involved, but that sure seems like it was close. I wonder if we'll get the "real" story on why an alert went out like that.

Just like someone back in 1971, at the time for the regularly scheduled test, loaded the wrong tape into the transmitter, and a real alert - rather than the test one - went out.

Love to all our Hawaii friends.

Trump and the GOP have done this to us.

The possibility is all too real. And I don’t tend toward hysteria typically.

It's continuous and we're being terrorized by our own fking "president".

everything is an accident waiting to happen.

Trump is a product of mass racism, paranoia, hate, bigotry, (essentially every single divisive emotion and thought that exists).

He is the "brand" for hatemongers. What truly makes him more scary is he really is unhinged. I try not to label people as crazy, but this man is an unstable evil.

His minders all know he is crazy and ignorant, so they lie to him to keep him calm.
They also park him in front of the TV which he enjoys, and let him tweet to blow off steam.
Somebody else is minding the store.

It is from one of my favorite poems.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Emily Dickinson.

I used to work at the public library here. Many of our strutting, preening small town library board members reminded me of that poem on a daily basis. Not everyone who goes into public service does so because they want to serve others.

The poem also fits trump to a "T."

Hope is the thing with feathers and experience are among my other favorites.

Our libraries are our lifelines to information. Thank you!

I think you must mean another post unless Jefferson wrote the King a poem too.

I was replying to withoutapaddle.

I feel somewhat reassured by your post about the book. I truly hope someone else is minding the store, someone a bit less crazy.

I have a great deal of education and experience assessing danger levels
in the mentally ill population. And I was reassured after reading excerpts
in the Wolff book. His staff is managing him to prevent things spinning too much out
of control. The military and congress also know the problems. Even Trump's own
attorneys lie to him to keep him calm.

For example, I suspect that Trump canceling his trip to London was due to manipulation
by his staff. He wanted to go I am sure, he loves pomp and pageantry like only the British
can do. But I think his staff knew it might be dangerous with the protests and would be an
obvious trip of humiliation. So they came up with ridiculous reasons why he could
not go and Trump bought the embassy one. There is no way Trump was smart enough
to have done research on the embassy being moved, etc. Someone had to present
that story to him.

It is possible that Kelly and Pence are running the show.

Of course all of this is speculation, and reading between the lines.

Edited to add: And at times he appears to be medicated, he slurs his speech, and
comes across with a flat affect and is docile, out of character for him.

Herr Shithole is by now just a tool.

Just inadvertently push the wrong button.
What, he tripped and landed on THE button?
Some of the guys were fake fighting and fell on THE button?
This is ridiculous. How can such an important piece of the first call protection system be so easy to fuck up?

I am quite sure are going to be brought up.

during what was supposed to be a test alert.

You'd think a real announcement would require entering a password or at least pressing a second button.

FAIL SAFE Watch it it's a scary one for sure!!!!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/

Fail-Safe had a great role for Larry Hagman, as the Translator, Walter Matthau, as the Pentagon advisor hawk, and Dan O'Herlihy, absolutely chilling as the always ethical General Black. The latter deserved a supporting actor award. A great film, regretfully overshadowed by Dr. Strangelove, my favorite film of all time.

Then, there's this one.

second one looks good also TKS

I’ve said before I spent several early years on a SAC base during the Cuban Missile Crisis and those alerts scared us families. I had nightmares for a long time about telephones making horrifying siren sounds. I was an adult before I realized they represented the alert sirens and the subsequent phone call to let us know our fathers had just flown off in a drill, not a real attack.

What was the source?

I read both books in my youth.

Fail-Safe was written by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.

Red Alert by Peter George was the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove.

There is some inevitable confusion about this as Peter George and Stanley Kubrick successfully sued to get the Fail-Safe release delayed due to their similar narratives. But there is no doubt of their origins.

There you have it.

The author of Red Alert settled out of court, so there was enough similarity in the two books, but they were not the same book. My bad.

And the author of Red Alert and Kubrick won the suit, settled out of court, but they managed to delay the release of Fail-Safe by months. It therefore failed at the box office, although it was every bit a very good film.

And with original film.

celebrated their big tough guy making America Great

Have you noticed he doesn't ever fire his people himself? That was his signature move from TV but he has someone else do it or does it on paper.

He is the cowardly lion. Only not as cute.

lives on the Big Island. She got the alert, figured it was a hoax, rolled over and went back to sleep