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2008-03-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Wheat rust, fungus and bunts scare the pootwaddle out of the USDA. After karnal bunt was detected in Arizona wheat, the USDA ordered all AZ wheat destroyed and for no wheat to be grown in the entire State for five years.

They mean it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-20 00:17|| 2008-03-20 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 It's early yet Any, and I had to read this twice before I realized that AZ had a problem with wheat, not carnal blunts...

Posted by Ulineque Bourbon5997 2008-03-20 06:24|| 2008-03-20 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Is this because they refuse to use the bio-engineered, fungus resistant crops that we've been trying, actually begging, them to use for years?

I say Inshallah to you.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-03-20 08:48|| 2008-03-20 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 My prayers to Halliburton (blessed be his name) has been answered.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-03-20 08:55|| 2008-03-20 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey RBers - let's just keep this story to ourselves for now - know what I mean? For what it's worth, the staff in the Spore Dispersal Unit have the environmental impact statement for all the algorithms concerning south asian/east african tropospheric climate effects, and the USAF won't disclose higher altitude data for security reasons.

Nuff said.

Posted by Halliburton - Hyperbolic Idiot Detection Service 2008-03-20 09:07|| 2008-03-20 09:07|| Front Page Top

#6 If the US would now mount a concerted drilling effort, or at least announce its intentions to do so, the resulting collapse of crude prices would overwhelm the teetering Iranian economy as well as El Gordo's in Venezuela. It's a shame that Pelosi and Reid are still fixated on Bush instead our national interest.

Posted by doc 2008-03-20 11:16|| 2008-03-20 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 They can eat enriched uranium...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-20 11:28|| 2008-03-20 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Wheat self sufficiency is one of the most important goals of the Mullocracy. They have spent lots of $$$ increasing ag acreage (generally though irrigation which has required them buying a lot of Western hardware).

In 2006-2007, they were close to achieving self sufficiency.

Too bad.

Posted by mhw">mhw 2008-03-20 12:12|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2008-03-20 12:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Can the Mullacracy afford to import enough wheat to feed the population on an ongoing basis until their scientists discover a strain resistant to this fungus? And wasn't the French Revolution a success -- in its own fashion -- because the peasants could not afford to buy bread?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-03-20 12:19|| 2008-03-20 12:19|| Front Page Top

#10 The bredth of your knowledge never ceases to amaze me, TW. Modest little midwestern Housewife, indeed!

Posted by Bobby 2008-03-20 13:11|| 2008-03-20 13:11|| Front Page Top

#11 TW,

I'm not sure about the operating cost of the irrigation systems, but I'll bet it isn't cheap and they probably don't do it well enough to avoid the salinity build up problem. Thus its quite possible that importing wheat is more cost effective for Iran than trying to be self sufficient. Its also possible (even probable) that the acreage used for wheat cultivation would be better used to grow something else.

The issue, as I think they see it, is to their ideology/theology; somehow the idea of being dependent on infidels for the material to make flatbread must really grind their gears.

Posted by mhw">mhw 2008-03-20 13:12|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2008-03-20 13:12|| Front Page Top

#12 wheat prices are high enuff, thankyouverymuch.

Posted by Seafarious 2008-03-20 13:48|| 2008-03-20 13:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Thank you, mhw. Bobby, I know just enough to ask questions of those who actually know what they're talking about. (See how cleverly I did exactly that?) That's why I make tea, and you-all make sure everything actually works. But I do like that cute little pun in your first sentence. :-)

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-20 16:35|| 2008-03-20 16:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Spring wheat is already $15, double from a year ago.

Posted by KBK 2008-03-20 22:47|| 2008-03-20 22:47|| Front Page Top

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