Hawaii - 1st State to Prep For N. Korea

[TomK]

I can't wait for Hawaii County Council to join the bandwagon and add to their requirements for a safe room in new houses. I won't be surprised if they add atomic bomb blast and fall-out proof requirements to the code. After all, it's something they might think gives the impression they're doing something useful and saving the people they serve.

[TomK]

DT,

I actually read some idiot online claim that Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings created no fallout. I guess all those people with melting skin were just belly-aching complainers. ... SIGH... Now we have nuclear fallout deniers. There is so much misinformation out there about how absolutely devastating any nuclear attack would be that it scares me.

Just a minor correction although not a pleasant topic. The melting skin thing was from the initial fireball, not the fall-out. Fall-out is much more insidious, more wide-ranging and very deadly. It's not something I like thinking about, to be honest. Any nuclear strike on or just offshore of the Hawaiian islands will be catastrophic to everyone here, in one way or another, but such a strike is extremely unlikely in my opinion. I really can't believe we now have fall-out deniers. Aren't there enough other things they have to deny?

[PaulW]

It gets worse, our own Dear Leader regularly consorts with people who think that radiation is actually good for you.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Tips from the government on their "Ready, Nuclear Blast" web page:

Wash your hair with shampoo or soap and water. Do not use conditioner in your hair because it will bind radioactive material to your hair, keeping it from rinsing out easily.
https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-blast

A safety tip that's not only good for you, but good for your pocketbook too.

Moonless, this June night is all the more alive with stars. It's darkness is perfumed with faint gusts from the blossoming lime trees, with the smell of wetted earth and the invisible greenness of the vines. -Music At Night, Aldous Huxley

[Tink]

Look around the pharmacies for a poison oak/ivy soap and treatment by the name of "Technu", or similar. They have an anti itch gel, soap, and a pre exposure treatment. The stuff was originally invented as a "fallout" soap, but with the Cold War ending they found it also worked excellent on poison oak, and other plant based skin irritants and changed their marketing technique.
I, and others have used it and it works fantastic!

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[geochem]

Seriously, guys???....???

If you look at KJU and his past history, he's a drama queen... What he hates worst of all is to be ignored. He periodically makes these ridiculous threats and claims and gets everyone to focus on N. Korea and then extract some form of extortion. We have two drama queens at work now KJU and Trump the Chump. Although there may be some room for doubt on this, I don't think either is terminally stupid, or suicidal, so these two buffoons will bask in their media glory and do not much of anything until said media gets bored and moves on...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Although there may be some room for doubt on this... these two buffoons will bask in their media glory and do not much of anything until said media gets bored and moves on...

I agree, the chance of a missile strike in Hawaii any time soon is minimal. Although we also prepare for plenty of hurricanes that never arrive, and tsunamis which wouldn't knock over a 4 year old at Richardson Beach.

As far as a discussion on Punaweb that might tangentially refer to and include either Donald Trump or Kim Jong-un, and in turn somehow gain their attention making us inadvertently complicit in the media circus swirling around them, I believe the chance of that happening might be even less than a missile strike anywhere in the islands whether by legitimate nations or rogue political factions.

As proof of my convictions, I intend to continue my wanton use of hair conditioner.

(It's) what the existentialists called "awful freedom" the reinvention of irrationality by marginalized people, just in order to spite science. -Elif Batuman

[terracore]

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Originally posted by Tink

Look around the pharmacies for a poison oak/ivy soap and treatment by the name of "Technu", or similar. They have an anti itch gel, soap, and a pre exposure treatment. The stuff was originally invented as a "fallout" soap, but with the Cold War ending they found it also worked excellent on poison oak, and other plant based skin irritants and changed their marketing technique.
I, and others have used it and it works fantastic!

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I remember their commercial! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNz6MM93LE

[Chas]

Oh yeah, Technu skin cleanser and their companion product Calagel are "the bomb" for combating poison ivy. See how I kept it on topic? []

[Tink]

"Ivy Armor" is the pre exposure "soap" that I described. Story goes Inventor developed the soaps during the Cold War. Apparently sales were dropping as the "war" de escalated and his kids came down with a good case of poison ivy while camping. Mom figured they had enough stuff sitting around the garage and decides to try it on the kids skin, and a new use was discovered.

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