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What concentration did you use to kill a large maple tree? Consumer grade gylphosate is in a much lower concentration than commercial grade stuff for safety and also for homeowner that wants to just pour it in. The only way round-up can kill woody species is to be sprayed on green stems, bark would prevent it from being absorbed by the tree. For control of woody plants you pretty much put undiluted concentrate on fresh cut surfaces.
Please note that round-up is fairly slow working and some weeds may take 1-2 weeks to die after treatment. Also "significant" rainfall after treatment can wash the chemical from the treated plants. It takes about 4 hours to be absorbed by the plant. To give a quicker "kill" some formulations include the herbicide Diquat, Paraquat's less toxic cousin, since this will cause the weeds to start turning brown in 1-2 days in sunny conditions. Paraquat works like most people think a herbicide should work plants will start to die almost instantly after being sprayed you don't need to add a dye to the spray to see where you already have treated. The real fun thing about paraquat is there is no antidote. So one swig and your done takes about a month to kill you from organ failure though.
Reading this made me think I'm screwed. Never drunk the stuff but there have been times I might have taken a bath in it.
[WoundedAmericanWarrior] Among the group of members who were sentenced to death is Mohamed Badie, chief of the Muslim Brotherhood. All twenty-one sentenced, including the chief, will die by hanging, according to reports.
They were found guilty on multiple charges, including the organization of an "operations room," which served as a headquarters to plan violent terrorist attacks against el-Sissi's government and spread chaos around the country.
The group of MB terrorists were also found guilty of planning attacks on police stations, churches and other types of private property.
Some of the other men involved in the sentencing were high-level MB operatives and leaders, including Mahmoud Ghozlan, Saad El-Hossainy, Salah Soltan and Fathy Shehab.
It's too bad for them that they weren't sentenced in the United States, as President Barack Obama would probably have sent them on a nice little vacation to a minimum security federal prison before releasing them back to their home country shortly thereafter.
While Egypt's president continues to slay the bad guys, Obama continues to hire them into his administration.
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[PJMedia] The last US special forces have been withdrawn from Yemen without exciting much notice from the US press. Max Boot [1] tweets: "All US SOF evacuating Yemen. Huge win for AQAP, huge defeat for US. How many foreign policy disasters can we handle?" Reuters [2] reports, "the United States has evacuated its remaining personnel, including about 100 special operations forces, from Yemen because of the deteriorating security situation there, U.S. officials said on Saturday." This means that the last vestiges of what the Obama administration only recently touted as their model counter-insurgency operation are gone. The collapse has flown largely under the media radar. I wonder how Soodies feel
[DAWN] FRIDAY'S carnage in Sana'a, in which jacket wallahs struck a number of mosques in the Yemeni capital, marks a dangerous new low for the impoverished, strife-torn state. Over 140 fatalities have been reported; the mosques targeted were frequented by supporters of the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement, while the self-styled Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... has claimed credit for the atrocities. While Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... has a strong presence in Yemen, this is possibly the first time the so-called caliphate has claimed an attack in the country. The bombings are significant for two reasons: firstly, they threaten to plunge Yemen into a communal quagmire. The Houthis are Zaidi Shias, and the online statement claiming the attacks was full of virulently sectarian invective. Given Yemen's delicate confessional balance -- Zaidis and Sunnis are found in roughly equal numbers in the country -- such acts of terrorism can widen sectarian divisions. Secondly, if IS were to gain a perch in Yemen and create a fledgling statelet, it could create a new security nightmare for the Gulf monarchies.
While the IS presence in Yemen should not be overblown, especially considering the lack of major evidence linking local gunnies to the larger concern in Syria and Iraq, the ferocity of the attacks means the possibility of such linkages should not be taken lightly. IS is an expansionist concern, and when it cannot establish direct control it will look for affiliates. And as the recent terrorist attack in Tunisia, as well as the pledges of allegiance given to the 'caliphate' by gunnies in Nigeria, Egypt and elsewhere, show, there is no shortage of takers of the IS brand. Yemen's internal situation is precarious: the Houthis swept into Sana'a in September and in January forced the president to flee after surrounding the presidential palace. The Houthi-government stand-off may well be giving AQAP and IS the space to expand. That is why the Houthis must work with the elected government and resolve all differences at the negotiating table in order to confront a common threat.
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[DAWN] THE continuing trend of people being killed in Pakistain by infuriated mobs reveals that there is some serious problem with our society and social behaviour. Do tell?
Lynching can neither be allowed nor justified irrespective of who does it. Untermenschen are supposed to just take it and shut up.
The killing of two citizens by a protesting mob on the suspicion of the former's link to the terrorist attacks on two churches in Lahore was a symptom of stress disorder. The horrific act carried out by non-Moslem protesters surprised many and annoyed certain segments of the Moslem majority -- particularly those who deal in the hate business.
