[discostu]

You obviously spend far too much time worrying. Enjoy life. use the money you'd waste on this foolhardy plan to take your family out to a nice dinner. I'm right and anyone with a lick of common sense knows it. The "refutations" are 100% stone cold WRONG.

[Diddle E. Squat]

What makes you think I am worrying and fretting? Quite the contrary, simple preparation eases the mind, without the doubts that come from living in a state of denial. The threat is real, but it isn't insurmountable, no matter what happens the vast majority will survive. Some of us just want to increase those odds.

Put another way, if what you claim is true, than the Bush Administration are liars, endangering the American public by giving bad advice a false sense of security. Sorry, but the administration has far more credibility than you do, especially since you offer no proof for your off-the-cuff assessment.

Consider the fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper, then scan a bible for the story of Noah and the people who mocked him.