Know That Fallout Shelter Your Dad Built in the Basement Back in the '50's?

[Wiley50]

Might be time to start thinking about cleaning the junk out and re-stocking it.

Russia and China aren't gonna just sit by while we nuke Iran.

This Kyl-Loserman bill is gonna come back to haunt us.

[Auggie]

1. Thanks, but I'd rather be vaporized than slowly die of radiation poisoning

[acmavm]

6. Yeah, me too. I live in Omaha, Nebraska. I think this dump will

be up in the top ten to bomb out of existence.

Thanks all you miserable cretins who voted 'aye'.

[Kelly Rupert]

2. Ah, right.

Because a symbolic resolution is a declaration of war, and a declaration of war means we're going to use nuclear weapons, and Russo-Chinese interest in there not being an Iranian-American war means they're going to start a global nuclear war.

Logic!

[Wiley50]

7. There is a continuum that's pretty easy to see

and plenty of reports that nukes are in the Iran attack plans

Put this together with Lieberman's amendment of a couple of months ago.

Just a sense of the Senate? Right.

Move right along. Nothing to see here.

[Wiley50]

13. And there's also this:

"SA 2948. Mr. KYL (for himself, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. COLEMAN, and Mr. GRAHAM) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2011 proposed by Mr. NELSON of Nebraska (for Mr. LEVIN) to the bill H.R. 1585, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:"

"Defense activities of the dept of energy" ?

What kind of defense activities do they do?

Oh Yeah!

NUKES!

[TornadoTN]

12. I normally wouldn't think too much about this, but this is deja-vu

The Iraq War Resolution started this way and was very similar. Eerily similar.

[Individualist]

3. I agree with you about Russia and China

but wouldn't want to come out to face whatever is left afterward.

[american_typeculture]

4. I'm posting from Amundsen-Scott South Pole station.

So it's gonna be raw seal meat and whiskey for me for the rest of my life.

j/k not in Antarctica

[Cha]

18. You're a long way off..

Welcome to DU!

[BrotherBuzz]

5. Ours is already stocked to the ceiling with wine

May come in handy when we enter the era of bartering.

[Wiley50]

11. Might be time to cram some cheese and crackers in too

and maybe some hard smoked sausage

[marzipanni]

14. Yes, crackers. Don't forget the crackers!

[BrotherBuzz]

16. And cheese, Wensleydale cheese!

[SoCalDem]

8. We never needed a shelter. We knew we were Ground zero

at the beginning of the era, a few miles fromt he Panama canal (Albrook AFB) (a sure target)

and later a few miles away from a SAC base (Schilling AFB) that controlled many minutemen missiles buried all over kansas.

We knew we would get hit immediately :) No need for a shelter :)

[knowbody0]

9. hey wiley50

how the heck are you?

[Wiley50]

10. OK! Good to see you. Wish I was up there with you n/t

[slackmaster]

15. Some high school buddies and I made one into a darkroom in the '70s

We had to pump about five feet of water out of it first.

[Cha]

17. Reminds of that movie with Christopher

Walken, "Blast From The Past".. hey, is he running for Prez?

I didn't even think of China and Russia :silly: ..do they get their oil from Iran?

[ima_sinnic]

19. that is SUCH a good movie (in a campy kind of way)!

I have seen that at least 3 times, one of my faves.

[Cha]

21. Me too.

Brendon Fraser does a bang up job and all of them..Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, and of course, Christopher.

[vireo]

20. Don't forget the potassium iodide tablets

http://www.lef.org/newshop/items/item00577.html

<edit> Forget it, kiss your ass goodbye:

Potassium iodide’s effectiveness also depends on the nature of the radioactive exposure. The drug is specifically geared to thyroid protection by blocking the uptake of radioiodine, a common beta particle produced during certain nuclear reactions. However, potassium iodide offers no protective benefits against other forms of radiation, including the extremely dangerous neutrons that are released during a nuclear explosion. It is also ineffective against so-called “dirty bombs,” which are constructed from radioactive material that does not contain radioiodine.