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"If they do steal this one, can another civil war be far behind?"
No. Americans are fat, lazy and complacent. They don't fight for anything anymore, except maybe parking spaces at the mall. Americans are all talk and no action, like Rush Limbaugh, who talks a good game about despising draft dodgers while having been one himself, who demands hard jail time for drug abusers while being a drug abuser himself, who demands redbloodied he-man action while being a soft-bodied, surgically modified, impotent whiner.
There's no civil war on the horizon unless junk food, lotteries, precription painkillers, Viagra and cheap gasoline are banned.
Rush Limbaugh is claiming that Michael J Fox "went off his meds" for the ad, and that he "may be acting" because he is an actor, after all.
Limbaugh is a huge ass. First, the symptoms Fox is exhibiting are the effects of the medication he is taking to control Parkinsonian symptoms. Without the medication, Fox would be almost immobile; he'd be "frozen". The medication allows movement, but unfortunately the side effect is that people can have "too much" movement. It's a medication induced dyskinesia. It is more prevalent and more severe among many younger patients who have Parkinson's disease.
Second, Fox isn't "acting." Check out the film "Awakenings," which is a movie about levodopa, the medication Fox takes to control his Parkinson's disease. The actors in that film, at one point, pretend to have dyskinesia. It's not the same as real life dyskinesia. It just isn't.
Third, I wonder if Rush Limbaugh was "acting" to exaggerate his deafness, which was a side effect of his illegal use of oxycontin. At least Fox's medication is taken as prescribed by a medical team which is supervising Fox's treatment for the very real and debilitating medical condition Fox has. Michael J Fox isn't taking medication recreationally to get high, he's taking medication to function and stay alive. Rush wouldn't know about that. He is a consumer of drugs for purely hedonisitic purposes (Viagra, anyone?).
I had a problem with silverfish which colonized my summer home during the winter. I discovered diatomaceous earth, since I couldn't call an exterminator due to my pet birds.
Diatomaceous earth (not the kind used in swimming pools, but the insecticide form) should be applied with a duster. You can buy a duster and the diatomaceous earth online. It takes about a day to figure out how to load and use the duster, but it is crucial because it delivers a fine "spray" of DE which clings to surfaces, but is very light. I won't go into exact details about how I used the DE in my home (remove all light switch and electrical outlet covers and spray void spaces, remove pictures and spray all along the edges, spray along windowsills, spray curtains, bookcases, books, furniture, etc.)
But I will tell you that I spray DE with a duster inside my luggage (before packing) and on the outside of my luggage to prevent bringing home any potential hitchhiker bedbugs. So far, so good. The DE is not as thick as dust (unless you want to make it thick like dust, which I did initially in areas where I had seen silverfish). I reapply a fine layer of DE on my luggage -- just in case -- each time I travel. It sounds like a tremendous amout of work, but once you get the hang of using the duster, it's no biggie.
Oh, and if you want to use DE to eliminate bedbugs, first you need to vacuum. Make a little pile of loose DE. Spray with an insecticide. Vacuum up into your vacuum bag. Now use a crevice tool and a furniture brush to vacuum up any live bugs and as many eggs as you can. The insecticide dust inside your vac should kill any bugs you vacuum up. I took some HotShot oil-based insecticide in a pump sprayer and sprayed the cracks between the wall and the floor (except in the room where I keep my birds). Then I sprayed DE along the wall/floor area I had just sprayed with the oil-based insecticide. The next day, I applied a fine layer of DE again in those areas. In the room where I keep my birds, I used DE only.
It worked. I still occasionally grab the duster and use it, particularly if I see a silverfish, which is now a rare occurence. DE worked very well on some houseplants recently when they became infested with spider mites. Some people use DE outside, particularly for slugs, but I don't because I garden and DE kills bumble bees and honey bees and I don't want that. They are my champion pollinators.
Anyway, you may want to try the DE for luggage if you travel a lot. Or even if you only travel occasionally. Diatomaceous earth is all-natural.. it consists of microscopic dead bodies of prehistoric shellfish.
Put up the video of Limbaugh saying what he said about Fox. Everyone needs to see it and hear Limbaugh's own words coming out of his own sewer of a mouth.