|
|
| |
Topic: 50 years ago, Tampa was on
front line of Cuban Missile Crisis |
50 years ago, Tampa was on
front line of Cuban Missile Crisis
Tampa Tribune, by Ted Jackovics
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:Hazymac, 10/21/2012 11:24:47 AM
|
| TAMPA -- On a Sunday morning during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, operators at a satellite tracking radar site reported a missile had been launched from Cuba and was heading toward Tampa. Projected impact: 18 miles from MacDill Air Force Base. The Strategic Air Command on Oct. 28, 1962, was on the highest alert in history: DEFCON 2, one step short of imminent war. The president and Pentagon feared a surprise attack, and that's exactly what the missile rocketing toward Tampa appeared to be. But none of the command's bombers or missiles was launched. The report was false;
|
Comments:
Fifty years have passed since the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was the coldest point on the Cold War--so cold, in fact, that nuclear war which is the hottest of wars--was one miscalculation away.
This article pays special attention to the multitudes of responsible people on the ground in October 1962 who massed aircraft and nuclear armements so they could be delivered, if necessary, to their targets in Cuba and the USSR.
Did you know that the Pete Seeger type protestors, beset by dogs as they approached the nuclear armed aircraft, risked being shout?
|
 
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Constitutional, 10/21/2012 11:49:25 AM (No. 8950092)
My father was sitting on a tarmac in a plane with engines running, waiting for the order to go mid-air refuel nuclear armed bombers -- several flights of which had no recall codes.
It was a very near thing... and not something to forget.
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac, 10/21/2012 12:07:33 PM (No. 8950147)
Ah hem. "...risked being shot." I think it was the air force and their logistical ground support who risked "shout."
In 1966 the United States had an arsenal of some 31,000 nuclear and thermonuclear warheads. The USSR had 41,000 as of 1986. Did you know that Obama wants to cut our stock (currently slightly below 10,000) to 300? Pakistan has over 100 atomic bombs.
|
| |
|
Reply 3 - Posted by:
FL_Absentee_Voter, 10/21/2012 12:19:28 PM (No. 8950175)
I would like to think that any lib who gets near a nuclear weapon even today encounters a high risk of getting shot. Was never directly responsible for it but near enough to conclude that nuclear weapons security is one thing we still take very seriously.
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
AppleAnnie, 10/21/2012 2:08:34 PM (No. 8950436)
#1 Wow! Just wow! That was a frightening time for Americans, those long days Russian ships steamed toward Cuba to break the blockade. It's fascinating now to read about our always excellent military and what they were doing in the background. Your dad was in the thick of it. Thank him for me. I was away at college at the time and we were all very, very worried: mass and rosary every morning, crowded in front of the 6 o'clock news every night, many calls home for reassurance. You are right. We came right up to the edge.
|
Reply 5 - Posted by:
bob913, 10/21/2012 3:06:27 PM (No. 8950573)
Caused by Kennedy who wanted to act tough but was inexperienced and nearly caused the deaths of millions.
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Hazymac"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "Hazymac"
|
Tampa doctor´s son accused
of killing unborn child
|
|
Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg], by Patty Ryan and Will Hobson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Hazymac- 5/16/2013 12:06:12 PM
Post Reply
|
|
TAMPA — The son of a Lutz fertility doctor killed an ex-girlfriend´s unborn child by tricking her into taking an abortion drug, federal authorities said Wednesday. The act could put John Andrew Welden, 28, in prison for life. Welden forged the doctor´s signature on a prescription for Cytotec, relabeled a pill bottle as "Amoxicillin" and told the woman that his father wanted her on antibiotics, a federal prosecutor asserted Wednesday. The incident occurred in March after an ultrasound at Dr. Stephen Ward Welden´s office confirmed the pregnancy, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Muldrow. The doctor, a board certified
|
| |
|
IRS wrongdoing threatens to become
a major issue for Democrats
|
|
Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Hazymac- 5/13/2013 2:07:21 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The situation surrounding the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups worsened over the weekend with a series of revelations that suggest it could grow into a major political problem for Democrats over the coming months. (Snip) What became clear in the first 72 hours of the story was that this (a) wasn’t an isolated, dumb incident by some random field office, (b) was something high-level officials were aware of, and (c) was going to be in the news cycle for quite some time. The problem for Democrats is that the IRS’s targeting of conservatives plays directly into
|
|
A Dangerous Mind
|
|
PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Hazymac- 5/12/2013 11:58:49 PM
Post Reply
|
|
A science fiction short story written many years ago narrated the efforts by human colonists to eradicate vermin they found on their newly settled world. (Snip) The problem with knowledge is that its proper employment is not a function of pure science. It is a function of cultural morality and governance. Why do people worry about a North Korean nuclear bomb and not a Canadian one? Canadian technology is far superior to North Koreas, but there is general confidence in its ethical capacity to control the employment of that capability while there is probably none whatever for North Korea.
