Nuclear War started by a bear

WarGames was on tonight. Just finished watching it for the 99th+ time. Still a great movie. Got me thinking though, how many times have we gotten close to Nuclear war in error.

Found this link http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/1998/01/00_phillips_20-mishaps.htm

Some interesting mishaps.... But this one caught my interest.

"1962, October 25: Duluth intruder
At around midnight on 25 October, a guard at Duluth Sector Direction Center saw a figure climbing the security fence. He shot at it, and activated the "sabotage alarm". This automatically set off sabotage alarms at all bases in the area. At Volk Field, Wisconsin, the alarm was wrongly wired, and the Klaxon sounded which ordered nuclear-armed F-106A interceptors to take off. The pilots knew there would be no practice alert drills while DEFCON 3 was in force, and they believed World War III had started.

Immediate communication with Duluth showed there was an error. By this time aircraft were starting down the runway. A car raced from the command center and successfully signaled the aircraft to stop.

The original intruder was a bear."

Probably was a Russian bear. Also, contrary to popular belief, I guess the finger was never on the proverbial 'button'. Nuclear annihilation is activated by Klaxon. This would probably would scare the crap out of any Bear.

Comedy Central Cowards

I JUST watched the 'infamous' Mohammad episode of South Park originally aired in April '06. I am disgusted with Comedy Central's (and apparently every other major media outlet) lack of backbone. I encourage everyone to post comments at http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml and tell them to air the episode in its entirety.

Previously, South Park has aired every manner of blasphemy (to some, perhaps many). To draw the line at a simple image of Mohammad is ridiculous. The First amendment is part of what separates our free society from tyranny. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. The fact that some vague threat of reprisal can force a major network(s) to censor itself merely encourages other radical groups to attempt the same tactic.

To quote the Quran:
[Allah is] the originator of the heavens and the earth... [there is] nothing like a likeness of Him."

Well, duh that seems a little obvious. You cannot capture Allah, Mohammad, or God in a picture. Nor can a photograph steal your soul.

This is not him either but feel free to censor it also.

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(likeness of Mohammad) :-P