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I really think the US is toast.
random thoughts | 20AUG'09 | mapmaker77

Posted on 08/20/2009 1:55:18 AM PDT by mapmaker77

If the population of this country does not wake up pretty damn soon then we are not going to wake up smelling the roses, but the corpses.

Lib dims are in charge of everything in the gov't now and they are hell bent on wrecking the very things that make America unique. PC run amok. Radical academics/activists in key posts with no restraints, and fed budget size money to spend,, this is socialist nirvana.

I just spent the time to read the health care bill and after sifting thru the legal and politik speak, abortion and euthanasia are, of course, in there. And it will bankrupt us.

Our Military is heavily engaged overseas, and we've got Russian nuclear submarines off our coast. Winds of war in central America, and Mexico rotting from within.

I have a question: If the Russians, or Iranians, or NKs, or just anyone who could afford to buy a nuke were to adapt it for EMP det, then how many American citizens would be alive one year later?


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To: mapmaker77
I have beenposting around this topic for months. What happens in the short term may be irreversible at this point. Like a roller coaster. However, if the libtards succeed in their plans to destroy our country and culture there just may be an "inflection point" at which prepared individuals can step in and put us back on the path. Reinstitue the Constitution. Hit the reset button on Epci Fail. I see the "glass as half full". That is our opportunity. We may have to go through an ordeal with Brown Shirts and what not but if we persevere in our ideals we can triumph. Buck up buddy.

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21 posted on 08/20/2009 3:47:44 AM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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To: Telepathic Intruder

And with most automobiles relying on electrical computers to operate, an EMP would knock that part out as well.

That show The Colony would be very accurate, except there wouldn’t be just a handful of people trying to make it, it would be barbarian type violence.


22 posted on 08/20/2009 3:55:41 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Electric cars??? HOLD ON THERE A MINUTE!

WE GOT A PHD IN “NO POWER” LAID ON US A FEW YEARS AGO. THREE WEEKS WITH “NO POWER” AFTER ONE WHING-DINGER OF A HURRICANE IS QUITE SHOCKING (PUN INTENDED). SUCH RAZOR-EDGE HONES COMMON SENSE AND BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF THOSE OUT-HOUSE DAYS.

THE MOST FRIGHTFUL THINGS WAS SEEING HOW THOSE RAISED AND LIVING THEIR ENTIRE LIVES ON CONCRETE POSSESSED ABSOLUTELY NO SURVIVAL SKILLS! AND THEN THERE WERE THOSE NEIGHBORS WHO WANTED TO BORROW A WEAPON... ANY WEAPON.

AND COMRAD WANTS ME TO LOOK IN MY DRIVEWAY AND SEE A ROLLER SKEATE AT THE END OF AN EXTENSION CORD? NOT QUITE!


23 posted on 08/20/2009 4:01:49 AM PDT by Bubba (There's a revolution a brewing!)
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To: AlexW

My husband and I have discussed moving out of the country.

Are you living on savings on the $500 a month in the Phillipines or are you earning it there?


24 posted on 08/20/2009 4:04:01 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: AlexW

I totally understand man . I left 24 years ago next month . At the time it wasn’t because I saw the writing on the wall . After all , Ronald Reagan was President . But from around 91 on , I gradually came to the sad conclusion that America had seen better days . I still prayed for my country and hoped things would turn around , but things just got worse . Look what we have now . A marxist and usurper as POTUS and the Rats running the Congress and the Senate . Who could have predicted that ?

Japan is no utopia , but I’ve had a good life here and a great wife . No regrets .

I don’t love my country quite as much as I used to , but would be willing to take part in a civil war to take it back .


25 posted on 08/20/2009 4:04:18 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?
This is how you fix it.

Texas and maybe Louisiana secede and the marxists issue orders to bring them back.

The US Military instead rounds up the socialists and puts them on a plane to Cuba.

Provisional military government for 6 months, then new elections for all congressional seats and the WH, incumbents need not apply.

Only tax paying citizens and veterans are enfranchised in the new Republic.

All amendments other than the original bill of rights are repealed.

"Dueling" legalized within the Washington DC limits.

Problem solved

26 posted on 08/20/2009 4:05:18 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Hussein Baraka Mook Kebba)
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To: Iron Munro

Post of the day . Great stuff . Thank you !


27 posted on 08/20/2009 4:06:33 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: Iron Munro
What happens when they succeed in shutting down most of our power generation?

GREAT questions in your post. I 've wondered the same thing. Do tort lawyers realize that if healthcare is controlled by the government that their ability to sue for medical malpractice will likely be limited?

28 posted on 08/20/2009 4:13:20 AM PDT by alrea
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To: autumnraine

“Are you living on savings on the $500 a month in the Phillipines or are you earning it there?”

No, it is part of my small social security payment.
One can not legally work here.
I did work in Europe as a private tutor of English, mostly in businesses and banks, but started drawing SS last year.


