Now I'm hoping it was *just* a Muslim Sarin test.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/03/2011 3:11:06 PM PST by Pinkbell
Thousands of dead fish have turned up in an Arkansas river just days after 3,000 birds mysteriously dropped dead from the sky, but authorities say the deaths are not related.
An estimated 100,000 dead drum fish are floating along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River and washing up on the river's banks near the town of Ozark in the northwestern part of the state.
The dead fish were discovered just after 3,000 red-wing blackbirds fell from the sky in the town of Beebe, more than 100 miles from the site of the dead fish.
Officials, who tripled the early estimates of the number of dead birds, said the bird deaths may have been caused by lightning or by stress from fireworks and said they were unrelated to the fish kill.
Fish kills happen every year, but kills of this size are relatively rare. Hundreds more drum fish are sick and have been sent to the University of Arkansas for testing.
Andrew Goodwin, the associate director of the University of Arkansas' Aquaculture and Fisheries Center, said he didn't believe the deaths were caused by pollutants. "It's unlikely to be a toxin," Goodwin told AOL News by phone today.
Instead, Goodwin said he suspected that the drum fish may have experienced a population boom this summer that created more competition for food and sapped the weaker ones of their ability to fight off disease.
"It's your classic boom and bust," he said. "A group of fish will go into a population boom, and then they're competing for food, so they may not be in really good condition. Then during a cold snap the environment changes with the temperature, and their immune systems are compromised and can't always fight infection."
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As bad as the Pharaoh was, God did not unleash Obama on Egypt. We are so screwed...
This sounds like something from the show “Flash Forward” that was on last year. Liked the premise, but they took so long to get to “The Event” that I got bored at the end.
Is this anywhere near Mena?
I remember back in the pre-Clinton and Clinton years there was a LOT of weird stuff happening in Mena.
Now I'm hoping it was *just* a Muslim Sarin test.
Likely natural, nature does this often.
Hail storms or a tornado that picks up gravel or even hypothermia can explain the birds.
As for the fish there have been Drum kills due to a viral infection all around the country first notced in 2003, but they have happened before, and will happen again.
If you’re looking for doom and gloom, it can be found in nature without looking very hard, and most of it isn’t due to Us at all.
The Drum kill and the birds are 125 miles apart, it isn’t likely they have the same cause.
top down ... bottom up ... inside out
Ichthyologists and ornithologists unite....
Probably a Tyson Chicken experiment gone bad. Just ask Bill and Hill - they always provide an honest answer!!!!!
Dead fish?
Rahm Emmanuel must be in the neighborhood.
“The Drum kill and the birds are 125 miles apart, it isn’t likely they have the same cause.”
Makes no difference. It’s all Obama’s fault, no matter how you look at it.
I’d wondered about that...gases seeping up from cracks in the earth maybe? Birds are much more sensitive than humans; burning food in a teflon coated skillet has been known to kill small caged birds like budgies before.
Your theory makes a helluva lot more sense than the usual
tripe about Muslims poisoning us.
A pattern is emerging here, where the quantity increases exponentially while the species changes with each passing story. Thousands of birds, then hundreds of thousands of fish. My prediction next: Billions of Ants.
Could be. If the authorties say,”Not terrorisr related”, look out. The birds anyway. The fish could be from the cold weather.
Damn the bottom feeders died off. Gee is that what is going to happen tto the lawyers in America too they are the bottom feeders. I can remember as a youngster 7-9 years of age when we visited relatives in Missouri and we went fishing with bottles of bleach. Putting bleach in the creek and suddenly the fish were coming to the top to breath pulling fish out by the net fulls. a couple days later the Missouri DNR showed trying to figure the massive fish kill. (shh do not say anything, but I think someone went fishing and caught lots of fish and the not so good fish died.) cannot figure out what happened to the birds. blackbirds dying by the thousands with no visible sign.
NO ONE can sell newspapers, or get web site hits with THAT kind of attitude...
expect to be ignored...
Tie this animal incidentin with quakes in Indianapolis, North Carolina, and the earthquake just north of Little Rock today.
Have you looked at the Ring of Fire lately?
Maybe the birds ate some bad fish.
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