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And Mt Ranier is starting to jiggle too!
Not to mention all these hurricanes that have spun off of Africa...somebody's playing in Tesla's toybox again?
I'm salving my nerves with a bowl of dark chocolate oatmeal.
No, certainly not coincidence. ;-)
It's making me nervous too. They're diverting attention and resources surrounding in the debate state.
Not to mention, our first responders are already exhausted in FL because of the hurricanes.
Thank you for the COG information. Amendment XX, which provided succession rules, was ratified in 1933. Do you have a link to information about the recently passed bill?
All I can find is the information from the AEI/Brookings collaboration at http://www.continuityofgovernment.org/home.html. The following articles have me questioning whether the legislation has been finalized.
1) CONTINUITY VOTE SPLITS PARTIES By Suzanne Nelson Roll Call April 26, 2004
After successfully closing their ranks to turn back Democrats' attempts to force a wide-ranging debate on continuity of Congress on Thursday, House Republicans have made it clear they don't expect to open the door to further significant action on the issue this year. (snip)
http://www.continuityofgovernment.org/pdfs/042604RollCall.pdf
2) CHAOS THEORY By Charlie Savage The Boston Globe May 9, 2004
Worst-case scenario number one: It's the night before Election Day. Across America, voters turn on their televisions hoping to catch the final hours of the presidential campaign and instead hear the awful news. In coordinated attacks, terrorists have killed their favored candidates for both president and vice president. Now what?
Worst-case scenario number two: It's the day after Election Day and voters have clearly chosen the next president. Across America, local party members are making plans to travel to their state capitals and cast their usually ceremonial Electoral College votes when both members of the winning ticket are assassinated. What happens next?
The answer in both cases -- and several equally unpleasant variants: Nobody knows.
In recent weeks FBI Director Robert Mueller, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice have all warned that they expect Al Qaeda to try to time a strike inside the United States with the upcoming presidential election. Since the March bombings in Madrid, speculation about the impact of an attack on the outcome of the November election has become something of a whispered brain-teaser in Washington. And late last month, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would provide for quick special elections in the event that 100 or more of its members are killed in a catastrophic event.
A small but growing group of constitutional scholars, election specialists, and lawmakers argue that we need to extend that sober conversation to include the almost unspeakable: a direct attack on the candidates themselves.
Thanks to gaps in election rules, they say, the double assassination of a presidential ticket just before Election Day would create chaos, with voters unsure who they were actually voting for. If terrorists killed the winners just afterward, the Electoral College would be left without any clear directive. Either scenario could lead to a crisis of democratic legitimacy that would make the 2000 Florida recount pale in comparison.
So far, warnings about this problem have been largely ignored by national leaders. Neither Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie nor Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe would agree to talk about how their party would handle the death or incapacitation of both their nominees. A spokeswoman for Gillespie explained that he simply found the topic too "morbid" to discuss. (snip)
http://www.continuityofgovernment.org/pdfs/050904BostonGlobe.pdf
"The cities that received the envelopes include Fort Lauderdale, Wilton Manors, Davie, Weston, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, Tamarac, Sea Ranch Lakes, Oakland Park, Sunrise, Lauderdale Lakes. There may be others."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0930whitepowder,0,4786870.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
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**Jihadi board translation** Thanks to Neosgirl at TB2K
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Thank you.
Oh Goody, things seem to be coming to a head & I get to fly from Buffalo to Seattle tomorrow. At least I'm going home to the wife and kiddies. (& if I'm really lucky I'll get to see a minor, but impressive, erupton of Mt St Helen's from the air)
You stay safe and have an uneventful trip.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231956/posts
"A new generation of heroes surfaces"
San Antonio Express-News ^ | 09/30/2004 | Austin Bay
Posted on 09/30/2004 4:44:04 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A new greatest generation is emerging — in Afghanistan, in Iraq and on the other, less-publicized battlegrounds of the war on terror.
Focused on the U.S. political cycle, America's media elite are missing the extraordinary story of the 19- through 35-year-olds who are winning this war. The detailed history of this new cohort of American and free world leaders — the people who will shape the 21st century — is being written by themselves, chiefly on the Internet, via e-mail or Web logs."
Again, thank you to Neosgirl for the translation:
Wishing you a safe trip and warm hugs from the family.
bump to that
If you all haven't seen this thread, I'd love to bring it to your attention.
Sharon is a Marine in Iraq, asking for prayers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229809/posts
Yep.
Reminds me of the movie Red Dawn.
That was the nightmare scenario we lived with when I was at Fort Lewis in Tacoma. IF Mt Rainier ever blows it's stack, say BUH-BYE to Seattle and much of the surrounding area.
Thank you very much. I plan on this being the most boring flight I have ever made. I've Been gone for almost 2 weeks and I can't wait to get home.
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