DROPPING THE BIG ONE ON HAWAII (a.k.a. All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go)

Kim Jong Un, (you know the fat little dictator who ‘leads’ North Korea, and the only citizen in the place with his own Twinkies supply) has threatened, time and time again, to drop a ‘big one’ on the United States.

Yesterday the people of the great State of Hawaii might have seriously wondered if he’d finally kept his promise.

For you see, yesterday the Aloha State’s new nuclear warning system ‘went off.’  (Can we say, “we still need to work out a few glitches?” Yeah, I thought so).

It seems one of the state’s civil defense officials “pressed the wrong button.” (Yeah, he did)! To be fair, the nuclear warning sirens didn’t sound on the multiplied islands of this lovely jewel of the Pacific, but approximately one million (1,000,000) citizens of the state received a text message which read,

“Ballistic missile threat in-bound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”

As a result, mass chaos erupted among the 1.5 million citizens of Hawaii. Video footage depicts people running in all directions, (though, apparently, without any particular destination to which to run), a woman telling her mother or brother or lover in California or Nebraska ‘goodbye,’ and parents pushing their children through open manholes. Thirty-seven minutes elapsed before someone, (probably not the guy who pressed the ‘panic button’) figured out a way to cancel the nuclear alert. (And I think we would all admit, that’s a mighty long time when you think you’re about to be blown into a billion atoms).

Since this never to be forgotten snafu, the governor of Hawaii has appeared on television, and apologized for the, well, snafu, and has made a calculated decision (ya think) to shut down the state’s nuclear warning system until its inherent glitches can be remedied. (Ya think)?

When it is “all said and done” “no harm, no foul,” unless you happen to be one of the three notables in the affair.

The governor of the great State of Hawaii has ended up “with egg on his face,” a civil defense official is, by now, probably pushing a broom, and the fat little dictator is

…laughing his arse off.

By William McDonald, PhD. From (Mc)Donald's Daily Diary. Vol. 76. Copyright pending

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