Thoughts for 2007

[Jst83]

I got this and just had to pas it on.

Number 10 - Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9 - Good health is merely the slowest
possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8 - Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny.
If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Number 7 - Give a person a fish and you feed them
for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they
won't bother you for weeks.

Number 6 - Some people are like a Slinky...not
really good for anything, but you still can't help but
smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

Number 5 - Health nuts are going to feel stupid
someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Number 4 - All of us could take a lesson from the
weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Number 3 - Why does a slight tax increase cost you
two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves
you thirty cents?

Number 2 - In the 60s, people took acid to make the
world weird. Now the world is weird and people take
Prozac to make it look normal.

AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR 2007 - We
know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease
is located among the millions and millions of cows in
America but we haven't got a clue as to where
millions of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located.
Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in
charge of immigration.

Isn't that the truth

[Nitetimes]

Number 10 - Life is sexually transmitted.

Learn from your parents mistakes,
Use birth control.

[Miriam C.]

Now thats a good one.

[Laredo]

You guys are laughing, but seriously, if you've ever tried to go into or out of California with fruit salad and a sandwich in your picnic hamper ... those guys don't miss a microbe.

I understand that, I really do. California is the source of something like 90% of our fresh fruits and veggies (and when you think about the e coli in the spinach last summer, that's a pretty scary thought: one contaminated field making people horrifically ill in 17 states!) and they're scareder of having something come in and take a bite out of the money they make off those crops than they are of a dirty bomb in San Francisco harbor.

[Elumia]

Its not the microbes they are worried about at the plant stations, it is pests. Just ask Temecula about the glassy winged sharpshooter. It came in on nursery plants and nearly wiped out the entire wine industry down there. Here in Napa they are deathly afraid of a similar scenario. Just modern day bo weevils.

The ecoli comes from feces. remember the old saying that bears **** in the woods, well, wild animals do it in the spinach fields. That gets into the processing plant, and since we all want our veggies pre-packaged that gets packaged right along.

Vegetarians beware, more people are made sick from vegetables than from bad meat.....

Mark

[Joseph]

You guys are laughing, but seriously, if you've ever tried to go into or out of California with fruit salad and a sandwich in your picnic hamper ... those guys don't miss a microbe.

Odd - I drove from Las Vegas to LA and back on the 15 in October and twice during December. Each time I passed through the inspection station the booths weren't manned and there was a sign, "No inspection today."

Joseph

[madjack]

You guys are laughing, but seriously, if you've ever tried to go into or out of California with fruit salad and a sandwich in your picnic hamper ... those guys don't miss a microbe.

Odd - I drove from Las Vegas to LA and back on the 15 in October and twice during December. Each time I passed through the inspection station the booths weren't manned and there was a sign, "No inspection today."

Joseph

...back when I was hauling chickens west and produce east, it seemed the inspection stations on I10 were open more regularly than those on I40...both(especially I40) were more likely to be closed during the winter months than the summer months...they seem to be much more concerned with travelllers coming from the South(I10) than the North...just waith till ya go thru a fire ant inspection at the Texas/New Mexico border.......
madjack

[asianflava]

Maybe it's because the cold is more likely to kill those invasive critters.

When my family drove cross country we got stopped at an inspection station. They were gonna have us dump all our fruit but some had "Grown in California" stickers on them so we were able to keep those. When we went to IRG last Summer, neither the I-10, I-80 or I-40 stations were open.

Fire Ant inspection? Why bother, they've already taken over.

[Laredo]

af, they're officially not found in NM yet....