Thursday, January 14, 2010

And People Wonder Why Libertarians Assume Government Incompetence

As you probably remember, after 9/11, the newly-created Department of Homeland Security and its head Tom Ridge suggested to the country--with a straight face and no irony--that should there be a chemical or biological attack on the United States, every prepared American would have duct tape to seal themselves in their homes.

Duct tape. (Audio NSFW)

As Lewis notes in the link above, during the Cold War, the powers-that-be told kids to hide under their school desks in case of a nuclear attack. Let that sink in: to defend against the force of nature that powers the Sun and all the stars in the sky--the enormous and unfathomably hot titanic balls of fire--the government said "get under wood."

But as illustrated in the graphic below, this Cold War-era PSA provided an even dumber suggestion--I know, I didn't think it was possible either.  Check out #4:


Apparently, newsprint and anything under it is impervious to nuclear fallout.

SAVE THE NEWSPAPERS!!!

(Thanks to Tim Andrews for the link.)



1 comment:

clay barham said...

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