> It's a sad thing that we are all more or less assuming that the New Year will be literally a blast. We hear that terrorists are planning to blow something up, and we all wonder where. They probably won't get me, because I am out here in the woods with very few people around and that's where I'll ring in the New Year. But I can't help wonder where. Where will they hit? Money couldn't buy my presence in Times Square, NY,NY.
> Even Las Vegas, a favorite of mine, is on my stay away list. I won't even go to Knoxville and certainly not Oak Ridge. I doubt if I could think like a terrorist, but tall towers like the ones in New York, the Seattle Space Needle and the big one in Vegas are places that cross my mind. I'm sure the authorities are better at supposin' than I am. I just hope they nip it, as Barney said, in the bud.
> Howard

It's actually pretty frightening if you stop and think about it. Very recently there have been 2 Albanians trying to sneak bomb supplies down from Canada, and I believe there was another individual caught as well. Who knows how many others made it into the country prior. --Or even how many bombs could already be in place. --And a bomb could be nearly *anywhere*: a car, a building, a mailbox, a bus station locker, a storm drain, a safety deposit box, or virtually anywhere else you could think of.
I'm staying home away from the crowds, because there's only one thing that you can be really sure of... terrorists/bombers are going for the numbers, the higher the body count, the more successful their objective was. So, stay away from the highly populated public events, and your risk of being bombed decreases substantially.
For those people who ignore the possibility and think that it will never happen to them, I just hope that it doesn't.

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