36 weeks until the end of Low Oil Prices
76 Weeks until the end of the USA occupation in Iraq.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is making an issue out of public spending on honeybees as part of the federal stimulus. (click here)
Simple minded politics knows nothing about the importance of the economic crisis in the USA. McConnell is making a mockery of a serious issue by trivializing the sincere problem with honeybees.
The stimulus is not about Honeybees, it is about turning the corner on the demise of the USA under the Republican leadership of the last eight years.
As a side note, there was an entry on this blog about the very sincere and serious 'climate change' issue with American Honeybees. It isn't a joke. There are problems throughout the country with bees and their numbers in relation to POLLINATION.
Republicans are jerks !
What's Killing The Honeybees? (click here)
For A Second Year, Bees Are Dying Off And America's Farmers Are Getting Stung
MODESTO, Calif., March 7, 2008
by John Blackstone
(CBS) In California the almond orchards are in blossom and millions of honeybees are at work, pollinating, doing a job only they can do.
Almonds are the first big bloom of the season and the first big test of honeybee health, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports.
"It's not a vibrant hive, it's not full of bees," said Brett Adee. "A hive this time of year should be just busting bees. And it's just a scrawny little bee hive."
Adee, whose family runs the largest beekeeping operation in the country, says bees are dying at least as fast as they did last year.
"It's off the chart this year. It's not a sustainable thing, what's happening now," he said.
What's happening in the almond orchards doesn't bode well for crops everywhere that require pollination....
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