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PostPosted: 01/04/11 3:20 pm • # 26 
grampatom wrote:

'... it's not terribly unusual,' says U.S. official  I agree. 

Yes, bird droppings are pretty common.


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PostPosted: 01/04/11 9:05 pm • # 27 
Hey Monster!!  Good to see you online!  you doing ok?


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PostPosted: 01/05/11 6:26 am • # 28 
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The plot thickens? Dead birds found in Sweden

Veterinarian refuses to speculate on cause of death but is investigating

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40921795/ns/us_news-environment/


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PostPosted: 01/05/11 6:43 am • # 29 
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Just a thought: maybe it's nature's way of warning us of what's going to happen to us - sort of like a canary in a coal mine.


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PostPosted: 01/05/11 6:59 am • # 30 
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Really bizarre ~ to me, just one occurrence is mind-boggling ~ but add the multiple occurrences and the differing species and the differing locations, and it's quickly approaching intimidating ~ I'm not a fan of unexplained [inexplicable?] phenomenon ~ Image

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PostPosted: 01/05/11 7:41 pm • # 31 
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In 2006 and 2007 (if not before) some chickens or ducks or something in Thailand, or China, or Burma, (wherever) dropped dead and the UN went ballistic about pandemics of "avian flu," hysterics over the big pharma's problems in producing enough vaccine for the entire world, and my neighbor had her little children out in the afternoons watching the skies.  For what?  Falling dead birds.

Now we actually have birds dropping dead in more than one area of the southeastern US, and  an estimated 100,000 dead fish in the same area as some of the dead birds, and what are we talking about?  John Boener's crying and the Ultra rightwing's frenzied partying because the "tan man" got a big, (phallic?) gavel to pound as he makes the laws of the land for all of us stupid people who have elected to be communists, socialist, corrupted, un-American, traitorous, democrats!  Like, wow, man! 

It's like to body on the cablel news even heard about the birds.  The UN isn't being quoted.  We haven't hear of any plans  of the cause of the dead birds being forthcoming, should it be forthcoming.  It's like,  Oh, well.  Happens all the time.  But pay attention to this.  The GOP took back America, at least in the House of Representatives.

Oh, and by the way, in case you hadn't heard, some holy man has it on the most reliable evidence (that which he, himself, has declared to be the real scoop, scooped out of the holy book) the rapture is to occur on May 21, 2011.  Go figure.  That's my daughter-in-law's 47th birthday, and boy is she going to be pissed.  I don't have the link handy, but I'm sure you can find it.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, I've read a few supposedly biographical writings and seen a few documentaries of the horrors of the Dust Bowl in the twenties and thirties.  I don't recall, even then, any mention of thousands of birds dropping dead from suffocation from the dust althouogh there was  mention of some human beings caught out in their cars in the dust storms, and did not survive. .  I find it hard to believe that thunder and lightening would scare birds to death/ 

So why isn't the Center for Disease Control, in GA, acting like garbage collectors and just making sure that all the dead birds and fish disappear someplace?   And why isn't it being hyped, like it was in 2006 and 2007 and 2008.  Oh, I get it.  The 2010 election is already over.  There's nothing to be gained.  The GOP already won all it's gonna win this time.  Maybe they'll get lucky (if the Rapture doesn't happen on May 21, 2011) and there'll be some more birds, or dogs, or cats, or frogs, or fireflies, or something else that will come in handy in time for othe 2012 election cycle.  Heck, they're already working on that one. 

I'm planning on being dead by that time.  I'm half tempted to actually try to stay alive, just to see what kind of bs will be going on in the next two years.

Have fun.  I haven't been around because I have been losing interest in life in general, including the computer, the television, the gardening, the weather, the government, the medical profession, the dogs and cats, and also the dead birds.    I'm not even interested in my audio books any more.  I'm just spending time disposing of old papers and clothes. 

Sorry for the length/  Another reason I don't post anymore.  The events and information in the world at the present time are obviously so distorted, self serving to some cult, sect, party,. nation, religion, whatever.....   It's impossible to express an opinion that make any sane conclusion or comprehension of what IS, anywhere, anyplace, any time, any how.  I still can't figure out if the Afghan's want us there or NOT.   I still think Petreas is bad news.  I am wondering  how we managed to get two presidents in a row that appear to be intermittantly insane.  I hope they do shut the damned country down.  It's about time they stood on their principle and stopped playing drama queens from a bad Western Movie script.

luv, y'all.  Oh, I am further losing my eyesight.  I am finding the keys by the little bumps on the keys.  It is too fatiguing to proof read.  I hope it ain't too bad.
AND, I lost my computer glasses someplace.

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PostPosted: 01/05/11 7:44 pm • # 32 
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JEANNE! sorry to hear of your troubles. happy new year!


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PostPosted: 01/06/11 6:03 am • # 33 
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/06/maryland.fish.kill/index.html


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PostPosted: 01/06/11 8:04 am • # 34 
All of these animal deaths occurring within a week or so of each other in different parts of geography?  personally, I don't buy the "coincidence" natural cause theory....unless you call the effects of oil spills and contamination and global warming to be "natural causes"....I think there's more to the story than we are being told...


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PostPosted: 01/06/11 8:55 am • # 35 
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40,000 Dead Crabs Wash Up In Britian

The strange animal death tally keeps adding up. 40,000 dead 'devil' crabs in Britain have died. The crabs were found on British shores. 


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PostPosted: 01/06/11 11:28 am • # 36 
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jd, another stellar post from you ~ I had not put together the prior total over-reaction to the mostly under-reaction on this ~ great catch!

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PostPosted: 01/06/11 11:56 am • # 37 

Loved reading your post jeanne.  I am sorry about your eyesight.  You were sorely missed. 



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PostPosted: 01/06/11 12:43 pm • # 38 
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100M birds die from flying into house windows each year.


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PostPosted: 01/06/11 3:52 pm • # 39 
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Beebe AR is a gathering place for red-winged blackbirds, like Capistrano used to be for swallows.  There are hundreds of thousands of them in the trees in that town at this time of year, and they roost in trees at night.  They have lousy night vision. According the the local sheriff down there, someone let off about five 4'th-of-July-grade, industrial strength pyrotechnic devices in short succession.  People stepped out of their houses to see what was going on with the noise, and as they stood outside, they heard birds ramming into their houses and cars, saw them falling in yards and streets. They shipped a bunch of them up here to the Univ of WI for study, and the necropsies showed they had all died of blunt force trauma. So I don't see any need to look for another cause.

Fish kills are a different thing.  We've had lots of those, where a million fish go belly up on a ten-mile stretch of river. And every time it's because some toxic crap got discharged into the river.  Usually farm manure in this area, but sometimes factory chemicals.



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PostPosted: 01/06/11 7:30 pm • # 40 
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Sometimes all it takes to create a phenomenon is a slow news day that pushes a story out of the "oddities" section to the front page. Then, when another one happens you've got a phenomenon. I've got a feeling that's what happened here.  In actual fact, mass bird, animal and fish kills are fairly common. 

Mass bird deaths aren't uncommon. The U.S. Geological Service's website listed about 90 mass deaths of birds and other wildlife from June through Dec. 12. There were five deaths of at least 1,000 birds, with the largest near Houston, Minnesota, where parasite infestations killed about 4,000 water birds between Sept. 6 and Nov. 26

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/4-20-blackbirds-3-000-more-dead-sky-20110104-045517-446.html


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