Zombies under attack in counterterrorism training program

Zombies may have a tougher time taking over the world after a counterterrorism training program scheduled next month in San Diego.

MilitaryTimes.com on Sunday reported that California-based security firm HALO Corp. will incorporate training to fight the undead during its Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 Counter-Terrorism Summit expected to draw 1,000 military personnel, law enforcement officials, medical experts and government workers to the 44-acre Paradise Point resort island in San Diego’s Mission Bay.


The company, founded by former special operations, national security and intelligence personnel, says its annual summit this year will include a realistic tactical training environment using “Hollywood magic” in live action demonstrations, realistic tactical training scenarios and classroom education.

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People dressed as zombies react to the camera during the V edition of the so-called 'Zombie Walk' in Mexico City, on Nov. 26, 2011.

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Immersive Hollywood sets will include a Middle Eastern village and a pirates’ haven, MilitaryTimes.com reported.

The more than 30 courses range from border and maritime security to cyber terrorism and modern warfare, HALO says in its summit promotional material.

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But a future crisis could arise from an outbreak of viruses that destroy brain cells and render people violently catatonic, like zombies, MilitaryTimes.com said.

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“The Zombie Apocalypse is very whimsical,” Brad Barker, HALO president, told MilitaryTimes.com,  referring to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campaign released last year.

Zombies who roam the island will harass the troops, first-aid teams and medical responders participating, Barker told MilitaryTimes.com.

This is an overview of the HALO Counter Terrorism Summit and the events that are taking place on HALO Island -- San Diego, CA, 29OCT-02NOV2012.

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OH MY GOD!

I want to go do this soooo bad!

This training would be awesome.

How long till everyone starts posting Zombies were made by Obama/Bush though right? Haha silly kids.

  • 17 votes
#1 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:07 PM EDT

This is starting to to get a little strange...

1) CDC & FEMA - start preparing guidlines and containment procedures...

2) Law enforcement & Military discuss how to combat and dispatch zombie threats

3) Now a joint active engagement and training exercise with Law enforcement & Military...

Some might think this is a joke and silly, but the US govt. has spent millions on this project and the only conculsion is that someone (foreign govts, taliban, al-qadia) somebody is or has created something in a lab or something has got out. biological gas or liquid serium that makes people crazy killer and hard to kill.

yes, I know what your thinking BS, but if anyone has ever seen a person on PCP, they have superstrength and have no feeling of pain and tased by (3) taser at the same time and still wont go down.. why wouldn't some lab develop a drug to turn people into non-stoppable killing machines.. and who would be crazy enough to allow this to happen to them, the same people who strap bombs to there bodies and blow themselves up..

  • 32 votes
#1.1 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:32 PM EDT

You're right. Bath salts.

  • 8 votes
#1.2 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:54 PM EDT

Agreed. I'm also familiar with PCP patients, but since the zombie scenario is now being legitimized apparently....one can only think that there is a biological weapon already made, that is still contained. Woe to the world if it gets into the wrong hands.

  • 14 votes
#1.3 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:02 PM EDT

Starting to wonder whether we are fighting zombies or Islamic extremest. Just wondering, see zombies want to survive, and what do Islamic extremest want, to survive of course. The only difference is zombies invade us and we invade the Islamic lands. Question whether your American or Islamic, who fights harder, the defenders or the invaders, just wondering?

    #1.4 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:13 PM EDT

    I heard story about a guy who was on PCP and had been pulled over by the Police during a routine traffic stop.

    According to the teller of the story he was so high and out of touch with reality that he pulled a gun on the Police and started firing at them.

    Several Police surrounded the vehicle and shot him with their 9 mm duty weapons. Supposedly the guy just laughed at them and kept shooting until he just suddenly stopped dead.

    Could you imagine terrorists getting ahold of PCP and becoming so enraged to launch attacks across the planet where because of the use of PCP they wouldn't stop coming until they were dead?

