Just seen: a spoof cartoon in Chinese? about bedbugs taking over New York City. It features Penn Station, which is near the infamous Vigilant...and it also features a cartoon character named Vigilante...its premise is that bedbugs are taking over NY, and a similar cartoon from the Orient is making outright fun of America as bedbugs are taking over...

It does make me wonder if maybe the owners of the Vigilant are not sabotage agents who are out to destroy New York or America, as they are in such flagrant contempt of court by refusing to even cover garbage cans that they are certainly aiding and abetting the enemy: Cimex lectularius.

Added to that, they evicted a US paratrooper, Chris Lugo, for trying to get rid of bedbugs the very first night they were there.

If New York had a normal mayor and normal housing court, the Vigilant would be dealt with. But this is a town full of spies...just ask Anna Chapman. So who knows, maybe America is under attack and no one cares, not even the New York papers who turned up their nose at the story...

TURN ON THE HEAT!

The new super today wanted to know if I was going to have the spray in my room...the landlord gave me note after note asking me to get all my stuff out...when I took stuff out the last time, they refused to spray till I had everything out in the hall for people to steal. I took enough out to spray but they refused. It seems to be a ploy for them to have me vacate, then lock me out and throw me out.
But whatever, the sprays do not work. They are a way of placating people and getting on record some action so landlords can avoid taking real action. As they benefit large chemical companies, there is a conspiracy of silence in a world run by billionaire idiot politicians. Ooops, did I say idiot? Yes I did, and since this is my blog, that is not going to be deleted as were my comments on www.bedbugger.com. They also deleted a very pertinent comment I made about druggies being a danger to society when they walk around spreading bedbugs...I wonder who runs that site. What I do not see often there is real mention of how to get rid of bugs...#1 is heat, as TIME and other publications tell you - going so far as to mention that chemical sprays, especially DDT - are ineffective. Turn up the heat to 114 degrees Farenheit, and you will quash the bug. End of problem. It really is that simple.
#2, or maybe it ought to be #1, is cleanliness.
#3 is ziploc everything they may get into, on this blog I spotted where in Manhattan one can buy ziplocs up to 20 gallon size.

What does it take for politicians, journalists and anonymous commentators to act? Are they deliberately trying to talk over the facts so that this bedbug epidemic lasts and lasts, an endless opportunity to sell chemicals? That has happened in the past; William Farish (grandpa of WF III, who was Bush's appointee as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James') was indicted for working with Standard Oil to prolong WWII so they could make more profits...this happens all the time...Philip Habib in the Pentagon surpressed good intel about Hanoi which led to troop inaction and the prolonging of the Vietnam War...and what about this nice little profitable war halfway around the world? Profits for chemical companies...more napalm...depleted uranium which has poisoned hundreds of thousands of US troops...
The war on bugs could be won in weeks, with a government initiative to heat buildings that are government run or low income. Information on cleanliness and ziploc bags could be disseminated, with free bags to low income people.
But that would end this crisis. The Daily News, the NY Post, and the NY Times have not shown any interest in ending it, and I wonder about the site, www.bedbugger.com
So attack me if you want, it is obvious I am making enemies here; oh the gentlre art of making enemies! But it has to be done. Or else we will have millions of enemies crawling up our backs at night.

