If we are indeed on the cusp of WW3, how are you preparing?

Another link:

http://www.ready.gov/america/getakit/index.html

 

As I live in one of the areas that is most heavily targetted (yet still watched as funding dropped) I have done just about nothing.

If I'm going to die, well, so be it. I've lived a good life. I've done things I never thought I would do. I've been places I never thought I would go.

I damn sure am not going to curl up into a ball and cry about missing out on all that could have been.

 

I love the part in the post where the government says to store plenty of non-perishable foods that your family likes.

I can just see my wife and I sitting in a duct tape-and-plastic room somewhere, listening to two sounds — the boom of the nuclear explosions and my 4-year-old son bitching about how he doesn't like the canned peas I picked.

In any event, if World War III — the nuclear kind, not this Mission Impossible terrorism shit — were really to happen, I'd load up the minivan and head north to the in-laws' house. Its rural, they're well armed, and he's got a satellite dish that gets the Spice Channel. So I'd be set.

 

You COULD just live in your VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!!

 

I think people are going out and buying three guns because they are afraid of Maurice Clarett.

 

Well, we know maurice was prepared...guns, bullet-proof vest, vodka.

 

That makes a helluva lot more sense than these pussy-ass Chicken Little's freaking out at the slightest provocation of what they think is WWIII.

I swear to God, there's too many people that have the perspective of a fruit fly. None of what is going on in the world right now portends WWIII. There's people around the world who don't like us -- none of them have the capacity to wipe us out or come close. This shit has been going on in some form, in some region, forever.

And if Al-Qaeda has settled for putting accelerants in their Big Gulp's, they're not exactly dealing from a position of WWIII strength.

And an outing alert: A_F is Francis "Psycho" Soyler from Stripes. Please, for the love of God, tell me I missed the sarcasm/facetious font in your original post.

What the fuck is a gun going to do against a dirty bomb or terrorist attack anyway? A_F, do you think Al-Qaeda is going to parachute in your neighborhood or something? You're tripping out on overexposure to Red Dawn, stick with what you know -- ill-informed betting and making shit up about your love life.

 

Correction on the outing alert: A_F is actually Private Hudson from Aliens ...



GAME OVER, MAN, GAME OVER!

 

We're screwed.

The "Wolverines" are all in their 40s now. Too damn old to protect us.

 

I can't fault A_F for trying to be prepared for an emergency. Perhaps his cache won't be needed. Perhaps it'll come in handy during a rolling blackout or a winter storm.

 

What's he going to do? Shoot snow?