      #1.5 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:41 PM EDT

      I don't think they could follow orders if they are high on pcp. The dummies do dumb stuff anyway.

      • 2 votes
      #1.6 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:01 PM EDT

      Secret squirrels get to have all the fun. No fair!

      • 6 votes
      #1.7 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:02 PM EDT

      Fighting Zombies? First you will need to attend the Umbrella Corporation Employee Orientation

      • 14 votes
      #1.8 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:29 PM EDT

      BXURZ

      Fighting Zombies? First you will need to attend the Umbrella Corporation Employee Orientation

      been there done that !!

      • 3 votes
      #1.9 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:37 AM EDT

      Could you imagine terrorists getting ahold of PCP and becoming so enraged to launch attacks across the planet where because of the use of PCP they wouldn't stop coming until they were dead?

      I tend to think the bomb they strap to themselves tends to prevent much moving around after detonation.

      • 4 votes
      #1.10 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:24 AM EDT

      I wonder if they ever heard of the US Air Force and airstrikes

        #1.11 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:50 AM EDT

        Hmmm...I voted BEFORE I was informed!

        a future crisis could arise from an outbreak of viruses that destroy brain cells and render people violently catatonic, like zombies, MilitaryTimes.com said.

        I would like to change my vote to yes! It is a good idea to train against zombies. I've never thought about it like that, and now I won't be able to sleep tonight. Hooray for the internet!!!

        • 3 votes
        #1.12 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:50 AM EDT

        cardio, double tap

        • 6 votes
        #1.13 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:13 AM EDT

        No brainz here.... LOL

        • 1 vote
        #1.14 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:33 AM EDT

        I'm ready. Took a zombie class taught by Daryl Dixon.

        "How to avoid becoming walker bait"

        • 4 votes
        #1.15 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:38 AM EDT

        "This is starting to to get a little strange"

        A little strange Mike? What we now have, is a group of people in Washington, that believe the tax paying citizens are total morons. They really think the public will buy this load of BS, so they can continue to get the funding. What will really be scary, is if the public does buy it.

        • 5 votes
        #1.16 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:04 AM EDT

        "But a future crisis could arise from an outbreak of viruses that destroy brain cells and render people violently catatonic, like zombies,"

        Future crisis? Seems to me, that we have a large number of those zombies running many of the governments around the world, and the violently catatonic ones are trying their best to get us into a war with Iran.

        • 5 votes
        #1.17 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:13 AM EDT

        Ok, I wanna know who are the zombies? I mean really? Zombie attack training? What is going to create these zombies and why? Realistically are they expecting a riot by ordinary citizens? They are already rolling out the armored humvees (sp?) for homeland security. So why do we need them? Are they foreseeing something coming? Is this why they want to put a measure to ban guns? I have too many questions regarding this. Where the heck are these so called zombies coming from and why did they start this fad? Will it be people poisoned with chemicles, those who watch too much tv? Can someone please clarify? Im sooooo confused. I thought zombies were a creation of a bad b movie.

        • 3 votes
        #1.18 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:29 AM EDT

        This just in! Republicans efforts to defund education announced as lead effort in defending America from Zombie invasion.

        "If we don't have brains they will probably leave us alone," Rep. Michelle Bachmen.

        Yet another brilliant National Defense effort in the face of an imprending tragedy. Stay tuned for moe at 11.

        • 5 votes
        #1.19 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:13 AM EDT

        No doubt the government either knows something we don't, or they are going to make money from this in some pathetic way. Either way, as far as the training is concerned; I suppose it's a good exercise to be prepared for the unexpected - even if it is straight out of a Stephen King novel.

          #1.20 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:47 AM EDT

          I think they are referring to the mindless OWS crowd. You know all of the sheeple that are too dumb to realize that they should be protesting our current federal government. The very government that bailed out Wall Street, did nothing to punish companies that helped cause our current financial crisis, and wants to give even more money to businesses that are still failing. Those people are probably the zombies they are training against.

          • 3 votes
          #1.21 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:53 AM EDT

          More taxpayer money flushed down the toilet...

