Isthmus' Bill Lueders has a follow-up to the tempest in a teapot that is the spraying of herbicide on sidewalk and fence lines at the O’Keeffe Elementary and Marquette Middle school.
Doug Pearson, director of building services for the school district
says what was applied at more than a dozen city schools was not pesticides but herbicides, to kill weeds on sidewalks and along fences. The once-yearly application was done at a time when fewer people were present, and authorized by the school board, as required. But the state classifies herbicides as pesticides and requires use of these signs.
This explanation didn't cut it with Bert Zipperer, who works at the school. Lueders quotes him as saying "Agent Orange was just a herbicide, too."
Gee Bert, why don't you just get all of the bullshit hyperbole and false analogies out of your system and note that Pearson is a human being just like Adolf Hitler was.
And shame on Lueders for making Zipperer's asinine comment the last word. When Larry Gleasman, the owner of Grampa's Gun Shop says, "I've got two young sons coming up — I want them to have their choice of guns in the future", Lueders felt free to inject a sarcastic "Awwww". But when Bert Zipperer spews bullshit from his gaping maw to rally the Marquette neighborhood against Monsanto, his is the final word.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised since Lueders' initial article on the issue also ended with a bit of hysteria: "The woman kept saying…'Can you believe they’ve done this?!'" Since I live in the Marquette neighborhood, I await a neighbor at my door with a petition to recall the school board members who allowed the herbicides to be applied.
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Hey Bert, CHEMICALS are all around us. CHEMICALS are in your body, Zipperer dude. CHEMICALS made up of atoms, Bert. It’s so true Bert, that some CHEMICALS are potentially harmful, potentially dangerous, potentially … (pause for dramatic effect) … lethal. OMG death!!! Fortunately, chemistry has been studied for centuries and we have a pretty good idea about which combination of atoms will kill you prior to years and years and years of normal aging, and which ones just snuff out plants. Remember, Zippster: it is natural to die shortly after reproduction, so life after your 40’s is a gift of time.
P.S. Bill Lueders is a complete idiot. He believes carbon dioxide, the building block of life, is a pollutant. In my book, anyone who believes beer is polluted by CO2 is just stupid.
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