Friday, January 31, 2014

That would depend on where you dropped the bomb...

And then there was the time that we almost nuked North Cackalacky.

Generally, nuking your own country would be considered a bad thing, but I know people who probably think that four megatons would be an effective urban renewal program for RDU or Moscow-on-the-Catawba.
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26 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:56 AM, January 31, 2014

    Give me time to finish the bunker!

    Al

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  2. Borepatch8:03 AM, January 31, 2014

    Nuke The Moon showed the strategy, and dropping it on the Massachusetts of Dixie is as good as anywhere.

    Never heard the expression "Moscow on the Catawba" before, but that's about dead on.

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  3. Murphy's Law8:08 AM, January 31, 2014

    I'm thinking that if the Air Force "accidentally" dropped one on Southern California or Massachusetts tomorrow, I could probably not be too upset. But that's just me.

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  4. Bob8:24 AM, January 31, 2014

    It's closer to Detroit-On-The-Catawba these days. I think we've seen our last mayor of the saltine persuasion, IYKWIMAITYD. ;-)

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  5. Robert8:35 AM, January 31, 2014

    Give us a little time before you start in on lobbing the nukes. We're working on fixing things down here...

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  6. Tam8:40 AM, January 31, 2014

    Bob,

    Does your wife get pissed when you cut the eyeholes in the pillowcases?

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  7. Flighterdoc8:41 AM, January 31, 2014

    Gee. All the safeguards to prevent a nukdet worked.......

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  8. Anonymous9:06 AM, January 31, 2014

    Can I vote for DC especially when everyone is there.

    There, whoopsie, we get to elect a whole new slate!

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  9. Baker M. Romeo9:34 AM, January 31, 2014

    But-- but!

    But _I_ live in RDU, and I'm the prettiest princess!

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  10. Anonymous9:34 AM, January 31, 2014

    I prefer to call it "soviet mecklenburg".

    Al

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  11. Baker M. Romeo9:34 AM, January 31, 2014

    But-- but!

    But _I_ live in RDU, and I'm the prettiest princess! This is an outrage!

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  12. Tam9:35 AM, January 31, 2014

    You're just going to have to take one for the team.

    ;)

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  13. Anonymous9:44 AM, January 31, 2014

    We can be lords of the tar heel wasteland!

    Al

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  14. staghounds10:18 AM, January 31, 2014

    Who will become the Tarhumongous?

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  15. Backwoods Engineer10:22 AM, January 31, 2014

    I've had it with the California of the South, and its intrusive government and busybody anti-self-defense ninnies. I'm leaving North Cackalacky this year, God willing, and moving to a state that truly respects the 2nd Amendment, and the rest of the Bill of Rights.

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  16. Tim Ellwood10:43 AM, January 31, 2014

    I moved from Miami to NC in 2000, It was like leaving hell for paradise.
    As long as you stay away from Chapel Hill, san fran south and Charlotte, you are in the tall clover. I do get to come to Indy for the 1st time for the FDIC show in April, any good eats by the Convention Center?

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  17. TBeck11:02 AM, January 31, 2014

    No fusion, no foul.

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  18. Ed Jones11:07 AM, January 31, 2014

    Today we have anti-gun people, then we had anti-nuc people. That is all.

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  19. blindshooter11:36 AM, January 31, 2014

    I was two years old and less than 15 miles from the crash site.I understand one of the two bombs is still under ground today. I was working in Goldsboro one day when a drop tank fell off a F4 and bounced through the parking lot and across HWY 70. Stay close to me I'm lucky!

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  20. Ed Jones2:19 PM, January 31, 2014

    The Radar Navigator stayed with the aircraft long enough to pickle the bombs unarmed to keep them from exploding in a acft fire. He ejected to late and died. Maj Eugene Shelton, God Speed sir.

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  21. Anonymous3:42 PM, January 31, 2014

    "Stay close to me I'm lucky!"

    Last time someone said that, I was between them and the crap that happened. When I regained conciousness they had the grace to thank me.

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  22. Tom the Impaler5:49 PM, January 31, 2014

    Spot the Ivy Mike image in the article!

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  23. Ed Jones8:31 PM, January 31, 2014

    Ivy Mike, 1 nov 1952, 11 MT

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  24. Marlowe F. Spade12:23 AM, February 01, 2014

    If you haven't read the investigator's book who FOIA'd that document Tam, you should. Was both the most sobering and the most compelling read of last year for me.

    I'm a huge fan of Eric Schlosser now.

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  25. Michael W.8:06 PM, February 01, 2014

    It all boils down to this. Just before WW II, F.D.R. called J. Melville Broughton the then Gov. of North Carolina. It seemed that Broughton had been of great service to F.D.R. in the 1940 election and of course F.D.R. wanted to repay the kindness. When asked what he wanted, Broughton said "Military Bases, all you can build" When he heard that, F.D.R. ask, "Don't you think that the people would object?" Broughton replied, "Franklin, there is NO place on earth that falling shrapnel will have less effect than on eastern North Carolina"

    Some folks STILL feel that way.....

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  26. Redclay78:25 AM, February 02, 2014

    Ms. Tam - first time commenter here - just wanted to let you know that the site of the crash was close to Goldsboro, NC and Seymour Johnson AFB in the coastal plain some 50 or so miles ESE of Raleigh and RDU, and many miles east of the Catawba, which is in the western part of the state. Keep up the great blog. Best, Redclay7 2/2

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