          • 6 votes
          #1.22 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:56 AM EDT

          Just another example of government emoloyees partying on taxpayer money, this time at a fancy resort in San Diego. Sounds like a really fun four days, kind of like a very expensive amusement park, that most of us here couldn't afford!

          • 2 votes
          #1.23 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:06 AM EDT

          Just another example of government emoloyees partying on taxpayer money, this time at a fancy resort in San Diego. Sounds like a really fun four days, kind of like a very expensive amusement park, that most of us here couldn't afford!

          You won't be saying that when the Zombies kick in your door and a well trained respone team shows up and solves the problem for you. Two to the chest one to the head. Dead zombie.

            #1.24 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:20 AM EDT

            mike-2598123 - you hit the nail on the head....they must know about something comming if they are...

            1) CDC & FEMA - start preparing guidlines and containment procedures...

            2) Law enforcement & Military discuss how to combat and dispatch zombie threats

            3) Now a joint active engagement and training exercise with Law enforcement & Military...

              #1.25 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:55 PM EDT

              yaaaaaaa ooooook then so the boogie mans not our problem? its zombies you say?

              i want some of whatever you guys are smokin!! geeze! really ? zombies wow im sellin anti zombie spray

              only $19.99 a can

                #1.26 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:03 PM EDT

                Bath salts, with some Pcp and a lil LSD for kicks, make some of it oil based so it stays in your system for weeks, .......

                Nope never happen

                • 1 vote
                #1.27 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:00 PM EDT

                The real Zombies they should be preparing to fight are the idiots that vote REP or DEM. Those Zombies scare the heck right out of me...

                • 1 vote
                #1.28 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:40 PM EDT

                time to start stacking up in shot gun shells

                  #1.29 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:33 AM EDT
                  Reply

                  Your tax dollars at work. I can not believe that our tax dollars are being wasted sending a bunch of law enforcement and military personnel to participate in something so completely absurd. They also could not have picked too many places that would be more expensive to have this conference than the Paradise Point resort. I live in the area and can tell you that this is not a cheap place to go, even if it is just to one of their restaurants for dinner..

                  • 9 votes
                  Reply#2 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:29 PM EDT

                  I think the Zombie idea is pretty realistic. Not that people are walking dead of course, but that people get the zombie mentality during a crisis. If your mission was to talk a truck of food to an orphanage and the sick kids in the truck heading back out of the crisis area you would have to contend with the zombies. A bunch of people would be trying to get the food for themselves and get their own butts out of the crisis area. During katrina I read something about people shooting at resue helicopter because they were grabbing other people first. Looting like crazy. People just go crazy man. Zombie crazy!

                  Also I am in the Army and I want to do some training like this so don't ruin this for me. You can all spend your farm/auto/energy/welfare/social sercurity/every other freaking thing money how you want. I want training money spent on zombie training that gets people excited to train instead of another boring sit in front of a computer pretending the cold war is heating up training program.

                  • 18 votes
                  #2.1 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:42 PM EDT

                  Go to a Wal-Mart Thanksgiving night when the doors open at 10:00 p.m. Trust me, there are zombies.

                  • 20 votes
                  #2.2 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:56 PM EDT

                  JS in SD

                  Your tax dollars at work. I can not believe that our tax dollars are being wasted sending a bunch of law enforcement and military personnel to participate in something so completely absurd. .

                  More sour grapes JS in SD ?

                  Grumpy old people and their tax dollar rants sucking the fun out of everything since 2009

                  • 3 votes
                  #2.3 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:41 AM EDT

                  The battle will probably play out like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc3Ftc_0y28

                    #2.4 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:49 AM EDT

                    Aren't you a liberal and agree to anything Obama?

                    • 4 votes
                    #2.5 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:39 AM EDT

                    I think this is ridiculous. I enjoy the zombie genre as much as the next person, but it is fantasy, not reality. It's irresponsible to be wasting money training people for this kind of stuff, especially considering all of the other issues the U.S. has that need attention. Next, we'll be training people to fight dragons, in the off chance that "Reign of Fire" might come true.

