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2008-04-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Global Manure Alert: Shortages Threaten Farmers Key Tool: Fertilizer

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-30 10:11|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Environmental groups fear increased use, particularly of nitrogen fertilizer made using fossil fuels. Because plants do not absorb all the nitrogen, much of it leaches into streams and groundwater. That runoff has long been recognized as a major pollution problem, and it is growing.

That pretty much sums up the attitude of the "Green" movement. At all costs. Nevermind how many people are hurt, starved or put in squalor. It is all about Mother Gaia. They would deliberately starve billions as a sacrifice to their god.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-30 10:49|| 2008-04-30 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Given the NYT's descent towards junk status, they can claim to be turning the paper into manure. Think of how generous they are! Sacrificing their newspaper to ease the fertilizer shortage.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-04-30 11:36|| 2008-04-30 11:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Using manure presents other problems, like ungodly smells and introducing e-coli and other nasty diseases into the food supply. And the NYT's makes no mention of alternate uses for fertilizer that may account for some of the increased demand, like bombmaking and meth production. Also, the enviro-wackies aren't pleased that an East Dubuque fertilizer plant was converted to a successful modern coal-to-gas operation. Real solutions will put an end to their lucrative bureaucratic jobs.

Posted by Thealing Borgia6122 2008-04-30 12:17|| 2008-04-30 12:17|| Front Page Top

#4 No shortage of manure in Washington DC!

Posted by Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-04-30 12:36|| 2008-04-30 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I use only 100% horse pookey. Farmers have been using manure for thousands of years but now it's unhealthy?

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-04-30 13:50|| 2008-04-30 13:50|| Front Page Top

#6 She took a break from wielding her wood-handled hoe

Those poor impoverished people - unable to afford carbon fiber composite handles for their hand tools.

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-30 13:54|| 2008-04-30 13:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, but you can't use human manure on food crops, pathogens will kill you.

(And there's a hell of a lot of pathogens in Washington's Manure Crop)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-30 13:58|| 2008-04-30 13:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Bush's fault, right?

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-30 14:39|| 2008-04-30 14:39|| Front Page Top

#9 IIRC/IICC, Humanity stands being SERIOUSLY AFFECTED = WIPED OUT BY THE VERY SCIENCE(S) DEV OR USED TO IMPROVE ITS QUALITY OF LIFE???

D *** NG IT, IFF WE CAN DEV A SUN/STAR-DESTROYING MISSLE TO FORCE THE SUN TO SURRENDER, WE CAN DEV A CORE-DESTROYING MISSLE TO SAVE THE SOIL.

OWG-NWO NOW - THE EARTH'S CORE MUST SURRRENDER!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-30 19:56|| 2008-04-30 19:56|| Front Page Top

#10 FREEREPUBLIC > SCIENTISTS CONFIRM NATURAL CLIMATE SHIFT, + SPACEWAR > GLOBAL WARMING? NEXT DECADE WILL BE COOLER - NEW STUDY SAYS.

* ION GUAM > preparing NEW PORT MASTER PLAN.
DREAM/VISION > FUTURE GUAM including OLD = NEW HARBOR under thick REGIONAL-GLOBAL ICY SLEETY FOG.

D *** NGED [future]PORTOPS NEAR-COLLISIONS - WHATS THE DRYDOCK AND [old = new]BREAKWATER AND SHARKEYS, ETC. EVER DONE TO YOU [shaking fist angrily]!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-30 21:39|| 2008-04-30 21:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Ona serious note, GUAM-WESTPAC will face tremendous, potentially CATASTROPHIC REGIONAL-GLOBAL PRESSURES-FORCES in various, seemingly SIMULTANEOUS/PARALLEL DIMENSIONS - US-CHINA, Global Warming = SUN, "Earth Changes" and Regional DIASPORAS, RADICAL ISLAMISM, etc.

* SONGS OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR > AEROSMITH > "T DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING": THE THEME FROM "ARMAGEDDON" starring 000-mile long TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROIDS. "I don't want to close my eyes, I don't want to fall asleep [die] becuz I miss you baby, and I don't want to miss a thing". FUTURE GUAM/ISLAND BABE SEES,MEETS, AND FALLS IN LOVE WID A DEAD MAN WALKING OUT OF THE SEA, ON A WAVY GRAVY HAZY GLOBAL FOGGY DAY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-30 22:00|| 2008-04-30 22:00|| Front Page Top

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