Day One-Thirty-Four - Watch Your CATS!

Somebody in North Dallas is going to be in BIG trouble!  I woke up this morning and there is water standing EVERYWHERE!  You know what that means..... someone must have left their sprinkler on last night.  They don't cotton to that in Dallas!  You can get a big fine!  Before I went to bed last night there were bright flashes in the sky and loud rumbling that continued for hours.  In fact, all of the noise kept me up until well after 1 a.m.  I think that it could have been helicopters and trucks from the city trying to figure out where all of the water was coming from.

I went outside around 9 p.m. to see what was going on and some of the liquid actually got on my head.  I tasted it and it tasted like water.  That is how I figured out that it was probably coming from someone's sprinkler.  At first I thought it was mosquito planes......

Okay, I just read those paragraphs back and doesn't it sound like some crazy futuristic post apocalyptic movie?  Mosquito planes????  Really?  But yes, for those of you who do not live in the Dallas area there is talk of using airplanes to drop mosquito repellent on the area to get rid of the mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus.  Apparently we live in the worst area in the country for West Nile.  Wouldn't you think this would be a bigger problem along the coast where there is.... I don't know.... WATER?  It has only rained here minimally this summer.  At my house it hasn't rained at all until last night.  I literally had less than 1/4 of an inch of rain in the last 3 months until last night.  And yet, apparently, I am at ground zero for West Nile.  There are signs up everywhere about West Nile and mosquito spraying.  So, how are the mosquitoes breeding?  Apparently, someone is cheating on the watering restrictions.  I want them caught and executed!

Of course, nobody wants the mosquito repellent to be dropped from the airplanes because it will without a doubt cause some sort of horrible disease even worse than West Nile virus.  The news says that the repellent dropped from the airplanes would be the same stuff that they shoot out of the mosquito trucks that already make the rounds.  I haven't heard people screaming about the mosquito trucks causing mass deaths.  The only complaints I have heard about the trucks is that they don't come around often enough.  So, what is the difference in the way it is distributed?????  I guess I should be watching the news a little more closely, because I just don't get it.

What I do know is that I am tired of spraying myself with OFF so that I can go to the downstairs powder room in my own house.  I think THAT may be the actual Ground Zero for West Nile.  Seriously, there was another mosquito in there this morning.  He didn't bite me before I killed him.  But I just can't believe that I am constantly swatting at mosquitoes in the bathrooms in my house.  I'm going to have to see if I can get one of those mosquito truck drivers to back into my garage while I hold the back door open.

Yesterday I got an email from a "fitness expert" who sells detox programs.  He was hawking his product and saying that we all need to detox before they start spraying from the air because it will help our immune system to better fight the toxins in the air.  He finished by saying the these toxins were very harmful to cats.

Here is a copy of the email..... as you read it please do so in the voice of an overbearing fitness guru.  This guy has a Saturday morning radio show that I listen to from time to time and he sounds like one of those "We're here to PUMP you UP!" guys from SNL in the 1990's.

Hey Susan,

For the last 2 weeks I have offered Free Shipping on any purchase of any size. That ends today at midnight, so get your order in now and save.

Right now, I have something much more serious to discuss with you. Permethrin.

Permethrin is a neurotoxin, endocrine disruptor, carcinogen and also has links to Parkinson's risk. Permethrin exerts its toxic effects directly on the nervous system.

Why is this important to you?

Permethrin is an insect repellent and last Friday the Dallas/Fort Worth area was reporting that trucks were being used to fog neighborhoods with a mosquito chemical spray. They are also considering dropping huge loads from planes. The spray is Permethrin.

This is just one of the toxins that you will find in today's world that we are exposed to on a continual basis. I'm urging those of you in the Dallas/Fort Worth area who have not cleansed in the last 3 months to consider doing so ASAP.

If you are outside the Dallas/Fort Worth area, you are not immune to these toxins. They are found in our lives daily. Pay close attention to your local reports about pesticides or repellants being dropped in your area. If your system is already overloaded it will have a harder time and take longer to 'naturally' eliminate these toxins.

Do your body a favor and detoxify with a cleanse today.

To your excellent health!
George DiGianni

PS. Watch your pets. Permethrin is extremely harmful to cats.

PPS: For more information on Permethrin visit this link.

I get emails from him every week or so.  I could stop them, but I enjoy reading them.  When I read them in my head I always use his over testosterone inflated voice and it is entertaining for me.  You don't have to say it, I already know I am a freak.  But hey, you have to take entertainment where you can get it and this is free!

I giggled when I read this yesterday.  It's the last day of free shipping... oh and by the way, the city is spraying stuff that might be deadly......  So, if I had ordered his program yesterday I could have gotten it for the low low low price of $297 plus tax but with no shipping.  Then for the next 21 days I would only drink his shakes and organic veggies along with his vitamins.  I have done his program before.  I lost 8 lbs in 21 days and truly did feel great afterward.  I guess I am just bothered by the way he is trying to sell it.  I can probably be accused of under reacting to a lot of things.  But I really think this is overkill.

I like the picture of the mosquito trucks in Galveston that he threw in for effect.  I'm thinking that it would suck to be in one of the 4 trucks behind the first one.  If I'm going to be a mosquito truck driver, I want to know what it takes to always drive the front truck.  Are the guys driving the four trucks in back in trouble for something that they did recently?  And why do they drive along one in front of the other?  Couldn't they cover more ground if the split up?  

Okay, I'm going to go cover myself in OFF now so that I can walk out on the patio and sweep.  Watch your cats!!!!  This stuff can be harmful....  I'll talk to you later.