The media keeps comparing it to the end of days, some apocalyptical deal that hints that the world is coming to an end. Well! At least we know it's not that, because the media wants us to believe something so foolish, therefore it must be something else. Right? My thoughts?
Poison. I don't think the birds are hitting UFO's and falling to the ground, as our trustworthy media has reported, and I don't think God is sending us dead blackbirds as a hint of what is to come. But I do think that some entity (and by that I mean human as hell) has put something out into the atmosphere -- that obviously affects the air and water -- that is deadly. Probably too small doses to hurt people, but certainly (as unproven indications of 3000 birds) enough to kill them. Oh, and the little fishies.
I would write about facts, but I don't really know them. All I can go on are media reports, and quite frankly, they are so absurd I can't get through them. First 3,000 birds fell from the sky, dead as doorknobs, on January 1 in Beebe, Arkansas.
The director of Cornell University's ornithology lab in Ithaca, N.Y., said the most likely suspect is violent weather. It's probable that thousands of birds were asleep, roosting in a single tree, when a "washing machine-type thunderstorm" sucked them up into the air, disoriented them, and even fatally soaked and chilled them.
Since I'm not the director of Cornell University's ornithology lab, I'm not going to dispute this theory. But did anyone in the town happen to notice a crazy-assed thunderstorm that night? Just wondering. There were reports that there was a tornado 150 miles away -- and thunderstorms were in the area. But no one specifically has confirmed a storm in Beebe. Who. What. Where. When. Why.
Fortunately the news stories are beginning to be a little less dramatic (the sky is falling, the sky is falling) since another drop of birds hit the highway in Louisiana, littering it with little red winged blackbird carcasses and perhaps, just maybe, making that storm washing machine story seem a little less likely.
"Birds can be really good indicators of environmental problems, so I'd hate to think that 5,000 would die and nobody would care," says Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation at the National Audobon Society, in Washington. "It's worth investigation to find out what happened because there is potentially something we should worry about and it's potentially something that has an odd, but benign cause."
I agree we should worry, I have a hard time imagining it to be a benign cause. That just seems like an odd statement when there is no solid proof one way or the other of what happened.
Americans have theorized that everything from fallout from secret government weapons testing to UFO collisions downed the birds in Arkansas. But the newly-discovered bird rain in Louisiana is likely to focus more serious attention to the plight of blackbirds now bundled in winter flocks that can number over 100,000 birds.
Postmortem tests of birds in the Arkansas incident showed evidence of blunt force trauma to many of the victims, which Mr. Butcher says means that it's likely the birds were spooked by New Year's Eve fireworks and may, in mass confusion, have run into cars and houses.
I don't buy this. First off, the birds fell from the sky and landed on the ground. I don't need to perform a postmortem test to discern that a bird falling from the sky and slamming into pavement is going to suffer blunt force trauma. So why is this Butcher man stating that it's worth investigation, and then saying something like they were scared by fireworks and probably hit houses and cars? I believe this negates him as an expert.
Since blackbirds are considered a nuisance by farmers, the mass death in Louisiana could be attributable to a legal pest control effort. Pest control experts kill blackbird roosts in several ways, including spraying water on birds to induce hypothermia or by using legal poisons. Most such poisons work quickly, but a botched control attempt could mean that birds may have flown away from the roost and died nearby.
Okay, now we're talking. Let us point out that it was a LEGAL pest control effort -- and yet, it didn't necessarily happen either, and it could have been botched. Yes. Now, WHO botched it? Who. What. When. Why. Where.
Apparently the sky is absolutely black with these birds when they fly around. Several televised reports of residents of Beebe stated that these birds are everywhere.
Why the need for these suits? Do they know something we don't? They have on gas masks. Again, I repeat, do they know something we don't?
An ABC News report did not bring up UFO's, etc. and reported that there was not any storm activity in the area, so I am happy to see that while the newspapers seem to not feel inclined to do any reporting, at least someone is on the story!
I guess the purpose for this blog is to kind of try to shake things up a little and remind people that thousands of birds falling from the sky, no matter what the reason, should at least be a topic of conversation! And if it was poison, then someone should mark it on their calendars, for however many years from now when children start dying of cancer, and adults as well, this can be considered ground zero. The canary in the coal mine if you will. For things don't die for no good reason. Ever.
There is a town in Ohio that has a cancer cluster -- there is no apparent reason for it.
Every time his kids cough, Dave Hisey's mind starts to race. Is it cancer? Is it coming back? His oldest daughter, diagnosed with leukemia nearly five years ago when she was 13, is in remission. His 12-year-old son has another year of chemotherapy for a different type of leukemia. And his 9-year-old daughter is scared she'll be next.
Hisey is not alone in fearing the worst. Just about every mom and dad in this rural northern Ohio town gets nervous whenever their children get a sinus infection or a stomachache lingers. It's hard not to panic since mysterious cancers have sickened dozens of area children in recent years.
Since 1996, 35 children have been diagnosed — and three have died — of brain tumors, leukemia, lymphoma, and other forms of cancer — all within a 12-mile wide circle that includes two small towns and farmland just south of Lake Erie. With many of the diagnoses coming between 2002 and 2006, state health authorities declared it a cancer cluster, saying the number and type of diagnoses exceed what would be expected statistically for so small a population over that time.
"All you think about is what happened to these kids," said Donna Hisey, 43, the mother whose family has been devastated by cancer. "Is it gone? Or is it still here? What is it?!"
After three years of exhaustive investigation, no cause is known. Investigators have tested wells and public drinking water, sampled groundwater and air near factories and checked homes, schools and industries for radiation. They also set up a network of air monitors across eastern Sandusky County, finding cleaner air than in most places around Ohio, the health department said.
Nothing unusual was detected. Not even a hint.
And yet, there IS a reason. And yet these people stay. Would I? Not for a second. Like I said, there IS a reason, and because it's not in the wells and public drinking water and air RIGHT NOW, does not mean that it wasn't, or isn't. The cancer isn't stopping. There IS a reason, and it's happening right there. And I can not imagine why you would risk your child's life by staying in an obviously contaminated environment. What type of proof do people need? Since 1996.
Birds don't fall from the sky and kids don't die of cancer FOR NO REASON.
The outbreak around Clyde is only 50 miles north of another cluster that Ohio health officials spent four years investigating. Beginning in the late 1990s, nine former students from River Valley High School in Marion were diagnosed with leukemia. Tests found toxic chemicals in schoolyard soil and students were relocated to new buildings miles away. Investigators never definitively linked the cancers to the old school site, a former World War II Army depot where wastes and solvents were dumped and burned.
The key words here are that investigators never definitively linked the cancers to the old school site. Where wastes and solvents were dumped and burned.
What is the saying? When you see a herd of horses, don't suspect they might be zebras?
Something is wrong. If proof is what you're waiting for, you might die first.
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