Maggie's Farm

All effective EMP weapons are nuclear. In other words if any country choose to use an EMP against us they would have just started a nuclear war and 2000 nukes would be headed their way within hours. For an EMP device to be effective it must be an atmospheric burst. That means it must be delivered by a missile, which means we would be able to track it and about 15 minutes before it goes off we would know within 100 feet where it came from. So it can't be "snuck" into the country and us not know who did it.

Additionally EMPs work kinda like the sun. Think of it this way if you lay in the sun for 4 hours you get a bad sunburn. But if you are in the shade you don't. Same with EMP, almost anything will block the energy making the effects of it very spotty. Also the energy decreases exponentionally with distance. An electronic device 50 miles away might be disabled but the same device 100 miles away might be unharmed.

Typically the EMP scare involves some scenario where the entire electric grid is destroyed. Very unlikely. What is likely is that with an ideal EMP event that transmission lines would incur damage, i.e. be severed and that some fuses would be blown. Within hours 10,000 utility workers would be out repairing these lines and fuses and within days most of the electrical distribution system would be restored. The EMP just isn't as deadly as claimed.

The "The Risk-Tolerant America, and Zero-Risk America".

That may well be a true statement. But it does not capture the issue. Perhaps it should say "those who understand what is going on ands the sheep".

Does the mask protect you? There isn't really an argument you can make that it does. It is more superstition and hope than science. Would a health care worker depend on a mask and nothing else in a infectious environment? Of course not. Why? Because they don't work. Now, some will say that they work a little or 'may' help or even why not use them anyway even though they are not effective. You have to wonder, why? Why do we wear them anyway even though they don't work? Well, for a lot of people superstition and hope reign supreme. And for a lot of people being a sheep comes naturally. But the real reason behind it all is the "Karen" effect. People love to find someone who is wrong. "You aren't wearing a mask you must be selfish." Or "officer, there is someone over here without a mask, we need some muscle over here."

Here is a brilliant idea that will actually save lives: Require everyone take and pass CPR classes in high school and then take the classes and recertify every 5 years for life. Additionally require that every adult carry with them a basic IFAK kit that contains at least a CAT Tourniquet, a Israeli Type Bandage, a Nasopharyngeal Airway and QuikClot Gauze. This would be less oppressive than mandating masks and would actually save lives. It would be a brilliant decision by our governors and federal government.

Regarding the Russia leaks story. The lead points out that intel disaster about Saddam's nuclear power. This entire issue is always treated in a dishonest way for inexplicable reasons. There are certain facts that we know:

For two plus years before the actual invasion Saddam was allowed to have literally 10's of thousands of truckloads of weapons moved to the Bakaa Valley. We saw this on TV. For two years every truck they could get their hands on was moving weapons out of Iraq. These weren't conventional weapons.

The Russians began an airlift that literally went on right up to the invasion. That is every day tens of Russian cargo plans landed in Iraq and removed, presumably, Iraq's biological weapons and dismantled their facilities (that the Russians had built for them). This is an absolute fact. Actually during the invasion American forces ran into Russian forces who were still in the country removing biological and possibly nuclear weapons.

During the invasion American forces captured 550 metric tons of yellow cake uranium. This was a lot of nuclear material. Think about it they removed evidence of nuclear weapons with tens of thousands of trucks operating 24/7 for two years and still didn't have time to remove the yellow cake uranium.

American forces discovered an underground nuclear weapons facility near Baghdad. This was the largest nuclear weapons facility known to man and hidden underground so that the U.S. wouldn't find it. This too is an absolute fact.

Last, and most important to understand why all of this is still kept secret: Germany, France and Holland built in Iraq extensive nuclear and biological labs/facilities for Saddam. They were so greedy they were building him banned weapons manufacturing facilities. These same three countries along with Russia and China fought the invasion for over two years in the UN giving them time to dismantle and hide their involvement in Saddam's nuclear and biological weapons manufacture. We knew what they were doing and why all the time. We allowed the big lie; that Saddam's WMDs were not true, to cover for these allies.

And THAT is why today news outlets will say, with a straight face, that Saddam had no WMDs...

The meme is that these historic figures should have their statues removed and anything named after them renamed because they were "despicable people". So isn't it time we knock down the statues of MLK and rename those streets back to what they were??? After all MLK was a philanderer and involved in a gang rape and if that isn't despicable what would be?