Wow, that report on Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp is surprising.

The universe has grown quite out of my comprehension, and I can find no comfortable deities at my fireside.
–A.R.M. Lowe

Damn, Pat Robertson was right! Repent everyone! Repent!!

This kind of stuff is fairly normal. What’s different is that the media is noticing. Heck, I’m sure the fish kill in Arkansas was only reported because the media was talking to somebody about the birds and their source decided to mention the fish. I mean, it wasn’t like anyone called the media about the fish and by themself, they hadn’t hit the wires.

And, though I’ve already said something similar on another site: It is very unprofessional for any legitimate news outlet to help spread the end of days meme. Perhaps it would be acceptable as light banter between anchors and the idea is okay for blogs, but it’s a disservice and possibly a threat to public order for the mainstream media to report it like news.

Oh, and as for the Meg Ryan/Mellencamp thing… Dennis Quaid played a singer in “The Night the Light’s Went Out in Georgia” and now Ms Ryan has the real thing.

Fox News: Serving the Freeper community since 1996 said:
The universe has grown quite out of my comprehension

Happened to you a long time ago, didn’t it?

This story is not nearly as fishy as it seems–Helen Thompson went swimming nearby and…well, you can figure it out.

Wasnt Rahm Emanuel connected to dead fish at one time……… hmmmmm is he really gone.

Magister said:
This kind of stuff is fairly normal. What’s different is that the media is noticing. Heck, I’m sure the fish kill in Arkansas was only reported because the media was talking to somebody about the birds and their source decided to mention the fish. I mean, it wasn’t like anyone called the media about the fish and by themself, they hadn’t hit the wires.

And, though I’ve already said something similar on another site: It is very unprofessional for any legitimate news outlet to help spread the end of days meme. Perhaps it would be acceptable as light banter between anchors and the idea is okay for blogs, but it’s a disservice and possibly a threat to public order for the mainstream media to report it like news.

Would rather strongly disagree with you on that “normal” bit. Just because something like the bird kill has happened in the past several times doesn’t make it normal. Especially when we have an unknown cause and no credible explanation, scientific or otherwise for the event. It’s great that the media noticed, but perhaps IMHO they should have noticed earlier. Think of the canary in the coal mine bit. The bird dies 1st but the people are saved. Paying attention to something that could kill 5000 birds, and figuring out why, could save lives down the road. Chances are pretty good that the universe is a dangerous place and ignoring this event would be a bad idea regardless of your views.

It is very likely that the fish and the bird incidents are unrelated… But not impossible. There also was another fish kill at Chesapeake Bay, which was not yet mentioned by Mediaite. Fish kills might be disease related, and I have heard of them before, but I would not consider this many large fish kills being reported in this time frame to be normal. I would expect maybe two or three a year, not three in one week.

As to the end of days meme and “public order- people will panic or not based on their beliefs anyway, and should some later weird incident kill thousand of people, covering it up won’t work anymore. Besides Fox News will report it anyway, at least until they all mysteriously vanish from the station, LOL. Gather ye page hits while ye may, for if this is a normal year, then the incidents should die down statistically. If this does not happen… well then maybe Mediaite can get the scoop on the “interesting times” we are living in…

wasn’t there a big oil spill in the waters between these two places not so long ago?

Shouldn’t it be 100+ tons in the title? Or are most of them dead in the water?

@Helix: Perhaps a better phrasing would’ve been “regular occurrence” and not “normal”, but things like this do happen and it seems what sets this apart is that the media is paying attention.

Perhaps that’s a good thing and we may be able to get better regulation and more penalties in place, but it’s not the end of times and with so many people stocking-up on gold, ammo, survival seeds and food insurance, I don’t really think it’s the best time for the mainstream outlets to be driving that particular line of thought.

I mean, run the keywords across Google News and you can see that the meme has gone beyond blogs and playful chatter, right into the belly of the beast.

Fact: If anyone knows what’s going on here it’s Al Gore! Global Climate changey thingey!

Fact: Outside Sun activity all clear!
http://www.solarcycle24.com/

LOL…Oh Colby. I thought that this was a “media” site that reports and comments on media related stories. Yet you just cut/paste info from some article and discuss no real media topics. Aren’t you also the editor?

The fish kills are due to extreme cold events.
Try explaining that due to global warming, in which all models project all seas increasing in temp

“as well as confirmed reports that Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp are dating . . .”

Colby, this is the funniest line you’ve ever written. Well done!

The story says 100 tons, actually. Not fifteen.

