{"id":12565,"date":"2014-01-28T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=12565"},"modified":"2015-01-10T21:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T02:38:03","slug":"caw-caw-the-end-is-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2014\/01\/caw-caw-the-end-is-nigh.html","title":{"rendered":"Caw, Caw. The End is Nigh&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 I\u2019m don\u2019t put much stock in omens, therefore I don\u2019t find it the least bit ominous that a seagull and a crow attacked two doves. The fact that the doves where released from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2546218\/Birds-released-Vatican-gesture-peace-immediately-attacked-vicious-seagull-crow.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an Apostolic Palace window during the Pope\u2019s appeal for peace in Ukraine<\/a> says less about the Ukraine\u2019s future and more about the nature of gulls and crows.      <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2014\/01\/pb-140126-pope-doves-nj-04.photoblog900.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2014\/01\/pb-140126-pope-doves-nj-04.photoblog900.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pb-140126-pope-doves-nj-04.photoblog900\" width=\"900\" height=\"454\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12569\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Being from Virginia Beach, where your chances of being crapped on by a seagull are in the top percentages, I can attest to just how vicious and nasty these birds are. Seagulls are such notorious assholes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/bfeld\/20-reasons-why-seagulls-are-the-worst-bird-in-exis\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">they even have their own page on Buzzfeed<\/a>. Nah, A seagull attacking a dove is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/01\/140127-white-peace-doves-attacked-birds-rome-vatican-pope\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">just a seagull being a seagull<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2014\/01\/Vatican-Pope-Doves.JPEG-03b15.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2014\/01\/Vatican-Pope-Doves.JPEG-03b15.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vatican Pope Doves.JPEG-03b15\" width=\"549\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12577\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now crows on the other hand\u2026 those birds are straight from Hell. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2014\/01\/pope-dove-attack-ctr.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2014\/01\/pope-dove-attack-ctr-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pope-dove-attack-ctr\" width=\"524\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12566\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason that in every horror movie when shit\u2019s about to get real you see a crow\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2014\/01\/damian-omen-21.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2014\/01\/damian-omen-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"damian-omen-21\" width=\"520\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12572\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evil, malicious harbingers of doom crows are. When a crow attacks a dove of peace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvestingthefruit.com\/peace-dove-investigation\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">it\u2019s time to stock the doomsday bunker<\/a>. In fact, I\u2019ll be deeply disappointed if there isn\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmilitant.tv\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an investigative video expose<\/a> and this incident isn\u2019t exploited to it\u2019s fullest potential.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Related News:<\/strong> National Geographic\u2019s victim blaming article; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/01\/140127-white-peace-doves-attacked-birds-rome-vatican-pope\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why Birds Attacked the Peace Doves in Rome<\/a>. \u201cA crow and a gull targeted <em>the freakish doves<\/em>, bred to be unnaturally white.\u201d  <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 I\u2019m don\u2019t put much stock in omens, therefore I don\u2019t find it the least bit ominous that a seagull and a crow attacked two doves. 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