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(New York Daily News) Strange Glenn Beck warns that today's Emergency Broadcast System test amounts to a government takeover of your TV and radio. Well yeah, isn't that the general idea?   (nydailynews.com) divider line 169
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make me some tea [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:16:32 AM
The free market should notify the public of major emergencies.
 
ignatiusst [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:23:07 AM
So is this where they tell everyone that elections have been canceled and Obama is the leader of the new world order?
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:26:28 AM
Wait until he finds out we've got a government agency that regulates the airwaves. He's gonna cry.
 
nekom [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:29:09 AM
What's the deal on this anyway? I heard something about it on NPR this morning. I thought they had required weekly/monthly tests as it is. What is this some sort of nationwide super test?
 
Vodka Zombie [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:33:51 AM
nekom: What is this some sort of nationwide super test?

Yes.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:44:51 AM
nekom: What's the deal on this anyway? I heard something about it on NPR this morning. I thought they had required weekly/monthly tests as it is. What is this some sort of nationwide super test?

It's a precursor to Obama sending the Tea Partiers away to concentration camps.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:45:26 AM
nekom: What is this some sort of nationwide super test?

Yep. Those tests are so the local system works. The test today is to make sure the nationwide system works in the event of, say, a nuclear attack.
 
nekom [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:49:40 AM
GAT_00: Yep. Those tests are so the local system works. The test today is to make sure the nationwide system works in the event of, say, a nuclear attack.

So throughout the entire cold war, they have NEVER done this? Seems sort of surprising.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:56:49 AM
nekom: GAT_00: Yep. Those tests are so the local system works. The test today is to make sure the nationwide system works in the event of, say, a nuclear attack.

So throughout the entire cold war, they have NEVER done this? Seems sort of surprising.

I'm thinking there was more upkeep so they knew it worked then.
 
Calmamity [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 10:57:47 AM
nekom: GAT_00: Yep. Those tests are so the local system works. The test today is to make sure the nationwide system works in the event of, say, a nuclear attack.

So throughout the entire cold war, they have NEVER done this? Seems sort of surprising.

Well, there hasn't really been a threat of worldwide nuclear war until now.
 
yanceylebeef [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:07:34 AM
nekom: GAT_00: Yep. Those tests are so the local system works. The test today is to make sure the nationwide system works in the event of, say, a nuclear attack.

So throughout the entire cold war, they have NEVER done this? Seems sort of surprising.

They used to do this once or twice a year, and stopped in 1991.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:08:17 AM
The most fundamental role of a country's government is to protect its people. Beck is an asshole.
 
MeinRS6 [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:09:48 AM
Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?
 
vartian [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:12:48 AM
MeinRS6: Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?

What makes you think any of us are going with you? My official Obama clipboard arrived just yesterday... :)
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:16:32 AM
vartian: MeinRS6: Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?

What makes you think any of us are going with you? My official Obama clipboard arrived just yesterday... :)

It's almost disappointing there aren't FEMA camps so we could get rid of people like him.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:17:42 AM
vartian: MeinRS6: Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?

What makes you think any of us are going with you? My official Obama clipboard arrived just yesterday... :)

I'm still waiting for DHL to deliver my jackboots. Stupid DHL.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:19:07 AM
I assume they are using this to share the word that Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries will resume their sham marriage this afternoon. Our long national nightmare is finally over.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:19:47 AM
make me some tea: vartian: MeinRS6: Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?

What makes you think any of us are going with you? My official Obama clipboard arrived just yesterday... :)

I'm still waiting for DHL to deliver my jackboots. Stupid DHL.

Good thing you ordered before Obama signed the order to do away with swag. I had to buy my Teabagger Cattle Prod on Amazon.
 
Godscrack [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:20:06 AM
This is the big one. Here I come Elizabeth!
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2011-11-09 11:27:35 AM
Diogenes: make me some tea: vartian: MeinRS6: Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?

What makes you think any of us are going with you? My official Obama clipboard arrived just yesterday... :)

I'm still waiting for DHL to deliver my jackboots. Stupid DHL.

Good thing you ordered before Obama signed the order to do away with swag. I had to buy my Teabagger Cattle Prod on Amazon.

