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Civil War: ASA v. USA (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page)

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Today, 12:52 PM EDT by Chief3x7

Thread started: Jan 27 2008, 10:59 PM EST Watch

I did some number crunching (it’s what I do) and calculated the populations of both the ASA and USA to see who would win out in civil war assuming all other things are equal. Some information is sketchy so I made some assumptions while doing my math. First I totaled up each state’s population and divided it using the Mississippi River as a dividing line. Pending any additional information Hawaii Alaska and Texas are in the nation of Wild Card. I determined that that prior to the attacks the ASA had a population of 103,576,541 while the USA had a population of 169,777,079 and the Wild Cards had a population of 25,463,335. This puts the USA at an advantage of 66,200,538 or a ratio of roughly 1.6391. In order to compensate for radiation casualties and general death from chaos I assumed a 100% death toll of the Metro populations of the 23 attacked cities. I say 23 because at the beginning of episodes one and two of Season 2 Jake establishes it so. By piecing together information the 23 cities are as follows.

ASA: Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Kansas City (I chose this city over Lawrence because it was close enough and Lawrence didn’t make sense) , Minneapolis, St. George (Which seems highly unlikely but I can find no reasonable alternative) and Seattle.

USA: Hartford, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Washington D.C.

Wild Card: Dallas, Houston

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RE: Civil War: ASA v. USA
By: Chief3x7, Today, 12:52 PM EDT

"Chief;
You have been around here for quite some time. You know where and when it has been determined that the DC device went off.

I do understand the intent of your comments however. That is the point that I was alluding to in my message. I just became nervous after typing the above message. Did not want to give anyone specific ideas."

I've gone to a number of the damage calculator web sites and plugged the 25Kt bomb size, placed it on or near The Mall, the Cliche and most likely location to place a bomb for maximum effect inorder to determeined if I would have survived in the Jericho universe. I think I would have survived as I live far enough outside the city. However, I'm sure I would be part of the first responder contigent responding to the aftermath.

That being said, I don't think there is another city, other then maybe NYC, that has more equipment in place to detect such devices, nuclear or biological. As far as giving anyone ideas, the ideas are already there. It seem that Al Quieda is stuck on DC, and NYC as their only target.

If they, provided there really is a 'they', really wanted to damage this country, it would make more sense to go after smaller targets, small yield but high psychologic value. Put a couple of small devices in a few subway systems and maybe a few buses. Hit a McDonalds, maybe a Pizza Hut or two, and a couple of shopping malls, a few movie theaters, and maybe in some resteraunt and bar districts like Buckhead in the Atl or Georgetown in DC, the Village in NYC and watch what happens then. They could shut this country down and forever alter life as we know it down in this country and not with high technology, but simple store bought supplies. it would'nt have to be complicated either, and probably not require suicide bombers either.

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A GREAT STUDY

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Friday, 8:49 PM EDT by prairiems

Thread started: Thursday, 3:35 PM EDT Watch

I've been places & seen things that most Americans haven't. We take far too much for granted. i.e. Open borders & allowing (being forced to welcome) foreign cultures in that dilute & pollute truth. A true study of history (not government high school text book crap) obviously points to which forks in our road to take; yet we haven't. Like Steven King's book (& 2-CD movie) "The Stand" & the older movie "The Morning After", Jericho is A GREAT STUDY. What happens to people when discomfort sets in & fear dictates to the people which leader to elect. When reason & logic are foresaken so to coddle fear & the way it used to be. The haves (those who prepared) & the have nots (those who sloughed-off & rely on others including the government). Life is about change & change is life. People, we are viewing a microcosm of the next decades' extremely probable realities. Politically & morally just like Rome, we are destined to experience a very hard fall. We -the United States of America- have to before the rest of the world enters into WWIII & that new world government we are being hearded into. Yes, A GREAT STUDY.
P.S. Stellemojo; You had really better study what causes "war". Your ignorance shines darkly & are likely to be one of the ones who walk about in denial AFTER the fact.

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is jericho coming back

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Thursday, 10:26 PM EDT by kedzucat

stellamojo

More Supportive Knowing Gerald McRaney is Not on Board

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Thursday, 4:35 PM EDT by Sarge09

Thread started: Sep 29 2008, 1:55 PM EDT Watch

I have to say, McRaney is a scary, scary individual. Because he's played military men on television, he seems to feel he is one, or at the very least a veteran, and his politics appear to me to be one of war, as if he wouldn't mind something like what happened on Jericho to happen for real. I'm much more supportive of the show knowing he'll no longer be a part of the cast. I certinaly support my family members, friends and others fighting today, and veterans of past wars, but am not a war advocate. Wars are what causes things like what happened in Jericho to happen for real.

