I thought it was just because I'm new to the countryeileenbunny said:I don't think any of us understand the candy color coded alert system. I try not to pay attention to it. I'm more terrified of our own government than what some nameless, faceless terrorists might do to us.
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!kiwi said:The only downfall about the area we are looking to move to is that the closest target is about 25 min away.
*Fuxx Burger* said:Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
I'm a target junkie- I couldn't be that far away from one.
why_ask_why said:all of that is hype by your local media...I can guarantee you portland isn't very high on any terrrrrists lists of places to mess with, and local news stations run those kind of stories because they're too uncreative to come up with something good
Airframe stress was highly unlikely to have resulted in that, nor would it have been ripped apart in the manner it was.FlyNavy said:Not necessarily. If the plane that large is put into a highly stressful angle of attack it can break apart; the engines could even continue running until deprived of either fuel, air, or electricity which could account for the distance.
So its about the same distance as indoor plumbing in Utah, right?kiwi said:The only downfall about the area we are looking to move to is that the closest target is about 25 min away.
Its not rocket science, its just way beyond the average sheep...Galen said:Thank Allah some people are eventually waking up to this government/media dreamticket of fear. Senator Barry Goldwater wrote about how the hawk agenda could be achieved by the climate of fear created by such an attack and ideology would be reinjected into politics. Looks like he was right all along.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htmGalen said:Never seen that before. Has it been cited from any particular day. Usually you can't trust these things.
Galen said:And when there's too many of those, you have a problem.
Most people believe spin nowadays anyway. What happened to scrutiny?
Thank you, I forgot about snopes.FlyNavy said:
I'd hate to hear the topics of Fox News viewers around the water cooler in the morning. I usually flick through all the news channels when something big has happened, they are all covereing the story. Except of course for Fox News which, during the Paris riots, deemed it more important to cover a kindergarten for Panda's in China followed by a special report on someone who's been missing since last year.Drool-Boy said:Question the media?
Who would do such a thing?
Communists, thats who.