Dammit! I should have gone with the cattle prod when I had the chance. I went for the Joe Biden beer cozy instead.
 
oldernell [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:29:26 AM
So it's going to knock beck off the air for a few minutes. Well, it is a public service announcement.
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2011-11-09 11:29:35 AM
Diogenes: make me some tea: vartian: MeinRS6: Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?

What makes you think any of us are going with you? My official Obama clipboard arrived just yesterday... :)

I'm still waiting for DHL to deliver my jackboots. Stupid DHL.

Good thing you ordered before Obama signed the order to do away with swag. I had to buy my Teabagger Cattle Prod on Amazon.

Oh and slightly off topic, but did everyone get the updated directives from behind the interstate signs already? I don't want any of you trying to dump off rounded up teabaggers at the lesbian run organic recycling center by mistake.
 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:48:23 AM
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Diogenes: make me some tea: vartian: MeinRS6: Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?

What makes you think any of us are going with you? My official Obama clipboard arrived just yesterday... :)

I'm still waiting for DHL to deliver my jackboots. Stupid DHL.

Good thing you ordered before Obama signed the order to do away with swag. I had to buy my Teabagger Cattle Prod on Amazon.

Oh and slightly off topic, but did everyone get the updated directives from behind the interstate signs already? I don't want any of you trying to dump off rounded up teabaggers at the lesbian run organic recycling center by mistake.

I was just going to leave them at the landfill. I can't do that?
 
Jake Havechek
2011-11-09 11:54:36 AM
Glenn Beck then stated that Ivory Soap leads to witchcraft because it floats, George Soros controls the weather, and giraffes are secret communists.
 
Lando Lincoln [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 11:57:25 AM
It's a subliminal indoctrination signal. Everyone that hears it will turn into a gay liberal in mere seconds.

It's time! It's time! Put on your masks!
 
Philip Francis Queeg
2011-11-09 11:59:11 AM
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Diogenes: make me some tea: vartian: MeinRS6: Is this when we all find out which FEMA Camp we are assigned to?

What makes you think any of us are going with you? My official Obama clipboard arrived just yesterday... :)

I'm still waiting for DHL to deliver my jackboots. Stupid DHL.

Good thing you ordered before Obama signed the order to do away with swag. I had to buy my Teabagger Cattle Prod on Amazon.

Oh and slightly off topic, but did everyone get the updated directives from behind the interstate signs already? I don't want any of you trying to dump off rounded up teabaggers at the lesbian run organic recycling center by mistake.

I was unclear on whether we still have to send the teabaggers to the death panels before the go to the camps, or will the camps have their own death panels?
 
make me some tea [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:00:49 PM
Jake Havechek: Glenn Beck then stated that Ivory Soap leads to witchcraft because it floats, George Soros controls the weather, and giraffes are secret communists.

Oh come on, are you living under a rock? Everyone know you can never trust a giraffe.
 
violentsalvation [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:02:09 PM
nekom: GAT_00: Yep. Those tests are so the local system works. The test today is to make sure the nationwide system works in the event of, say, a nuclear attack.

So throughout the entire cold war, they have NEVER done this? Seems sort of surprising.

This is different because it is on every channel and radio station at the same time. Back then the stations would run their tests independent from one another.
 
Weaver95 [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:02:16 PM
so is it time to sing the Doom Song?
 
Jake Havechek
2011-11-09 12:02:48 PM
 
jehovahs witness protection [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:06:20 PM
As long as they don't interrupt Netflix, I really don't care.
 
GaryPDX [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:08:06 PM
Lando Lincoln: It's a subliminal indoctrination signal. Everyone that hears it will turn into a gay liberal in mere seconds.

It's time! It's time! Put on your masks!

Sunglasses. Put on your sunglasses!

3.bp.blogspot.com
 
Lumpmoose [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:10:50 PM
So does FEMA require the participation of local TV and radio broadcasters to transmit their signal or does FEMA literally flip a switch that takes over all airwaves? If the latter, that would be awesome and super-villainy.
 
Jake Havechek
2011-11-09 12:14:02 PM
"What's the difference between a Belgian and a lump of dog shiat? The Belgian drinks wine, but the dog shiat smells good. "
 
GaryPDX [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:14:53 PM
Lumpmoose: So does FEMA require the participation of local TV and radio broadcasters to transmit their signal or does FEMA literally flip a switch that takes over all airwaves? If the latter, that would be awesome and super-villainy.

