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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (139531)10/3/2001 12:11:27 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1580596
 
And EMP is a made up boogeyman

We do not know the extent of the exposure or the duration of problems created by EMP. Again, a liberal crock -- akin to the concept of "Nuclear Winter". Once again, paraphrasing Carl Sagan on Nightline, during the Gulf War -- "If Saddam Hussein sets fire to the oil wells in Kuwait, we will see famine resulting from the worldwide effects on crops in the ensuing years". Right.

Of course, by then, nukes will likely not be at the top of the list of threats.

Where'd you get this? This is big news -- nukes are no longer a problem 50 years from now! What this really is is a liberal saying, "50 years is a long, long time ... let's not worry about it". This kind of thinking is what brought us Social Security, the worst social program ever dreamed up.

Like Carl Sagan and most other liberals, you appear to know enough to be dangerous about these subjects. Rather than admit that you are repeating someone's speculation about EMP, you simply assume the worst and lay it out as though it were fact. This is precisely the same reasoning that brought us the 1.6GPF toilet (courtesy your buddy, the Idiot Al Gore), a failed attempt to address a non-existent water shortage (that in reality, exacerbated the problem since now people have to flush multiple times to get it to do its job). Another liberal failure.

It is in the nature of liberalism to exaggerate everything -- from the percentage of homosexuals in the population to the incidence of child abuse to "nuclear winter" and, yes, to EMP. The simple fact is that we do not know what the consequence of EMP may or may not be. Period.
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