                    • 4 votes
                    #2.6 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:21 AM EDT

                    PARTY!!! It's a 'Left 4 Dead party!!"

                    • 4 votes
                    #2.7 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:35 AM EDT

                    PrimeNumber, you sound like one of the 49% who pay no income tax! You'll feel differently when it's your hard earned money they're spending! Maybe when you grow up you'll understand.

                      #2.8 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:13 AM EDT

                      lol no kidding

                        #2.9 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:05 PM EDT

                        This is being incorporated into the training because the Government has been doing research in just this type of mind disruptive biological weapons. So just in case something goes wrong they will have trained personal to deal with it.

                        They always want to have their butts covered, but not always ours..............................................

                        • 1 vote
                        #2.10 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:48 PM EDT

                        Bath salts , PcP and LsD , air express with oils to keep it in your system... thats a zombie cheap and easy...

                        Scary, very scary,

                        • 1 vote
                        #2.11 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:07 PM EDT
                        Reply

                        what is the government getting ready for?

                        • 9 votes
                        Reply#3 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:38 PM EDT
                        plorkDeleted

                        Well Plork, the left may have weapons as well, but not nearly enough of them and since they all want to just hold hands and sing Kumbyeyah songs at the right, well, who do you think would win that confrontation lol?

                        • 8 votes
                        #3.2 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:53 PM EDT
                        plorkDeleted

                        Come on guy's this crap is getting old'' left or right we are all still American's ''

                        • 17 votes
                        #3.4 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:49 PM EDT

                        what is the government getting ready for?

                        Rebellion.

                        • 13 votes
                        #3.5 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:33 PM EDT

                        It isn't a conspiracy and is actually brilliant. Watch the video, it is just a cool program to remove the blind spots from decision makers.

                        • 3 votes
                        #3.6 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:10 PM EDT

                        The government is getting ready for us in my opinion. Were the Zombies folks. The economies of the world are still a mess and our debt is unsustainable. When it all comes crashing down and people can't get basic needs, there will be civil unrest. Thats the time when you will find out first hand how your government really thinks and feels about you.

                        • 5 votes
                        #3.7 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:33 AM EDT

                        Lord Vador approves. "We will crush the rebel alliance!!"

                        • 6 votes
                        #3.8 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:37 AM EDT

                        plork, take a hike! Nobody wants to listen to your insane leftist rants. You're seriously delusional and never make any sense anyway!

                          #3.9 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:29 AM EDT

                          yeah plork beats off to his nancy pelosi poster loooooooooooooooooool ickey!

                            #3.10 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:09 PM EDT

                            "The government is getting ready for us in my opinion. Were the Zombies folks."

                            I don't think that you're to far off with that Jack. To them, we are nothing more than a money machine. They create the massive national debt, and hand the bill to us, no matter if we can afford it or not. And we are suppose to accept it with a smile, even if it is a painted on smile, as they take it away from you in taxes. Their book says, never question the governments motives on anything. To show you how brain dead the public can be, I read a post in another forum that was about taxes. The poster said, that it is in our social contract to pay taxes, and we must do it, no matter what. As I told the poster, so, in other words, we are born into taxation, because, I for one, can not remember signing any such contract from my first day on Earth, up until this very moment, let alone before being born. Because, a contract is only good when it has both signatures on it, and mine isn't on it, is yours? If this kind of social contract means giving up some of our freedoms just for the convenience of a government to take away our money in taxes so they can squander it, then I for one want those freedoms back. That social contract, make us all zombies.

                              #3.11 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:03 AM EDT

                              Obama is preparing to turn against and back stab everyone who is not brain washed enough to do what he says.

                                #3.12 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:44 PM EDT
                                Reply

                                Lest we need one more indication of just how sick the people of this country are this is it!