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particularly those who deal in the hate business.
Which unfortunately, appears to be the majority of them.
[DAWN] WE are living in a nuclear state which has developed ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, trainer/fighter aircraft, tanks and armed drones. But we are unable to ensure immunity for our future generations from crippling and potentially fatal diseases such as polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... . We usually fail to address challenges because of lack of will rather than lack of resources. The campaign to eradicate polio demonstrates as much.
On the one hand, despite the necessary fatwas from religious scholars that the polio vaccine does not contravene Islamic teachings, those opposed to the vaccine campaign are bent upon creating hurdles. On the other, the provincial governments themselves appear reluctant to face the challenge squarely. Our failure to combat polio has cost us dearly in terms of our international image -- we number among the last three polio-endemic countries -- and has resulted in the World Health Organisation recommending travel restrictions for unvaccinated travellers. Polio counters have been set up in the country's international airports.
In the case of polio, different NGOs and USAID give assistance such as cycle of violences for transport and free vaccines. Unfortunately, many of these go missing. Donors are thus surprised with the state's attitude.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... the dangerous trend of killing health workers tasked with ensuring that children are immunised during anti-polio drives continues. Not only are the health workers, many of them women, targeted, so too are the security personnel deputed to protect them. It is small wonder then that polio workers are afraid to undertake their responsibilities, especially when they feel the provincial governments are not doing enough to ensure their safety.
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President Obama says that Bibi's words matter when it comes to a Palestinian state. "We take him at his word when he said that it wouldn't happen during his prime ministership," he told The Huffington Post. The President used Netanyahu's statement as cause for a "reassessment" of American ties with Israel.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest echoed the sentiment in last Thursday's White House briefing that the Prime Minister's words could bring punishment. "Words matter," he said. There could be "consequences" for Netanyahu's statements. "Everybody who's in a position to speak on behalf of their government understands that that's the case, and particularly when we're talking about a matter as serious as this one."
So let's get this straight. When foreign leaders speak, it matters. What they say is consequential. Bibi's going to have to pay for his remarks.
But I have one question. Why doesn't any of this apply to Iran? Why, on Saturday Ayatollah Ali Khameini uttered the words "Death to America" even as John Kerry was expressing optimism the very same day that the United States would come to a nuclear accord with Iran!
Suddenly, Iran's words don't matter?
Taking this further, the most hair-raising aspect about the growing American rapprochement with Iran is that it has all happened while Iran has continued to repeatedly threaten the annihilation of the Jewish people. Ayatollah Khameini has called Jews dogs and tweeted as recently as this past November that "there is no cure for Israel other than annihilation."
Now, if words matter, how can the United States continue to speak to his government while they are openly threatening a second holocaust? Why did President Obama and John Kerry not establish a repudiation of these genocidal words and threats as a precondition for any talks?
The hypocrisy is startling. And it leads to a more important point.
A somewhat humorous explication of a criticism by misogynist writer James Wolcott and an interview of Mellody Hobson by Bethany McLean which appeared in Vanity Fair by Washington Free Beacon writer Matthew Contenetti.
An incredibly well written article and not just in the strictly technical sense.
An excerpt:
Life is not a television show. The picture of ravenous and thieving wealth one finds in James Wolcott’s columns or in the pages of fashionable journals or on MSNBC is dramatic fiction; it’s drawn more from memories of Dallas and The Sopranos than from reality. And yet this imaginary conceit is effortlessly transposed onto the world of politics and morality, where it finds expression in denunciations of the “One Percent,” of the wealthy that “don’t pay their fair share,” of Republicans who are thought to privilege the strong rather than empower the weak.
I have no doubt that if Wolcott or one of his fan-boys were to encounter Hobson and Lucas or Rogers or Bill Bradley in a social setting they would be nothing but courteous and solicitous, making small talk and attempting to display their wit and breadth of knowledge, perhaps even dropping hints of their latest projects in the hopes of winning a kind word or grant. How a change of partisan affiliation, all so meaningless in the upper reaches of society, can immediately shut down a liberal’s moral imagination, send him reaching into his messenger bag of potted quotes from Balzac and dimly recalled undergraduate Marxist economics, is more than a shame. It is an indictment.
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An interesting point about the two articles is that George Lucas loves fast food restaurants in real life, something the Bethany McLean was apparently unaware of. 30 years ago I read a Rolling Stone interview about Lucas where the writer was invited to dine with the Lucases... at the local Taco Bell.
Lucas may not be a "burgers and pizza" kinda guy, but he does like to snarf down a Taco Bell grande every once in a while...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] THE continuing trend of people being killed in Pakistain by infuriated mobs reveals that there is some serious problem with our society and social behaviour. 