You've never heard the Emergency Broadcast System? They flip a switch. During Mt St Helens blowing, it was wall to wall. Every radio station and every TV station all day that day. Nasty little screeching sound worse than two modems humping.
 
Sybarite [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:16:07 PM
GaryPDX: Lando Lincoln: It's a subliminal indoctrination signal. Everyone that hears it will turn into a gay liberal in mere seconds.

It's time! It's time! Put on your masks!

Sunglasses. Put on your sunglasses!

[3.bp.blogspot.com image 500x255]


Hey brother, there's something new going down.
 
MeinRS6 [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:17:10 PM
Unimpressed by all of this -

i.imgur.com
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:17:17 PM
GaryPDX: Nasty little screeching sound worse than two modems humping.

You've always gotta blame the dems, right Gary?

heh...
 
GaryPDX [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:18:13 PM
NewportBarGuy: GaryPDX: Nasty little screeching sound worse than two modems humping.

You've always gotta blame the dems, right Gary?

heh...

lol..well?
 
bunner
2011-11-09 12:21:35 PM
*SSSSSPPPPRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAK!*

"what's that?" *looks at TeeVee*

"In the case of an actual emergency, this station will scroll some text telling you the sh*t has hit the fan".

Works for me.
 
SlightlyManic [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:24:25 PM
Weaver95: so is it time to sing the Doom Song?

I'm gonna sing it now.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:28:55 PM
make me some tea: Jake Havechek: Glenn Beck then stated that Ivory Soap leads to witchcraft because it floats, George Soros controls the weather, and giraffes are secret communists.

Oh come on, are you living under a rock? Everyone know you can never trust a giraffe.

You know damn well that giraffes have never tried to hide their communist tendencies.
 
Ghastly [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:29:03 PM
I am seriously at a loss to understand why anyone takes anything Glenn Beck says seriously.
 
Lumpmoose [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:29:10 PM
GaryPDX: Lumpmoose: So does FEMA require the participation of local TV and radio broadcasters to transmit their signal or does FEMA literally flip a switch that takes over all airwaves? If the latter, that would be awesome and super-villainy.

You've never heard the Emergency Broadcast System? They flip a switch. During Mt St Helens blowing, it was wall to wall. Every radio station and every TV station all day that day. Nasty little screeching sound worse than two modems humping.

I have. I was just wondering if the stations flip to the signal at the scheduled drill time or if the EAS overrides everything in the country and the stations can't do anything about it short of yanking out government hardware.
 
The Onanist [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 12:30:21 PM
Philip Francis Queeg: I was unclear on whether we still have to send the teabaggers to the death panels before the go to the camps, or will the camps have their own death panels?

Just make sure they have dug their own graves first.
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2011-11-09 12:30:38 PM
ecmoRandomNumbers: I was just going to leave them at the landfill. I can't do that?

No, they'll go feral. Especially in your area. But for Allah's sake, when you drop them off don't try to stuff them into trash bags.

Philip Francis Queeg: I was unclear on whether we still have to send the teabaggers to the death panels before the go to the camps, or will the camps have their own death panels?

The camps have their own death panels. ACORN has a pretty nice setup they let us borrow.
 
birchman
2011-11-09 12:30:42 PM
Is this the day they declare martial law? I was promised martial law. And FEMA camps.
 
Brandyelf
2011-11-09 12:30:53 PM
Ghastly: I am seriously at a loss to understand why anyone takes anything Glenn Beck says seriously.

Didn't he used to have a TV show? Or something?
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2011-11-09 12:31:59 PM
make me some tea: Jake Havechek: Glenn Beck then stated that Ivory Soap leads to witchcraft because it floats, George Soros controls the weather, and giraffes are secret communists.

Oh come on, are you living under a rock? Everyone know you can never trust a giraffe.

Evil herbivores!
 
Jake Havechek
2011-11-09 12:32:22 PM
In the old days, it wasn't done by satellite, it came over the telephone lines.

That's why the infamous "Heidi Game" could not be brought back up quickly, as most stations carrying the football game had already disconnected, and some markets were getting their video feed second or third hand.
 
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