Re: Titor\'s Collapse Still Nowhere In Sight
Let us count. The Iraqi war over Nukes that never existed has come to pass. Mad Cow is on the rise and currently their is much controversy about it because the symptoms mimic Altimerz in humans. The US has lost many civil rights since 2000. A woman is running for president and will in all likely hood win despite the popular support for Paul. The poem has been written by a soldier that never heard of Titor. Currently the Canadian dollar is worth more than the US dollar. And now (as already mentioned) the Lakota. ......
From the mundane to the prolific things Titor spoke of continue to come to pass.
The only problem here is:
1. We were at war with Iraq when TItor was posting. Under the Clinton Administration the US was bombing Iraq almost daily. So the offer that the "Iraqi war over Nukes that never existed" is a false premise. Moreover, Titor didn't say that there would be no nukes found in Iraq. He said, "Are you really surprised to find out that
Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting the next war?"
2. Titor didn't indicate that Mad Cow Disease would be a minor, though deadly, problem. This is the exchange with Jeffrey
Jeffrey: ((3. Name any near future shock event that makes history - political assasinations, inventions, marriages etc, same rules - it should happen soon with nobody having a clue it was about to happen (exept maybe time-travellers).)
Titor: You mean other than the mad cow
pandemic
That's "pandemic" - not epidemic. And the context was the "near future" - not twenty years from that time (which would be rather silly because twenty years after Titor was posting Mad Cow, even a pandemic, would pale compared to his nuclear nightmare scenario that kills 3 billion people).
Pandemic...
That's a disease that is widespread over the entire planet, like the flu of 1919 that killed 25% of all mankind. So far we don't even have an "outbreak" of Mad Cow in an isolated population let alone a pandemic.
3. A woman running for President. You mean Hillary. Uhhh...that's a surprise? Of course Hillary is running for President. That's always been her stated goal.
4. It's not surprising that one of the poems was written by "a soldier who never heard of Titor". The two titles share some common words. The underlying poems have zero commonalities. They don't even share a common theme.
5. The Canadian dollar has been worth more than the US dollar at other times too.
6. The Lakota means what relative to the Titor Saga? Titor never said a single word about the Sioux or Russell Means. And Russell Means has been cranking the same old Model T Ford since 1968.
