Posted on 10/15/2012 10:44:57 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
For the non-beekeepers out there:
Small Hive Beetles are a pest that affects beehives. They are from Africa and they came on the scene relatively recently. No one knows how they got here. They just appeared all of a sudden (hmmm...)
They breed in honeycomb, creating lots and lots of lovely maggots. They also eat stored pollen and bee eggs and larvae and defecate all over the hive. If they get out of control, they’ll slime out a hive with their feces either killing it or causing the bees to leave and take up residence elsewhere. Either way, the beekeeper is left with a ruined hive.
hear, hear
“Liberals’ would murder all the “cockroaches” in America if they could harness the power and Federal machinery. They do this every time they take over a Nation. They are not liberals, they are communists.
Classical liberals do not hate democracy’s free speech and the constitution’s protection of individual rights and decentralized government. Rich is a communist.
There were certain places in Europe, during the 1940’s, where certain ethnic groups were referred to as rats before they were gathered up and transported to concentration camps.
Just saying.
Well said cotton.
Be nice to hear Romney utter that phrase at an opportune moment in tomorrow night's debate.
After all, a good, dirigiste Marxist-Leninist mass purge and genocide can do a lot to change a country's demographics and "internals".
Of course, Russia today is a dwindling shadow of its former self, its manhood riddled with alcoholism and psychiatric problems left over from the Marxist-Leninist tyranny, its womanhood looking contemptuously past the losers and even beyond Russia's borders for their futures.
Russia, formerly an armed and armored despotate, is now a sick, crippled society that is destined to become a victim-state, invaded and attacked by Islamic and Chinese predators.
Why doesn't the Times pay for the political opinions of carpenters, hair stylists, and jockeys?
Very well put!
Yes, and that is a salient point w/r/t his essay. He draws a strong distinction between the fortunes of the GOP and the strength of its conservative values.
From the source article,
In the late-September Quinnipiac University–New York Times–CBS News survey of the swing states Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, for instance, the view that government is “doing too many things” easily beat the alternative that government “should do more.” The Pew American Values Survey from June is even starker in charting an intrinsic national alienation from a government that has been gridlocked since the turn of the century: By margins that approach or exceed two to one, a majority of Americans believe that government regulation of business “does more harm than good”; that the federal government should only run things “that cannot be run at the local level”; and that the “federal government controls too much of our daily lives.” Intriguingly, this animus almost uncannily matches that at the time of Goldwater’s trouncing in 1964.
Goldwater was destroyed by LBJ's political craftiness and the help of the media machine, but Goldwater's values elevated Richard Nixon over liberal paragon Humbert Humphrey only four years later, and made Ronald Reagan our 40th President in 1980.
My personal takeaway from reconsideration of 1964 (The Making of the President 1964, by Theodore White) is that the wrong man won; and that the factors contributing to LBJ's election, therefore, are an agenda list of the things that need to be repaired in America.
See also my last, which goes to a similar point.
New York even has a bar critic -- no, really. I checked the original article. That must be an unappreciated facet of New Yorkiness: One's favorite reads include all the lowdown from a Frank Rich or a Mini-Rich on dives and taprooms in one's neighborhood -- and more importantly, where all the tony, "right" dives and taprooms are located.
The place would suddenly be spilling over with hipster doucheheads and boho trustafarians who douse themselves in patchouli oil to save water wasted on showering.
"Why is there no Decemberists or Indigo Girls on the jukebox?!"
Not to cavil -- I thought at first that the publication was The New Yorker and had to look again.
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