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News Briefs 03-01-2011

Welcome to 2011. Let’s segue…

Quote of the Day:

Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.

Alan Moore

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    1. The Necronomicon…….

      Bwahahahahahahahaha…….

      It’s funny as all get out because my next-door neighbor, who has been a good friend for 20+ years, has suddenly converted to the 7th-Day Adventist Cult. His family is bonkers because he has forbidden them from bringing pork products into the house. They have to attend church service on saturday, which messes up their routine, and cost one daughter her job which required working saturdays.

      Now, he is all freshly-scrubbed, and wearing a suit and tie, with this “Stepford Wives” look on his face all the time. He is happy to talk to me, but refuses to come onto my property because we are Pagans.

      He’s welcome to his beliefs, but golly-gee!

  1. new year
    What a wonderful selection of reports for the first week of a new year.
    Lets hope there are many more just as weird and enjoyable.

    No new updates after Cornell’s precognition study published. “strange”.

      1. conspiracy
        I have heard of certain fish and wildlife government plans that will spray large population of flocking birds with a poison and cull them to decrease an overpopulation of a species. And worst of all they do this over towns and cities. Now I can’t say this is why the blackbirds died but it would be odd if it wasn’t human related, sad to say.

      2. Explosives, rednecks, and liquor?
        I know there are as many redneck jokes that could go with something like this, as there were dead birds (and fish?)…

        BEEBE, Ark. — Celebratory fireworks likely sent thousands of discombobulated blackbirds into such a tizzy that they crashed into homes, cars and each other before plummeting to their deaths in central Arkansas, scientists say. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/04/fireworks-likely-caused-ark-bird-deaths/#ixzz1A419KiNV

        As a proud, card-carrying, gun owning, football loving, liquor-drinking, survivalist-inclined southern US redneck, I can tell you firsthand that the notion of those birds being kilt by fireworks is preloaded with so much US Government approved Bullsh*t as to make it perfectly suited for all your gardening fertilizer needs for the spring of 2011.

        Here in the backwater state of Ala-bam, where I have my ramshackle cabin and moonshine still being tended to by all my cousin-wives and theys younguns, fireworks are quite legal. Yes indeedy! In fact, there’s hardly been a 4th of Jooly or New Years when someone in my very, very immediate family hasn’t invested tens of dollars to produce a backyard display to numb the eardrums and set fire to the neighbor’s lawn!

        Hmmmm, doggy!

        Everybody else does this too, so the noise on one of these holiday evenings really can peg the meter at times.

        Ahem! Anyway, after living down here in these thar hills whilst growing my crop of rocks and weeds each and every year since 1985, I ain’t never wunce noticed a single bird felled from a tree that wasn’t first shot deader-than-hell by someone looking for a good source of protein.

        Okay, so nows you know.

        Oh, yeehaw, and all that, too.

        1. Birds, et al…….
          There was another mass dropping of dead birds in Louisiana reported. Initial findings from the first event show no signs of poison, but do show mass trauma.

          Seems to me the birds might have been his with a shockwave of some sort, maybe a micro-burst that slammed them down, etc. Who knows….. maybe they got in the way of a UFO’s propulsion device or some secret project’s bow wave or exhaust plume. Hard to say.

          Also interesting that several thousand dead fish turned up not too far away, with neither the fish nor the water showing any sign of contamination.

          Interesting…….

          1. Blackbirds and Drum
            I live within a few hours of these die offs. There has lately been some violent weather here as you have watched on the telly, but there also has been extensive chemtrailing over this area. I doubt though that the chemtrailing has anything to do with it. Birds falling en masse from the sky is nothing new nor are mass fish die offs very extraordinary either especially in large “commercial” bodies of water like the Arkansas River which are subject to an array of shifting influences. The Game and Fish commission is probably correct in theorizing that the drum fish population which had exploded last summer has now capitulated to overpopulation by succumbing to some environmental stressor that would in normal dynamics not have affected them so spectacularly.
            But for those who like to pin some things on the men behind the curtain there is still a remote possibility that the chemtrailing in combination with HAARP’ing may have zapped the poor blackbirds. very remote though.

          2. who knows…
            …maybe it’s a combo of things. Maybe just another warning from Mother Earth of how messed up everything is becoming.

          3. And in case we dodn’t get the message
            Mother Earth never minds to repeat it, as much as it takes:

            Around 500 dead birds have fallen from the sky in Louisiana, found scattered along a quarter-mile portion of highway in Point Coupee Parish, the AP reports. The discovery is approximately 300 miles south of Beebe, Arkansas, where just days earlier thousands of the same species of birds also fell from the sky.

  2. sixpence

    Sorry, couldn’t find a news story about sixpence.

    PRICE OF A PINT UP BY 6P AS VAT RISE HAMMERS MILLIONS

    A PINT of beer will rise by six pence as today’s hike in VAT is set to pile hundreds of pounds of extra costs on millions of families.

    From midnight, VAT went up from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent.

    The British Beer & Pub Association said it would add six pence to the cost of a pint. It warned that the “double whammy” of an increase in beer duty and VAT was placing “shackles” on the pub and hospitality sector.

    The rise will also put around 3p on a litre of petrol, £10 on a man’s suit, £80 on a sofa set and more than £300 on a new car.

    Just have to know how six pence is abbreviated by the press these days.
    😉

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