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Who’s Worried About the Threat of Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons? Gaffney, Gingrich, and the RW Xtians, Who Else?

18 thoughts on “Who’s Worried About the Threat of Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons? Gaffney, Gingrich, and the RW Xtians, Who Else?

  1. “You have this strange cottage industry that’s been trying to profit off of it,” [cyber security expert Paul W] Singer said. “The reason it has this cult around it is that it brings together these attractive scenarios that then they get to talk about,” Singer told me.

    “It’s post war, the electronics are down — but the guns still work.”

  2. Being struck by an asteroid is about as likely. And our submarines would still be able to retaliate even if such an EMP strike were possible And Gingrich is far more likely to be killed by a jealous husband–or Calista.

  3. I was listening just now to his "Empty Bed Blues" LP and thinking what a fine, fine singer he was, even if he seemed a bit too "polished" for folky authentickety. Wikipedia say:

    White's musical style influenced future generations of musical artists, including Brownie McGhee, Pete Seeger, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Lonnie Donegan, Eartha Kitt, Alexis Korner, Odetta, Elvis Presley, Tracy Chapman, Joan Armatrading, the Kingston Trio, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Merle Travis, Dave Van Ronk, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Eric Weissberg, Judy Collins, Mike Bloomfield, Danny Kalb, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Don McLean, Roy Harper, Ry Cooder, John Fogerty, Eva Cassidy and Jack White.

    In other words: everybody, with the possible exception of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

  4. Starting an organic chemistry class with a lecture about compounds with saturated bonds to nitrogen would be amine thing to do, IYKWIMAITYD.

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