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November 26, 2007
Flashback to Innocence
Today, we turn back the clock to a time of innocence, when Americans believed they could somehow survive a nuclear attack on our country, to a time when children and adults practiced "Duck and Cover" for safety, coached by Burt the Turtle.
I got a little teary-eyed watching children dive under their school desks, dive into doorways and dive off their bikes to curl up against the curb, secure in the belief that "Duck and Cover" could help you survive a nuclear bomb. How amazing that at the same, they all had the jaded acceptance and recognition of the very real threat to our country, and our lives.
How times have changed.
Today, we are not as innocent as we were in the 50s, we know that Duck and Cover ain't gonna work and if the bomb comes, you put your head between your knees and kiss your butt goodbye.
Today, our enemies are not the commies across the pond, our enemies are the followers of islam, and they are everywhere, even here. and, despite a nuclear Iran chanting death to America, far too many of us believe that we need not fear the flash.
We are not as innocent as we were in the 50s, but G-d help us, we are certainy not as smart either.
Posted by LindaSoG at November 26, 2007 06:41 AM
Comments
Not as "Innocent", absolutely. But the vast majority of our populace suffers from what I call a "Terminal Jaded Naivete".
It's "all good", to forget out traditioanl mores and folkways.....do what feels good.
Hell, what could happen?
Oh yeah, Hell could happen....."Boom"
Wollf
Posted by: howlsatmoon at November 26, 2007 11:31 AM
These muslims in America are the "moderate" ones of course. They just drive taxis and own cleaners and convience stores. Ahab and Hassim are so friendly!
That seems to be the attitude of too many Americans. Why our sorry assed leadership still lets these beheaders immigrate here is beyond any rational reason. Recently I read that Saudi Arabia is sending 125% more "students" to America this year. Eventually the American public will have to handle these muslim bastards. But, what price will we pay before that?
Posted by: TomR at November 26, 2007 02:00 PM
"...But, what price will we pay before that?
Posted by: TomR at November 26, 2007 02:00 PM"
What price? How much is a Kimber Ultra Carry?
Posted by: Kevin M at November 26, 2007 04:07 PM
Tom said it much better than I Linda. I've worked in the nuclear industry and know full well how dangerous fissile material is, how hard it is to keep secure and how easily the stuff is spread. The scary thing is how ambivalent the public and our leaders are. We read and hear about breaches in security where illegals are hired by sensitive companies and are working in high security areas or positions, that's not too cool. What's worse the illegal or that sleeper muzzy. The dirty 'bomb' worries me more than the real thing, both require diligent vigilence. I participated in an experiment using P4 Phosphor powder, a small gram sized amount was placed in a corridor and 24 hours later, we used a black light to view it's spread, it was everywhere,on people, in the halls, in the offices three flight up, in the basement, in the air vents, i.e. it permeated everything. Take that same amount of Plutonium Oxide in the hands of Omar the Camel humper and you have a serious long term health threat. Yep they're moderate all right. For how long? Then again Iran's Amahjinedad has sworn to wipe out Israel, is there any doubt that he'd use a nuke to do that to Israel or us, if he had the chance? I consider that a direct muzzy threat. So what do we do as a nation? Throw the door open to more of their legal immigration.
Posted by: Jack at November 26, 2007 04:18 PM
I was a grade school kid in the mid '50s and lived about an hour east of the Hanford facility on the Columbia River. We did duck and cover drills. I told the teacher it was a crock and that we would all be fried. This was worth a trip to the principal's office and threats of having my ass beaten. What a bunch of fuckwits. We would all have been dead in a rain of fallout.
Oh, Israel is not a nuclear virgin and posesses from 200 to 450 nukes, including boosted fission weapons and some true hydrogen bombs.
Jack, if Omar the Camel Humper dumped some radioisotope into a major municipal water system, the country would come unhinged.
Posted by: Mark at November 26, 2007 05:54 PM
Er, minor correction dear. Our enemies still include the Commies across the pond.
Both ponds, actually.
It's like an enemy soup, really. Take Russia, China, Islam, throw in a dash of Venezuela and North Korea, with a pinch of American leftists, and you have yourself a nice Enemy Soup.
Posted by: Vinnie at November 26, 2007 07:55 PM
Small world Mark,I spent 4 years at Hanford, mostly working around enriched fuels, Isotopes and the Sodium Cooled Fast Flux Test Reactor, I clearly remember going to Hanford the morning of August 30, 1976, when the radio news announced a nuclear explosion there. I looked out toward the facilities and saw - nothing. When I arrived I found out it was a glovebox explosion, the poor operator was severely contaminated with americium 241, a plutonium byproduct. Harold McCluskey became the hottest man alive, he was isolated at the Kadlec Medical Center in Richland for months. About a year before that I too got crapped up with americium 241 and plutonium as a result of cleaning a flowmeter that was contaminated with mercury that had both nuclear products in it. The stuff was like a white paste of mercury oxide, not unlike zinc oxide, this meter had been cleared through the nuclear health group but they didn't detect what was inside, I got that shit all over me and the shop, then it was off to Kadlec, to be scrubbed raw, into the whole body radiation counter, then a month isolated at home of saving all body wastes, I felt real bad about poor Harold, he couldn't go home, I came out clean, he didn't. The shop required a new clean up sink, vent hood, all the plumbing had to be removed as well as the flooring and they had to dig up the sewer drain out to the catch basin and holding tank. Expensive because they missed detecting it before it was sent to me for repair. Radiation workers are allowed to work only up to their dose limit then they have to wait until they are cleared to work around it again or they get barred, I'd get my dose limit then they would send me out to the waste ponds or the powerhouse or to the lab then back to either Fuels, Isotopes, or the FFTF and it's wonderful Sodium. I don't know what I dislike the most, plutonium or sodium, around the sodium I had to work in an oxygen deficient atmosphere, asphixiation is a whole lot more painless, you simply pass out, sodium fires are hell on earth, the rest are carcinogens. Harold has passed on but several of my co-workers from back then have also passed on from cancer. You are right about the country getting their knickers in a wad if the water had some Isotope dumped in it, but that is what it is going to take to get our neighbors fully aware of who they are courting.
Posted by: Jack at November 27, 2007 01:42 AM
