The grounds crew came up with a sweet solution.
They smeared a combination of concession-stand lemonade and cotton candy on two utility carts and lured many of the bees away from fans and players.
Showing posts with label this won't matter after the bees disappear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label this won't matter after the bees disappear. Show all posts
Monday, March 5, 2012
So THAT'S how the bees disappeared...
The Associated Press: Swarm of bees delays Giants-Diamondbacks game:
Monday, February 20, 2012
America, Distilled
From a Trib story about the "Santorum surge":
Part of the Santorum surge can be accounted for by disaffected supporters of Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
"I decided to support him three weeks ago. Before that, I was for Gingrich," said Steve Izev, 34, of Westerville, Ohio. "The more popular he got, the more I liked him."
"I decided to support him three weeks ago. Before that, I was for Gingrich," said Steve Izev, 34, of Westerville, Ohio. "The more popular he got, the more I liked him."
The more popular he got, the more I liked him. Before that I liked the other guy that was getting popular. I love it. So....honest. I'm not really thinking about it, I'm just going with whoever everyone else likes, coz this Romney guy is suspect in some sort of way...
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Friday, December 24, 2010
this won't matter after the bees disappear
Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees
The world honey bee population has plunged in recent years, worrying beekeepers and farmers who know how critical bee pollination is for many crops. A number of theories have popped up as to why the North American honey bee population has declined--electromagnetic radiation, malnutrition, and climate change have all been pinpointed. Now a leaked EPA document reveals that the agency allowed the widespread use of a bee-toxic pesticide, despite warnings from EPA scientists....
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The world honey bee population has plunged in recent years, worrying beekeepers and farmers who know how critical bee pollination is for many crops. A number of theories have popped up as to why the North American honey bee population has declined--electromagnetic radiation, malnutrition, and climate change have all been pinpointed. Now a leaked EPA document reveals that the agency allowed the widespread use of a bee-toxic pesticide, despite warnings from EPA scientists....
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Dey tuk ur jabs
Except this time it's not the Mexicans...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
This won't matter after the bees disappear... wait... yes it will
Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe
The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies blah blah blah...
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The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies blah blah blah...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Almost a whole month without a post?
I blame Sarge. He's the one ranting on the twitterz with his like 8 different screen names while the LoC wastes away. Yep, all Sarge's fault.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Stimulate the Economy!
Buy your (probably) made in China political crap now! Find a wonderful spot for one of these on your mantlepiece, or in a box of stuff you don't know where to put, or your storage box that you've had for 18 years. Make great gifts for those who need stuff for their fireplace or unused boxes or unused storage space. But you'll have that fuzzy feeling that lets you know that you helped America stay strong. You singlehandedly kept 4 people employed. In China. You made money move. To China. Then they'll buy our companies & our debt and we can keep spending! The circle of cash!
Call now!
Call now!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Funny Stuff
Is this:
A. Fung on vacation in Brazil
B. Two employees of a new theme park
C. The worlds smallest man & the woman with the longest legs in the world
D. What happens when you alter just one gene
E. Smiff on vacation in Florida
Friday, September 12, 2008
Dis is nuttin 2 worry about...
Expulsions stoke US-Venezuela row
A series of tit-for-tat expulsions and sanctions leaves the US without ambassadors in Bolivia, Venezuela and Honduras.
A series of tit-for-tat expulsions and sanctions leaves the US without ambassadors in Bolivia, Venezuela and Honduras.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Looking way too far ahead
Matt Damon in a panic over a Sarah Palin presidency
On da udder hand, does anyone really listen to Matt Damon?
On da udder hand, does anyone really listen to Matt Damon?
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
bees schmees... there is nothing at all to see here (literally)
EPA Withholds Pesticide Information While Bees Die
A conservation organization has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to release information about a pesticide linked to dramatic declines in honeybee populations. The pesticide was approved on the condition that the manufacturer study the effects of the chemical on the bee species. The EPA has received the studies but refuses to release them to the public, even though a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was filed.
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An EPA fact sheet from 2003 states clothianidin is potentially toxic to honeybees, as well as other pollinators, though residues in nectar and pollen. Bayer maintains that clothianidin does not pose long-term risks to bees.
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Existing research, as well as much anecdotal evidence, has convinced French (phokks - Ed.) and German (America-haters - Ed.) agricultural authorities to suspend use of clothianidin until evidence of its safety to bees is established. Despite having the same facts before them, the EPA has not taken similar precautions.
Instead, the EPA has repeatedly used "emergency exemption provisions" under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to approve use of clothianidin in five states. The agency has also used the emergency provisions to approve use of IMD 163 times in 26 states. These emergency exemptions are intended to allow unregistered use of pesticides for a limited time if EPA determines that an emergency condition exists. (I guess all the bees dying is not an emergency... Ed.)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Trib tackles the tough questions
Is it OK to wear jerseys of players who are no longer on the team?