29 posted on 08/20/2009 4:17:17 AM PDT by AlexW (Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: vanilla swirl
Only one thing: you need a megaton-yield nuclear weapon for EMP to be effective. And alas, that's beyond the technology of North Korea or Iran--a 20 kT nuclear device exploding in Earth orbit has the effect of a solar storm. After what happened to the Quebec power grid in 1989 when a major solar storm knocked out part of the grid, they've put in more sophisticated safety systems to protect the grid from the effects of a solar storm, so a low-yield nuclear weapon will have relatively little effects on the ground below.

According to what we know about the Dominic Starfish Prime test, it used a W49 nuclear warhead (essentially a modified B28 nuclear bomb) with a yield of 1.4 MT. As such, the explosion at 250 miles above the ground had pretty awesome effects, as witnessed by the substantial electrical interference in Hawaii. It makes me wonder during the Cold War, the Russians had planned to use the older SS-9 (R-36) missiles armed with a circa 20 MT nuclear warhead to detonate about 200-300 miles above the ground for enormous EMP effects.

30 posted on 08/20/2009 4:17:32 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: AlexW

My husband talks about leaving. I didn’t notice people were less free here than Europe until the year 2000. It’s only gotten worse. I wouldn’t go to Europe, that place is dying. He likes India and Chile. Personally, I think I will die here but I encourage any and all young people to go somewhere that raising a family is good. That increasingly is not the US.


31 posted on 08/20/2009 4:19:20 AM PDT by Varda
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To: sushiman

“Japan is no utopia , but I’ve had a good life here and a great wife . No regrets “

Yes, I know it is tight in Japan. I am not sure if I could
adapt to the culture..A bit too stiff for me, but here, EVERYONE is so laid back.


32 posted on 08/20/2009 4:19:57 AM PDT by AlexW (Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: Varda

“My husband talks about leaving. I didn’t notice people were less free here than Europe until the year 2000. It’s only gotten worse. I wouldn’t go to Europe”

Well, I would not go back to live in Europe.
I went to Slovakia, before it was sucked into the EU.
It was freed from Marxism, and a nice country, but very few speak English.
I enjoyed my stay there, but not good for retirement.


33 posted on 08/20/2009 4:25:45 AM PDT by AlexW (Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: RayChuang88

If you read the link I posted;
http://www.futurescience.com/emp.html
you will see that Starfish Prime was 1.44 megaton but a smaller nuclear fission weapon requiring far less expertise would be much more effective. Also take into account the fact that WHERE the event occurs relating to the earth’s magnetic field makes a difference as well. The northern hemisphere (USA) has more electromagnetic “lines of force” available for the device to interact with than the south pacific.


34 posted on 08/20/2009 4:35:33 AM PDT by vanilla swirl
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To: sushiman

“I don’t love my country quite as much as I used to , but would be willing to take part in a civil war to take it back .”

We may be calling you back soon!


35 posted on 08/20/2009 4:42:34 AM PDT by vanilla swirl
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No Thanks. Maybe you don't understand what is going to happen to the rest of the world if the United States fails. This is the battleground. If the light of America is extinguished there will be no place to hide. America is the crux that holds up commerce, transportation and political stability. If America fails then governments and economies around the world will collapse. There are billions who depend on our strength and freedom to keep them from totalitarianism and slavery.

God has not abandoned this country yet, nor will I.

As for the rest of you, flee. Protect yourself. I hold no animosity towards you. But I will fight to keep my children from living in a post-America world. This is where I make my stand.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill

36 posted on 08/20/2009 4:44:50 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (Really?)
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To: mapmaker77

37 posted on 08/20/2009 4:53:10 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Everyone signing up after Nov 28, 1997 is a newbie.)
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To: myknowledge

“Why centralize a national power grid?

It would be far better if there were thousands of small, decentralized power grids enough to power communities, making it less likely to return to the stone age that easy.”

Look up Tesla versus Edison. Edison’s power plan was DC which require a power plant every mile or so because DC can’t be transported farther than that. Tesla developed ac because of the long distance capabilities.


38 posted on 08/20/2009 5:04:44 AM PDT by vanilla swirl
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To: mapmaker77
We are the world's biggest debtor nation. We are fast approaching the time when we must choose between guns and butter. And we will choose butter, i.e., the entitlement programs and the interest on the national debt. These combined "mandatory" expenditures make up about 60% of the federal budget now. Defense, the second largest line item in the budget, is discretionary and will become a bigger target for cost cutters.

Obama's porkulus package, TARP, and his supplemental budget will double the US national debt, publicly held, which will mean that we will be spending over $800 billion on debt servicing costs alone. Medicare and SS will go bust in a decade requiring more general fund money and we we have an aging population. By 2030, one in every five residents of this country will be 65 or older. The entitlement programs represent an unfunded liability of over $60 trillion.

Add ObamaCare, which is twice the size of Medicare, cap and tax, and amnesty and this country will sink like a ton of bricks.

39 posted on 08/20/2009 5:15:32 AM PDT by kabar
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To: AlexW

My first vote was for Ronald Reagan in 1980. I remember very well the sense of hope, of purpose, of giddiness at the unlimited potential of this great country. At the time, nothing seemed impossible, and we thought the greatness of America would simply go on forever.

I can’t begin to describe the stark change in attitude from then to now. I never used to think America was finished as a great nation. I’m starting to believe otherwise.


40 posted on 08/20/2009 5:18:50 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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