XPost: alt.conspiracy.antichrist, alt.drugs.hard, seattle.politics
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Fred G. Mackey wrote:
> SHOPPERICK wrote:
> > On May 19, 8:36 pm, Al Smith wrote:
[..]
> >>A better "work ethic"? Let me get this straight... Africanized bees are
> >>migrating to the US from Central America without permission. It sounds
> >>like they are doing the work that American bees don't want to do.
> >>
> >>Maybe we could build a wall?
> >
> > Actually S.America.
>
> Indirectly. It seems to me that the bees crossing our border have
> probably lived in Mexico for several generations already, so this is just
> another case of Mexicans invading the US. ;-)
>
> We've been invaded by all sorts of species. Asian termites, fire ants,
> various birds, European honey bees, Asian clams, zebra mussels, gypsy
> moths, nutria, chestnut blight, Russian thistle (tumbleweeds), kudzu,
> buffelgrass etc. have all been introduced from elsewhere.
>
> Congress wants to ignore the many problems they cause and grant them
> amnesty.
>
> Buffelgrass comes from Africa and was introduced to Arizona because it
> would grow in the arid climate and allow people to raise cattle. It grew
> very well. It also burns very well. Unfortunately when it burns, it
> destroys native plants which cannot recover.
I'm not sure if you're aware how deep this irony goes. Congress opened
the great plains to immigration (of dubious legality, given treaties
with the Indians), who brought many of those invasive species along with
then (tumbleweed in particular, from the steppes of Russia). The
greatest ecological catastrophe in North American history, the Dust
Bowl, followed only a few decades later, because the native grasses had
been replaced with alien species (wheat, mostly).
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