[Quix]

THANKS.

I don't THINK I was thinking of you at the time I wrote that. I was thinking more of a to common generic knee jerk skepticism which seems, too often to me, have too many flavors of a head in the sand level of denial and passivity or at least smugness.

Probably some phrase or other in your post triggered that response. I haven't followed individual postings and don't keep those levels of details in my head enough to really know which side of whatever fence you were REALLY on.

Still, to whatever degree I may have been thinking of you specifically, am delighted to read I was wrong.

Thanks.

[jstolzen]

I hear ya!

WAY too many people are living like ostriches.

When I hear that NEST is roaming US cities, it is time to be prepared for ANY eventuality.

I also think the "cover story" of looking for dirty nukes is just that - cover.

I think they very well could be looking for small tactical (suitcase) nukes of the 1 - 10 KT variety, which could really make a mess of things.

I'm fond of telling my friends/family who think I've gone off the deep end on all of this that we didn't think airplanes could obliterate the WTC < 9/11, either.

I fully believe there is a grand chess game being played here, that the bad guys have a loooong timeframe planned, and that we are only in the opening acts. It will be interesting to find who the "pupeteers" are, though. And WHEN we do, there will be hell (of the ICBM variety, if the US is ever hit with WMD) to pay.