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1 posted on 09/06/2009 7:04:15 PM PDT by immadashell
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Who needs an EMP when we have a president who will achieve the same goal.


2 posted on 09/06/2009 7:05:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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Sounds real uplifting ... read it before bed and never sleep again.


3 posted on 09/06/2009 7:07:06 PM PDT by bboop (Tar and feathers -- good back then, good now)
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Sounds interesting. Thanks for the scoop. I may pick up a copy.


4 posted on 09/06/2009 7:07:42 PM PDT by new cruelty (Shoot your TV. Torch your newspaper.)
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I don’t want to think about this kind of stuff. If things go badly i’ll go out in a blaze of glory defending my stuff. I’ll be like the guy riding the A-bomb out out the bomb bay (can’t remember his name)


5 posted on 09/06/2009 7:08:23 PM PDT by refermech
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I read it shortly after it was published. It is a sobering and IMHO probably quite accurate prediction of what this country would be like in a post-EMP situation.

I also believe that more than likely this is exactly what Ahmadinejad has in mind for us.

MM


7 posted on 09/06/2009 7:09:13 PM PDT by MississippiMan
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I read the entire book and I recommend it highly for you guys to so!

It provided much sobering thought how a simple weapon can wreck such civilization as we know it!

And that weapon exists today!

Think about it!


11 posted on 09/06/2009 7:15:02 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound (`)
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On my shelf already. Just haven’t gotten to read it yet.


16 posted on 09/06/2009 7:17:42 PM PDT by tips up
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I have read the book. If this occurs, most of the people on this site will die, because they don't wish to face Armageddon. They still believe that bad things don't happen to ‘good’ people like them.

Too bad life isn't quite like that. It is Hobbesian. Nasty, short, and brutish. But these fools still believe the ‘police’ of today believe in service when they taser granny, or blow a pastor away in the foolishly named ‘drug war’.

They will be the first to be killed by that Hobbesian world, because they are the weak fools that think todays society is geared to protect them from the ‘bad guys’.

Fools. But they still think themselves superior. Too funny. They will die wondering what the f**k happened.

20 posted on 09/06/2009 7:19:03 PM PDT by ex 98C MI Dude (All of my hate cannot be found, I will not be drowned by your constant scheming)
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Read it a couple months ago. Highly recommended.


21 posted on 09/06/2009 7:19:18 PM PDT by Clink (The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.)
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That was a scary, scary book, especially for an insulin-dependent diabetic. I immediately starting researching propane refrigerators and found out that RVs have them. One thing, the author doesn’t know any women who garden - I fell over laughing when he wrote about searching out old women who still remembered the lost art of canning. That was about the only bright moment in the book.


23 posted on 09/06/2009 7:20:00 PM PDT by nina0113
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Thanks for the book recommendation! I’ll have to check it out.


27 posted on 09/06/2009 7:20:43 PM PDT by TNdandelion (I'd rather have FedEx run my healthcare than USPS.)
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Thanks for the reminder. I heard the author interviewed on one of the radio talk shows...very knowledgeable guy.

Quick question: Is the damage done after an EMP permanent or temporary? That is is the car’s computer and circuity and alternator fried completely, or is it stunned and then resets and can be used again. What about computer circuitry?


36 posted on 09/06/2009 7:32:40 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Impeach President Bernanke.)
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I put that one on my wish list. Must see if I can find it cheap somewhere.


38 posted on 09/06/2009 7:34:41 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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I read it. Scared me, but I recommend it.


39 posted on 09/06/2009 7:34:42 PM PDT by bluegirl
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The Navy has been doing quite a bit to overcome the EMP threat. I am a former Northrop Grumman Combat Systems Electrical Engineer in the Navy shipbuilding industry (LHD's, DDG 51's, CG 47's). One of my cognizant duties was dealing with EMP. The Navy and the shipyards have spent a lot of money and time working on this problem. By using improved bonding and grounding procedures of topside equipment, using new generation shielded cables, improved conduit and EMP resistant screening meshed between layers of exposed glass (windows and ports), etc, have done a lot to help defeat EMP. There is still a lot of work and research in progress. Hopefully the Navy's budget will continue to keep up with the research and solutions. All it will take for a Navy ship to be put out of commission is a nearby nuclear burst (even without structural damage) or being zapped by another external powerful electrical source thru the atmosphere.

God Bless our Navy and Country.

41 posted on 09/06/2009 7:36:41 PM PDT by jmax
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I learned about EMP in the 80s while on active duty. A 1MT device detonated 400 miles over Kansas would take out every computer chip from Maine to Baja California, not to mention the power grid and most of the stuff connected to it. Tens of millions would be dead of starvation within a couple months. This is the ultimate doomsday scenario for our miserable “what about me” culture. Not very many positives in the scenario. And with nuclear proliferation ... and many who feel they “have nothing to lose”... it will happen eventually.

The Congress was briefed EMP in the 80s, and it was after the briefing that they passed a unanimous resolution to proceed with ABM (anti-ballistic missile). That’s the way I heard it, anyway.

Unsurprisingly, Zero wants to kill the ABM program, the only thing that could prevent the EMP attack.


42 posted on 09/06/2009 7:37:00 PM PDT by Check6
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Extraordinary book. Hopefully for future printings they figure out that “would of,” “should of,” and “might of” are not correct. It’s an error made throughout the entire book, which is odd because it’s otherwise well-proofread.


43 posted on 09/06/2009 7:37:05 PM PDT by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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EMP
51 posted on 09/06/2009 7:41:25 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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If any women like Christian novels, Terry Blackstock wrote a four book series about the same type catastrophe. It is the Restoration series and the setting is Birmingham Al and suburbs to the south. The families were trying to survive in their neighborhoods as society broke down around them.

As a woman, it was interesting to see how the various members of the families coped with the hardships and the fears caused by this. Since all communications and most means of travel were wiped out they had no idea what had happened or how wide spread it was for a long time.


52 posted on 09/06/2009 7:42:50 PM PDT by AUsome Joy
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We have the Present Occupant to ruin our country.

EMP is a tad overblown IMO. It can happen and it can affect limited areas, inversely proportional to the SQUARE OF THE DISTANCE from the event (i.e. the apparent strength drops off real fast).

The One and his progressive machine is for real. And everywhere.

53 posted on 09/06/2009 7:43:38 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (He must fail.)
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