I bought a bunch of Weight Watchers frozen dinners that should hold me over for the next couple of weeks. I've done my part!
I don't recall any WWII-style bombing of urban areas; there was a great deal of devestation though, hopefully our technology & tactics have evolved as much as I've heard they have and civilian deaths and infrastructure damage can be kept to a minimum. All of the tracer fire you saw in '91 on CNN & elsewhere was from the Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery.
Rocketman - There is this thing called fire, and it could be used to cook food, although I personally wouldn't want to eat weight watchers dinner in a post-nuclear world. "The living would envy the dead....."
Hey I have a good idea. It won't protect you from terrorists, but it could lead to a good grade and perhaps a better life till the terrorists get you. It is a great idea for a research paper for those of you still in school. I suggest it for a marketing course, but it could go poli. sci. also. It could be entitled: The Selling of the President 2001- 2003-- Presidential Approval Ratings as a Fuunction of Publicized Terrorist Alerts. It would lend itself to colorful graphs, say a plot of orange alerts vs. approval ratings. You could superimpose red or green alerts vs. approval ratings on the same graph. It is very amenable to statistical analysis. Very amenable to office 2000 pie charts etc. You could even use duct tape to tape the charts to the blackboard for a possible prsentation. If you could get your hands on it Karl Rove has probably done the paper already, but it would be classified. I know. I know. Conspriacy, conspiracy. A US president would never scare people just to improve his electbility. Dubya is a good Christian man etc. etc. In the mean time when the nerve gas from the terrorists seeps into your house, I would recommend the good old fashioned: "Duck under a table. Put your face between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.".
Let's see, we are told to buy a bunch of petroleum based products to save our lives (plastic sheets, etc.), and at the same time oil firms are being accused of price gouging..... http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/4/022037-3014-009.html Huh.
I honestly think you could use a few hobbies. Who ARE you anyway? Agent Mulder? Fight the future glynch...the truth is out there?
Does your bunker have room for three? In all seriousness, don't worry about me, kidrock, kam and other Asians. Like Reggie White said, "they can turn a computer into a watch." We're crafty (please don't construe it as untrustworthy or connivign) people.
I think what Khan is talking about are the Iraqi citizens who don't like Saddam and are caught in the middle of all this crap. I am all for the war but I was in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War and while it is true that America is the most generous and benevolent war machine ever, there was also an extreme amount of bombing and I think what Khan meant is that it is funny how we are preparing for something we doubt we even happen and millions of Iraqis are going to need a hell of a lot more than duct tape to cover their a$$es in a couple of weeks. Don't get me wrong, this needs to be done and their are going to be innocent casualties, but yes, there was an incredible amount of bombing during the first war. The majority never made the news. I was actually in Al-Khobar when a scud was shot down over the city and parts crashed into buildings destroying quite a bit of propery. It was pretty freaky. But we always knew that the Iraqis didn't have planes over us or anything. Can you imagine being on the ground knowing bombers are overhead? That would be really freaky... duct tape starts to sound silly. But again, it isn't like it shouldn't be done. It would just be freaky. Real Freaky.
The terror warning is way to manipulate consumers into wasting money on "emergency supplies." The politicians are country club friends with the CEO's of the companies who profit from selling emergency supplies. It's no wonder how they came up with this idea. If you want to waste your money, then go ahead.
That was basically my point in this matter. Imagine us in the US getting ready for an inevitable bombing campaign by a military machine. Its strange that in the past we see Braveheart and epics like that and think how brutal war is, yet at least in those times two armies would square off and fight. Now days, we just bomb the hell out of an area irregardless to the make-up of the area and then claim victory. The infrastructure that we destroyed created a deplorable economic situation and the repurcussions include the death of over a million Iraqi children because of disease and malnutrition. I agree wholeheartedly that Saddamm could have spent his funds from one of his palaces on food and medicine for the poor, but the Iraqi people don't see Saddam as bombing them, they see the US as doing so. The worst statement i've ever heard in my life was from Madeline Albright, the former Secretary of State when asked if the loss of a million Iraqi children was acceptable and she stated that yes it was and was a cost of war or something like that. It just boiled my blood to hear that. Though I question much of Bush's actions, his decision of Colin Powell is one that I respect and I couldn't ever see an individual like him speaking about the death of a million children like that.
It's interesting to note people ARE getting the message about doing something,...anyone else finding stores are out of water, plastic sheets and duct tape? I am content people are taking this alert seriously as well they should... Good for Americans on being prepared and showing vigilance. We will not live in fear, but we will act to safeguard our loved ones...