Yes (956 responses) 70.2%
No (405 responses) 29.8%
1361 total responses (Results not scientific, but gargantuanly inane)
Yes (956 responses) 70.2%
No (405 responses) 29.8%
1361 total responses (Results not scientific, but gargantuanly inane)
Friday, July 18, 2008
Goin' down...
US slips down development index
Now, is it just me, or is there a correlation between dis map and da red state/blue state map?
Now, is it just me, or is there a correlation between dis map and da red state/blue state map?
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
roster update
Horror reliever Manny Acosta was placed on the disabled list Monday and laid to rest in a private ceremony Tuesday. He joins Brett Myers, Pat Misch, Willie Ledezzzma, Ross OlenDORF, Eric "I Think I'm Gonna" Hurley, John Bale, Joey Devine, and Al Reyes on the list of formerly living and undead Horror pitchers k-mad has humanely destroyed this year.
Corms Wins! Corms Wins!
Fung's win streak ends at 16
"Inconsolable" Scrabulous expert vows revenge
July 8, 2008
It took over 3 weeks and 17 games, but finally, Corms played "litu" to beat the Fungster at Scrabulous. Their games had fallen into a "win one, lose one" routine, with one player sometimes winning two or maybe 3 in a row. But the Fungster just suddenly went on a tear, winnng 9 games in a row.
Then Corms tried something new. The scrabulous server, which had come under criticism for locking up, crashing, and all sorts of other monkey business, started two games for him, when he only meant to start one. "I'll play both then" Corms said. "Mebbe dis will throw him off." Fungster was worried about his precious streak. "Well, what happens if I lose the first one, but win the second? Does that make my streak 10, or 9?" But, as it turned out, Fungster won both games. So the answer was neither. His streak was at 11.
Then the scrabulous server did something even more amazing. It started 6 (six!) games at the same time. "Well, may as well play them all too" said Corms. So Corms set out to make plays in 6 games. 6 chances to defeat the Fungster.
Things started brightly enough. He made fast starts in a couple of games, not so fast in the other ones. Fungster had his work cut out for him. He made fast plays, slow plays, plays left, right and center. Games started ending. Fung wins. Fung wins. Fung wins again. He took the first 5 games that completed. But there was one game he was just never in. He battled back to make the score respectable, but it was all in vain.
Finally, Corms had triumphed.
"I was hoping to throw him off, maybe split the 6 game series" said a relieved Corms. "But he just kept getting good scores and winning close games. In the end, I was lucky to get the game I did win." Asked what he was going to do next, Corms replied "I'm gonna start 2 games up and see how things go."
Reached for comment, Fungster was beside himself. "I'm gonna win like 40 in a row now, you just watch. That was bull$#!+." Asked how it was the excrement of a male cow, Fungster got all enraged: "It just was, okay! Now leave me alone."
When it was further brought up that Hasbro and Mattel had launched the official version of Scrabble on Facebook, which could lead to Scrabulous being removed from Facebook as it infringes on copyright, and therefore record of his astonishing feat would be deleted, Fungster slammed the door in this reporter's face.
"Inconsolable" Scrabulous expert vows revenge
July 8, 2008
It took over 3 weeks and 17 games, but finally, Corms played "litu" to beat the Fungster at Scrabulous. Their games had fallen into a "win one, lose one" routine, with one player sometimes winning two or maybe 3 in a row. But the Fungster just suddenly went on a tear, winnng 9 games in a row.
Then Corms tried something new. The scrabulous server, which had come under criticism for locking up, crashing, and all sorts of other monkey business, started two games for him, when he only meant to start one. "I'll play both then" Corms said. "Mebbe dis will throw him off." Fungster was worried about his precious streak. "Well, what happens if I lose the first one, but win the second? Does that make my streak 10, or 9?" But, as it turned out, Fungster won both games. So the answer was neither. His streak was at 11.
Then the scrabulous server did something even more amazing. It started 6 (six!) games at the same time. "Well, may as well play them all too" said Corms. So Corms set out to make plays in 6 games. 6 chances to defeat the Fungster.
Things started brightly enough. He made fast starts in a couple of games, not so fast in the other ones. Fungster had his work cut out for him. He made fast plays, slow plays, plays left, right and center. Games started ending. Fung wins. Fung wins. Fung wins again. He took the first 5 games that completed. But there was one game he was just never in. He battled back to make the score respectable, but it was all in vain.
Finally, Corms had triumphed.
"I was hoping to throw him off, maybe split the 6 game series" said a relieved Corms. "But he just kept getting good scores and winning close games. In the end, I was lucky to get the game I did win." Asked what he was going to do next, Corms replied "I'm gonna start 2 games up and see how things go."
