Should America declare a War on Lightning?

[Toots]

Mathmatically the odds are greater that the average American will be struck by lightning than by terrorists. America is groveling in fear over terrorism but not lightning, Why?????Americans are willing to give up their Constitution because Bush* told them they have to over something that probably will never effect them in any real meaningful way, Why???? Lightning is the true culpret so let's have us a War on Lightning and the decider can still be Commander in Chief and strut around in a military uniform..only we won't be killing women and children..

[datasuspect]

1. FEAR LIGHTENING!!!!11111

SERIES!!!!111

THIS IS HUGH!!!!1111

[Virginia Dare]

2. What about a war on sharks...

they are the worst kind of terrorists.

[leesa]

19. We did that already....remember? At least 2 summers of it, one of them

while they were planing 9-11.

[Virginia Dare]

20. Oh, so it was a cut and run strategy...

:7

[HereSince1628]

3. Actually, Ben Franklin already did that. We are winning.

The inventor of the lightening rod has saved us untold billions of dollars.

[CrispyQ]

4. Yes!

Let's put our CIC on top of a hill on a stormy night with a kite & a key attached.

[treestar]

5. We need a war on the automobile

And a war on smoking.

A war on gangs would give the Bushco even better excuses for wiretapping Americans without warrant. Now they have to at least allege there is a foreigner involved.

[soup]

6. The puck drops

in one month 20 days 11 hours 56 minutes 53 seconds!!!!!

Be very afraid.
http://www.tampabaylightning.com/

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. We have done SO well with our other "wars"

like the war on poverty

the war on drugs, well, the war on some drugs

the war on crime

the war on terror

forgot one... the war on alcohol

sure, let's declare another one

[Toots]

9. But we are a country born in war and can not live without it

We must have war. We must, it is in our blood.. War War War.. It is what America is good at. At least talking about it and stomping our feet and making threats. Why do you hate America???

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. I don't hate America, just some Americans

mostly those who think they are in charge.

HeHEHe... good luck with your war

[jobycom]

8. Faulty comparison.

Not defending Bush's BS "War on Terror," just pointing out the problem in your comparison.

The chances of being struck by lightning are going to remain reasonable constant no matter what we do. You can minimize the risks, or ignore the risks and increase your odds, but only be a little--the final results depend more on natural forces than us.

Not true of terrorism, or whatever we choose to label terrorism at any given time. These are attacks by humans. The likelihood of being killed by a terrorist can go up dramatically or decline dramatically based on circumstances, such as how angry we are making people, how easy it is for someone to carry off an attack, etc. In other words, the fact that we have intelligence services intercepting most terror attacks (going back to the 80s) decreases the odds of terror attacks greatly. Were we to remove all airport security, all intelligence, all investigation of possible threats (and I'm not saying anyone is calling for that), the odds of us being struck by terrorists could go up dramatically.

BushCo is using threats of terrorism as a political tool, no question, and Bush's "War on Terror" is a thinly disguised power grab, and a weak excuse for various glamor wars BushCo wants. He's blowing arrests out of proportion. But terror attacks would go up if we weren't making efforts to stop them. Lightning strikes are going to remain pretty constant.

[Toots]

10. Well if you use logic you become unAmerican

Using your logic though we could do away with Lightning Rods and see if the death rates from lightning go up or not. It is also under our control somewhat......

[jobycom]

17. Yeah, I have that problem a lot.

Removing lightning rods wouldn't change the frequency of lightning strikes, just the location.

[pepperbear]

11. you know....there was that "LIGHTNING DETERMINED TO STRIKE

THE US" MEMO. do you think they ignored that one too?

[Ian David]

13. Road Rage kills something like 300 times more people than terrorism. n/t

[Ioo]

14. War on Cars? - War on Cancer?

[Jamastiene]

15. Good idea.

Can we declare War On Strong Winds while we are at it? I mean we could sneak a clause in there to bring quite a few right wingnuts to justice too, while we are at it. All that hot air coming out of their mouths is adding to the global warming problem.

[TX-RAT]

16. NO

But i would love to see some serious attempts to catch and harness it.

[lonestarnot]

18. Yes, yes he should. And he should lead the charge on his metal bike

with a sky rod to test how high the clouds actually are in that sky! And can we get a string with a key on that rod?

[lectrobyte]

21. We need a War on War. We might win that one.

[sinkingfeeling]

22. I believe it is now standard practice to declare war on 'things' or

'thoughts' or 'tactics' or 'actions'.