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As I said, we’re in the very best of hands — 27 Comments

  1. Neo,

    My older brother called me yesterday to ask me about what happened here in Honolulu the other day. I explained what happened, explained how much of a sh*t show it was, how the incompetence of the state government was the main culprit, and how someone needed to lose their job. A rabid and committed anti-trump/anti-republican, he tried to tell me that there was no one to blame, and criticized me for being bitter about the subject. I told him that a panic was caused at Daniel K. Inouye Airport, at the hotels in Waikiki, and here in my own building. I told him that the situation had caused me to call my wife at 3 am (Japan time), scare her half to death and basically tell her this may be the last time she would speak to me, so yeah, I think I had a right to be a little pissed off about the situation. He hung up on me. It’s amazing to me the lengths that people will go to avoid accepting that maybe, just maybe, their side of the spectrum might f**k things up on occasion. But not to worry, the person responsible was not fired, merely reassigned.

  2. I don’t believe it was an accident. Sure, state workers can be incompetent, but not that incompetent.

  3. Just a case of bad programming. There are times when Microsoft Windows will ask 3 or 4 times whether you really, really wanted to do the thing you clicked on.

  4. Sven,

    I understand your doubts, and you may be right. But trust me, I work for the government (federal), and that kind of incompetence is much more common than you might think.

  5. JLC is like most eye-candy: good to look at, but not to listen to, read, or plain just be with. They are selfish and egocentric. Poor thing is so molto agitato she cannot spell ‘missile’ in her anti-Trump frenzy, generated because she felt she had to upstage others in her field of mimetic contagion.

  6. After that little deranged tantrum by Ms Curtis someone should start a “People of Walmart”-esque collection of those sorts of mad rantings. It’d be like a trip to the zoo at mating time in the monkey house. That’d be for the TDS wing in the Trump Presidential Library.

  7. It’s amazingly easy to accidentally click on the wrong item in a menu within computer software. I’m using an optical mouse now and if I get a small piece of lint or cat hair stuck in the area of the red light, my arrow can end up in all sorts of places that I don’t want it to be. That’s a serious problem in the design of the software. It’s almost hard to believe that nothing like this has happened before. In fact, it almost makes me wonder if we’re getting the real story. I had been wondering to myself if it could have been a Trump-hater messing around and trying to make people think that Trump had caused nuclear war. I definitely wouldn’t put it past some of his haters.

  8. Whoa! is Jamie Lee Curtis off her meds? Didn’t her publicist tell her that using CAPS is just a way of yelling?

    Or, more likely, she is just doing the Hollywood/Leftist virtue signaling. Trying to get another movie gig. pathetic.

  9. All you need to know is that Curtis has a career that today has devolved into telling post-menopausal women what yogurt to eat in order to have regular bowel movements.

  10. “Sure, state workers can be incompetent, but not that incompetent.”

    I think it is possible in Hawaii. It’s a great place to vacation but not strong on efficiency or attention to detail. Trump is being blamed to divert attention from the fact that Hawaii is the most overwhelmingly Democrat state in the union. Perhaps not a coincidence; as cjd who lives there and had to deal with this crap noted there will be only minor consequences for the person responsible.

  11. I don’t believe this for a second. If I got an emergency alert about missiles I would turn on the freaking NEWS!!! If missiles were headed to Hawaii it would be all over television and radio stations. How could people take a text at face value without doing even the most cursory glances at other sources.

  12. If a celebrity went off on Obama, like how Curtis did on Trump, when he was POTUS they’d be met with immense backlash from their fans and the industry.

  13. Terry: brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

    Neo: anyone versed in security could have designed the software better, in any number of ways. (For example, before choosing something with far-reaching consequences, a password might be needed.)

    I certainly expect that the relevant software will be rewritten now, to insert extra safeguards. (Although the now-infamous photo, with the password on a sticky note, does not inspire confidence in the relevant personnel!)

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/hawaiian-emergency-management-officials-hold-interview-post-notes-passwords-computer-screens/

  14. Is a missile alert system a good idea? Unless you have built many shelters and have conducted drills, what can you expect from a civilian population? Chaos and mass confusion, not to mention the fear.

    We got through many, many years of the Cold War without much in the way of warning systems or even plans for dealing with a nuclear bomb attack. Oh yeah, we had the pathetic duck and cover drills back in the early days of the Cold War. Pathetic because, if you survive the blast and heat, you probably won’t survive the radiation. When you know much about the destructive force of an H-bomb, you realize there is no real shelter from the effects except distance, lots of distance.

    Unless there is a good plan in place and many lives can be saved, maybe it’s best not to send out a warning that is really nothing more than an early notice of imminent death. Or am I too much of a fatalist?

  15. Daniel in Brookline Says:
    January 16th, 2018 at 1:49 pm
    Terry: brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

    Neo: anyone versed in security could have designed the software better, in any number of ways.
    * * *
    That Gateway post of the post-its — words fail me.

  16. BurkeanMama Says:
    January 16th, 2018 at 1:36 am
    I don’t believe this for a second. If I got an emergency alert about missiles I would turn on the freaking NEWS!!!
    * *
    I would modify your observation by remarking that I would be accessing the news while headed for the basement, but, yeah.

  17. Terry Says:
    January 16th, 2018 at 12:33 pm
    Not mine, but hilarious:
    * * *
    It’s happened to me….

  18. A word on software glitches and human error compounded by design: What should be happening, but obviously isn’t.

    https://strategypage.com/on_point/20180116211630.aspx

    “Learning From Hawaii’s False Missile Attack Fiasco

    by Austin Bay
    January 16, 2018
    The false missile attack alert that the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency issued at 8:05 a.m. on January 13 provides American civil defense agencies and military planners with numerous points to ponder.

    Three deserve immediate attention.
    …”

  19. Remember what I said about false flags?

    They are just doing dry runs to test the systems.

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