Leprosy outbreak in Arkansas

[bugo]

Armadillos might not be native to Arkansas but they are all over west central Arkansas.  Lots of non-Arkansans are surprised that armadillos live in the mountains of Arkansas.

[nathanm]

quote:Originally posted by PonderInc


This was probably started by some ARK xenaphobe

Based on what the head of the Springdale Chamber of Commerce said on the radio yesterday, you are right that it was some anti-immigration fellow who shopped the story around to all the news outlets, and only managed to get one TV station and one of the two newspapers to bite.

Too bad for him almost all of the (perhaps a couple of thousand) Marshallese in Springdale are in this country legally. We have a rather nice program to move them here, since we irradiated the crap out of their country with our nuclear testing.

9 cases does not an epidemic make, except in the mind of some anti-immigration nut trying to scare people and sensationalist "news" outlets.

[sauerkraut]

quote:Originally posted by bugo

Armadillos might not be native to Arkansas but they are all over west central Arkansas.  Lots of non-Arkansans are surprised that armadillos live in the mountains of Arkansas.

The Armadillos belong in Texas. Arkansas should deport them.[}:)]

[Wingnut]

quote: The Armadillos belong in Texas. Arkansas should deport them

Arkansas is a sanctuary state. Only federal wildlife agents can deport them. The locals won't enforce the federal armadillo immigration laws. []