Is skarpi saying that the government in Iceland is taking this seriously in order to warn us that they may launch a pre-emptive strike against the US?

With all our active troops mostly in Arab countries, and our few remaining National Guard forces busily engaged in patrolling our southern border, or so ill equipped that they can no longer properly spit-shine their boots, it might be quite easy for even a small nation like Iceland to inflict massive and horrible damage here.

Just think of the chaos and disorientation that would result if a precision strike force of a dozen or so troopers managed to invade and shut down iTunes headquarters and even a quarter of their servers. It would cut the very heart and soul out of half our population.

Capturing just one major football or basketball coach could reduce our entire economy to a smoldering, stinking heap; and if they got a major player in the deal our communications and media people would have nothing left to talk about, so they'd probably just turn off their stations. A road block at the K-Tel distrubution warehouse (any one of them) would definitely terminate public media communications, since without "paid commercial announcements" there'd be no programming to broadcast.

I personally intend to take skarpi's innuendo quite seriously. It's 02:00 in the morning here now, but as soon as the shops open, I'm heading out to stock up at least on beer and weiners for the seige. If I've got funds left after the essentials I might even lay in a couple of sets of mando strings just in case.

And skarpi - if you make this far in, we can probably bunk a couple or three in the camper out in the back yard. Ordinarily I'd offer the spare bedroom, but we are expecting house guests toward the end of the week.

John