Is this true? I hope not. Or if it was true I hope it isn't anymore. God help us.

'The whole bit about the ‘nuclear codes’ was a fiction in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. For one thing, many people below the President could order a nuclear attack. The movie Dr. Strangelove explains the official reasoning, which was that deterrence would not deter if you could kill the President and avoid an attack. So, the authority to launch got distributed down to the theater commanders. Who then used the same logic to distribute the authority down further. IIRC, Ellsberg interviewed an airbase commander a few miles from the DMZ in Korea who had the authority to launch a nuclear strike.

And, there was only one plan. … nuke every city in Russia and China. No matter what. And, everyone knew the codes because they never changed the combinations to the safes that held the codes and plans. So, after the first drill, everyone on the strategic bomber knew the combination to the safe and could read all the codes and the plan that was so secret that the Pentagon Generals refused to let President Eisenhower see it for security reasons.

So, at least in the past, there wasn’t really any ‘nuclear codes’ and the whole bit of someone following the President around with ‘nuclear football’ was a fiction. Some base commander named Col Jack Ripper could indeed have launched a nuclear war anytime they wanted to.'

I feel sorry for anyone who lives on a flood plain there.

peemee.10centuries.org.

'During more than 40 years of active journalism, including a stint as a defence reporter, I have never once been prevented from writing anything by a so-called ‘D’ Notice (nowadays they are officially DSMA Notices, if you care), until now. I used to scoff when people told me that such things were common, or that I was constrained in reporting by them. Now I cannot.'
—Peter Hitchens

Hopefully you won’t be sharing with snorers.

sumudu.me.

Miserable people aren’t happy unless they’re miserable.

matigo.ca.

Proper camping in tents?

sumudu.me.

Yeah, mocking fake people is always funny.

matigo.ca.

Liberals aren't that much of a homogenous bunch. I'm sure there are plenty of liberals who don't subscribe to the notion that anyone can be any gender they want. However, pro-abortion seems to be almost across the board amongst liberals. I don't think I've ever heard of an anti-abortionist left-winger.

matigo.ca.

It’s nice when a coffee shop has a certain style, as long they as they’re not trying too hard. I used to do late coffeeshopping as well. Don’t want riff-raff annoying me 🙂

matigo.ca.

Nice atmosphere inside?

matigo.ca.