Washington Is Beating The War Drums

[Nitro Express]

I'm going to wear mirrored aviator glasses and a captain's hat with lot's of gold fringe on it.

[Nitro Express]

I'll take the job! Do I get to wear wacky third world general outfits? I must warn you now - I fully intend to invade Cuba the very first week on the job and change the name to Whore Island.

Nothing has changed accept now we are bad guys.

[DONNIEP]

Yeah that's outside Tuscon, Arizona. They have a tour of an old Titan missile silo. The day we took it they had a guy who was a real launch officer there. Sadly I didn't get picked to be the guy to write the codes down and turn one of the keys. I love all that old 60's clankity clank ding dong equipment. Man. The sirens and bells are loud as shit. The tour guide said when it was functioning all the equipment running was loud as hell.

What a place to live. If you were getting raided by the authorities just close the blast door. Good luck with that battering ram mother fuckers!

How cool would it be to live there? Saturday nite, take about 14 beers down in the silo, put on the PBS First Strike video..."Sir, we have multiple confirmed inbound ICBMs." Oh yeah, turn the key baby, turn the key.

[FORD]

Yeah that's outside Tuscon, Arizona. They have a tour of an old Titan missile silo. The day we took it they had a guy who was a real launch officer there. Sadly I didn't get picked to be the guy to write the codes down and turn one of the keys. I love all that old 60's clankity clank ding dong equipment. Man. The sirens and bells are loud as shit. The tour guide said when it was functioning all the equipment running was loud as hell.

What a place to live. If you were getting raided by the authorities just close the blast door. Good luck with that battering ram mother fuckers!

I've been to the Titan missile silo. Kinda cool to visit, but I think I'd probably get claustrophobic if I had to spend more than a few minutes down there. Let alone launch missiles that would kill millions of people.

There used to be another missile silo north of Tucson, in Catalina. Back in the 80s, that one was decommissioned and they built a church on the site. Pretty much a 20th century version of "turning swords into plowshares", I guess. My grandmother was a member of that church from day one, up until the day she died. Actually, she's still there. Or her remains are, at least. Buried on the site.

[twonabomber]

There's an old Nike missile site not far from here, a bit closer to my work than my house. Once it was decommissioned the county got the property and now the road department stores equipment in the underground bunker.