                                • 3 votes
                                Reply#4 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:40 PM EDT

                                niceguy2011-3991319

                                Lest we need one more indication of just how sick the people of this country are this is it!

                                indications point to your being someone in need of a sense of humor

                                you almost had one when you decided to call yourself niceguy

                                close but no cigar

                                • 3 votes
                                #4.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:14 AM EDT

                                We need braiaaaanz! Oh I'm in California? Dang none here. : (

                                • 5 votes
                                #4.2 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:39 AM EDT

                                indications point to your being someone in need of a sense of humor...could make less sense? Humor is when you tell a funny joke, a government that's stock piling on ammo isn't. And we're the idiots paying for our own demise, now that's funny, sarcastic of course

                                • 1 vote
                                #4.3 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:53 AM EDT
                                Reply

                                Apparently this training is for November, after Obama loses.

                                Most people expect liberals, once disconnected from the presidency, will become the undead.

                                • 9 votes
                                Reply#5 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:55 PM EDT

                                Like most conservatives/republicans, you don't watch anything cept fox. Your buddy 'robme' who also thinks that the median income of a household in america is $200-$250 THOUSAND dollars a year is losing, everywhere.

                                Open your eyes and look around... you may be surprised at what you see with your own eyes and not through the lies of others

                                • 1 vote
                                #5.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:55 PM EDT
                                Reply

                                Uh huh, they only WANT you to think that zombies aren't real!

                                It's a conspiracy, I tell ya! A conspiracy!

                                /lol

                                • 3 votes
                                Reply#6 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:13 PM EDT

                                Aren't you supposed to be in school today?

                                  #6.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:33 AM EDT
                                  Reply

                                  This is sooo strange...I mean common...REALY ?? ZOMBIES....In a training program...What are they going to Kill zombies...are they not already dead...or are they stand in facsimiles for..Terrorist and or Regersterd Republicans..Hard tell tell the living dead from the GOP.....

                                  • 5 votes
                                  Reply#7 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:28 PM EDT

                                  As the man said it is meant to be 'whimsical'. It is a fun training technique. I mean, really- who doesn't love a good zombie eating a brain? The CDC used a zombie outbreak scenario for training as well. Everybody should be allowed to have fun at work.

                                  • 8 votes
                                  #7.1 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:44 PM EDT

                                  Hard tell tell the living dead from the GOP.....

                                  ....nah, not really - zombies have enough sense to stay focused on what's important.

                                  • 4 votes
                                  #7.2 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:46 AM EDT
                                  Reply

                                  It's really about defending against uprising mobs in the name of the 1%.

                                  • 16 votes
                                  Reply#8 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:33 PM EDT

                                  Bingo. Finally someone gets it. 1938 all over again.......

                                  • 8 votes
                                  #8.1 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:33 PM EDT

                                  No kidding,the free stuff stops flowing and the people well riot. An Iran war well make gas very pricey.Mabe this well help make it all happen.

                                  The country is broke and kept afloat with printing and debt.Martial law coming to a city near you,or your city!

                                  I find this really funny considering all the pro Obama posts here all the time.

                                    #8.2 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:33 PM EDT
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                                    Comment author avatarBattleonExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

                                    There's nothing as zombies you sci-fi psycho d u m b f u c k!

                                    • 1 vote
                                    Reply#9 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:39 PM EDT

                                    Zombies are imaginary, just like heaven.....

                                    • 4 votes
                                    Reply#10 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:47 PM EDT
                                    plorkDeleted

                                    @ plork

                                    you tell em.. all they got is the childish ability to collapse your comments

                                    hahaha

                                    • 3 votes
                                    #10.2 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:47 AM EDT

                                    Hey plork, GFY, and take Prime with you! You make a perfect couple!

                                    • 1 vote
                                    #10.3 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:37 AM EDT

                                    Old Dog rules

                                      #10.4 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:02 AM EDT

                                      probably better chance of zombies

                                        #10.5 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:13 PM EDT
                                        Reply

                                        WHERE DO I SIGN UP?????