TIME article on bugs

Nina Burleigh, pp. 63-64 of TIME, writes on bedbugs, which she first encountered in Italy. She has done good research, and adds to the consensus that most sprays are not an answer, but heat is; 113 degrees Farenheit. Which she notes costs thousands of dollars; does it really? I mean, to leave a few burners on in a room for at most a few hours? Methinks they doth charge too much, whoever is running this operation. In this case, maybe the local governments could allocate money to get such apparatus and just do the jobs with taxpayers' money, as it is in the public interest. People ought not to have to take out a loan to get free of bugs.
The problem is growing out of control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the EPA, and the Department of Defense are all involved. Why the latter? Because this is a real and present danger. If it continues to infest the US, it will bring the US to a halt. People in Ohio sleep outside so bad are the bugs in their houses.
In NY, the press continues to sleep, copying the odd press release from AP, or trying to sell us DDT (which TIME notes is useless). I went to the offices of the Daily News on Thursday, only to be shut out. I called them, and no one wanted to give a name or tell me why they were ignoring a story about the building down the road from them where former servicemen are evicted for cleaning; and where thousands of bugs leave each day to infest America. I guess the Daily News does not care about America or its servicemen. They do care about themselves, with high security all over that building. It's like trying to talk to scared sissies. What are they afraid of? All I had in my hands was the article from the Epoch Times...and of course the dangerous weapons os sarcasm...way too much for them to take. When I asked their names they refused to be identified. What stinking cowards.
The Post did a lengthy piece this week by a rich person - they seem to do one whenever someone rich or trendy gets a bug - who also did not want to be identified - writing under the nom de plume of Cordelia von Bedbug. I wonder if any of it was even true. But that may be just my cynical nature. Which may be due in part to the fact that crackheads write major stories in the press here in NY that are not true or are stolen from other journalists - just ask Jayson Blair of the New York Times; from which I am still waiting to hear back.
In the meantime, I have fired off a letter to Christine Quinn, one of the most powerful politicians in NYC - and so we will see what she does about this. BTW, the building is a one minute walk from her office...

Recent News on bedbugs in New York

The front page of the New York Times carried a story about the 'social stigma' of bedbugs...
it seems Jeremy Sparig is, in the words of some, a "mattress left on the street, something best avoided in these times."
If so, Sparig has losers for friends. I will be mentioned in an upcoming article and am not afraid to tell people who I am. For one thing, it's hard to fight this and be anomymous. That's for cowards. Sparig says he is like a leper...
No one having to fight bedbugs ought to go through this. They are not contagious, and if one is clean, and washes out one's clothes, they do not need to travel with you. They hitch no rides on me, I was in the military where we learned to fight these things by being neat. The first thing we did in bootcamp was fold our shirts in equal thirds. So it is not hard to keep the bugs at bay, or at least at home. And then we had ratguards on all the ships, which is a good idea, and can be copied in designing bug-guards around the legs of the bed.
My landlord was probably counting on this fear to keep people from coming forward, many work in some famous places and would not want their boss to know, so I guess it's fair to say some people ought to remain anomymous, but for everyone to do so is cowardice. There is a plague upon the city and the men must be men and stand up and fight it.
Some stories from Thursday and Friday include a note in the amNewY0rk about bedbugs biting in the Times Square AMC 25-plex. Movies theatres are prime targets, and anyone wise would stay out of them. Use common sense: rent a DVD and watch it at home. The AMC did not replaces all its seats - and bedbugs run fast and spread. In a minute they can go the length of a room, so taking out two seats is just a joke. AMC Magic Johnson theatres in Harlem also got them: word to the wise, stay away, unless you want to give blood to these creatures of darkness. And, as I just read in the Audubon Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders, they can live for 15 months without food. So they may lurk for over a year in these dark spaces full of carpets, soft seats, curtains, and other places of interest to the bloodsuckers.The Daily News had much the same story, with Erica Pearson, presumably the same Erica who did not ever get back in touch with me, contributing. It seems it takes two journalists to write 250 words...the story also says that the bugs are hitting prisoners in Riker's. So, don't do the crime unless you want lots of weird looking cell mates. In the Metro, Amy Zimmer says they will be as common as mosquitos. And unless we get Bloomberg to act right away, they will be...even more, as bedbugs are year round pests - do not believe the stupid stuff some journalists are telling you about them hybernating in winter...they are less numerous, but they bite all year round; nor are they nocturnal - they come out when their meal is sleeping, but if you sleep during the day, well, there is no rest to these wicked creatures. You will be eaten alive day or night. Journalists ought to check facts more.
Boy am I mean on the hacks! But they deserve it. The truth about bedbugs, and their HQ on 8th Avenue, known to locals as Ground Zero, ought to have been printed long time ago. But it is being printed now, I hear it will be in on Wednesday, but do not waste your time looking in the Daily News of the NY Post...the reporter has been on this for weeks and will give their readers something worth reading.
And then I expect to hear back from Mayor Bloomberg, and others who do not seem to know how to do their jobs.