|
Trekking the Har Ki Doon
Trail in India´s Himalayas
|
|
Wall Street Journal, by Henry Wismayer
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Hazymac- 5/11/2013 2:42:38 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The graffiti scrawled on the bunkhouse exterior struck me as rather impatient. Surely there were worse places to be waiting around than the Garhwal Himalayas, where the peaks of northern India jostle with the mountains of Tibet and Nepal. Yet among the Sanskrit prayers that had been written on the walls, some wag had inked: "Where the hell is Chanderam?" The bunkhouse caretaker evidently had a habit of running late. His were not the only whereabouts I was pondering. I was in some of the most majestic mountain-country on earth, looking out over a sweep of alpine meadows
|
Dali Museum staging 24-hour
reading of artist’s autobiography
|
|
St. Petersburg Tribune, by Kate Bradshaw
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Hazymac- 5/11/2013 1:02:32 PM
Post Reply
|
|
ST. PETERSBURG - One by one, on a small stage in a room overlooking an elaborate garden and the the bay beyond it, 80 people are taking turns reading excerpts from “The Secret Life of Salvador Dali,” the artist’s autobiography, in 15-minute increments. (Snip) “[It’s] supposedly a confessional,” said Peter Tush, the museum’s curator of education. “He took advantage of factual stories of his life and modified them and distorted them and created these hyperbolic stories that are deliberately falsified.” (Snip) “He’s such an eclectic individual that he acts as kind of a hub for a lot of different types
|
Crist support for gay marriage
part of long trend
|
|
Tampa Tribune, by William March
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Hazymac- 5/11/2013 12:47:00 PM
Post Reply
|
|
TAMPA - Former Gov. Charlie Crist announced this week that he supports allowing same-sex marriage in Florida, the latest in a trend toward pro-gay-rights stances by Crist during his political career. That aligns Crist, a former Republican, with the other Democrats generally perceived as the party’s potential candidates for governor: Sen. Bill Nelson, former state Sen. Nan Rich and former state finance chief Alex Sink of Tampa. Nelson, formerly opposed to marriage rights for same-sex couples, recently announced he has changed his position and supports it. Rich, who’s running, and Sink, who’s considering running, both said
|
| |
|
|
The final victim of Benghazi
|
|
PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Hazymac- 5/11/2013 10:31:19 AM
Post Reply
|
|
The penultimate casualty of Benghazi may be the effort to unseat Assad from Damascus. The BBC ran a story that could have come from the pages of the Belmont Club. “Could Syria conflict become regional war” involving Israel via Lebanon? Ya think? (Snip) The Russians remembered what Obama never learned. Always control the man to whom you give the gun. Whatever Assad’s moral defects may be he knows where his orders come from. The problem for the administration is what now? First of all it is by no means certain that the President can throw the Titanic into reverse.
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Analyze this
|
|
Power Line, by Scott Johnson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: MissMolly- 5/19/2013 11:33:33 AM
Post Reply
|
|
What did President Obama do on the evening of 9/11/12 when our men were under attack in Benghazi? The invaluable Andrew McCarthy reminds us that Obama and Secretary Clinton had a 10:00 p.m. phone call of which many (including, I think, Chris Wallace) have lost sight. This morning when Wallace asked Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer what Obama was up to that evening, Pfeiffer declared the line of inquiry “offensive.” Translation: Obama and his minions would prefer to “move on” and are warning the likes of FNC off:(Snip for video)The Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper has posted the rush transcript
|
Evidence emerges that Obama
administration official knew of
IRS targeting during 2012 campaign
|
|
CBS News, by Margaret Brennan
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: earlybird- 5/18/2013 9:01:39 PM
Post Reply
|
|
WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS´ targeting of conservative groups. Inspector General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS. The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the investigation until last week.(Snip)Marcus Owens ran the tax-exempt division at the IRS for 10 years. He said it isn´t difficult to figure out who´s doing what at the agency.
|
Obama: "As An African American
You Have To Work Twice As Hard
As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By"
|
|
Real Clear Politics, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 6:55:47 PM
Post Reply
|
|
PRESIDENT OBAMA: You are the mantle of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington and Ralph Bunche and Langston Hughes and George Washington Carver and Ralph Abernathy and Thurgood Marshall and, yes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These men were many things to many people and they knew full well the role that racism played in their life. But when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses. Every one of you has a grandma or an uncle or a parent whose told you at some point in life
|
Camelot Is Burning
|
|
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Christopher Burton
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: mitzi- 5/18/2013 8:16:11 PM
Post Reply
|
|
It began in earnest last Friday. A flash mob of latte drinking, tofu eating media that has done its best to quell, rather than fan the flames of truth, turned on one of their own. Jay Carney lay bludgeoned at the base of the podium, a victim of friendly fire. Ironically, the attack was reminiscent of the one in Benghazi he has repeatedly denied the Administration he represents bears any responsibility for. “Changed twelve times?!” came the cries. And with good reason. We were misled; no, lied to.
|
| |
|
Watergate 2.0 -- why the
IRS scandal is far worse
|
|
Fox News, by Matt Kibbe
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM
Post Reply
|
|
In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,
|
Lew asks Congress for debt increase,
says it’s ´not open to debate´
|
|
The Hill, by Peter Schoeder
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: DW626- 5/18/2013 6:12:33 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday urged congressional leaders to raise the debt limit and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over the increase because lawmakers have "no choice." "We will not negotiate over the debt limit," Lew wrote. "The creditworthiness of the United States is non-negotiable. The question of whether the country must pay obligations it has already incurred is not open to debate." Lew said that while President Obama is willing to discuss plans to reduce the nation´s deficit with Congress, those talks must be kept separate from any effort to raise the nation´s debt cap.
|
McCaskill Calls For Firing Of All
Involved In IRS Targeting Scandal
|
|
KMOX [St, Louis], by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 5/18/2013 2:46:31 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Washington – Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, issued a video statement Friday in response to reports that the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeted conservative nonprofit groups. (Snip) “There’s a reason Lady Justice wears a blindfold in America. That is because in America, we don’t apply the law based on who you are, who you know, or what you believe. We apply the law equally.” “We should not only fire the head of the IRS, which has occurred, but we’ve got to go down the line and find every single person who had anything to do with this and make sure
|
| | |
|
|
