Poor Mr Wellington having to follow that….unless he goes full death metal in rebuttal.

Guess whose hooves aren't getting stuffed into the Wellingtons tonight!

Looks good. Would be nice to have some cameos from the original cast. There is also wellington paranormal which is set in the same world.

Here is the problem, Mr. Schlosser is a journalist, not a Nuclear Scientist. He does not understand, or has chosen to ignore for propaganda reasons, that an unarmed warhead is EXTREMELY unlikely to perform the exact sequence of events that need to take place to have a nuclear reaction happen.

Yes, he is fully correct in that we have had numerous 'butt-clenching' moments in which we could have started WW3 due to a malfunction or human error. But in the other cases he mentions, such as the bombs that landed on Spain, the lightning bolt on the tower, and the wrench on the rocket, the chance of the warhead going up while being unarmed is infinitesimal. They simply don't go 'boom' because of a collision or explosion. Now you could have a 'dirty bomb' type incident where the radioactive materials could be spread and come into contact with humans, but that is about it.

The cases that have been officially listed as Broken Arrows were because they involved an active bomb, like the one in Florida. Everything else he mentions in this video is his 'belief' and is conjecture.

Now, before I get unloaded on, I wish we didn't have nuclear weapons. I don't agree with Trump that we should renew the arms race, I think he is nuts since we have more than enough weapons to blanket the cities of the world more than a couple of times. If you add all the nukes from the Big 3 (USA/Russia/France...yes, France) there are enough to cover every single inch of the world.

The problem is, who bells the cat? If we give up all of our weapons, we are at risk. I wish we weren't, but we would be. If we bring down our numbers gradually, there are still other countries that may not, like North Korea. How do we trust the other country is actually following through? In a perfect world, we would all lay down our weapons and sing kumbaya, but as Heinlein wrote: "...Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."

PS...Yes, I know Starship Troopers is a controversial novel with overtones of Militarism and Fascism. However, there are quotes that ring true no matter what 'ism' people attach to the overall story. If you doubt that, look at the utter disbelief and depression that overcame liberals when Trump won. "He simply was supposed to, it was impossible, not like this, we have no hope, etc" were the feelings of the people who gave him no hope of winning. I, having lived and read enough to get a fair picture of how fucked up we are as a species, had little doubt he could pull it off. We elected a former Wrestler as governor, a former actor as governor, and a former actor as President. We overlook mass genocide in other countries. We ignore climate change. We spend hundreds of billions on defense and less than 10 on space exploration, all the while living on a planet that is already critically overpopulated (and is growing almost exponentially).

The House Sgt. at Arms is actually in charge of overseeing security details for the House. Parliment Hill has a weird system, where as the Sgt. at Arms runs security inside the house, the RCMP cover the outsides, and the Ottawa Police cover Wellington St.

His office is right next to the front door that guy ran through, so he was one of the first and closest people to respond.

I'm a Canadian who loves the history behind these types of positions. When things calm down, ask us about our giant mace.

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That was an Air New Zealand aircraft, it landed at Blenheim, it's original destination was Wellington (the 3rd largest airport in the country) the pilot opted to make the emergency landing in Blenheim for several reasons. Here is a news article: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411425/1187269

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I love tilt shifts! And Wellington looks gorgeous!
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oh yeah, we're like,... best friends In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
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That's the city I live in :
In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Maangchi's latest Gapshida series uploaded video was in Wellington, New Zealand! Is this close to your neighborhood?
http://videosift.com/video/How-to-make-Korean-hot-pepper-paste



Oh wow! I thought it sounded familiar! \^\^ So... do you know the guy in the video???

In reply to this comment by berticus:
That's the city I live in :
In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Maangchi's latest Gapshida series uploaded video was in Wellington, New Zealand! Is this close to your neighborhood?
http://videosift.com/video/How-to-make-Korean-hot-pepper-paste



Oh wow! I thought it sounded familiar! So... do you know the guy in the video???

That's the city I live in
In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Maangchi's latest Gapshida series uploaded video was in Wellington, New Zealand! Is this close to your neighborhood?
http://videosift.com/video/How-to-make-Korean-hot-pepper-paste

Maangchi's latest Gapshida series uploaded video was in Wellington, New Zealand! Is this close to your neighborhood?
http://videosift.com/video/How-to-make-Korean-hot-pepper-paste

wellington, new zealand.

yeah. saw "Bad Taste" when it came out, as a teenager, and loved it, which is why i was a bit surprised when i heard he was going to do LotR. he was David Cronenberg with punchlines, y'know?

i also remember thinking, wow, Derek put on a few pounds, eh? i guess Dereks really don't run... but it suits him well. like Kevin Smith, or Tom Selleck with a mustache. just looks goofy without it.

nice little shoutout to Wellington there, too! @berticus just got a chubby.