years before we took him down.

In keeping with longstanding policy of keeping the American population in the dark in re terrorism, at least until there is an attack which undeniably is a terrorist attack. (OK City, 9/11).

I would not doubt that in the event of incontravertible evidence that West Nile Virus was in fact a weaponized variety which was planted here by our enemies, the minions of Government on both sides of the aisle would keep the fact quiet to hide their incompetence.

Especially the "co-presidents" who, in order to push their domestic agendae, routinely denied that acts which appear to have been acts of (international) terrorism were anything but the result of Christian whites bent on race war.

[elcid1970]

The cartoon characters Heckle and Jeckle were magpies, but never mind.

[vetvetdoug]

I thought all of the crows were sent to New Jersey? (Fritz the Cat (1974).

The crows did take a hit here in Mississippi as did the Bluebirds and many other species of birds but natural selection has occurred and they are rebounding. There is a flock of crows in my pasture as I type....they love my pecan trees...