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I've been across the Big Mac a couple of times, it's so massive a large jetliner would have to be crashed into it to cause appreciable damage. There's a tourist trap at one of its approach bases. A car bomb would kill the occupants of a few vehicles (bad for them) but not damage the structure. This thing inspires awe.

As far as economic disruption, what's in the Upper Peninsula to disrupt? The roads are lined with unoccupied and abandoned houses falling off their foundations. The yuppie vacationers could just as well head to Kentucky. The Soo Locks are a military operation, nobody will cause trouble there.

I call bunk on this one

If a couple of hundred suicide bombers would be in the midst of the thousands of walkers due to cross over it on September 4, the body count could be higher than it was on 9/11. The Muslim fanatics have a death wish anyway. What better way to go out of this life to their 72 virgins than to murder 10,000 Americans crossing this bridge?

I think I'll trust the word of the authorities over the word of a few islamderthals.

As far as the UP having no economic value, all I can say is that the bridge would have never been built if there were no ecconomic value.

That's an interesting angle, but it displays a whole lot more coordination than they've shown so far. This could just as easily happen at Summerfest, or Taste of Chicago, college or pro football games, or any other mass gathering.

Tracfone use is recorded like any other phone. Tracfone just resells Alltel/Verizon (CDMA), or Cingular/Dobson/TMobile/Virgin (GSM) air time. Tracfone gets an itemized bill with origin/destination, just like anybody else. There just ain't no anonymity.

Tracfone is for those with too poor a credit rating, though that's hard to believe there's anybody that low on the pole, considering credit cards are given to most anybody. It's also for those who just don't want the hassles of billing. The third possibility is that you need the coverage. The CDMA phones work absolutely everywhere on any CDMA system, and fall back to analog elsewhere. This superior geographic coverage is a big draw for a traveller. I have a CDMA Tracfone, the coverage is incredible.

The reason I call manure is the stories read like press releases. I suspect Verizon and Cingular don't want the price and quality competition that Tracfone causes, and they are orchestrating FUD through gullible reporters.