                                        • 3 votes
                                        Reply#11 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:52 PM EDT

                                        I've been hearing about zombies for a looong time. here are some what ifs. what if the sun gave off a massive CME that fried all our electronics and power grids here on earth. well the brain functions on electrical impulses that fires neurons in the brain. what if it fried all our brains making us unable to do the most menial task, except the basest instincts like eating. well you would have billions of people wandering around with only one goal, too eat. also i read about equal, the diet sweetener is made with formaldehyde, it was an accident that it was sweet tasting. if you consume equal long enough it builds up in your system. now if it's part of a binary system that when exposed to a second ingredient(this is where the govt. come in)activates the formaldehyde making you an already embalmed zombie. what if.

                                        • 6 votes
                                        Reply#12 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:55 PM EDT

                                        If they need "zombie extras," look no further than Washington D.C.! ( Q. ) How can you tell a zombie from a Congressional representative. (A.) Zombies are more cognitive and ambulatory.

                                        • 12 votes
                                        Reply#13 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:57 PM EDT

                                        hahaha no @!$%# and more likeable

                                        • 2 votes
                                        #13.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:16 PM EDT
                                        Reply

                                        This is what happens when the POTUS rather kiss up to those out to destroy us than risk losing the Muslim vote. I am glad that when I was serving, we actually held these things to formulate strategy against the enemy, who we named, the Soviets.

                                        • 4 votes
                                        Reply#14 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:00 PM EDT

                                        Bigfoot62

                                        so that would make you what about 100 now ?
                                        they were big on starting wars at the drop of a hat back then... it's pretty freaking amazing you people didn't blow up the whole damn world back then.

                                        • 3 votes
                                        #14.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:52 AM EDT

                                        So PrimeNumber, you're what 15, 16? I see now why you have no understanding of why wasting tax dollars upsets adults! Don't worry, you'll be an adult someday too. At least we all hope so!

                                        • 2 votes
                                        #14.2 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:43 AM EDT
                                        Reply

                                        the real zombies are the republicans and democrats that actually believe their candidate will be the best for the country. it does not matter who wins. the course of America is laid in, and the ignorant electorate continues to fight amongst themselves overlooking the real issues that are destroying America from the inside. divide and conquer.

                                        • 6 votes
                                        Reply#15 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:12 PM EDT

                                        ziapiper

                                        the real zombies are the republicans and democrats that actually believe their candidate will be the best for the country. it does not matter who wins. the course of America is laid in, and the ignorant electorate continues to fight amongst themselves overlooking the real issues that are destroying America from the inside. divide and conquer.

                                        but you got a better plan .. right man ?

                                        You do have a plan don't you?

                                        • 4 votes
                                        #15.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:56 AM EDT

                                        My plan is to vote for an independent. If people would stop thinking, "Oh I have to choose the lesser of two evils", if they would stop tolerating mediocrity and hypocrisy in our politicians, if they would stop voting for Democrats and Republicans simply because those are the two big parties we might have a chance to turn things around in the U.S.

                                        • 4 votes
                                        #15.2 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:26 AM EDT

                                        The current establishment and government will never allow any other 'plans'.

                                        The systemat at the core is broken.

                                        Voting for an independent will never work. The two current parties would and will never allow it.

                                        • 3 votes
                                        #15.3 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:59 PM EDT
                                        Reply

                                        Lol prepare yourselves for a major crisis. This is just your government's facade about supposedly preparing you for whatever kind of annihilating onslaught that may be coming to your neighborhoods soon. FEMA is very real as well as what your owners have in store for all you God fearing flag waving blinded by bull sh.. people. I feel for many of you as you cry out to deaf ears to no avail because this is all a very well orchestrated scheme by your owners. Wouldve couldve shouldve its a little late you shouldve got of the tweedly dee tweedly dum trip & ceased the truth & that truth was in Dr Ron Paul. Been a pleasure to watch it all unfold now at a breakneck speed. You can run but you sure can't hide. Ill say a prayer for ya lol

                                        • 2 votes
                                        Reply#16 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:24 PM EDT

                                        @ DRPaulorUSAFALLS

                                        someone needs to check themselves back into the state mental hospital don't they ?

