WHAT IS BEING HIDDEN WITH THE NEWS OF LOS ANGELES???????

[onecent]

[Guaranteed]

1. *blink* You tell me, man. nt

[acmejack]

19. Police are at full tactical alert

seems like PG&E should be as well...

[bertha katzenengel]

55. which means officers are not allowed to end their shifts until it becomes

clear they are no longer needed.

Ooooh... :tinfoilhat:

[King Coal]

20. We have a malfunction in a junction box.

Old, old, old electrician joke.
:rofl:

[Guaranteed]

23. My bet is on a loose joist. nt

[bigbrother05]

50. You people are distracted so easily, think about whats going on

They are trying to get the reporters out of New Orleans, so they can hide all the bodies.

[Guaranteed]

52. HA! If THAT'S their plan, it'll never work.

There are so many media whores in L.A., they could supply the whole world.

[bigbrother05]

74. Think about it shrubs numbers

are at an all time low, Brownie resigns, Roberts hearing. This guy only operates in a way to deceive and distract.

[Guaranteed]

77. This all about FEAR. There's nothing wrong. There's no bogeyman

under the bed.

Yes, there ARE terrorists out there, but as long as there are rational, everyday explanations for a goings-on (and there are MANY for this), I'm going to go with that.

Everything's fine.

[bigbrother05]

90. Bait and Switch

I wasn't implying that there wasn't anything more than the usual bush bait and switch. I was also responding to the question. I didn't say one thing about terrorists. Just pointing out the medias attention span.

[Guaranteed]

92. Well, I mean, are you even saying

that BushCo had something to do with it?

I guess I even kind of implied it, by accident, in one of my responses to another thread- it's kind of ingrained, at this point, which is what makes this thread so understandable in my mind.

But are you thinking that?

[bigbrother05]

94. Maybe. Maybe not

but the media are like ambulance chasers.

[flowomo]

2. why are you YELLING???????????????

and who says anything is being hidden?

[Guaranteed]

4. Are you hiding it too? nt

[flowomo]

6. crap, my diversion failed?

[onecent]

31. oops, sorry for yelling, but sometimes this govt. makes me furious..

and what do you mean, "Who says anything is being hidden?"
What rock you been under?

[justiceischeap]

3. So true, I'll give you a bump (eom)

[Canuckistanian]

5. OK, I give up.

What IS being hidden?

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. The next national disaster/tragedy

Have to wonder about LA International. THey're having flickering, but are still operating. If it goes down, have to wonder about the planes in and on the ground not receiving control tower info.

[Guaranteed]

36. There are like five or six airports within fifty miles, there.

They should be okay.

[Garbo 2004]

44. Backup generators....? n/t

[mccoyn]

111. They seemed to handle it in the NE -nt

[beam me up scottie]

43. Shut up, you're probably in on it, you...you...CANADIAN !!!

:evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

102. I resemble that remark!

And dueling is still legal in Canada. (slaps "beam me up scottie" with wet maple leaf).

Satisfy my honor, sir!

[progmom]

7. do tell.

[Guaranteed]

8. Pssst.

Squirrels.

[progmom]

11. i thought it was bees.

you know...in his head. :shrug:

[Guaranteed]

21. I think he's talking about a power outage in L.A.

Seriously, though, a number of years back, I was camping at Shaver Lake over on the eastern side of CA, with my family, and a squirrel got into a transformer, blew it up, and started a MASSIVE forest fire that we ended up having to deal with for the rest of our vacation. Fire engines everywhere, planes, helicopters overhead dropping all kinds of water.

It started as a huge "BOOM"- then smoke...then a LOT more smoke...then fire, across the hills...

So.

I say it's squirrels. :)

[Carla in Ca]

17. What is going on?

Could it be in regards to the blackout. All downtown and parts of the valley are out. That's all I've heard so far.

[Renew Deal]

27. Alien squirrels have landed in LA.

[Beaverhausen]

41. ack ack ack ack

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. Quick! Call FEMA!

Tell them to send all the Slim Whitman CDs they've got!

[incapsulated]

63. Are they going to blow up Congress and the President?

I'll supply the nuts!

