He’s Killing His Voters
On the front of my current house there are several bushes that have white blossoms that contrast with the camellias and azaleas. My Mother hated them and said they were too dangerous as they were by the sidewalk.
She explained that in the 1980s a 12-year-old was on the beach with her family and they decided to cook some hot dogs and roast some marshmallows. They started a driftwood fire and used the stems of a bush to skewer the hot dogs. After eating a hot dog the girl became ill and died later that night.
That bush was a member of the family Apocynaceae:
Apocynaceae (from Apocynum, Greek for “dog-away”) is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison.
The genus of the plant on the beach and in the front of the house is Nerium:
Several compounds in nerium exhibit toxicity, and it has historically been considered a poisonous plant. However, its bitterness renders it unpalatable to humans and most animals, so poisoning cases are rare and the general risk for human mortality is low. Ingestion of larger amounts may cause nausea, vomiting, excess salivation, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea and irregular heart rhythm. Prolonged contact with sap may cause skin irritation, eye inflammation and dermatitis.
There is only a single species in the genus: Nerium oleander – the ornamental bush with white, red, or pink flowers that does well down here.
Apparently not happy that the injection/ingestion of bleach didn’t work out as a cure, Trump is now recommending sundry compounds of the oleander bush that are being promoted by Ben Carson and the MyPillow® guy. He is killing his voters with his endorsements of nostrums based on the opinions of his supporters with money.
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Think of it as evolution in action
True, but you would think that someone would mention the problem to him.
We know Dottard is an ignorant moron as are his MAGA morons & most evangelicals… But why are they all trying to kill their moronic cash cows and voters? 🤔🙄🤷♂️
I tweeted this thread Bryan. Maybe you’ll get a comment here, or on my tweet.
https://twitter.com/Kryten_42/status/1295967114956648449
Regarding the attempted destruction of the USPS & NJ possibly suing, the NJ OAG tweeted that they are.
https://twitter.com/NewJerseyOAG/status/1295771712714416128
Words fail me.
How do they accidentally decide to use a poisonous plant?
Has Donnie Boy tried it yet? I mean… how… ? …why?
This whole mess was started by an experiment that showed that toxins from the Oleander can kill the corona virus. These experiments were in vitro, i.e. in test tubes, not in vivo, i.e. living creatures. It’s bleach and UVC light all over again. This compound hasn’t even been tested for safety in lab rats, which means it is months or years from being tested in humans.
There are all kinds of chemicals that will kill viruses in vitro, hell, you can do it with water and a InstantPot. I’ll stick with > 140 proof ethyl alcohol for preference.
They may have been looking for a cheap alternative for Clorox disinfecting wipes. They may start with an oxyacetylene torch next. Ben Carson is a surgeon, not immunologist. Surgeons are the descendants of barbers and butchers, not chemists. [google barber surgeon].
Yup!
It seems CA now also has Bubonic plague (Black Death) to add to their woes.
I commented on this tweet with a link:
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1296536374401794050
(Apologies, rushing whilst making dinner!) 😆
Both anthrax and the plague are indigenous in the US desert areas. small mammals can carry both around with them and fools who handle them will be infected. It wouldn’t surprise me that you could find both at nuclear test sites – they are as hardy as cockroaches.
Unlike school, there is no minimum requirement for comments beyond the 15 character limit that I can’t find to change. Dinner is more important blogs 🙂
Yup1 Dinner is very important, especially when lunch is skipped due to being busy at *something* and not noticing time fly by. 😉 😀
here… Something a bit different I read on a Medium Science channel I subscribe to, that fascinated me and it got me thinking and wondering. It’s been some time since my curiosity has been stimulated so much.
Humans Could Be From Venus
The primary reason for my hightened curiosity, was this LONG YT video I watched a few days ago (some coincidences are… curious!)
7 Hours of Bafflingly Advanced Ancient Stonework That Experts Are Still Struggling To Explain
I broke the video onto a couple of 1hr sessions each day. But the first ~20 minutes will give you a good idea of why I am curious about the two.
If nothing else, it takes my mind off all the crap I can’t do a thing about, except peck around the edges. 🤷♂️🙄
It’s always nice to look at the mysteries that have been uncovered. The Incan stone work that is more precise than modern man can do with machines, which leads people to speculate that they were constructed by alien cultures who dropped by, built a few structures and went home. Then you have people like Charles Babbage who could design a machine for mathematical calculations that couldn’t be constructed for almost a century, but when constructed, did what he said it would do. Humans are clever beasties, even if they are barely civilized. 😈