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Um. . . I’ve heard yours knees pop. Forget drop kicking – buy a gun instead.

ouch. Ice those knees down first. They’ll be good as new.

Oh, and the tough part is this: dirty bombs don’t work. There is a low level of background radiation in the atmosphere at all times. If you take a small amount of a heavy radioactive substance and blow it up, dispersing it into the air, two things happen: 1) it gets dispersed. 2) the particles fall to the ground, the radioactive substance being, like, heavy.

Uranium isn’t very radioactive. It wouldn’t work unless you forced people to eat it.

The easiest other radioactive sources would be Cesium 137 or Cobalt-60. Which they use for cancer radiotherapy and for cleaning food. Yes, food.

So, it’d be kind of like a session of Chemotherapy. Not very good chemotherapy, since your share would only be a fraction of a percent of the usual dose, and you would probably have the good sense to leave the area, rather than stick around for several weeks. (or, say, have somebody surgically implant it inside you.)

There would be practically no risk to anybody who stayed for, say, less than a week after the bomb went off. Traffic will have eased up by then.

But, the EPA says that a Cesium bomb would cause radiation to “exceed recommended levels” for an area of about a mile.

BTW: “Exceed recommended levels” means 1:10,000 fatality with prolonged exposure.

But it’s good that the government is helping these guys out. If the radiation doesn’t work, the stampede will surely get somebody crushed to death.

So, if you hear a bomb go off. Just stay in your seat until the poorly informed have all trampled each other. That way you’ll get to watch the rest of the game, and you won’t get stuck in traffic.

edudude: “Um … I’ve heard yours knees pop. Forget drop kicking – buy a gun instead.”

How impersonal. If someone blows up my football game, I’m going to want some contact. And if my knees make popping sounds in the process, consider it operational distraction: “What do you mean, stop with the bubble wrap, brother? I am not popping bubble wrap … LOOK OUT!”

emcee fleshy: “Oh, and the tough part is this: dirty bombs don’t work.”

I know what you’re saying. From an informed and rational point of view. Unfortunately, you saw how the media reacted to this simple “threat.” Hardly informed or rational.

If the point of an attack is to terrorize, it would certainly accomplish that with many. As for me, after 9/11, you’re going to have to do a whole lot more than blow up a truck outside a stadium to have that effect.

“There would be practically no risk to anybody who stayed for, say, less than a week after the bomb went off.”

So, for example, one could return to that site for, oh, say four hours every Sunday, and have practically no risk.

“But the Department of Homeland Security had to open the bunker window and yell “booâ€? at us just the same.”

They have to, don’t they? Nowadays the DHS and every other agency everywhere is in the position of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If they don’t put out the word, then half the bloggers on the planet will scream bloody murder that they’re not doing their jobs because there’s this one threat somewhere and it needs to be addressed.. If they do, then the other half screams bloody murder because they are opening the bunker window and yelling “boo”.

Glad I’m not in their position. It’s an unwinnable situation.

Or, they could just be honest with everybody and say that Dirty bombs are not the threat that we’ve been scared into believing.

On the downside, they’d have to dream up something else to charge Padilla with. But it’s a small price to pay.

The best way to sell security is to give the fear away for free!

Todd: “If they do, then the other half screams bloody murder because they are opening the bunker window and yelling ‘boo’.”

Damn bloggers. I don’t know why anyone insists on reading them.

Oh, and this article has more evidence of a bomb at the Georgia Dome than any web goober forum … recent quotes from a frustrated Michael Vick. Seems to me he’s publicly dissing both his coaches and his receivers.

Things that make you go “boom!”

Seems to me he’s publicly dissing both his coaches and his receivers.

and, sadly, he’s right.

“and, sadly, he’s right.”

But he’s the Leader of the Team. Leaders don’t admit mistakes or problems. They’re supposed to encourage everyone to believe harder (seems Mora has cornered the market on that in Atlanta, though).

Seriously, I’m not sure HBO is the best forum for a QB to dissect his team troubles. More and more, I think the Falcon’s offensive line has the right idea. Each week, one of the five of them will talk to the media. The other four won’t say boo.

Because it doesn’t help anybody … except the media.

I forgot to add … furthermore, if one of the offensive linemen talks to the press when it is not their week to be designated spokes-lineman, the other four linemen impose a fine on him. How much is the fine? We don’t know, because they also tell us that talking about the fine … will get you fined.

I may be less than enthused with their play at times (or the fact one of them, Matt Lehr, got suspended for steroids this week), but I like their media mindset.

Now, as for the other topic at hand, here’s The Rest Of The Story: “A law enforcement official told CNN that a man has admitted he posted a fake bomb threat against National Football League stadiums in major U.S. cities as part of an Internet competition with a person in Texas to create the scariest terror scenario possible.”

Web goobers. Someone needs to shut down the InterWebs. ‘Specially those damn bloggers.

But he’s the Leader of the Team. Leaders don’t admit mistakes or problems. They’re supposed to encourage everyone to believe harder

Thought you had grown tired of the President.

Thought you had grown tired of the President.

Heh … ( :-) )

Anywayz, Morten Andersen kicks (or at least kicked) ass – viva Dinamarca!

Regards.

Drop kicking is such a great idea.

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