[SmokingJacket]

9. If you find out it won't be hidden!!!! nt

[maine_raptor]

10. The landing of the aliens?????

[enigma000]

12. You need the secret password n/t

[Skidmore]

14. The appointment of another political operative to head FEMA...

[paula777]

15. I don't understand how they don't know what is causing the blackouts nt

[Garbo 2004]

26. LA Dept Water & Power say they accidently cut a line. It could happen.

Then there's a disruption in the forc...I mean grid. And things shut down by design. Then it takes time to bring things back up.

I recall some stupid shit that caused a SF blackout years ago. It's not always a major event that causes a major event.

[ClassWarrior]

16. Maybe they don't like how Judge Stepford's hearings are going?...

I dunno, I haven't been following them. Just a guess.

NGU.

[WiseButAngrySara]

18. One MORE Coincidence....that is NOT! Someone cut a power line

"accidentally"...NOT!

[Garbo 2004]

32. And you know this, how? Because you think so?

[WiseButAngrySara]

65. I heard on CNN and MSNBC that 'someone accidentally cut a power

line' and that it had NOTHING to do with the terra alerts yesterday, and was just COINCIDENCE...But all the media can talk about now, is NO FEAR, NO FEAR, NO TERROR, FLASE ALARM, JUST COINCIDENCE, JUST ACCIDENT.....

I say JUST ROVE!

[Guaranteed]

69. Don't they usually do the opposite? nt

[SlavesandBulldozers]

yes, they usually do the opposite.

usually anything like this is met with "Terra Terra Terra has done it again".

[Garbo 2004]

93. And if it were Rove, wouldn't they be ramping up the fear quotient?

Fact is, things like this happen. They really do. Before Rove and likely after Rove as well.

And if it were Rove, then it should be somewhat more spectacular oh say like http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/02/blackout.final/ :

July 3, 1996
Web posted at: 1:00 a.m. EDT
From Reporter Susan Reed

SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- Much of the western U.S. was blacked out Tuesday when three key power lines failed. Throughout the crisis, employees at electric companies worked tensely to make sure that the unexplained line failure somewhere in the western power grid did not turn into a massive blackout...

...The outage affected parts of Oregon, California, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada as well as the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, according to the Bonneville Power Administration, which oversees the power lines in the Pacific Northwest.
=====================================

They did eventually figure out the cause as I recall. But now that was a blackout to catch one's attention.

Or, on a smaller scale, a 1998 SF blackout, due to human error:
http://www.sfmuseum.net/alm/outage.html

If this LA blackout was a "manufactured" event as some would claim, then it's a piss poor attempt given the possibilities.

[ContraBass Black]

97. Humph. I don't even remember that.

I was 11 at the time.

[beam me up scottie]

33. Oh brother...

Like the power never went off BEFORE this administration came to power...

[Garbo 2004]

54. I recall locally when a Pac Gas & Electric crew cut into one of their own

gas lines when they were doing some work and there was a bit of excitement when it went *boom.* Not a major event and fortunately no one was seriously hurt to my recollection, but sometimes shit does happen.

[beam me up scottie]

66. Shit does happen, doesn't it ?

Egad, with all of the problems California has had with power, this is suspicious ?

:banghead:

[WiseButAngrySara]

98. With this administrations' approval ratings at an all time low, and the

Day after a suspicious terror alert is resounded, VOILA...the SAME city has a power failure, and that's just a coincidence?
Sorry for my cynicism, but I don't believe anything about this administration, including angel face Roberts.

[Garbo 2004]

101. Let's see, Rove can control LADWP and CA's transmission grid, he was

involved in the creation of Hurricane Katrina (or was it the Chinese?) and again Rove also was involved in creating the 2004 Sumatra earthquake. Pretty powerful guy.

But apparently the one thing he can't control are the polls that come out with Bush's approval ratings?

