IN BAD TASTE: Putting the blame where it belongs?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhb57_at_vol.com>
Date: Thu Sep 12 12:39:57 2002

The people along the Ohio River in Louisville, Cinncinatti, Evansville, etc
have been paranoid of a barge being loaded in a such a manner and docked
mear their city since last year - never occurrred to them prior to that. I
think last year's tragedy did more than they expected and wanted and they
know that fear and paranoia will stay with the masses (for the most part,
not everyone) for a long time and give them time to regroup and replan.

I'll almost bet that a majority of the people on this list CAN remember when
Nagasaki and Hiroshima were nuked, as noted by the demographics of age on
the list. My earliest historical memories are watching JFK's burial on TV as
a 6 yr old.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
-> Behalf Of Joe
-> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 8:44 AM
-> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: IN BAD TASTE: Putting the blame where it belongs?
->
->
-> In the book Prometheus (sp?) they load a large freighter with
-> Ammonium Nitrade (with the right additives) then stack the deck
-> with tons of Magnesium ingots and then expode the whole thing in
-> the port in the capital of a South American country. The effect
-> is like that of an atomic bomb (anybody remember what happened
-> in Texas City?) PLUS the flaming magnesium fell for miles
-> outside the blast area and created thousands of fires that
-> combine to form a fire storm. (Remember Toyko in early 1945? The
-> fire storms killed more people than both of the atomic bombs.)
->
-> I'm convinced that our "leaders" always get most of their
-> plans from movies, TV and books. (R. Reagan watched StarWars one
-> too many times!)
->
-> Joe
->
->
-> At 06:06 AM 9/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
-> >
-> >One good OT deserves another... In Clive Cussler's latest book,
-> >terrorists attempt to sail a supertanker full of propane up to
-> >the dock and explode it. In the book Dirk Pitt speculates the
-> >WTC towers would not collapse, but the rest of the area would
-> >be badly damaged.
-> >
-> >The printing history: First hardcover edition: August 2001
-> >
-> >Regards,
-> >Clint
-> >
-> >On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:
-> >
-> >> And here I am contributing to the way way off topic..... I
-> understand one of
-> >> Tom Clancy's novels deals with the subject, flying large
-> airliners into a
-> >> building. Written in the mid 1990's. I am trying to find out
-> which novel it
-> >> is, he is very prolific.
-> >>
-> >> Paxton
-> >>
-> >> Who is looking for a novel to take traveling to Fiji and
-> wondering where he
-> >> will find the internet there?
-> >>
-> >> Hmm.. When I was last there (1990) the telecom system was run
-> on intel
-> >> multibus and the airport on a microvax. Does that make this on topic.
-> >>
-> >
-> >
->
->
->
Received on Thu Sep 12 2002 - 12:39:57 BST