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Tsunami Must Be Fault of the US
The Australian ^ | December 31, 2004 | Gerard Baker

Posted on 12/31/2004 12:56:16 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

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To: Seruzawa
Tell her that if we detonated every single nuclear weapon extant in the world today in a fault line in the ocean it wouldn't raise a ripple in comparison.

That can't be right. The geophysics training I got in 1978 from Superman: The Movie clearly showed that nuclear weapons can trigger earthquakes. Lex Luthor, Superman's nemesis, wanted to make the West Coast of California "more valuable between the time you buy it and the time you sell it." To do this, he caused a major earthquake using two missiles he programmed to hit the San Andreas Fault with the intent of causing most of the state to slide into the ocean. As much as I hate to admit it, this science clearly supports your cousin's argument.

41 posted on 12/31/2004 2:21:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: muir_redwoods

Exactly. But Bush wasn't in charge then.


42 posted on 12/31/2004 2:23:36 PM PST by ChicagoRighty (Surrounded by libbies and damn tired of it!)
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To: muir_redwoods

I guess it must be the Chicago water...The lady's
logic is similar to another Chicagoan.,..Jesse, $$$
(the counter) Jackson....He is still counting Ohio votes for our wonderful and congenial President...G,W.Bush...


43 posted on 12/31/2004 2:24:49 PM PST by sanjacjake
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

44 posted on 12/31/2004 2:27:30 PM PST by LRS
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To: Next_Time_NJ
"All that nuke testing back in the day never started a shiver, but some normal bombs do... riiiiiggghhhttt!!!"

Excellent point! How many earthquaked happened in the regions where we did underground nuclear testing on a regular basis?

Come to think of it, all that nuking above ground and we didn't even manage to sink the Bikini Atoll.

45 posted on 12/31/2004 2:29:06 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: Seruzawa
"Tell her that if we detonated every single nuclear weapon extant in the world today in a fault line in the ocean it wouldn't raise a ripple in comparison. The amount of energy required to create such a tsunami is simply astronomical in magnitude. Far beyond the capabilities of any evil SUV driving human beings."

Forget it. Your suggestion requires thought and a degree of intelligence in order to achieve comprehension. The first is something a liberal is not capable of and the latter is something totally alien to them.

It's all about the emotion, man.

46 posted on 12/31/2004 2:29:07 PM PST by JoeV1 (The Democrats-The unlawful and corrupt leading the uneducated and blind)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I believe there was a Bond movie (starring Christopher Walken as the heavy) based somewhat on that premise as well, wasn't there?
47 posted on 12/31/2004 2:46:50 PM PST by dagogo redux (I never met a Dem yet who didn't understand a slap in the face, or a slug from a 45)
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To: dagogo redux

So there you have it -- more proof from the James Bond film "A View to Kill" in which Zorin planned to cause a series of devastating earthquakes along various fault lines in California.


48 posted on 12/31/2004 2:52:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; dagogo redux

LOL! They're busted again! I haven't seen that movie in so many years I've lost count


49 posted on 12/31/2004 2:54:48 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: ChicagoRighty

Suggest emigration to Kanuckistan...


50 posted on 12/31/2004 3:02:18 PM PST by clintonh8r (The 21st Century Crusade...This time, let's finish the job.)
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To: ChicagoRighty

Your friend watches MUCH too much TV.


51 posted on 12/31/2004 3:02:25 PM PST by Inkie (Surround Fallujia and start shooting.)
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To: Doctor Don
Phooey on the ungrateful kangaroo-chasers down under!

Um... why blame Australia? If you read this article (which incidentally was originally published in a British paper I believe), you'll see it's an article talking about how absurd claims that suggest that the tsunami was caused by the US are, and that the US is being unfairly criticised in quite a number of ways.

52 posted on 12/31/2004 4:46:53 PM PST by naturalman1975 (Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Did the tsunami even get a look-in on US TV news between the holiday schmalz and the football games, I have been sneeringly asked once or twice this week by contemptuous British friends.

This bozo needs to find a better class of friends. His current buttbuddies make him look real bad.


53 posted on 12/31/2004 5:19:58 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: ChicagoRighty
$35 million offered by the Bush administration seems like a lot of money, but it's insignificant compared to what...Michael Moore spends in a week for cheeseburgers?

If she's a MoveOn fan, she's probably a Michael Moore can do no wrong type.

In Moore's movie, he did not get permission, he did not ask, he unilaterally used the video of the USAF Major's burial at Arlington. He did not ask if his family the Major would be offended to know he INVOLUNTARILY appears in that film.

The Army Specialist who lost both arme below the elbow is mad that Moore used his NBC News video and that Moore edited it to convey a message other than what that soldier expressed.

Though the movie made $225 Million (almost a quarter BILLION),....PLUS....DVD sales, DVD/Tape rental, Pay Per View, Cable, Internet Downloads and he got paid for all his campus appearances, those two military folks got NADA, ZERO, ZIP,...not even an empty cheeseburger wrapper from Moore.

Some hero of the left. He's Gordon Gecko of "Greed Is Good" fame.

54 posted on 12/31/2004 9:07:17 PM PST by Doctor Raoul ( ----- HERTZ: We're #1 ----- AVIS: We're #2 We Try Harder ----- CBS: We're #3 We LIE Harder)
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To: Doctor Raoul

>> He's Gordon Gecko of "Greed Is Good" fame. <<

That's being too generous. Moore is slime.


55 posted on 12/31/2004 9:56:51 PM PST by ChicagoRighty (Surrounded by libbies and damn tired of it!)
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To: ChicagoRighty
I was looking more for the unequivocal math/physics reasons why this is lunacy.

Believe me if she is as dumb as she sounds she sure as heck would not understand scientific arguments. The fact is, she doesn't want to understand.

56 posted on 12/31/2004 10:04:14 PM PST by Texasforever (It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your butt out all day long.)
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To: ChicagoRighty
Here is one suggestion. Tell her to place a fire cracker under her house foundation and light it. If it moves the house off the foundation then yes a bomb could have caused the earthquake.
57 posted on 12/31/2004 10:07:40 PM PST by Texasforever (It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your butt out all day long.)
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To: citizencon

I'm glad Jerry Rivers hasn't jumped in and started emoting.


58 posted on 12/31/2004 10:14:09 PM PST by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Texasforever
Good point. But she will typically run to her friends in academia to bail her out. (In this case, I ran to FreeRepublic.)

This time I may have broken her of the habit of emailing me with ridiculous and insulting blather.
59 posted on 12/31/2004 10:19:58 PM PST by ChicagoRighty (Surrounded by libbies and damn tired of it!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

It goes to reason then that if BUSH/AMERICA is so powerful as to cause the earthquake (9.0!!) and the subsequent tsuanami which has killed over > 100,000 people - and this in a time of PEACE; I would really shudder if BUSH/AMERICA was really pissed and wanted to create harm in the world and take off the kids gloves (and forget about bowing to the piss police at the U.N.).


60 posted on 01/01/2005 12:41:59 PM PST by prophetic ("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."--Dan Rather)
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