[Psephos]

104. LOL I couldn't have said it better myself. nt

[WiseButAngrySara]

105. I never said ANYTHING of the kind...Someone could have intentionally

cut the wires as per request by Mr. Rove. You think he's responsible for hurricanes and earthquakes? I pity you if you do, but that's your problem, not mine. He might not be able to control the current polls, but Diebold certainly won this past election. (And if you've read ANYTHING on the evil political tactics that this subhuman sociopath uses, you'll have no doubts that he was involved in all manner of media manipulation and voting fraud.)

[Garbo 2004]

112. And just as, actually more, easily and likely someone screwed up as

people do without Rove providing instructions.

The blackout (which did not impact all of the LA area btw) was a transient thing and the media hopped on it with glee hoping for the next big story. Which it wasn't. It was the equivalent of a freeway chase in terms of lasting impact on the national news cycle. Hasn't taken the Katrina debacle off the air and won't. Iraq is still a continuing disaster and the polls are what they are.

No I don't think Rove and the Administration is responsible for hurricanes and earthquakes...but some folks here do. Perhaps you missed the threads here where precisely that was discussed and asserted.

For some here apparently there no longer are any natural events or accidents without Rove & Co being involved.

I'm well aware of Rove's history and manipulation. That doesn't mean when a utility worker screws up (and they do on occasion) Rove is behind it. Want to talk about vote manipulation and "caging" of prospective voters in the 2004 election as a prelude to orchestrated disenfranchisement? Fine.

But it's difficult to maintain credibility when similarly asserting that any local hiccup in the electrical grid must also be the work of Rove. And again, perhaps you missed the threads where some folks seriously asserted the Bush Administration was responsible for the Sumatra earthquake. More likely that there are disinformation campaigns to lure the credulous so as to label libs and dissenters as conspiracy theorists and loons when matters such as orchestrated voter disenfranchisement and manipulation of votes are discussed.

[jmowreader]

35. With WHAT? Shaped charges?

The power line leading into LA is three wires (three-phase power) and each one is bigger around than you are.

[onecent]

46. Totally agree with you WiseButAngrySara. n/t

[Zhade]

100. Prove it.

NT!

[leftofthedial]

22. That Pamela Anderson's breasts aren't real?

That Tom Cruise is a closeted gay?

I give up.

What?

[CottonBear]

24. Giant solar flares a few days ago may have disrupted the power grid. n/t

[leveymg]

25. They're preparing to nuke the sun, then Iran, then Syria, then Gretna

in that order. It's to stop the Terra Terraist Liberation Front looters.

[Guaranteed]

29. Man, I've been wanting to nuke the Sun for YEARS.

Always getting in my eyes. Sick of it.

[electropop]

34. The Sun _is_ a nuke - a giant hydrogen bomb.

Sorry to disappoint your sore eyes. :P

[Guaranteed]

40. It's actually FUSING, though. Hydrogen bombs fission.

:P

And THAT'S what I can't stand about it. We need to bring it down to the fission level. Then maybe it would stop BLINDING me!!!

Sick of it.

[leveymg]

58. When we nuke it, it'll stop fusing, and we'll hear a big fizzing noise

That way, we'll know we've won the war against the terra terraists.

[Guaranteed]

64. Exactly.

Listen for the "plop, plop...." ;)

THEN we know it's working.

[electropop]

110. Thanks for the diagram.

It makes the whole thing so clear. :rofl:

[electropop]

109. No, uranium & plutonium bombs fission.

Hydrogen bombs fuse, just like the Sun. In fact, a hydrogen bomb uses a built-in fission bomb as a detonator.

[shance]

28. Ding ding ding**Onecent gets a gold star for asking the correct question!!

:)

[onecent]

38. Thanks Shance.. I was feeling like I said the wrong thing too loudly n/t

[SlowDownFast]

106. 2 peas in a pod.

[beam me up scottie]

39. No, they get a tin foil b*tt plug .

[shance]

73. No Scottie honey, thats for you :)

n/t

[beam me up scottie]

79. Ah, another parrot. Can't think up your own?

BWAWK !!! Tinfoil theory of the day !!! BWAWK !!!

[jmowreader]

30. It's just a couple of loose screws that are to blame

One of them is in the governor's mansion in Sacramento. The other is in the White House.

