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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on October 19, 2015, 08:09:12 AM
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Saw this on Drudge over the weekend.
'America is a bomb waiting to explode'
(https://cdn.rt.com/files/2015.10/original/56236eb8c46188e1548b4576.jpg)
The United States is in decline. While not all major shocks to the system will be devastating, when the right one comes along, the outcome may be dramatic.
Not all explosives are the same. We all know you have to be careful with dynamite. Best to handle it gently and not smoke while you’re around it.
Semtex is different. You can drop it. You can throw it. You can put it in the fire. Nothing will happen. Nothing until you put the right detonator in it, that is.
To me, the US – and most of the supposedly free West – increasingly looks like a truck being systematically filled with Semtex.
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But it’s easy to counter cries of alarm with the fact that the truck is stable – because it’s true: you can hurl more boxes into the back without any real danger. Absent the right detonator, it is no more dangerous than a truckload of mayonnaise.
While I tend to agree with the author, I also believe that most Americans will attempt to keep the country from going over the edge. The only way, I believe, is through a return to conservative principles.
The rest is here: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/318986-america-bomb-society-crisis/
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That was certainly an interesting article. All the points made by this author are valid.
Our border politicians have allowed enough enemies to come into our country. So perhaps weapons of destruction are already here. As for our food supply, “What civilized society destroys its own food source for a three-inch fish?†(http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/penny-starr/epa-and-ca-drought-what-civilized-society-destroys-its-own-food-source-three-inch)
Additionally, what may also turn this country into a downward spiral is our aging power grid.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/weak-link-state-infrastructure/when-power-grid-fails
BlueStateSaint: ...is through a return to conservative principles.
Yes, but how can this happen? Even if we flip the executive in '16, what about the majority of liberals in both houses of Congress?
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Plasic explosive is pretty stable.
You can drop it.
It won't explode from concussion only.
You can set it on fire.
It won't explode from combustion only.
But don't set it on fire and drop it, or stomp on it.
Not if you want any chance to keep your foot on your leg.
Maybe there is a masternemesis with a case of semtex diabetes .