Sunday, January 1, 2012
Dead blackbirds fall from sky in Beebe again UPDATE
Posted by Max Brantley on Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:55 AM
It remains to be seen if the death toll approaches last year's blackbird apocalypse, but reports are emerging of another dead blackbird fall in Beebe on New Year's Eve.
Fireworks are again suspected of spooking a roost of the birds.
But, for another view, we already have a pastor on record dismissing the firecracker theory and going with the apocalyptic Hosea prophecy.
The YouTube above replays LAST year's flockalypse.
UPDATE: Blame punks with firecrackers.
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I have seen the Beebe blackbirds. Literally thousands of them fly in packs together and swarm over certain parts of the city--think Times Square crowds on New Years Eve.It is perfectly logical that setting off fireworks would cause them to fly into one another.
To watch how many of them fly around together is spectacular.
Birds flying in sync in large numbers is called murmuration. Amazing sight when they really are huge numbers.
http://vimeo.com/31158841
I prefer to call this event the Beebe Flockalypse Now!
This is Arkansas. These blackbirds simply must be accustomed to the sound of gunfire. So I'm not so sure I buy the fireworks argument. Unless folks are shooting fireworks right in the middle of their roost. This should be fairly easy to determine. Locals would know if that's the case since their numbers are so large. I certainly don't buy the wingnut religious argument.
Cuz I got nothin' else to say about this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5CUHHGlQg0…
And where is the morning open thread, Max?
I'll just put this here.
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2011/12/29/ap…
And if you like more wicked, irreverent humor, read the comments.
When subdivisions and airports are built under flyways that have existed for a century, perhaps longer, we find it strange that animals must adapt. Or when such subdivisions create perfect nesting opportunities for flocks must we wonder long and hard.
Fireworks had Pippin the Dog, fearless defender, up in the armchair with me last night squeezing close. She alternated between up close and going to her cave under the bed.
Sorry cheese, I'm chuckling with that image of "packs of birds" in my head.
From what I've heard, it's farmers in the area killing them off detonations or another variation. Not certain the technical details, yet it's being done intentionally, especially now that they got away with it the first time.
On a lighter note, " scientists discover moon is actually made of cheese".
Really, I'm thinking of the calculated strategy of the kill, like Cheetahs and Gazelles. How does that work with blackbirds and grain?
Well..it works this way....farmers have figured out that loud expulsionS within a certain vicinity actually shock the birds to death...of course I'm anxious to try moon cheese.
Sorry cheese, no matter how hard I try, your icon makes me laugh every time. "Blackbird dying in the middle of the night." New Beatles song.
I must confess, I'm shaken by that prophet-of-God's message in the video clip attached to the posting. Especially when he keeps trying to shake us from our pagan lethargy by shouting, "Whaaauut?"
The message is encoded, admittedly. It has to be encoded, since it appears You Know Who has encoded all of You Know Who's messages, such that Beebe, Arkansas, turns out to be the hinge on which the entire apocalypse turns, but is never mentioned qua Beebe in the bible.
But if I'm cracking the code as I listen to the prophet-of-God shout Whaauut?, here's the gist of it: the end times start with black birds falling from the skies. And then the catastrophic events move on to all other birds. And fish. And cattle. And finally people.
And, whaauut? Two blood moons this past year!!
Inspired as I was after listening to the apocalyptic screaming, I have now decided to see if some secret code might be hidden in the name Tim Tebow, since he has figured so large in the plans of You Know Who for football and America and the return of heathens to You Know Who this past year.
And you know whaauut? There IS a hidden code in the name. Bear with me. It's no more mysterious than black birds dying followed by other birds followed by fish followed by cattle followed by people.
Take "Tim Tebow" and remove the letters "be" from the name. Then rearrange the tow to spell "two." What do you have?
Tim two be! Which is clearly a divine code-command to double the "be" with which you have ended up by cracking the code.
Tim two bebe.
Whaauut? Tim Tebow himself is CLEARLY connected to the unfolding apocalypse that keeps circling around Beebe, Arkansas.
Let those of us who have ears hear the message You Know Who is so clearly, plainly speaking to us in these latter days!
Really, as far as I can tell, blackbirds, or starlings, do absolutely no good at all, and serve no useful purpose. If your yard has ever been swarmed by them, and I am sure it has, you would have to agree with me. So, I can not regret their mass suicide, or whatever it is. Maybe there are simply too many of them, and the Malthusian Theory is at work.
WTF, Anderson Cooper? Were there no idle ornithologists available when you did your report about birds falling on Beebe? Kirk Cameron is your go to guy for avian expertise? I didn't read any of the books or see any of the movies, but apparently Cameron's starring role in the Left Behind movies, coupled with his christian evangelicalism gives him cred with the bookers at CNN. For what it's worth, Kirk doesn't think plummeting birds is a sign of the end times. He thinks the phenomena might resonate more with pagans as a sign of something or other. My index finger is growing weary from pointing at the MSM, although the laughter accompanying the pointing is good for one's health.
http://crooksandliars.com/heather/cls-top-…
Wow, the gov't must think we are really gullible...and it looks like alot of us are...come on people...fireworks? Why doesn't this happen during the 4th of July? It's the same story as last year. Remember when the Department of Agriculture came forward and finally told us the birds had been poisoned due to an experiment?! Come on, if it were fireworks, they wouldn't be wearing HAZMAT suits!! They know what's going on, and they aren't going to tell us the truth.
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