Thank God, No More Fearmongering

Panel Finds WMD Attack Likely by 2013. The entire AP story is available at: http://www.military.com/news/article/panel-finds-wmd-attack-likely-by-2013.html?ESRC=eb.nl

Possible anthrax bio terrorism attack in Washington, DC. This has already happened in Washington, DC and Ft Lauderdale, FL for real plus multiple scares in other locations.

Dirty bombs come in all sizes. They can use small amounts of radioactive material which can be easily carried into choke points and detonated in cities, tunnels, airports, etc. In this picture smoke from the fire could be spreading radioactivity plus what the blast spread. First responders throughout this country are normally not equipped to identify dirty bombs.

Dirty bombs can also be larger and use greater amounts of explosives contaminated with larger amounts of radioactive materials. The only real difference is they need a somewhat larger delivery system. Perhaps a truck or a bus. The above photo is the Federal building in Oklahoma City destroyed by homegrown terrorist Timothy McVeigh. It was not a dirty bomb, but it could easily have been one. Besides the actual difference in destruction which is visible, the radioactive dust cloud would also be much larger contaminating many more people and a greater area.

Soap Box Ravings notes that the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism says the United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013.

Up to now, this countries liberals have called statements regarding possible terrorist attacks as "George Bush fearmongering." Thank God we will have no more fearmongering; perhaps we will develop a new term for use with the new government which is starting to resemble the government they mean to replace.

An Exercise Of The First Amendment

Garrison Keillor

See the Roar Of Hollow Patriotism by Garrisson Keillor at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/28/opinion/edkeillor.php

Soap Box Ravings would like to bring to your attention an article, The Roar of Hollow Patriotism, written by Garrison Keillor and published on May 28, 2008. In this article, the sometimes funny buffoon is not so funny. Keillor, a BUMF if there ever was one, spends his efforts in deriding a Memorial Day Tribute simply it seems because the "fat men with pony-tails" on Harleys irritated him.

Three-hundred thousand bikers roaring around Washington in a Memorial Day tribute to America's war dead, and he was irritated. Like a Lord from an earlier era when bothered by peasants.

Lord Keillor says a patriotic bike rally is sort of like a patriotic toilet-papering or patriotic graffiti; the patriotism somehow gets lost in the sheer irritation of the thing. He says people associate Memorial Day with long moments of silence when you summon up mental images of men huddled together on LSTs and pilots revving up B-24s and infantrymen crouched behind piles of rubble steeling themselves for the next push, not motorcycles. He says he does not see the connection between Memorial Day and "fat men with ponytails" on Harleys.

A review of Lord Keillor's career would indicate that he has no idea how any military veteran would react because he never participated. Yet he lets the parade of those who did and their friends bother him because he is inconvenienced and therefore irritated.

By the tone of his article, Lord Keillor cares nothing for the inconvenience military service may have caused those who did serve. Many lost their lives, body parts, their education, or have endured lifelong problems. Yet, Lord Keillor is miffed because he must wait to cross the street.

In 2007 Keillor wrote an article regarding "stereo-typical" gay parents; in responding to criticism Keillor wrote in part "I live in a small world...." Soap Box Ravings says yes, Lord Keillor does live in a small world, one that was made much safer for him by those now "fat men with pony tails" on Harleys.

Lord Keillor also callously said, "If anyone cared about the war dead, they could go read David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War" or Stephen Ambrose's "Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945" or any of a hundred other books, and they would get a vision of what it was like to face death for your country.' If any one cared? these "fat men with pony tails" on Harleys knew many of those war dead as they served together before the battles.

During my naval career and since Soap Box Ravings has always supported the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This includes Lord Keillor's right to write and distribute such drivel, but I don't have to like it.

A pox on you Garrison Keillor.