04-07-2005, 01:39 PM
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#1 | | Din Älskling
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| I'm not sure rather to laugh or cry about this one...
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04-07-2005, 01:43 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| hey don't laugh they have;
"........an English-Arabic phrase book for translating any intercepted al-Qaeda correspondence, and a field-issue anthrax-detection kit."
and people ask why we need government? I say close washington down and run national security with advertising revenue. | |
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04-07-2005, 01:45 PM
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| aaaaaaargh, we've been onioned. | |
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04-07-2005, 01:46 PM
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| Oh my goodness:
“The team you trust to keep you informed is working to keep the greater Murfreesboro area—and your family— safe from Muslim extremists,” said station manager Carl Bogert, unveiling the TerrorFirst! van at a press conference held in the “Terrorist No Zone” in the back parking lot. “When terrorism threatens the people of central Tennessee, Fox 11 is there first. Watch Channel 11 for up-to-the-minute coverage of where, when, and how the enemies of freedom are coming to get you.” CRY
too funny, absolutely too funny | |
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04-07-2005, 01:48 PM
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| Laugh.
It's a spoof from The Onion
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04-07-2005, 01:53 PM
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#6 | | Din Älskling
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| but soooo believable.
Doesn't everyone get their news from the Guerilla News Network?
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04-07-2005, 02:07 PM
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| And now to refer back to the "Need to Read" thread, regarding the source of this article... | |
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04-07-2005, 02:19 PM
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| It's still a cry... even as an onion, it is not too far fetched to believe that Fox News could paint up a mini-van in red, white and blue and drive around to scoop the latest in freedom news! Local News stations will do most anything for a ratings blip.
And remember, just last year we had the Secretary of Homeland Defense put out on official alert that residents in the Washington Metro area store bottled water and tape duct closed their windows and doors. | |
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04-07-2005, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Maeve_Mari [ ... ] And remember, just last year we had the Secretary of Homeland Defense put out on official alert that residents in the Washington Metro area store bottled water and tape duct closed their windows and doors. | Umm... I don't live in Metro DC, but I've got several days worth of food and water on hand, as well as other supplies just in case.... (including about a dozen rolls of duct tape)
Why? First of all I live in Earthquake country. I have a gas turn off wrench wired to the gas main, a first aid kit, some emergency equipment *outside* in a waterproof container. And I make sure there's enough canned good and water and cooking supplies (including an extra tank for the outdoor grill) that we can last a few days if we need to. Every year I take out the canned goods and donate them to a food bank and replace them.
I also live maybe 2 meters above sea level, and within a stone's throw from salt water. The duct tape and plastic tarp is useful in quick/ simple/ temporary flood control shielding, including just overflowing local drains and gutters.
Don't make fun of people being prepared.
But it's fair game on those folks "sealing themselves up" without a good reason, I have to admit. | |
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04-07-2005, 05:49 PM
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| Wow. That's awesome!!! I wonder if I can get one in the stars and strips! 
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04-07-2005, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Larrison Umm... I don't live in Metro DC, but I've got several days worth of food and water on hand, as well as other supplies just in case.... (including about a dozen rolls of duct tape)
Why? First of all I live in Earthquake country. I have a gas turn off wrench wired to the gas main, a first aid kit, some emergency equipment *outside* in a waterproof container. And I make sure there's enough canned good and water and cooking supplies (including an extra tank for the outdoor grill) that we can last a few days if we need to. Every year I take out the canned goods and donate them to a food bank and replace them.
I also live maybe 2 meters above sea level, and within a stone's throw from salt water. The duct tape and plastic tarp is useful in quick/ simple/ temporary flood control shielding, including just overflowing local drains and gutters.
Don't make fun of people being prepared.
But it's fair game on those folks "sealing themselves up" without a good reason, I have to admit. | But the Secretary was, I beleive, suggesting that course of action as a defense against a chemical attack. Sane people can feel excluded from any fun-making. | |
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04-07-2005, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Larrison But it's fair game on those folks "sealing themselves up" without a good reason, I have to admit. | How do you know if there was good reason or not? | |
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04-07-2005, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Soldier How do you know if there was good reason or not? | well if you suffocate it was a bad reason and if you choke to death on poison gas it was a good reason. | |
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04-07-2005, 06:26 PM
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| Oh, okay. Thanks for the clarification. | |
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04-07-2005, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Larrison Umm... I don't live in Metro DC, but I've got several days worth of food and water on hand, as well as other supplies just in case.... (including about a dozen rolls of duct tape)
Why? First of all I live in Earthquake country. I have a gas turn off wrench wired to the gas main, a first aid kit, some emergency equipment *outside* in a waterproof container. And I make sure there's enough canned good and water and cooking supplies (including an extra tank for the outdoor grill) that we can last a few days if we need to. Every year I take out the canned goods and donate them to a food bank and replace them.
I also live maybe 2 meters above sea level, and within a stone's throw from salt water. The duct tape and plastic tarp is useful in quick/ simple/ temporary flood control shielding, including just overflowing local drains and gutters.
Don't make fun of people being prepared.
But it's fair game on those folks "sealing themselves up" without a good reason, I have to admit. | It's not a matter of being prepared. Preapared is okay. Mania masked as a public alert is not.
Actually being told to duct tape the windows and doors was the problem. The office hadn't really considered the possible Carbon Monoxide poisoning that would occur had anyone been successfully in completely taping off their homes, and hiding in the basement with their water bottles and AM radios. Nor the near impossibility of actually sealing off a home so well that chemical warfare wouldn't still seap in through the millions of unsealed points in a typical home.
Oh, and as a resident at sea level, let me tell you. Duct tape does nothing to protect you in flooding conditions. Out there in California you may have stucco homes where the walls and insulation don't disentegrate underwater, but "back east" that's not a worthy use for duct tape either! | |
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04-07-2005, 07:06 PM
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| So perhaps the advised precautions were not the best. That is a separate matter. You don't know that there wasn't a perfectly good reason to advise people to take extreme precautions. | |
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04-07-2005, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Soldier So perhaps the advised precautions were not the best. That is a separate matter. You don't know that there wasn't a perfectly good reason to advise people to take extreme precautions. | I believe the issue was - is there any reason why the Tennessee Onion story would be so far fetched as to not be remotely possible? I offered up another far fetched example merely as an addition to the tales of the absurd! | |
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04-07-2005, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by keith well if you suffocate it was a bad reason and if you choke to death on poison gas it was a good reason. | Sorry, but duct tape can't seal up a house to protect it against a terrorist chemical poison gas attack. We're really not thinking clearly right now. | |
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04-07-2005, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Maeve_Mari I believe the issue was - is there any reason why the Tennessee Onion story would be so far fetched as to not be remotely possible? I offered up another far fetched example merely as an addition to the tales of the absurd! | Possible? Completely.
Probable? Not even. | |
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04-07-2005, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Maeve_Mari Sorry, but duct tape can't seal up a house to protect it against a terrorist chemical poison gas attack. We're really not thinking clearly right now. |
well I can assure you that with some polythene sheeting and duct tape I can most definitely stop you from breathing in any poisoned gas.  | |
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