                                        Geez dude !!

                                        • 3 votes
                                        #16.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:21 AM EDT

                                        I think you should worry more that the Truant Officer is reading this right now, child!

                                        • 3 votes
                                        #16.2 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:46 AM EDT
                                        Reply

                                        Zombie preparedness training is just a tongue-in-cheek whimsical way of training for *other* contingencies. If you are prepared for a "zombie outbreak," you're generally also prepared to provide for yourself in the event of a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, a temporary disruption in society, or social unrest. Think about what happened in New Orleans after just two days without electricity and water. The same materials needed to provide for oneself during a "zombie outbreak" is the same kit required to provide for oneself in the event of isolation from society. I prepare, not for zombies, but because where I live is very remote and prone to wildfires, and we can get cut off from the rest of the world pretty easily. If that sort of thing were to happen, I'd like to think I could survive for at least a week or two with my water treatment equipment, emergency rations, and other items.

                                        I have a feeling this sort of training from the story using zombies is just a fun, quirky way to keep things fresh.

                                        • 7 votes
                                        Reply#17 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:36 PM EDT

                                        Sombody's been playing/watching too much Resident Evil lol

                                        • 2 votes
                                        Reply#18 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:04 PM EDT

                                        Zombies, They're COMING!!
                                        Itchy, TASTY.

                                        • 3 votes
                                        Reply#19 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:15 PM EDT

                                        The "zombies" are merely temporarily politically correct stand-ins for the right-wing neo-fascist nut jobs who may reveal their true nature as traitors to this country and everything it stands for when Obama is reelected.

                                        • 6 votes
                                        Reply#20 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:24 PM EDT

                                        How is Obama a fascist?

                                        Just because no one will worship you and give you tax free money there must be something wrong them.

                                        • 3 votes
                                        #20.1 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:50 PM EDT

                                        Since I expect Obama to lose I guess all that training will need to be used against the communist progressive liberals...

                                        • 5 votes
                                        #20.2 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:58 PM EDT

                                        "traitors to this country" ? FYI - you might want to read up on early American history. It was often considered "patriotic" to resist the government if it was overstepping its constitutional boundaries and/or the people thought it was not acting in their best interest. Examples of this idea include: the "Principles of '98", Thomas Jefferson's "Kentucky Resolves of 1799", Masachusstts and Connecticut refusing the federal government's order to send troops to help fight the War of 1812, the northern states refusing to comply with the federal government's "Fugitive Slave Act of 1850", South Carolina's refusal to comply with the "Tariff of 1828" and "Tariff of 1832" which it believed was unconstitutional and oppressive, etc. President Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation to the states who complained that they were being unfairly taxed in order to benefit other states that they did not have the right to nullify acts of Congress, and that disunion (secession) by force was treason. In 1833 Congress gave the president the authority to use the military to enforce revenue (tax & tariff) laws (South Carolina "nullified" that act as well, after agreeing to a "compromise tariff"). We still see these ideas at work today - think of the states that have declared acts of Congress "unconstitutional" and ignored or openly resisted them (such as the "Defense of Marriage Act", the threats from some states of non-compliance to "Obamacare", etc.). In fact, our country was born out of rebellion against and resistance to government that we felt was illegitimate, and/or not acting in our interests.

                                        Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

                                        Also from Thomas Jefferson:

                                        -- "The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management."

                                        • 2 votes
                                        #20.3 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:20 AM EDT

                                        Poopeye...the zombies only eat brains, so I guess YOU are safe.

                                        Libtard BLOWHARD.

                                        • 2 votes
                                        #20.4 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:15 PM EDT

                                        Im not sure why but i come here a few times a week.Most of the posters think Obama is doing a great job.

