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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 05:21 PM
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Washington To Be Nuked; FEMA, FBI Moving To Boonies



http://www.wonkette.com/politics/nuclear/washington-to-be-nuked-fema-fbi-moving-to-boonies-224219.php

Facing the awful reality that Bush will definitely get DC nuked before he leaves office, FEMA and the FBI are among the federal agencies relocating to rural Virginia because it’s “outside the blast zone.”

That’s the actual logic for the exodus, along with cheaper land and a bunch of bureaucrats already living an hour away from Washington because that’s how far you need to go to afford a house.

Even the Department of Homeland Security is running for the countryside, as its leaders concede the best “homeland security” is to get as far away from the White House as possible.
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eagler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 05:27 PM
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1. That is just too terrible to imagine.
What would be the US response? My guess is that all Islamic holy sights would cease to exist.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 05:31 PM
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2. Conservative Think Tanks have toyed with the idea of nuking Mecca
Dumb assed idea...4 more years of Republican rule and expect to see it though
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 05:32 PM
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4. And then WE would cease to exist
The world has a nasty habit of uniting to take care of tinpot dictators like Stupid who order the destruction of innocent people.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 05:31 PM
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3. should we close the borders?
build a wall?
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durtee librul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 05:35 PM
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5. Please don't say that
my father resides in the Soldiers Home in DC....that would just devastate me....
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 08:33 PM
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8. I work 4 blocks from the WH, its almost always in the back of your mind
I saw the smoke from the Pentagon on 9-11 (worked at a different location then, but still in DC), and the National Guard at every intersection for a few weeks after that. I'm sure it wasn't as bad as NYC was, but it still left an impression.
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Shipwack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 06:10 PM
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6. Decentralization has been floated about for a while...
Heinlein recommended it back in the 60s(?) as being the only defense -and- deterrent against nuclear war. The best defense was to spread out all your attractive targets. Eventually, you'd (theoretically) reach a point where every square inch of land would have to e nuked to get everything. Not only extreme, but also prohibitively expensive. Of course, if your opponent is insane, all bets are off, but no plan is perfect.

It wasn't done for, amoung other reasons, it wasn't economically feasible to do so. Nowadays, with different business practices, modern telecom, and real estate/infrastructure costs souring, it might be able to be implemented.
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 07:14 PM
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7. It is being implemented
I am very familiar with Hienlien and his writings.He talked about this in one of his last books.Being aware of this I have been seeing decentralization occurring around Atlanta for many years now.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 09:09 PM
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9. if DC gets nuked its because the Dems are majority in
Congress

and yes the FBI wants an excuse to not being in the blast area

as well as CIA

Pentagon is out of luck but probably nobody there when it happens
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mirandapriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 10:10 PM
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13. well, nobody will be in the Pentagon except maybe
a few people who have information that needs to be destroyed, like the way all the budget analysts/accountants on 9-11. ;)
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mirandapriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 10:10 PM
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14. duplicate.eom
Edited on Tue Dec-26-06 10:14 PM by mirandapriestly
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 11:58 PM
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18. Is that why the cut their work week to three days a week?
Bush* and Cheney and all those "Special people" won't have to worry as there will be a warning and they have their own specially fortified bomb shelters to protect them...and they don't give a crap about anyone else.
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 09:50 PM
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10. so like, TWO BOMBS 75 miles apart will do the job just fine (but they'd never think of that)
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mirandapriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 10:01 PM
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11. "Get it nuked" or nuke it themselves?
Edited on Tue Dec-26-06 10:02 PM by mirandapriestly
:evilgrin:

I wonder what they are planning....
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 10:03 PM
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12. So, for all the poor folk living in D.C., it's just "tough luck"?
Why doesn't that surprised me?
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diamidue Donating Member (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 11:19 PM
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16. Not just poor.
poor AND dark skinned. As in New Orleans. Of course no one is surprised.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 01:07 PM
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22. And STUCK
No, it's not surprising, but, as I said on another thread, it's time for "progressives" to really realize that it's poor folk who take the hindmost on everything.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 10:46 PM
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15. CIA (and who else ?) have moved to Denver area
CIA Plans to Shift Work to Denver
Domestic Division Would Be Moved

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 6, 2005; Page A21

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005050501860.html

That 'domestic division' is what is truly scary. Any Quakers in the company ? Let's hope so, huh ?
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-26-06 11:33 PM
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17. Sometimes reality comes uncomfortably close to emulating video games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0UKFuZIl5U
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 12:10 AM
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19. The best homeland security is to get that jackass out of the White House, as soon as possible
Edited on Wed Dec-27-06 12:14 AM by Jack Rabbit
!!
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 12:31 AM
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20. In the late 80s and early 90s...
young people returned to cities because they could find cheap housing and with industry plants moving overseas, the air was finally breathable. Close-in housing has gone up significantly over the past few years. I think that corporate flight to the exurbs will become more common, and not just in DC. I see it happening more and more here in Dallas, and our housing is still relatively cheap. Businesses want to pay their workers as little as possible, and they have discovered that re-locating to low-cost outlying communities is one way to to do that.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 12:37 AM
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21. "Neun und neunzig luftballons, Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont..."
Thought we were done with that... crap.
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