Posted on 10/30/2001 10:59:14 PM PST by Don Joe
Fox News broke for a bulletin a few minutes ago. The announcer said that new information had just been received from the government, saying that the current emergency is very serious. They (the gov't) said that we have not seen such a serious threat since the Cuban missile crisis. They said that the most critical period would be within the next 72 hours.
Exactly what is your problem? You don't know the guy, and you seem dedicated to attacking him.
Enquiring minds and all that...
My wife is a teacher and the little cretins found out where she lives. What they apparently don't realize is that I live here too, and while I'm not a teacher, I'm fully capable of teaching them a lesson or two of my own.
Last year they hit us in the wee hours, this year, they got us shortly after sundown, before I was expecting them. They must be taking lessons from OBL. Next year I'll be camped out in a camo tent from right before sundown.
Anybody know a mail order place where I can find a deal on a cheap camo tent? (serious request)
If those barefoot peasants have five functional warheads from submarine ICBMs, I think the situation is comparable to the USSR having similar weapons aimed at us from Cuba.
I don't know what the range of the Soviet rockets was. Maybe they could reach the entire continental US, maybe not, I don't know. I do know that if the talibastards have five warheads, they can pick whatever locations they want. NYC, LA, DC, Chicago, SF, there's five targets we don't want to lose. Maybe they'll trade one for Boston. They seem to have a lot of "doings" there. I doubt they'll hit Detroit, there are too many Arabs there, it's probably safe. What about Philadelphia, Dallas, Seattle, hell, the US is chock full of targets. If they have backpack/suitcase nukes, they can hit more than five cities.
That's presuming the poster I referenced above is accurate. I looked at his posting history -- he's been a freeper for a year, he looks credible. His story is not a "UL-like" type of "friend of a friend's cousin's uncle's hairdresser's boyfriend's neighbor's dog". It's direct, it's concise, and it's not "similar to a thousand other stories floating around."
I did not think about it that much until that news item came across from Fox. I do not discount the information. If the gov't -- which since 9/11 has if anything been downplaying the danger -- is now comparing the risk to the Cuban missile crisis, then you bet my radar's going up. Along with the hairs on the back of my neck.
I do agree with your sentiments regarding our seemingly weak, PC response to the enemy. I think it goes beyond disgraceful when we take into consideration whether or not we might "offend" the bastards. If I was in charge there would be a major parking lot surplus on their real estate market.
That said, no amount of "attitude" on our part will be able to address the damage they can do if they've deployed several nuclear weapons in our homeland.
If they have, we are going to be facing a rough road ahead. Unless we can find them and prevent them from going off, we're running a real good chance for a "The Postman" scenario. And I gotta say, that isn't anything that's been on my list of "things I'd like to see before I die".
Whatever happens, we have to be merciless in our war against these enemies. We also have to acknowledge the risk we face here at home. IMO that's all the more reason to wipe them off the face of the earth ASAP. If we don't, we're sending a message to every renegade "nation" that it's safe to hit us where it hurts.
You said the magic word. :)
They stole our boat last year. Grr...
OK, it was probably a different "they" (the cops think it was the migrants -- they also think that's who swiped our blueberry crop two years in a row, and stole the pears off our one pear tree), but it all adds up to a total "lack of understanding" for any dirtbag who trespasses and inflicts damage on us.
I have such a bad attitude. I hope I can maintain it for a while. :)
What do US authorities think about deporting all illegal aliens from the Middle East?
Other than that, no new info.
I have a feeling that when the phrase "Cuban missile crisis" hits the streets today, anyone who lived through it in '62 will go on a shopping binge. (That's what happened back then.)
I did a quick google search, here's something from DOE on October 1962.
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