I agree in almost every detail with "JeepHammer." When and where will trouble come from? There is a not-so-fine-line between situational awareness and incipient paranoia, and I'm not going to live long enough to spend my days in the latter frame of mind. Stay alert, keep your wits about you and be prepared.....every day, and wherever you are.
But don't give in to the scare tactics. Television and the media generally are flooded with programs of the Apocalypse in all its various forms: earthquakes, asteroid strikes, nuclear war, global warming, tsunamis, oil scares, the return of the leisure suit, as well as all the various world traditions involving the "End of Days," and some made up to order. Oh, and I almost forgot: endless shows about UFOs, alien abduction, and the like.
What I believe, someone else said best:
Whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some transatlantic giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River, or make a track on Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we shall live forever, or die by suicide.
- Abe Lincoln, 1837
But don't give in to the scare tactics. Television and the media generally are flooded with programs of the Apocalypse in all its various forms: earthquakes, asteroid strikes, nuclear war, global warming, tsunamis, oil scares, the return of the leisure suit, as well as all the various world traditions involving the "End of Days," and some made up to order. Oh, and I almost forgot: endless shows about UFOs, alien abduction, and the like.
What I believe, someone else said best:
Whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some transatlantic giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River, or make a track on Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we shall live forever, or die by suicide.
- Abe Lincoln, 1837
