I've always thought the ideal way to kill mosquitos would be to fill up something like a blood sausage with animal blood and a fast acting mosquito poison.

Then, just let them eat.

As benign as this appears, lets not forget nasty little things like dengue fever, rift valley fever, west nile virus, yellow fever, malaria and 5 types of encephalitis (brain swelling) illnesses that affect both man and beast.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/list_mosquitoborne.htm for those interested....

Add a breathalyzer to it and you might have something there.

centimeters

Such a beautifully simplistic apartment deserves a better view.

Are those slums?

So.....did he win?

Please don't ever do that again.

Now, if we could just make it squeeze until something popped....

The same reason they buy soccer balls and goals....but won't keep score.

They're idiots.

It's all fun and games until someone gets eaten.

She obviously was not the one that consumed that many calories.

This would be the greatest place ever to do some prank show clips.

You could have a driver drive the mark through as an open joke with the victim, then the "dead" person looks back at them or sits up.

It'd be a hoot...

In Compton you say?

Then, shouldn't that be a "drive by" funeral home?

Melanie: First, screaming about the Southern Tenant Farmers Union does not bolster your argument. It has little, if anything to do with the topic at hand. Please try and stay with us as we explore this topic fully.

We can agree that her statement was ironic. I assume that her point in making the statement was to make some grand political point. That being the case, the statement was probably the most ironic thing I have seen by a member of Congress.

Poignant? Yes. It was pungent to the smell. So, we can agree there too.

As far as your assumption that "..she was showing that when everything is ruined you have no one to blame but yourself and the actions you chose", I must disagree here.

Taking the fact that she dedicated this waste of taxpayer money to "our young people and our seniors and our service members and federal workers who stand to be affected by a government shutdown" and that she said it was "a lesson for my Republican colleagues, courtesy of the White Stripes" the following lyrics would seem to indicate that she believes that the words apply to her Republican colleagues.

"I ain't the reason that you gave me no reason to return your call
You built a house of cards and got shocked when you saw them fall
Well are you sayin' I'm innocent?
In fact the reverse
But if you're headin' to the grave
You don't blame the hearse
You're like a little girl yellin' at her brother
'Cause you lost his ball

Well you keep blamin' me for what you did
And that ain't all
The way you clean up a wreck
Is enough to get one pause
You seem to forget
Just how this song started
I'm reactin' to you because you left me broken-hearted
See, you just can't take the effect
And make it the cause "

Clearly she thinks that her Republican colleagues are blaming "our young people and our seniors and our service members and federal workers who stand to be affected by a government shutdown" because they are closing parks and museums and more because the Democrats have spent MORE money than the taxpayers gave them, and there is no money to continue these services.

She is confused, if not deranged. And, to my original point, she uses prose instead of logic because that is what she understands and what she thinks that her constituents will understand best.

Who am I to say that she is wrong about her constituents?

Alex: Thank you for allowing this conversation to continue. Not all conversations are fluffy and sweet - especially the conversations that promote change and growth.