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Traffic On The Runway

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Everyone knows about the hassles of flying today. The crowds, the lines, TSA, extra charges for baggage, ugly people being allowed to be in the same line as you, having only one of your shoes come out on the conveyor, being told that the missing shoe isn’t on the conveyor and could you step over here please, the list goes on and on. But what isn’t widely known is that the congestion, and dangers of flying has entered the wildlife world.

The risks of flying seem greater lately with the increase in air traffic and reports of collisions and near misses a normal occurrence and nearly a daily event. An example of this phenomenon is just the other day a JAL flight out of Narita took off in a westerly direction the exact same time a British Airways flight left Heathrow in a northerly direction, the aircraft were barely 4800 miles apart. How there wasn’t a collision has been the main topic of conversation around the local air controllers’ water cooler ever since. It is estimated that by using this logic, and why wouldn’t you, there are nearly 800,209 potential accidents a day. That’s scary enough to put you off your eggnog without even trying to do the math.

If the possibilities of the comingling of two aircraft in mid-air aren’t enough there are threats of air traffic controllers striking, baggage handlers striking, food concessionaires striking, people writing about aviation employees striking, striking, it’s a wonder that you can get from point A to point B anymore.

This is just as true in the natural world as it is in the unnatural one. A case in point is the mystery that occurred in Bosque del Apache, a heavily used flyway in New Mexico, in December of 2009 when Flight 19, a squadron of Sandhill cranes stationed out of the wetlands near Socorro, New Mexico attempted a daylight landing on runway 00-Bravo during the morning of December 5th. With clear skies, an unlimited ceiling and no reported obstacles they were on their final approach to land when there was brief squawk of “Mayday! Mayday! Abort!… ” and the transmission ended.

The five Sandhill cranes that comprised that flight were never heard from again and to this day their whereabouts are unknown and the disappearance has never been explained. For weeks an area wide search was conducted without any results. “It is as if they have simply flown away” said one government searcher who wished to remain anonymous as he was not authorized to speak about this matter.

It has become one of the legendary mysteries of our times and one that has become the daily fodder of conspirator theorists everywhere. After all Bosque del Apache is only 143.79 air miles due West from Roswell, New Mexico and you’d have to have been abducted by aliens and probed to near exhaustion not to know the importance of what is located there.

Fortunately, as far as this mystery is concerned, runway 00-Bravo is one that the Institute has had “funny feelings” about for years and we had placed a hidden camera there without the knowledge and permission of the Powers-That-Be just in case something Very Weird might happen there someday. Well, as you can see it was really lucky we did because in going over a piece of long-lost digital film we came across this extraordinary image of Flight 19 actually attempting to make that fateful landing. How’s that for having your crap together?

Of course our image of Flight 19 and what really happened to it has been plastered all over the government billboards and forums and derided as being fake and made up and a visual lie, but we know the truth and now so do you. We will not be silenced, and black helicopters on silent running, hovering night after night over the headquarters building here at the Institute don’t scare us either. In fact nothing human will make us stop writing and unless we are actually abducted ourselves by some kind of ungodly alien kidnappers, the truth will out. Stay tuned for further bulletins about this secret Gov…..

Note from the ISP Blog relayers: Unfortunately the above post was truncated and ceased publishing suddenly. We have been unable to reach the Institute headquarters to find out what the problem is. In fact there is some kind of electronic blackout over that entire area that we are attempting to identify but as of right now there appears to be a government sanctioned news suspension in effect. We will report any changes in this situation as they occur. At this time we are not accepting calls regarding this startling development. Thank you for your patience.

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There has been a lot of talk lately about these new kind of moons, these Super Moons, that have appeared over our countryside. It’s unclear exactly where these new moons came from. Personally and it is the prevailing thought here at the Institute that we, as a country, were out of the moon making business. We had a perfectly serviceable one that had been performing adequately for years and now suddenly we have a bunch of new moons hanging around and we’re supposed to just accept them without question. Well I have a question. How much did all these new moons cost? Wasn’t this something we should have voted on? Who asked for a new moon anyway? Does this new moon have anything to do with the erosion of our personal liberties, not to mention our privacy.

One of the largest concerns we have and you should have too, is that this new Super Moon that has begun slinking through the night sky, and sometimes the day one too, acting as if it has a perfect right to be here, is already here, apparently we cannot take it back. So, if it is larger does that mean it is closer, and if it is closer does that mean that anyone on it can see us better? Are they using this new moon to monitor our night-time activities? Who exactly is in charge here? If they can just run a brand new moon past us without any warning What’s next ?!?

Where is the public outcry, the demonstrations, the indignation of the people? I haven’t seen one sign holder down on the corner of College and Mulberry shaking their signs in nearly hysterical frustration saying “Honk if you hate the new moon.”  “Super Moon Sucks!”  and “Old Moon First-ers”. People you can not get this complacent. ‘They’, and you know which ones I’m talking about, will not be content with just fleecing us for a new moon, oh no, there’s plenty more in their liberal bag of tricks. They think because everyone is more energy conscious these days that we’re going to roll over and buy this feeble excuse that ” The new moon is greener, the new lighting involved in illuminating this new Super Moon saves Americans huge amounts of money by being more efficient. 50% savings every full moon.”, etc. Well I’m calling BullPucky on that crap, so to speak.

Where are all the EPA studies? This new Super Moon for those of you who don’t read or understand fully what you see on TV, is a larger, like really huge, moon that is much brighter and more arrogant than our old perfectly good moon is, or was I should say. And because of these new aspects of this moon there are some huge environmental problems involved here, and we here at the Institute have been documenting some of them for an exclusive expose we are planning in the near future. We’re telling it like it is, black helicopters be damned, because you the reader deserve to know.

In the image above you can see one of the tragic repercussions of this wanton disregard for Nature. Who are we to think that we can just alter conditions that have been in existence for millenniums, or at least for a long time. The Sandhill cranes pictured above are having to fly a minimum, by our calculation, of 30% further to fly past this new Super Moon than they have had to do for countless years before with our old perfectly good moon. Yes this “New” moon, this Super Moon is so large that these poor exhausted birds must flap their huge wings over and over again to simply get past this new moon. No wonder the Sandhill Crane population is dwindling. They no longer have the energy required for mating, or as it is known in the birding world as “bumping their uglies” and other nighttime activities that they exercised so freely and ribaldry before. Everyone responsible for this whole mess should be made to stand out here in the cold bitter night and hear the pitiful cries of these magnificent birds as they grope their way past this new phenomenon into a lower wattage future. Our arrogance will bear bitter fruit I fear.

Take a stand. NO more new celestial bodies without a full feasibility study and public input. No more changing the environment by unfeeling, inexperienced, progress at any cost, bureaucrats. No more. Like my Dad used to say “Just leave it the hell alone.” a philosophy that has stood the test of time. The next time they float one of these new Super Moons past you, just say no. Don’t look. If enough people don’t look they’ll get tired of it and take it down and then where will they be, out on their fat, pork fed hineys’, that’s where. Stay tuned for further updates, we’ll have more on this dangerous trend in moon shifting in a month or so. Remember, Be Vigilant and if you’re passing by those Sandhill Cranes’ breeding ground some Supermoonlit night, give them some privacy, don’t look.