{"id":22681,"date":"2011-03-23T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22681"},"modified":"2011-03-23T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:36:40","slug":"boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22681","title":{"rendered":"Boo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/22\/real_estate\/doomsday_bunkers\/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&#038;hpt=Sbin\">CNN Money<\/a> (the last place I look for investment advice, by the way) which reports that &#8220;doomsday bunkers&#8221; sales are skyrocketing. Of course, by &#8220;skyrocketing&#8221; they mean that eight more people want bunkers than last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Northwest Shelter Systems, which offers shelters ranging in price from $200,000 to $20 million, has seen sales surge 70% since the uprisings in the Middle East, with the Japanese earthquake only spurring further interest. In hard numbers, that&#8217;s 12 shelters already booked when the company normally sells four shelters per year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sales have gone through the roof, to the point where we are having trouble keeping up,&#8221; said Northwest Shelter Systems owner Kevin Thompson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, eight are &#8220;through the roof&#8221;. It seems that people are frightened because of the problems the Japanese are having. That and for some reason the revolts in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>People are so easily frightened &#8211; like the rocket surgeons who are buying up all of the potassium iodine pills because of the combination of an earthquake and tsunami hitting a nuclear power plant in Japan. How often has that happened in the past? How much more likely is it to happen now that it&#8217;s happened once? How much more likely is it to happen tomorrow than it was today?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d be better off being scared of this administration destroying the economy with reckless abandon and the union thugs in Wisconsin disregarding civility. But I guess it&#8217;s easier to be scared of things for which you can take pills to protect yourself and bunkers from which you can lock the world out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends us a link from CNN Money (the last place I look for investment &hellip; <a title=\"Boo!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22681\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boo!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}