[smokingfrog]

[corbe]

Another Trillion or so should fix this /s

[donna]

There is no reason for Washington DC to to speak to individual citizens ever. The job belongs to each state.

[DonaldC]

I don’t really see the point with this myself.

[panaxanax]

0bama = Failure at every level!

[bigbob]

Biggest EBS fail since 1971:

http://ebstest.stlmedia.net/

[PLMerite]

This is why tests exist. Rockets, planes, cars, etc. You push the button and see what happens. Then you fix it.

[EGPWS]

The idea is to give the President a way to alert the entire populace to a national emergency instantly, by seizing control of all TV and radio communications.

A requirement now that we have a narcissist in chief.

[boomop1]

Obama FAILS.

[ixtl]

They were no doubt relying on computers, and as Murphy* says, “To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.”

*Of Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”

[ml/nj]

I hope this this doesn't turn out the way my town's emergency call system has. The police here can call every land-line at once with a broadcast message. There's at least one message every week. I already recognize when one of these calls is coming in because it's always two calls as I still have two land-lines here and they ring simultaneously. With the recent storm we probably had eight or ten messages last week. I think the last one was about having a Halloween Party at the town pool for the little crumb-crunchers who got cheated out of Halloween this year. There were at least two messages telling us what a great job the town maintenance crew was doing clearing the roads. No more than one in ten of these messages could even remotely be considered emergency information.

ML/NJ

[Vlad The Inhaler]

The current National Emergency is that there is an undocumented socialist squatting in the White House.

[mardi59]

At some point in time Odummy will take over everything and now he can let us all know at one time that he intends to be Dictator-N-Chief for life.

He is helping muslims and weakening our country for some reason. I have a nasty feeling we will be finding out why...soon.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Survival Basics for Beginners - Part 1

[ryderann]

I’m paranoid enough these days to wonder if they’re getting things all set up for 11/11/11.

[ChocChipCookie]

We got through 9-11 just fine with all levels of media working together with government agencies everywhere. There’s something creepy about our current federal government doing this.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Damn! Does this mean he won’t be able to use a national emergency to
halt the election?

He probably has his army amassed and waiting to swarm.

Not kidding,

[discostu]

I think it would still be funny if it was an emergency. But of course I’ve spent most of my life in extremely “high value” nuclear targets, the kind of places where nobody really bothered with duck and cover drills or fallout shelters because we knew if it went that way the city would be nuked to glass. So the whole EBS to me has always been kind of funny.

[dfwgator]

If truly the SHTF, there’s nothing the government can do to stop it anyway, so what’s the point?

[FourPeas]

Compared to “green energy” programs, it was a smashing success, unless you happen to live in sparsely populated areas like Chattanooga or New York City.

Yep. The gubmint hep'ed us.