{"id":13261,"date":"2017-04-14T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2017-04-14T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:45:29","slug":"birds-tomatoes-and-sharks-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/04\/14\/birds-tomatoes-and-sharks-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds, Tomatoes, and Sharks, Oh My"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The &#8220;Sharknado&#8221; movies, which involve sharks being airborne and transported inland by adverse whether events, have been seen as ridiculous with no bearing on reality. This is similar to the 1978 movie &#8220;Attack of the Killer Tomatoes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The opening credits to &#8220;Attack of the Killer tomatoes&#8221; began with the following screen scroll:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock made a motion picutre entitled &#8216;The Birds,&#8217; a film which depicted a savage attack upon human beings by flocks of the winged creatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;People laughed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In the fall of 1974, 7 million black birds invaded the town Hopkinsville, Kentucky, resisting the best efforts of mankind to dislodge them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;No one is laughing now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While no one has been killed by an uprising of tomatoes (that we are aware of), the idea of sharks being carried by a weather event inland is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/30\/asia\/australia-cyclone-debbie-shark-flooding\/index.html?sr=twCNN033017australia-cyclone-debbie-shark-flooding0913AMVODtopLink&amp;linkId=36001434\" target=\"_blank\">no longer the realm of fantasy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Northeastern Australia is still dealing with the aftermath of Cyclone Debbie, which swept across the Queensland coast on Tuesday, causing widespread damage with winds up to 185 kph (114 mph).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But the discovery of a huge dead bull shark in floodwaters near Ayr, just south of Townsville, is likely to give some residents pause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A shark washed up in the street after a cyclone in Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ws2hlDhzel\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ws2hlDhzel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T555LaLqJE\">pic.twitter.com\/T555LaLqJE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/847464563972780033\">March 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There is only one thing to do now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4IyQamN6Rig\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13262\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Australia-Sharknado.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1 height=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Australia-Sharknado.jpg 780w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Australia-Sharknado-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Australia-Sharknado-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Birds, Tomatoes, and Sharks, Oh My\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"While no one has been killed by an uprising of tomatoes (that we are aware of), the idea of sharks being carried by a weather event inland is no longer the realm of fantasy.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Australia-Sharknado.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The &#8220;Sharknado&#8221; movies, which involve sharks being airborne and transported inland by adverse whether events, have been seen as ridiculous with no bearing on reality. 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