Just4thefax… You’re still a f’ing RETARD.

pyrope said:
This story is not nearly as fishy as it seems–Helen Thompson went swimming nearby and…well, you can figure it out.

And they STILL haven’t gotten the smell out of the fish from the first time.

Helix said:
Would rather strongly disagree with you on that “normal” bit. Just because something like the bird kill has happened in the past several times doesn’t make it normal. Especially when we have an unknown cause and no credible explanation, scientific or otherwise for the event. It’s great that the media noticed, but perhaps IMHO they should have noticed earlier. Think of the canary in the coal mine bit. The bird dies 1st but the people are saved. Paying attention to something that could kill 5000 birds, and figuring out why, could save lives down the road. Chances are pretty good that the universe is a dangerous place and ignoring this event would be a bad idea regardless of your views.

It is very likely that the fish and the bird incidents are unrelated… But not impossible. There also was another fish kill at Chesapeake Bay, which was not yet mentioned by Mediaite. Fish kills might be disease related, and I have heard of them before, but I would not consider this many large fish kills being reported in this time frame to be normal. I would expect maybe two or three a year, not three in one week.

As to the end of days meme and “public order- people will panic or not based on their beliefs anyway, and should some later weird incident kill thousand of people, covering it up won’t work anymore. Besides Fox News will report it anyway, at least until they all mysteriously vanish from the station, LOL. Gather ye page hits while ye may, for if this is a normal year, then the incidents should die down statistically. If this does not happen… well then maybe Mediaite can get the scoop on the “interesting times” we are living in…

Finally some one else gets it. For there to be this many cases of mainly the same kind of bird all in a single week should have more people concerned. They have found no valid reason for why the birds died. All the theories I have heard saying it was fireworks, or weather or power-lines are about as believable as a dog deciding to dress in clothes and drink coffee. They are reaching for any explanation that any lazy person would believe without questioning it. Yes things like this do happen but not this frequently, not this similar and not with these kinds of numbers. Not to mention Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana are right next to each other. If these incidents are unrelated I will ride around my neighborhood on a unicycle juggling bowling balls. Don’t buy into the lies people. Don’t be so complacent.

tones9 said:
The fish kills are due to extreme cold events.Try explaining that due to global warming, in which all models project all seas increasing in temp

If I understand what the scientific community agrees on with global warming is that eventhough the trend is in the warming direction, the sudden increase in greenhouse gases is a disturbance to the natural order and like any disturbance there will be an extreme increase and decrease in the temperature until it can naturally balance itself out back to the natural order.

Since it took billions of years for nature to pull the carbon from the air and put it in the ground (eg coal, oil), and man relatively few year to return it to the air, would qualify as a disturbance.

Could any of this fish thing have been caused by the oil spill this pasy year…ya know ..all the oil we cant find?

Marie Pecore said:
Could any of this fish thing have been caused by the oil spill this pasy year…ya know ..all the oil we cant find?

I firmly believe its the oil spill. Remember how the oil suddenly disapeared? Well it was, by chemicals that helped disolve but even more it has kept the oil deep down under water. Then most of the fish that have died have been bottom feeders (initially). Think about it, fish are dying all over the world, because of the water currents that are helping spread the chemicals/oil and man of the infected fish. The birds are dying all around the general gulf area and now spreading because a majority of what they eat are indeed fish.

The government, tried to cover up the severity of the oil spill by locking it deep below the surface.. but now that millions of fish and birds are going to die. The goverments manipulation to ease the publics anger over the oil spill will now become transparent.

rjakjr said:
Just4thefax… You’re still a f’ing RETARD.

This post makes you look real smart… I’m sure you’ve got everyone shaking in their boots…

Marie Pecore said:
Could any of this fish thing have been caused by the oil spill this pasy year…ya know ..all the oil we cant find?

Hummmmm….. Let’s refine this fish!

If the oil spill is responsible for the death of these fish, could it also be possible that the birds perhaps ate the fish and subsequently ingested any posions/toxins hence there deaths aswell?

Forgive me if that sounds retarded (i dont know if the birds eat fish or had access to them) but there is always a possibility their water supply could have been contaminated somehow…

Granted mass deaths are nothing new, but do the latest have anything in common, other than mass death?

moganc said:
If the oil spill is responsible for the death of these fish, could it also be possible that the birds perhaps ate the fish and subsequently ingested any posions/toxins hence there deaths aswell? Forgive me if that sounds retarded (i dont know if the birds eat fish or had access to them) but there is always a possibility their water supply could have been contaminated somehow…

The Red winged Blackbirds, I do not think they feed on fish. However, let’s not forget the crabs also wash ashore in England.