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Old 10-04-2010, 06:25 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in Kentucky
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After all, didn't they help ban DDT back in the 70's? Also, isn't malaria making a comeback? Bring back DDT!!!
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Old 10-04-2010, 06:36 PM
 
Location: lake zurich, il
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After all, didn't they help ban DDT back in the 70's? Also, isn't malaria making a comeback? Bring back DDT!!!
*gets popcorn*
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Old 10-04-2010, 06:49 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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No illegal aliens are responsible.
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Old 10-04-2010, 06:49 PM
 
Location: Florida
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I hear the bed bugs are in malls, movie houses and now I hear the stink bug is making a come back coming from other countries. That is what we get when we bring them in from third world countries. It is getting bad in NYC and New Jersey.
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Old 10-04-2010, 06:50 PM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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Probly all those ferrigners at the U.N. Time for that old relic to leave town so we can clean up the country.
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Old 10-04-2010, 06:51 PM
 
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After all, didn't they help ban DDT back in the 70's? Also, isn't malaria making a comeback? Bring back DDT!!!
You realize, don't you, in the 70's most boomers were in their teens or early 20's and mostly worried about smoking pot, avoiding the draft and getting...well, having fun. DDT wasn't even a blip on the radar.
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Old 10-04-2010, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Geneva, IL
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After all, didn't they help ban DDT back in the 70's? Also, isn't malaria making a comeback? Bring back DDT!!!
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But long before the United States banned most uses of it in 1972, DDT had lost its effectiveness against bedbugs—which, like many fast-breeding insects, are extremely adept at evolving resistance to pesticides.
Conservatives Blame Environmentalists for Bedbugs - Newsweek

And DDT is used in areas where Malaria is prevalent.
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Old 10-04-2010, 07:00 PM
 
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After all, didn't they help ban DDT back in the 70's? Also, isn't malaria making a comeback? Bring back DDT!!!
Excellent parody of right-wing ideology.

Uh - this thread is intended to be satirical, right?
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Old 10-04-2010, 07:01 PM
 
Location: Northern Wi
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Here's an interesting article on it.

» Reason.tv: Demonizing DDT – How the Scare Campaign Against ‘the Excellent Powder’ Has Cost Millions of Lives. - Big Governm...

I also read in Obama's Green Plan they want to ban the only ingredient that kills head lice.
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Old 10-04-2010, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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They are coming here from other countries..not because we don't use DDT anymore.
Geeze..some people really need to read more.
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