Total Eclipse Aug. 21st?

Well you don't need a lot of money to prepare. Canned goods, some gallons of water 88 cents, candles those glass ones at the grocery store are great, even for power outages. Make sure you have a way to light them. If you have a grill, get charcoal or gas. First aide stuff from a dollar store. Main thing in non perishable foods and water.And some cash in case the stores start selling items cash only. If you have enough warning fill the bathtub with water to flush toilets, and to wash up with. Antibacterial wipes are good also, another Dollar store item. Most of the stuff you can get at a dollar store. It's just being a good girl/boy scout

Honestly the problem is, we are lucky to have $5 by mid-month, and we only get paid once a month, the 3rd. So, the water thing we could do, but our water is contaminated already. The rest, as cheap as it is, would still be hard to come by depending on how long we have to prepare.

OMG the sky is falling LOLOL

Seriously though, I might hit up the shooting range soon and get into some martial arts classes. In the unlikely event that things go down, at least I will have the chance to exact my vengeance on everybody who has ever wronged me.

Fun times!

Just a couple points about this. 1. If the US did this, China would become quickly involved (they have stated already that if we strike first the will come to N. Korea's aid, If N. Korea struck first they would stand down) and South Korea would take a major hit. (My opinion, it is this certainty that has kept us from taking action prior to this.) Hundreds of thousands of lives, if not millions, could be lost, including US Military and their families. 2. The Thadd (not sure I got the acronym correct) system is not fully tested and in theory should work, but there is no guarantee that it would.

So my take on this? We need to be cautious and smart about this. I'm not sure our President is capable of that. I personally think that he is trying to incite a first strike by North Korea so he can strike back without China getting involved. Or, I could be completely wrong and he is just playing a dangerous game to force North Korea to back down. North Korea has already called his bluff and he made more threats in response. Who knows what he'll do next.

Yes, North Korea does think that the US is a threat to them, and the threats coming from the current administration gives them at least some validity. A dangerous "game" is being played. Don't get me wrong, as a veteran I am all for protecting our country, territories and allies and having a strong military. The events over the last few days have been over the top though and I really hope things settle down. Any type of war with North Korea would be catastrophic.

Man this thread must of triggered me last night because I must have pissed off or upset a lot of people.

This is why I generally don't get involved in politics though because it is too must of a drain on my mental state when I have no power over it anyways.

Part of me wishes that many of these countries would lost most of their power because I don't like authority figures or anybody else having that kind of power.

Still though, my behavior was rather ****** and I'm sorry. I am unsubscribing from this thread to prevent myself from being further triggered.

I'm not pissed at you in any way. I am just pointing out my concerns about the situation.

Yes we bought them on Amazon. It's kinda cool being able to stare at the Sun.

Well hopefully none of that will be needed. Your water is already contaminated? Have you applied for financial assistance?

May be a good idea but make sure you are fighting the right person.

N. Korea never got over the US involvement from the Korean war and has been building rockets to get to the USA since Junior took office. Junior wants to gain the respect of his people and the World by doing something big. This has been going on a long time and he's just now ready to carry out a threat. He needs no prodding, his goal is to instill fear in Americans and he probably will act and send the first shot just to show the World he means business. Too many people thought that he would never get the missile capability that he has. China has tried to talk to him but it was a no go. I have no doubt there will be another Korean war, but I expect he will stay close to home with the missiles. If it's nuclear then a lot more people will be affected than just the target site. I hope it never happens but if he shoots a missile this way after being warned not to. That's on him.

I'm not upset, you are entitled to your opinion like everyone else. Just some people take tings more seriously than others, that's all. No problem with me.

Cool, I bet it is something to look at the sun.

I've been reading up on this a lot recently. You outline a very relevant and possible scenario. There are a lot of military analysts who feel that the goal of being able to reach the continental US with a nuclear missile is a goal towards deterrence, not so much a wish to actually strike. That the goal is to be able to say to the US and it's allies, "if you strike us, we can strike back". There reasoning behind this is that in any war North Korea would ultimately lose, and likely the regime would be overthrown, they know that and don't want that to happen. And you are right, he needs no prodding, which is why, in my opinion, our current President prodding him is foolish. I truly hope there is not a war as it would be catastrophic.

a 14 year old cousin with a hand granade is still very dangerous to those within his range because of that lack of emotional or mental maturity just waiting for an excuse to use it on whoever pisses him off. Those are the most dangerous because they dont think logical like the rest of the people & no one knows how someone like that will respond to anything said or done. It used to be called a " lose cannon"