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By: Sarge09, Thursday, 4:35 PM EDT

I'm glad I took out a day to compose myself before writing a comment back on this one. The first reason I got on any of the message boards about Jericho was when they killed off Gerald McRaney in what I thought was the last SEASON episode, only to findout out like every one else they had cancelled Jericho. Gunnymojo you are right on with your comment and I also believe stellamojo's comment is all about politics and not about acting skill or character development on the Johnston Green character. Going hand in had with that I think stellamojo's comment illustrates exactly why Jericho was cancelled. It struck too close to home on several topics including the current economic mess we find ourselves in. Greedy corporate America has showed its ugly face once again only instead of it being a fictional Jennings and Rall we are now looking at a real Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual Bank, Wachovia, etc. The program struck a nerve with the Ravenswood - Blackwater parallel and Second Amendment issues. Yet when Jericho was in need of survival it was individual rights, i.e., Second Amendment and hunting rights, that instantly became a necessity and not some vaguely debated issue of “what ifs.” Herein lies the true basis of the stellamojo comment she is a sheep. The sheep stand together to be comfortable not wishing to think about the wolf in the woods stalking thme because that would be uncomfortable. To protect them are the sheepdogs but the sheep don't like the sheepdogs either because they are aggressive like the wolves and tell them what to do. But when the wolf comes the sheep call for the sheepdogs to protect them. After the wolf is driveoff the sheep dismiss the sheepdogs and again wish them to go away.

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Jake & Heather!!

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Tuesday, 3:42 PM EDT by tomeczek132

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ALL POLITICS ALL THE TIME FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO DISCUSS THE SHOWS UNDERLYING AGENDA

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Sep 29 2008, 8:12 PM EDT by Sandbagger

Thread started: May 6 2008, 4:59 PM EDT Watch

hello people i am a 53 year old female army brat. i would to save jericho its the best. but has any one stoped to think that may be the show is hiting to close to home?our government puts gauge orders out on a lot of things we dont no about.on what thay think we cant handel. we elder people lol were told to stop, drop and role. fact is our kids havent even ben told that. this show can help us teach our kids how to help themselfs and others if it did happen. it is not about ratings who cars if a star can dance or if some one can eat a bug. reality!!!!!!!!!! bigbrother and" im not talking about the tv show "is every were in our schools on our money pertty much every were. even on how to handel our kids. in my day i wouldnt get away with most of what our kids can .isnt that sad ? its turning in to a world of indifference. i think we live in a unique country! and there are people out there that want to take that away from us. point is will we let them? we'v ben lazy that has to stop. we have to take back !. i think this show is about taking back. has any one read nostradamus he predicts the new world will be taken from within in this century. i think it has already started. we need to be prepared as a people. he even predicted the twin towers. it makes you think about alot of things. is cbs being gauged! we no its not the ratings. i want to thank you for listning to my ramblings. forgive the spelling i also put full seasons on my my space under lindas06551
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TV AD CAMPAIGN CONTINUED - PART 2

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Sep 29 2008, 3:47 PM EDT by KevinUkFan

Thread started: Jul 20 2008, 4:01 PM EDT Watch

We also looked into airing the ad on The Dish Network. (MPower does not deal with Direct TV yet)
And at first, this seemed a little more doable. For an average of $3500 we could have aired close to 100 spots and since Dish TV has close to 14 million members, on its face, that would sound pretty good. BUT, the problem with Dish TV is that the ads are created and sent via a particular demographic, which for us, would have been in the 18-30 year old age group, a scifi fan, and medium to high earning potential. Those in that particular demographic would be the only ones who would have seen it, regardless of where you live and what your watching at a particular time. That cuts the 14 million down to about 7 million before you even factor in those who are somewhere else and do not have their TV's on.
We also received word from members of the Jericho crew and cast that we continue to air the ads in LA/Hollywood and NOT go for a more national plan. A vast majority of decision makers are in the LA/Hollywood area and they believed that doing it nationally would be a mistake also.
So it is with that info we decided that we are just going to air the ad in the LA/Hollywood area.
We are still waiting on somethings to pan out first before we put the actual link to donate. As of right now, we've got about $1800 or so in the war chest to use for this so when we do put the link up and officially start donations again, we are only going to leave the link up for about a week or so and whatever we have at that time, we will send to Time-Warner so they can get the ball rolling.
As soon as I have more info, I will send it out as it should only be a few days or so before we open up for donations again.

Thanks!
Chris (GenPatton43)

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