I’ve just spent the past few hours reading about North Korea.
Bloggers, Essayists at Front Page, News Articles, and a variety of chat rooms from uber liberal to the comments section at the Belmont Club, and of course all my pals over at Free Republic.
Except for a lone post by a fellow Freeper talking about Civil Defense, not once have I come across anyone saying anything about Personal Preparation and Family Civil Defense.
The talk has mostly revolved around “did they” or “didn’t they” test a nuke, What should be our response, and analysis and humor around “why” this happened.
People, we are living in the nuclear age. Terrorists, if they don’t already have nukes, are certainly trying to obtain them.
We know they have the will to use them.
Question is…What should be the appropriate response?
I want to testify the Personal Preparedness brings peace to the heart. Having a 72 hour kit, a supply of food, water, and basic supplies to survive a nuclear event calms the nerves. Reading the book Nuclear War Survival Skills back in the 1990’s comforted me, and empowered me. The book convinced me that a nuclear attack would be terrible, but completely survivable.
I began doing intensive research on this topic when I learned that the Clinton Administration had been selling nuclear technology for campaign contributions.
I was angry at the time, still am, that we had such a traitor in the White House, and I still think his treasonous tushie should be in Federal Prison.
But finger pointing and making jokes about the past do nothing to prepare for a nuclear future.
What I would like to see is the Department of Homeland Security do some intensive promotion of Family Civil Defense. Individual and Family Civil Defense being promoted, taught, and literally shoved on the American People, especially on television.
I applaud the Government for the Be READY internet campaign, and am grateful for the brochures and good information found on its web site.
If for no other reason than it makes sense and brings peace of mind, I believe it would be proper and appropriate for all of the news agencies to begin promoting civil defense in earnest as a reality check and for the sake of our most vulnerable populations.
Most people in this country can make some simple preparations. They do not need to wait for the Government to do it for them.
We can be certain that Hollywood Liberals will mock any attempts to teach our people what to do to prepare. Much as they mocked the duct tape and plastic sheeting advice that came out after 9-11.
So what? Let them mock.
We need to teach our people much more intensively how to be prepared to survive a nuclear attack.
It is the right thing to do.
If not now …. when?
Jenny Hatch
Mommy Blogger

UPDATE Tuesday October 10th:
Watch it, then watch it again….I have TEARS running down my face. Thanks Matt Drudge….
ROTFLOL – (That is internet speak for Rolling on the Floor, laughing out loud!)
Pajamas Media Link (Scroll down for Opinion)
I just checked my traffic and the hits for my Nuclear War Prep Stuff is going nutso, so lots of you are coming in, probably for the first time.
To make things easier, here is a run down of posts and links to all of my Nuclear War Prep for Families on the web:
First:
Nuclear War Survival Skills, the classic By Cresson Kearny available for free here on the internet
Quote from Nuclear War Survival:
“A terrorist attack, that will be a more likely possibility once nuclear weapons become available in unstable nations. Fallout dangers could extend clear across America. For example, a single small nuclear weapon exploded in a West Coast city would cause lethal fallout hazards to unsheltered persons for several miles downwind from the part of the city devastated by blast and fire.
It also would result in deposition of fallout in downwind localities up to hundreds of miles away, with radiation dose rates hundreds of times higher than the normal background. Fallout would be especially heavy in areas of rain- out; pregnant women and small children in those areas, following peacetime standards for radiation protection, might need to stay sheltered for weeks. Furthermore, in localities spotted across the United States, milk would be contaminated by radioiodine.
Surely in future years nuclear survival know-how will become an increasingly important part of every prudent person’s education.”
Newsmax Article – A Mother Thinks about Nuclear Survival
Blog Entries:
A Mother thinks about Nuclear Survival
Interview on Provident Living/Family Preparedness
American Hiroshima…..Take Two
Provident Living Links

And Please, no more appeasers in the government.
“Secretary of State Madeleine Albright traveled to Pyongyang to flatter the regime. In 1994, we signed the “Agreed Framework” — a deal that required North Korea to cease work on its graphite-moderated nuclear power plants (which can produce weapons-grade plutonium) and promise to sin no more.”
They LIED! And bragged about it, and now the fruits of the Clinton Administrations ingnorance and naivety have just exploded in North Korea.
Jenny Hatch
UPDATE: Monday Morning
President Bush is speaking as I type. Short and sweet, he just finished. “North Korea is exporting bombs to Iran and Syria”, people of North Korea deserve more…” etc etc
I just arrived home from taking my boys to school. Was listening to AM radio as I drove. It was almost farsical. 850 KOA – Conservative Mike Rosen talking about Appeasement of the 90’s leading to this probem in North Korea. Then I flipped to an uber conservative/libertarian site The American Freedom Network – 1360, and they had a guy on talking about preparedness, survival, guns, and being prepared to shoot neighbors if they come to take your food.
Then I flipped to Air America, and Local Boulder Host Jay Marvin introduced his show with a short musical clip of the Rolling Stones, and he was talking to my fellow Boulderites about legalizing Pot.
I started to chuckle thinking of the irony of these responses to todays North Korean threat.
Conservative = realistic analysis of the threat, with a focus on hawkish behavior being the appropriate response.
Far Right Libertarian = Store Food, Water, Guns…head for the hills
Liberal = Let’s get STONED!
I’m somewhere comfortably settled between Conservative and Libertarian. We have a storage of food and water, and we do own a shotgun. But to say I am going to start killing my hungry neighbors if they come asking for some food is a little over the top. We’ll share until it is all gone, and then pray for Manna from Heaven.
As for our liberal friends, if getting stoned is the best that the liberals have to offer to the current political scene, I say let’s legalize pot and give it to them for free. Then maybe these adolescent yuk yuks will shut up while the adults in our world do the work of dismantling Communism and disarming Dictators.
Jenny