Re: Thousands of Blackbirds falling from the sky
[quote author=thalassa link=topic=1335.msg26743#msg26743 date=1294145760]
Two fairly common things happen on a slightly larger than normal scale, in the same region and rather than "hmmm, lets wait to find out if there may have been a common cause and what it was, or if they were two separate events", the first thing that pops into mind is "ZOMG! Conspiracy theory!"?
[/quote][quote author=B. de Corbin link=topic=1335.msg26758#msg26758 date=1294155028]
That's because everybody knows that the government is up to something slinky. Don't you remember how, when you were in the Navy, they sent you through that time portal, and you ended up being your own great grandma? How can you have forgotten that already?
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Ha, ha you guys....
I know, and I'm usually one of the first to poke fun when something starts to sound like we should all get out the tinfoil hats.
This pushes some buttons for me, though...the damage that was done to Utah as stop #1 of radiation fallout for the better part of 50 years is one of those things that people don't discuss much. There are pockets all over, though, with unusually high incidences of rare disease. This is what the government is actually willing to say about it, however the pattern took clouds over SLC or other major Northern Utah cities several times. If the people of western states weren't exposed enough, it was often the patriotic thing to do to go put out lawn chairs and watch the mushroom clouds if you lived close enough--something the government did nothing to stop.
I don't think it's a coincidence that an elderly friend of my family who was dragged out as a child to watch that was found to have zero ability to make red blood cells as a teen, and has been on all sorts of medication and treatments her entire life. Or take my inlaws, who grew up in a city that had recorded fallout clouds pass over it when they were in-utero, and then again when they were 5. Both have horrible heath problems, which, if they had lived one county over, where people were recording their sheep dropping over dead with strange skin issues, would have qualified them as "downwinders".
Then there are accounts of military personnel who were injected with radioactive materials in the 50's, and provided medical care for themselves their spouses, and the children they were trying to conceive, etc, etc, etc...
The list goes on and on....not to mention that the testing didn't actually end entirely until the 90's, and Utah has some of the most lax laws for environmental damage by major companies (such as mining) in the nation. More then half of the kids I knew growing up, who remained in Utah their entire childhood, have thyroid problems.
I don't think you can trust the American government to not use it's subjects as guinea pigs in the name of the "greater good".
*Gets off her soapbox, puts on her tinfoil hat, and stands in the corner.
[quote author=thalassa link=topic=1335.msg26743#msg26743 date=1294145760]
Two fairly common things happen on a slightly larger than normal scale, in the same region and rather than "hmmm, lets wait to find out if there may have been a common cause and what it was, or if they were two separate events", the first thing that pops into mind is "ZOMG! Conspiracy theory!"?
[/quote][quote author=B. de Corbin link=topic=1335.msg26758#msg26758 date=1294155028]
That's because everybody knows that the government is up to something slinky. Don't you remember how, when you were in the Navy, they sent you through that time portal, and you ended up being your own great grandma? How can you have forgotten that already?
[/quote]
Ha, ha you guys....
I know, and I'm usually one of the first to poke fun when something starts to sound like we should all get out the tinfoil hats.
This pushes some buttons for me, though...the damage that was done to Utah as stop #1 of radiation fallout for the better part of 50 years is one of those things that people don't discuss much. There are pockets all over, though, with unusually high incidences of rare disease. This is what the government is actually willing to say about it, however the pattern took clouds over SLC or other major Northern Utah cities several times. If the people of western states weren't exposed enough, it was often the patriotic thing to do to go put out lawn chairs and watch the mushroom clouds if you lived close enough--something the government did nothing to stop.
I don't think it's a coincidence that an elderly friend of my family who was dragged out as a child to watch that was found to have zero ability to make red blood cells as a teen, and has been on all sorts of medication and treatments her entire life. Or take my inlaws, who grew up in a city that had recorded fallout clouds pass over it when they were in-utero, and then again when they were 5. Both have horrible heath problems, which, if they had lived one county over, where people were recording their sheep dropping over dead with strange skin issues, would have qualified them as "downwinders".
Then there are accounts of military personnel who were injected with radioactive materials in the 50's, and provided medical care for themselves their spouses, and the children they were trying to conceive, etc, etc, etc...
The list goes on and on....not to mention that the testing didn't actually end entirely until the 90's, and Utah has some of the most lax laws for environmental damage by major companies (such as mining) in the nation. More then half of the kids I knew growing up, who remained in Utah their entire childhood, have thyroid problems.
I don't think you can trust the American government to not use it's subjects as guinea pigs in the name of the "greater good".
*Gets off her soapbox, puts on her tinfoil hat, and stands in the corner.
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