> I have a different take on that shopworn idiom.
> Not feeding us, but feeding UPON us.
> Parasites.

Sounds like what the keepers in the ccd camp are doing to the tax payers



> In the case at hand, we were slowed down for 2 crucial months
> when evidence was still fresh.  All we really needed during
> those 2 crucial months was some feet on the ground with liquid
> nitrogen flasks to get some really useful samples,

First,  it was just a little more money....,  Now,  we lost 60 days of 
crucial time.  Give me a break, I've never have heard so  many excuses in my 
life.

> But think for a moment - as a result of the delay, must
> we now wait until one or more of us is hit by CCD to
> use the money to gather samples from fresh cases?

Now its fear tactics, we will all lose our bees unless we flush more money 
down the drain.

> Not even you, even though it would teach you a lesson.

I could go for a lesson, so far all I've learned here is how to piss and 
moan about this so called CCD.

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