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Poison sumac caused blistering on me and my mother.
The PI is always sprouting somewhere in my yard.

 

what could go wrong?

 

I had 30 days leave before posting to Okinawa that included: driving from Coffeyville KS to the EAA museum in WI; blizzard avoidance near Grand Tetons WY; Salt Lake City to fix a failing generator; San Francisco; down Highway One stop at Esalen Institute; to Los Angles and; the the big bird flight to Okinawa.

Along Highway One, I camped one night in "Poison Oak Park" and took appropriate cautions including wearing socks in my boots. About three months later on Okinawa, I put the boots on without socks and . . . suffered the usual poison ivy effects.

Bob Wilson

 

Putting poison ivy extract on political signs?
... and suppose a young child accidentally touches the sign or some children playing tag decide to innocently use the sign as a base?
Suppose high winds blow the sign onto someone else's property?

What sort of world do we live in where politics take precedence over common sense, consideration of others safety, and just plain kindness?

Probably say a prayer tonight in thanks for our many wonderful neighbors around us and how helpful and considered they are - I suddenly realize what some of the other options are that are out there in the world for neighbors.

Gosh, I would advise you at the very least to immediately buy some umbrella lability insurance for at least a $1,000,000 dollars.

 

• The signs will be 10 ft away from the curb on my lawn.
• Young child supervision is a parental responsibility.
• If the weather is strong enough to remove yard signs I've installed:
  • Other poison ivy patches already growing in the area will be spread too.
  • Neighborhood damage will pale compared to the signs.

If someone wants to violate my property and steal my signs, not my problem.

Better politics than another Civil War.

My property is already well insured.

Bob Wilson

 

Every 1st year law student reads tort cases regarding what are called "SpringGuns" ... typically a shotgun rigged with a string that goes off when a burglar comes through a window. One person's appropriate booby trap remedy is another person's overreaction ... worthy of criminal & civil liability.

 

Poison Ivy != "SpringGuns"​

Are you next going to complain my campaign signs are too far from the curb and anchored too deep?

• Ahhhh, perhaps you are planning to steal my campaign signs?

Bob Wilson

 

I learned that directly from a 1st semester law student assigned as my dorm roommate.

 

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Due to local drought, will have to check another site along the nature trail.

Bob Wilson

 

i'm getting itch just looking at it

 

i don't like spiders

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What about jim stafford

 

we are in agreement

 

can't wait to try this:

Climate change prompted these scientists to reinvent chocolate

 

I understand an outer cylinder of uranium and a core of plutonium surround the 6Li2H for a fusion-fission reaction. Initial fission neutrons convert the Li to tritium that in close approximation to the hydrogen fusions releasing neutrons. This flux fissions the outer unenriched uranium shell and the plutonium core. It isn't clear to me why the center core should be plutonium versus unenriched uranium ... state secret.

Bob Wilson

 

Why isn't that a 2.35 megaton Boom?