Three more words: Use Pig Bombs. 
Posted on 04/06/2006 4:33:24 AM PDT by Mr170IQ
When I found them at a DVD store, I bought them all up. There are six episodes on each DVD. They're great! There might be more out there, I haven't checked in a while.
I think it's an event. That probably involves a place.
good read, check it out
Interesting discussion on the Dan Simmons' site: http://forum.dansimmons.com/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=5003&page=0&vc=1
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You have completely misunderstood, Slip18. You assert that the three words are in the essay; the author says they are NOT in the essay (from the end of the essay: "...three words I will not share here in this piece").
Capiche?? Should we take your word over the author's?
Three more words: Use Pig Bombs.
Why the secrecy if you're just posing a guess like everyone else?
Try Blake's Seven.
I read Simmon's "Hyperion/Endymion" series of three novels a few years ago. I just randomly found a paperback of "Hyperion" in my son's bookcase one night when I was prowling the house looking for a read.
Once I got into the thing, I was completely shocked at the high level of writing. Extremely enjoyable stuff, found in the Sci Fi section of most bookstores.
Not until you pinged me.
bump for later
Muslims represent far too small a percentage of the population for this scenario to be conceivable.
I think we do need to take Islam more seriously as a threat, but this is definitely overblown.
Regards, Ivan
It sure didn't keep those who were a threat to Johnson's political future from dying by violent means. Including Henry Marshall and President John F. Kennedy.
In 1961, Henry Marshall was found shot to death on his remote Texas farm. He had been shot five times with a .22 caliber rifle and, since the rifle was lying beside his body, the coroner had no problem coming up with the probable scenario: Suicide. The only problem was the type of rifle - it was a bolt-action, and in non-shooter lay man's terms, this simply meant that Marshall would had to have manually worked the bolt four times (up, back, forward, down, fire - up, back, forward, down, fire, etc.) in order to shoot himself. At the same time he would have had to turn the rifle around at an awkward angle, pointing it into his side, stretching his arm and squeezing off each shot with his thumb. Five times. In addition to the obvious difficulties for a man to have committed suicide in this fashion, were the outcries of Marshall's family, who fervently disagreed with the suicide verdict. There appeared to be no good reason for Marshall, a successful farmer, with money in the bank and a solid record with his employer, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to have committed suicide. But despite the strange appearance of things, the cause of death was officially listed as suicide by gunshot.
Things started to change a few months later when Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman, released information pertaining to an investigation that Marshall had been participating in at the time of his death.
Billie Sol Estes, now known as the Texas wheeler-dealer and con-man supreme was, in 1961, at the peak of his agricultural career. He had become a multimillionaire and a virtual icon in Pecos, Texas. His success was due, in great part, by his solid connections in government - and one of his primary connections was Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Things started to fall apart when Estes' cotton allotment scheme began to be scrutinized by Agriculture officials. Estes had master minded a bizarre method of having the government transfer other farmer's cotton allotments to his own cotton acreage. In this way all of his land could be used to grow the tightly regulated crop. Such a scheme would have been impossible without help from high officials, either inside the U.S.D.A., or Washington, or both. Henry Marshall, in reviewing the cotton allotment irregularities connected with Billy Sol Estes, evidently uncovered a warm path that led to Vice President Johnson, but also to his own untimely death.
Never did get very much into Blake's 7, though I have seen some of it. Now I spend too much time on FR to do much sf watching...
It's a warning. McCain's a muslum.
But some are very well connected, here and elsewhere.
True, but the principle involved goes back even further. It is even said to have been one of the Emporer Caligula's favourite sayings.
Oderint dum metuant; Let them hate, so long as they fear.
How about this: "Suitcase nukes work."
New York, Washington
There are two further reasons why this scenario doesn't work - it assumes a traditional war between Islam and the West. We know for a fact that the Islamists are cowards - they won't fight soldiers directly, at best they'll do hit and run raids, and they'll victimise women and children on airplanes. Secondly, this also assumes that the Shia and Sunni have patched up their differences to the point where they're not fighting each other any longer. Unlikely.
Regards, Ivan
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