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Memorial to honor 50,000 bumble bees that died in Oregon parking lot
Fox News/AP ^ | June 28, 2013

Posted on 06/28/2013 7:56:20 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Fifty thousand bumblebees will be honored at a memorial Sunday in the same shopping center parking lot southwest of the Portland, Oregon, where most of the insects died earlier this month.

Rozzell Medina, of Portland, said on a Facebook page that the event will "memorialize these fallen lifeforms and talk about the plight of the bees and their importance to life on Earth," The Oregonian reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: bees; bumblebees; ericthehalfabee; napl; portland; portlandia
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To: ken5050

41 posted on 06/28/2013 8:31:00 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Death where is thy sting?


42 posted on 06/28/2013 8:31:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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There was a mass slaughter of yellow jackets in FL recently. The largest nest ever documented with more than a million bees and hundreds of queens was totally killed off in one day. There was no memorial and not a tear shed. Sad that a prehistoric site with an ancient hive could be obliterated by a pest service with not one cry of "Shame."
43 posted on 06/28/2013 8:31:49 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
There was a mass slaughter of yellow jackets in FL recently

Yes, it believe it was the Georgia Tech-Florida State game.

44 posted on 06/28/2013 8:32:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Louis Foxwell

OK OK -
<Sarc


45 posted on 06/28/2013 8:33:19 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I demand that Orkin Pest Control be brought before a congressional committee! They are murdering innocent insects. ...now on to protect microbes.


46 posted on 06/28/2013 8:36:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ConservativeStatement
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

Sure, they care about bees, but their PRIMARY focus is keeping democrat politicians in office.

47 posted on 06/28/2013 8:36:34 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Portlandia episode.
Has to be. (bee!)


48 posted on 06/28/2013 8:39:04 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Just wanted to say I hope you great NSA folks are enjoying my posts here.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

As much as I think Memorial Service for dead bees is liberal softheadedness, there is a problem, worldwide, with the disappearance of bees due to pesticides and parasitic mites. The disappearance of bees is alarming because of their importance to agriculture....


49 posted on 06/28/2013 8:39:22 AM PDT by freebilly (Creepy and the Ass Crackers....)
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To: RedMDer

You’ve got to BEE kidding, right!


50 posted on 06/28/2013 8:43:43 AM PDT by k4gypsyrose
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To: k4gypsyrose

LOL!


51 posted on 06/28/2013 8:44:52 AM PDT by RedMDer (When immigrants cannot or will not assimilate, its really just an invasion. Throw them out!)
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To: Zathras

This is so much LIBERAL Oregon....especially, Portland...please don’t paint the whole state with what Portland weirdos do...


52 posted on 06/28/2013 8:45:35 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
WELL, ACTUALLY, the bees probably deserve a monument more than 90% of current politicians do - and they are pretty “liberal” about naming things after themselves after WE pay for them!!!!!

One bee does more productive work in one day than a Congress full of politicians and attorneys and an office full of Washington Bureaucrats does in a YEAR!!!!

53 posted on 06/28/2013 8:47:37 AM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: ConservativeStatement
We have a bumble bee hive that was built in our carport.

If they want to "save the bumble bees" they can take them. If not, they die next week.

54 posted on 06/28/2013 9:01:41 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: ConservativeStatement
A memorial service for dead insects and yet the innocent babies killed in Gosnell’s abortion abattoir can't have a descent burial.
55 posted on 06/28/2013 9:13:53 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: The Great RJ

Vigil tonight. Bring your own citronella candles.


56 posted on 06/28/2013 9:19:54 AM PDT by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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To: swamprebel

You beat me to it! I can’t watch that without laughing till I cry.


57 posted on 06/28/2013 9:39:31 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: ConservativeStatement; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Theme music!

[Thanks to Gefn for the heads-up!]


58 posted on 06/28/2013 9:47:13 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: The Louiswu

Give those noble bees the Nobel Peace Prize.

And, why not? We’ve given it to several worms.


59 posted on 06/28/2013 9:55:36 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: k4gypsyrose

I’m sure there is a joke in here about stingers, but it probably wouldn’t be clean.


60 posted on 06/28/2013 10:03:34 AM PDT by NRAConservative
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