WASHINGTON - Picture this: At the midnight moment of the new millennium, the dark Washington lights up with a new dawn, as hundreds of thousands of visitors gaze in awe at the supernatural event. end snip..........but begin snip end comments....McCarthy said the celebration organizers have it all under control, having met early with the local electric company to be sure it is Y2K-compliant. But just to be extra sure, the event will be powered by generators. ''A lot of what's happening out there, with the Y2K paranoia, is unfounded,'' McCarthy said.

McCarthy is a Y2k Hypocrite..........................!

Boston Globe todays paper don't have a url

-- kevin (innxxxs@yahoo.com), August 26, 1999

Answers

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/238/nation/ For_D_C_millennium_Hollywood_plans_an_early_dawn+.shtml

Mostly about the planned events, but the last 3 paragraphs say:

"Back in Washington, fears about the Year 2000 computer bug are a consideration for the celebration, the New Year's organizers say, since it wouldn't do to have the entire light-and-movie show shut off at midnight because of a glitch.

McCarthy said the celebration organizers have it all under control, having met early with the local electric company to be sure it is Y2K- compliant. It is, McCarthy said.

But just to be extra sure, the event will be powered by generators. ''A lot of what's happening out there, with the Y2K paranoia, is unfounded,'' McCarthy said."

---- McCarthy seems like a polly, but even he's going to hedge his bets.

-- winter wondering (winterwondering@yahoo.com), August 26, 1999.

You beat me to it WW.

I wonder if the artist no longer known as Prince will be there.

-- nothere nothere (notherethere@hotmail.com), August 26, 1999.

It's okay, it's okay.

The porta-potties at this gala spectacle don't need to be hooked up to the sewer system. And if the organizers leave them for a couple days afterwards, I'm sure somebody can put them (the porta-potties, not the organizers!) to good use........

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), August 26, 1999.

These people are freaking nuts! It's so important to party that it doesn't even matter if the utilities might be going down?

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), August 26, 1999.

All those generators may come in very handy. Hey, maybe that was the plan all along.

Sincerely, Stan Faryna

-- Stan Faryna (info@giglobal.com), August 26, 1999.

The spectacular event might as well being happening

"in a galaxy, far, far away..."

-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), August 26, 1999.

They could be planning on lighting off the fireworks, again and again and again ........

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), August 26, 1999.

Stan brings up a good point. Consider the alternative headline: "New Year's Eve Gala Cancelled due to Y2K Fears." Such a showcase event has to go on, with attendant contigencies.

-- Spidey (in@jam.commie), August 26, 1999.

No kidding Stan! What a thought! An ingenious way to keep all hell from breaking loose near the White House,...generators and porta potties etc.

"All those generators may come in very handy. Hey, maybe that was the plan all along."

-- Mumsie (Shezdremn@aol.com), August 26, 1999.

Nah...TPTB won't use THOSE generators...they will use the facilities in their nice, cozy, well-stocked bunkers. Those are for the stupid, idiotic sheep who are in attendance at this charade! But seriously, can you imagine an administration so perversely planning such an event at a time of possible peril to the guests?!?! I've said it before and I'll say it again -- the Royal Family could not go to their usual beloved Renaissance gathering at Hilton Head, NC for New Years' because it would have been too far away from the bunkers. Yet they couldn't break a long-standing precedent in declining by saying, "We need to stay near the bunker (?Camp David?)," so what better excuse than saying that they just HAD to be at this gala celebration in DC? And can you just see those herds of panicky people making a dash through our DC suburbs...brrrr....

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), August 26, 1999.

That's what I meant, the generators and potties are used to pacify the people for crowd control, so there can be a smooth getaway... mob control. Ingenious. If they had placed these things without planning a party, how would they explain it?

-- Mumsie (Shezdremn@aol.com), August 26, 1999.

More evidence of "do as I say, not as I do" in re the ruling class.

Got printable flyers for distribution during y2k disruptions?

-- robert waldrop (rmwj@soonernet.com), August 27, 1999.

this is why I'm proud to be a nutbag paranoid,of course only we will see the corelations

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), August 27, 1999.

Y2K or not, an event such as this would have to have port-o-potties for the guests.

We can't have all the revelers pissing on the rose garden! Those thorns hurt!

-- J (jart5@bellsouth.net), August 27, 1999.