This is what we get for putting energy-company-funded politicians in power.

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. You'll figure it out...

when the lights go back on and you can see the diversion.

[Guaranteed]

42. Does L.A. still exist?

Anyone know? :)

[Misunderestimator]

45. PERHAPS IT IS THE BLOB?!!!?

:scared:

[Guaranteed]

49. SQUIRREL blobs. nt

[Guaranteed]

51. Either that, or it's the undead.

FINALLY.

[Renew Deal]

67. It's a chemblob

[henslee]

103. Bingo.

[henslee]

47. I used to care about these ings like you do. Sigh. Now I don't waste

my time. Our collective ass is permanantly fucked. The final straw that did it might be this thread from yesterday. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4740929&mesg_id=4740929

[beam me up scottie]

53. Your grip on reality?

Perspective?

[ClusterFreak]

56. Oh, oh, oh!!!! I know this one!!!

"I'll take tinfoil hat conspiracy theories for 200 Alex."

[Name removed]

57. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[beam me up scottie]

60. Well said!

:applause:

[terrya]

59. Isn't it a power surge?

That's what I've been hearing.

I don't know why anyone would want to keep that hidden. :shrug:

[Guaranteed]

71. Haven't they been having power problems in CA just in the last

month anyway?

[MissB]

61. Massive piles of tin foil.

*end transmission*

[nini]

62. are we really that paranoid now?

That a freaking power outage is the end of the world?


FEAR is the worst enemy right now. People need to get sensible and deal with things like this that are inevitable.

[incapsulated]

68. Now?

Every time anything at all happens there is a conspiracy thread about it here.

It's all part of the conspiracy to distract us with fake conspiracies to cover up the real conspiracy!

[beam me up scottie]

75. Bunch of screaming me me's

peeing their pants and hiding in the closet every time they hear a sound.

:eyes:

[maine_raptor]

76. That is the most perfect description of Shrub's 9/11 actions ever

Congrats :toast:

[beam me up scottie]

82. Oh, I hadn't thought about that !!!

The similarities are hysterical !!!
:rofl:

Thanks!
:toast:

[Guaranteed]

72. It does kind of sound as if the "terra" alerts have been working. nt

[lonestarnot]

70. Grannies' Gum?

[Jersey Devil]

78. It's horrible! Cats and dogs sleeping together!

It's the end of the world!

[Beaverhausen]

80. LOL!!! Thanks for the laugh!

[Guaranteed]

81. LOL!! "MASS HYSTERIA!!" NT

[beam me up scottie]

83. ROFLMFAO !!!!!

:spray:
Priceless !
:rofl:

[incapsulated]

88. lol

:D

[alcibiades_mystery]

84. IS IT YOUR MEDICATIONS?????

:evilgrin:

[Guaranteed]

86. Alright, come on, guys.

This is totally understandable with the way BushCo has set things up, here.

No one's crazy for thinking like this. We have to work AGAINST it, though.

Fight the bullshit with rationality. PLEASE.

[Terran]

91. Hee hee!

Bad! :spank:

[melting the beehive]

85. It's a distraction to get people to not think about NOLA

and to stop talking about it.

[Beware the Beast Man]

89. Oh, for fuck sakes, no it isn't.

It's a power surge.
Welcome to DU, I think...

[Beware the Beast Man]

87. HAMBURGER!!!!!

[nickgutierrez]

95. Unless there is something other than circumstantial evidence for this...

Occam's Razor says this is just a power outage. :)

[ronnykmarshall]

96. Oh mu' gawd!

[Taxloss]

99. Sometimes, a power cut is just a power cut.

Shit happens.

[kestrel91316]

107. My intital reaction, once I realized the power problem was not

quickly followed by a mushroom cloud, was GOSH, what an incompetent bunch of terrorists! They can't do any better than this???? So we had 2 hours of snarled traffic and a few people stuck in elevators downtown. BFD.

Then I heard about the incompetent DWP boobs cutting the line, and it was like a balloon deflating ............. what? no terrorists????

Bummer.

[Zynx]

108. L.A. DWP has a couple morons working for it.