Reached for comment, Fungster was beside himself. "I'm gonna win like 40 in a row now, you just watch. That was bull$#!+." Asked how it was the excrement of a male cow, Fungster got all enraged: "It just was, okay! Now leave me alone."
When it was further brought up that Hasbro and Mattel had launched the official version of Scrabble on Facebook, which could lead to Scrabulous being removed from Facebook as it infringes on copyright, and therefore record of his astonishing feat would be deleted, Fungster slammed the door in this reporter's face.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
And when you're tired of it, you can club it
Robotic Baby Seal Coming to U.S. Shores
With this kind of technology available, who needs electric cars?
Alternative Fuels, Shmalternative Fools
Gas crunch: Jatropha, kudzu, algae and magic to rescue
American ingenuity and exceptionalism transforms weeds into, er, pork
So what about Jatropha, a pest tree that produces seed pods, as an oil source for biodiesel? Literally hundreds of stories have been written about it, all generally the equivalent of counting chickens before hatching. All of these stories must contain a line like "The plants require an occasional watering and virtually no fertilizing." This is to plant the idea that one is getting a lot of something for virtually nothing.
But problems of scale aren't mentioned, nor the complication of separating oil from seeds and converting it to usable diesel at some reasonable return on energy input. It does no good to mention that all of, let's say Florida, Texas or a couple other states, would need to be turned over to it. Theoretically, of course. Any reasonable discussion of processing cost is also off the table.
Both the jatropha and kudzu hypes are partially, hmmm, fueled by Brazil's reliance on sugar cane-to-ethanol for automobiles running on blends of fuel. Sugar cane won't grow in most of the US, ergo the casting about for a cheap equivalent from the plant world, one that needs little water. This almost seems reasonable until one compares the scale of Brazil's vehicular use to that of the United States. In terms of miles-per-vehicle-per-capita, in a country to country comparison, Brazil isn't even on the chart of the US Department of Transportation. If it suddenly acquired the auto-load and driving habits of, for example, southern Californians, Brazil's energy strategy would collapse under the weight.
So, are we willing to take the land of 2-3 states to grow the weeds to fuel our affluent lifestyles? I don't know, if we had to devote more land to farming we may have to squeeze into cities like dem Yurupeans do. That's so not America - we're all about spreading out, and independence, and baseball and apple-pies and barbecues and such. Cars are part of that - they give us freedom that trains and planes just can't compete with. And you can pry my air conditioner(s) from my cold, dead hands.
And, of course, this ignores that we're still burning fossil fuels, all we've really done is made our energy source renewable. The article linked to some charts, and what I found the most amazing was that 76% of workers drove to work alone. Mebbe we should try and fix that instead of all these alternative fuels & car batteries & all that stuff. Just that one thing.
American ingenuity and exceptionalism transforms weeds into, er, pork
So what about Jatropha, a pest tree that produces seed pods, as an oil source for biodiesel? Literally hundreds of stories have been written about it, all generally the equivalent of counting chickens before hatching. All of these stories must contain a line like "The plants require an occasional watering and virtually no fertilizing." This is to plant the idea that one is getting a lot of something for virtually nothing.
But problems of scale aren't mentioned, nor the complication of separating oil from seeds and converting it to usable diesel at some reasonable return on energy input. It does no good to mention that all of, let's say Florida, Texas or a couple other states, would need to be turned over to it. Theoretically, of course. Any reasonable discussion of processing cost is also off the table.
Both the jatropha and kudzu hypes are partially, hmmm, fueled by Brazil's reliance on sugar cane-to-ethanol for automobiles running on blends of fuel. Sugar cane won't grow in most of the US, ergo the casting about for a cheap equivalent from the plant world, one that needs little water. This almost seems reasonable until one compares the scale of Brazil's vehicular use to that of the United States. In terms of miles-per-vehicle-per-capita, in a country to country comparison, Brazil isn't even on the chart of the US Department of Transportation. If it suddenly acquired the auto-load and driving habits of, for example, southern Californians, Brazil's energy strategy would collapse under the weight.
So, are we willing to take the land of 2-3 states to grow the weeds to fuel our affluent lifestyles? I don't know, if we had to devote more land to farming we may have to squeeze into cities like dem Yurupeans do. That's so not America - we're all about spreading out, and independence, and baseball and apple-pies and barbecues and such. Cars are part of that - they give us freedom that trains and planes just can't compete with. And you can pry my air conditioner(s) from my cold, dead hands.
And, of course, this ignores that we're still burning fossil fuels, all we've really done is made our energy source renewable. The article linked to some charts, and what I found the most amazing was that 76% of workers drove to work alone. Mebbe we should try and fix that instead of all these alternative fuels & car batteries & all that stuff. Just that one thing.
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