Tonite we will visit on a few relevent subjects and few that simply ramble into incohearant babble..........such is the nature of this great planet we call earth..........first on our morose hate your planet meter is this little jewel we should all bookmark....or better yet print out onto lead sheets so we have it on hand when the inevitable occurs......
from: David Shenk
How To Survive a Nuclear BombPosted Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006, at 6:22 PM ET
How does one rank hypothetical catastrophes? Which would be worse—another Katrina or another 9/11? It seems fitting to begin with the cataclysm we've all been worrying about for more than half a century: a nuclear attack on a major city. With some 27,000 nuclear warheads scattered around the world, and with, shall we say, less-than-ideal safeguards in Russia, Pakistan, and North Korea, some experts predict it is bound to happen sooner or later. They don't keep shuttling Dick Cheney to his undisclosed location (deep under Pennsylvania's Raven Rock Mountains) just for show. Shortly after 9/11, the White House was on high alert in response to a CIA report than an errant Soviet "suitcase nuke" was being smuggled into the United States. That report was eventually discredited, but given the current availability of fissile material and the shocking dearth of effort being spent to reduce it, such an alarm may eventually prove true. "If we continue along our present course," warns Harvard's Graham Allison, "nuclear terrorism is inevitable."
Here's the worst part: You will survive. Get those images of Jason Robards in The Day After out of your head. This is not that. We're not talking here about multiple-entry 20-megaton warheads wiping whole cities off the map in seconds. A single terrorist nuke, more likely in the 5- to 10-kiloton range (Hiroshima was 12 kilotons), will kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people in any big city but spare the rest. In New York, that will leave about 7.5 million of us to sort through the carnage.
Let's consider what would happen. The first 30 seconds or so will unfold like this:
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..................Does that sound "evil and inhuman" to you?.....well it does to us here at RPI as well......and as you all are well aware we are no great bible thumpers.........but we have to take our hats off to the pope for saying it as he sees it.....although he is backsliding a bit............
Pope ‘sincerely regrets’ he offended Muslims
Vatican stops short of apologizing for remarks Benedict made during trip
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI “sincerely regrets” offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam’s founder as “evil and inhuman,” the Vatican said Saturday.
But the statement stopped short of the apology demanded by Islamic leaders around the globe, and anger among Muslims remained intense. Palestinians attacked five churches in the West Bank and Gaza over the pope’s remarks Tuesday in a speech to university professors in his native Germany.
An Iraqi insurgent group threatened the Vatican with a suicide attack over the pope’s remarks on Islam, according to a statement posted Saturday on the Web..........(full story)
.............we here at RPI were more interested with the statements about science and religion but I guess that zoomed over somebodies turban.....so, for all the people who didn't get the picture in it's contextual entireity........................READ THE WHOLE SPEECH
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.......Now to show we here at RPI are aware that terrorists come in all shapes and all places we present to "Hold your hometown hostage dot com"............
City told to pay up or face shootings, police say
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (AP) -- Police warned Las Cruces residents that they've received two letters threatening random shootings if city leaders fail to hand over a "substantial" ransom.
Police had received some information from the public Saturday but there had been no break in the case, Lt. Randy Lara said.
"Someone knows something out there, and hopefully this will generate more information for the case," he said.
The city received the second of two threatening letters Friday, but police remained tightlipped about details of the demand, including how much money was involved. They did say the demand called for a "substantial amount."
At a news conference late Friday, Lara said he didn't want to alarm residents but he urged them to watch for any suspicious activity.
"The letter did reference that Las Cruces residents will be shot at random if the city didn't comply with the extortion," Lara said.........(full story)
........At RPI we totally understand the fear and anger that goes along with this as we are veterens of the DC sniper slayings.......and this smacks of copy cat, red neck non-intelligence......lets hope we don't have to continue this story beyond this......but as always we will be watching as inhumanity unfolds and stupidity reigns in the sands of new mexico.......speaking of mexico..............
Mexican political crisis deepens
Protesters will "swear in" Mr Lopez Obrador on 20 November
A mass rally of supporters of defeated Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has "elected" him head of a parallel government.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo for the show of hands.
Mr Lopez Obrador and his supporters have said his defeat by less than 1% of the vote was fraudulent.
However, the highest electoral court has backed the result, giving power to conservative candidate Felipe Calderon..............(full story)
Ok.........does parralel government sound like civil war to anyone but us........if me and poor janet set up camp on the white house lawn I'm sure old Bushy would be out to mow the grass with the military the first night........first night........where is this other guy?.......are we really the only ones who smell civil war?....are we always alone here at RPI while the world is flying apart at the seams........does anybody read?........well get your hinys over here and take a course......we will not tolerate illiterates on our watch.......besides......we need readers.....many more readers.....
alright children of the great orb....we promised you incohearance and ...well........goodnight.....
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