Let's Get Our National Priorities Straight

Once again, my wife has contracted a serious case of poison ivy and I am wondering what the hell our government is doing about this stuff-- which grows everywhere in New Jersey and inspires far more terror in me than any other threat I can think of . . . I can't walk in the woods without feeling paranoid that I'm going to get it, and shouldn't our great nation-- which is determined to fight the good fight against terrorism-- be working hard on a cure or inoculation or something for this incredibly toxic urushiol oil, which is so potent that it only takes a quarter ounce to give everyone on earth a rash (according to this, it only takes one nanogram to give some people the rash, and it is the most common allergy in the country) so let's take this stuff seriously and either try to eradicate it, cure it, or weaponize it . . . who is with me?
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6 comments:

  1. SqueakyDecember 7, 2011 at 1:32 PM

    Today poison ivy, tomorrow hang nail or turf toe?

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  2. zmanDecember 7, 2011 at 2:37 PM

    I'm not allergic to poison ivy.

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  3. DaveDecember 7, 2011 at 2:44 PM

    that's what my wife used to say (of course, she claims pregnancy made her become allergic, so maybe you're safe).

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  4. SqueakyDecember 7, 2011 at 2:58 PM

    I was once immune to PI but now I will get it a few bumps of it if I touch it. Might be an aging thing.

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  5. DaveDecember 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM

    that's typical-- with repeated exposure you get it worse and worse. soon you'll be praying for jesus to lay hands on you.

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  6. robDecember 7, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    i said i wasn't allergic to it, too, until that fateful evening at the beginning of sophomore year.

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