I’m Not Saying We Don’t Need It, What With the Rise of the Tea Party and All, But …
Preparing for all eventualities, a wing commander at a West Texas Air Force base says he has a plan for defending the base from attacks by zombies.
Brig. Gen. Glen VanHerck commands the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene. His answer to an online Q&A session that he had a zombie defense plan drew attention from the magazine Air Force Times.
That’s definitely handy, but what we really need is a plan for the next time that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says, “Come and Get It” with his cannon, y’all can actually come and get the damn thing.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
OMG!
1Rather than preparing for zombies, it seems the General needs to prepare for DEMENTIA.
2And the Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sez . . .
3Hmmm…does that mean Tea Party zombies too?
4But to stick a pin in the balloon, here’s what he told the Abilene Reporter-News about his statement:
5“VanHerck told the Abilene Reporter-News (http://bit.ly/1aT2uHL) he didn’t intend to attract that much attention, only to show the Dyess community he was “approachable” and a human with a sense of humor.”
However, if he’s talking zombies, I don’t think much of his sense of humor.
If one assumes that things which eat brains are zombies, Fox News, the Tea Party, and the vast majority of Republicans qualify as zombies. It seems only rational for the commander of a military base to have a plan in place for defending that base from such perils.
6Hey, its near Abilene. Makes perfect sense to me.
7An oldie but goodie.
8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWtDwQqKMBE
A couple of weeks ago, there was an article on Russia’s zombie pigeons. If zombies eat brains, do zombie birds eat bird brains, and does that pose a threat to the tea party?
9I don’t see any scandal here–just a sense of humor. I expect the General realizes that a plan to defend against zombies has other applications as well and is using the zombie meme to make it a little more interesting.
10Well, it’s hot and dry out there and at least it got some laughs.
11Reminds me of the dithers over the CDC/FEMA (?) promoting preparedness for a zombie attack. If you are ready for that, you are ready for flood, fire, earthquake or riot. Humor helps.
12Reminds me of an editorial cartoon showing a couple watching Fox News, with admiring photos of a few rwnjs on the wall. Zombies burst in, howling, “Braains…. Braa– aw, shoot.”
13Too little, too late.
The brains, they are gone!
14I thought the use of zombie defense plans was getting to be sort of standard as a means of having something people would pay attention to (because it sounds goofy) but also does not appear to go after a group. The CDC had something a few years ago like that.
Imagine the kerfuffle & walkbacks if he had a plan for an arab invasion disaster plan….or a black group…or asian….or whatever. By calling it a zombie plan it does not discriminate against any groups & gives the appearance of a sense of humor.
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