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    Evolution in action.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14462733

    New super mice have emerged which are resistant to most commonly used pesticides and rodent poisons. They're currently busy spreading across Europe but haven't yet made it to the UK though it will only be a matter of time. I for one welcome our new rodent overlords.
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    Meh. Right now I'm much more concerned about Johnson grass.
    "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.

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    Meh
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    I blame muslim mice for this

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    As long as they don't become immune to peanut butter, I'm not worried.
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    This just proves that all the pollutants and chemicals we unleash upon the environment are actually advancing the evolutionary process.

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    Aint no evolutionary process for a cricket bat to the head.
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    do they have added immunity from cats?

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    exactly.
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