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Re: SCARY - What St. Louis would look like after an H-bomb (and why it shouldn't decide your vote)

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From: Bushido Hacks
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:34
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By the way, this is the full link that I'm talking about
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html?ll=-90.20736694335938,38.61687046392973&yd=50000&z=8

Some how, the entire thing did not get parsed so.

"Don't fear the reaper" --Blue Oyster Cult.

On Oct 27, 11:40 pm, nellie4...@mindspring.com wrote:
> Bushido:
>
>   I've taken the liberty of posting this to some other groups.
> Hopefully, they'll give you some of their thoughts and the fact that
> you feel relatively safe here in the hinterlands.
>
> "Bushido Hacks" <bushidoha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Right...
> >While I do not wish to doubt you, the fact is terrorists and volitile
> >nuclear states (and one "ronery" dictator), could not find St. Louis on
> >a map even with a World Series baseball team and a 630 foot steel arch,
> >none of those assholes really give a damn about this area.  The closest
> >place they'd be interested is Chicago.
>
> >Many of these "suicidal regimes/organizations" you are talking about
> >have no interest in this part of the country.  Their perception is that
> >if Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC are destroyed, their
> >"enemies" will be destroyed.
>
> >Ironically, you forget that there is one suicidal regime that is in our
> >country.  It's called the Federal Government.
>
> >Seeing as how disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the severe storms
> >that caused wide spread power outages during the hottest days of the
> >summer, yet they expect us to pony up money to rewire the Northeast US
> >after a massive black out that only lasted a few hour, it is in the
> >best interest that St. Louis set up its own disaster plan considering
> >that we are "not important enough" to protect us from the real
> >terrorists.
>
> >Cities like Clevland and Cincinatti have set up plans to become
> >self-relient when the government thinks those cities are "not important
> >enough".  When a major disaster strikes this area, do not depend on
> >FEMA or the Department of Homeland Security to show up with aid.
>
> >Heck, why are we relying on DHS when the NSA (now a DHS agency) hires
> >diploma mill peophiles, exports $100 Million annually to UNISYS's
> >offices in BERMUDA were we can't get it back even though it is OUR tax
> >money.
>
> >Listen, I'm not too keen about the Democrats running for office, but
> >considering the status quo has let us down in times of massive
> >disaster, war, corporate scandals, and religious favoritism, this is a
> >bitter pill we have to take conisering the infractions against the
> >Constitution that do not have anything to do with terrorists but have
> >been worded to sound like homeland security is what matters.
>
> >We don't need to be protected by outside invaders, we need to be
> >protected from the inside invaders: Carrier politicians, disinforming
> >preachers and lobbyists, industrial conglomorates who have wronged the
> >public and our troops overseas.
>
> >I just found out my brother who is in Iraq is paying over $100 per
> >month to contact us through e-mail.  That is $100 per solider who may
> >not be online for up to weeks at a time, yet they're being charged far
> >too much even for international calling rates.  The company the
> >government uses to provide communications with those back at home,
> >AT&T, is getting kick backs as they reform their monopoly and now are
> >setting sights on holding the internet back at home hostage by
> >eliminating Network Neutrality.
>
> >On top of that, the oil industry and automobile industry, HMOs and
> >Tobacco companies, outsourcing white collar workers while laying off
> >blue collar workers, something is not right and "faith based
> >initiatives" will not fix it.  (BTW, if you haven't figured it out by
> >now, religion is one of the most lucrative industries and is no longer
> >using the money it uses for causes of good will and charity, but to
> >fight off lawsuits, pay off lawyers, and to make large sums of money
> >through vauge promises of salvation or threats of damnation.  Stop
> >giving money to these people..  You won't burn in hell for thinking for
> >yourself.)
>
> >We are told to fear Arab people wearing C4 T-shirts and shouting "Allah
> >Akbar".  The truth is we should be irked at the White people wearing
> >Silk ties and saying "God Bless America".
>
> >We are told to fear that which we do not understand.  We have learned
> >lately that everything we know might be wrong.
>
> >One movie I would recommend renting this Halloween weekend is the movie
> >THEY LIVE starring Keith Davis.  You may be surprised as to how much
> >the world seems to emulate that movie lately.
>
> >While TV news and shows like Jericho remind us there is a world full of
> >crazy people out their, you can either hide in your home and fear
> >everything away from your TV set or you can find the off switch figure
> >out that our own government is giving us the the big "F*** you and God
> >Bless America, the country full of stupid God-fearing people who gave
> >us our own safety net while we took theirs."
>
> >Yes, this was long winded.  But if you read everything, thank you.
>
> >On Oct 26, 9:01 pm, nellie4...@mindspring.com wrote:
> >> "Bushido Hacks" <bushidoha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >Someone created this simulation of what the yield of a various nuclear
> >> >weapons would look like on a city.
>
> >> >This example shows what a Tsar H-bomb would look like if it hit the
> >> >city.  The Tsar was the strongest nuclear weapon detonated during the
> >> >Cold War.  The 50 megaton weapon was tested by the Russians in the
> >> >Artic.
> >> >http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html?ll=-90.2073669433593...
>
> >> >At 3 psi, eardrums are damaged.
> >> >At 5 psi, damage to unreinforced buildings.
> >> >At 10 psi, damage to the chest cavity, specifcally the lungs.
>
> >> >So why am I sharing this scary information.
>
> >> >For no reason.
>
> >> >This is how far politicians are going this year to convince you to keep
> >> >the status quo.
>
> >> >The moral is to vote your concience, not that of some politician who
> >> >uses terrorism or a terrorists, like in 2004.
> >> How many nuclear states will it take some people to realize there's a
> >> real threat?  A nuclear North Korea?  Oops, they've already done that.
> >> Let's see, a nuclear Iran?  But I guess all these regimes will make
> >> sure that nukes don't wind up in the hands of terrorists.  Plus we all
> >> know that the UN will cancel their passes to Disneyland if they do
> >> something naughty.
>
> >> Laugh while you can...  Then think long and hard about one or more
> >> nukes in the hands of a suicidal regime/organization.
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From: "Bushido Hacks" <bushidohacks@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: stl.general,ny.general,la.general,chi.general,dc.general
Subject: Re: SCARY - What St. Louis would look like after an H-bomb (and why it shouldn't decide your vote)
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