                                        Such trust in our government.They point out how well the stock market is doing,so i tell folks,hey look around do you see a great economy to support those numbers?No,its the fed pumping in money.Obama and his friends dont like posts like mine pointing out facts.Thats why they are trying to control the internet and the media.

                                        Most of the numbers put out by the government are bad,made to favor the administration and make it look good for the elections. Unemployment is above twenty percent.If you buy grocerys you must see the inflation as you get less product and it costs more.Utilitys have been going up.

                                        The coming war with Iran well sink the economy.The resulting riots and anarchy are what the government is getting ready for.I think Obama well use the carnage to declare martial law and suspend elections. With how totally sucky our country is doing i beleave this is Obamas only way to stay in power.

                                          #20.5 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:47 PM EDT
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                                          If you want to see a good zombie flick go watch the newest Resident Evil.

                                          It was really good especially in 3D.

                                            Reply#21 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:52 PM EDT

                                            @ dwighthuth

                                            I watched that .. but there weren't any Zombies in it just clones.

                                            • 1 vote
                                            #21.1 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:52 PM EDT

                                            one way to fix a recession is to kill people so why not kill some and have them kill more we come in and save the day back in the day it was called crack cocaine now zombies why not religion think in December the end of the world let go of the airborne pathogen and see them drop in numbers and there we go new world order

                                              #21.2 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:29 AM EDT

                                              Anyone remember the "old-school" zombies? When you had to have a witch doctor or some voodoo guy casting a spell to raise the dead to do their evil bidding? Also, they could kill you, but you didn't automatically become one. At what point did zombies turn into a vampire/werewolf kind of monster where getting bitten by one turns you into one? That didn't happen until the '80s zombie flicks, right? Heck, while we're at it, wasn't it just in the last decade or so that the "new version" of vampires and werewolves came into existence - you know, the whole story that vampires and werewolves are old, bitter enemies because vampires enslaved werewolves or something like that? OK, enough rambling. I still like "The Serpent and the Rainbow" for a slightly more believable zombie flick though.

                                                #21.3 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:31 PM EDT
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                                                come on training,,,,,everybody knows a head shot takes a zombie down,,,,,please,,,,,,,

                                                • 3 votes
                                                Reply#22 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:55 PM EDT

                                                Wouldn't you like a look inside Fort Detrick? There is stuff in there that you never want to get loose.

                                                • 5 votes
                                                Reply#23 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:16 PM EDT

                                                Just for "Fun" I Googled Fort Detrick and took a glance...........Now I'm quickly heading without prejudice for my Bacardi 151. Nice,... 9200 vials of potentialy dangerous pathogens "Found" (Whew) that were "Unaccounted" for (HOLY F#*K). Then lets see.....oh yeah, anthrax, biological weapons(Yikers) and Lots of listings for homes(Huh....I honestly can't imagine WHY). OK I think I'll just take the Zombies. They are kinda cuddly actually;)

                                                • 4 votes
                                                #23.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:38 AM EDT

                                                One of my fellow squad leaders once worked at Dugway proving grounds as a chemical/biological warfare specialist. He told me he transferred out of that job because it scared him too much. He told me that they did a training mission once with a "simulated agent", and when they went out to collect samples for analysis, everything out there was dead - even lower invertebrates, and that considering the length of time it took to run tests and isolate possible agents, if there was much wind at all, a lot of people would likely die before they even knew what they were dealing with. He said he didn't want that kind of responsibility.

                                                • 1 vote
                                                #23.2 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:38 PM EDT
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                                                I recently saw thousand of zombie. Occupy wall street thousands blindly following something or somebody, well you know there was a cause, yea searching for brains.

                                                • 6 votes
                                                Reply#24 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:21 PM EDT

                                                So distant from the problems of regular Americans in these times, you must be a Conservative republican...

                                                • 1 vote
                                                #24.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:05 PM EDT
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                                                Are you serious..? At least do it on the day RE6 is released!

                                                • 1 vote
                                                Reply#25 - Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:26 PM EDT
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