Wyoming Prepares for the Collapse of the U.S. Government

[AquaMan]

Newsweek.

Yeah, that's right since Life ended as well.

[Gaspar]

Yeah, that's right since Life ended as well.

[nathanm]

Sure they have. So have we. Articles of Confederation anyone?

There's that, there's Spain in the late 70s after Franco died, and the English system has changed quite a lot in the last century or so. The House of Lords is pretty much done for at this point. I wouldn't actually be terribly happy about that were I a British citizen. There's something troubling about the lower house having literally absolute authority. Not that the Lords have been able to do much since the early part of last century when their power to block bills was changed to a power to delay bills, also nonviolently. Most of the moves away from monarchy in the last couple hundred years have also been nonviolent. It helps when you manage to impoverish the monarch so they have to come to you to beg for money to pay the bills.

[shadows]

I'm lucky; mine's not due until December.

WINNING!

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No problem on the car tags.  There is a rumor that the oil companies are getting ready to give a free car tag with each fill up. 

[shadows]

Sure they have. So have we. Articles of Confederation anyone?

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Don’t forget of the war fought between two countries in the United States in 1860 between two complete countries of the north and south where 1 out of ever 4 soldiers was a  casualties,. The war with England in 1775  the aftermath of each of these made drastic government changes.
In fact the archives will record us as a warring nation comparing us with the Roman legions of the city of Rome.  The policies of our security separation by oceans has ended as we have move the field of battle to include the women and children as enemies in our quest for establishing governments of our liking.  One mad man with a red button can bring the civilization as we know it to an end in less than a 30 minutes.   Have we changed since the AOF was written?  Read them.

[AquaMan]

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Don't forget of the war fought between two countries in the United States in 1860 between two complete countries of the north and south where 1 out of ever 4 soldiers was a  casualties,. The war with England in 1775  the aftermath of each of these made drastic government changes.
In fact the archives will record us as a warring nation comparing us with the Roman legions of the city of Rome.  The policies of our security separation by oceans has ended as we have move the field of battle to include the women and children as enemies in our quest for establishing governments of our liking.  One mad man with a red button can bring the civilization as we know it to an end in less than a 30 minutes.   Have we changed since the AOF was written?  Read them.

Is there a point here?

[shadows]

Is there a point here?

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No point; only looking in the mirror at the image of our past lease we forget

[AquaMan]

You keep driving forward, using your mirror as a guide to where you're going instead of where you've been and you're bound to run into something. A tree, a pole, a dog. Gotta' glance forward sometimes just to keep perspective.

[Jammie]

http://news.yahoo.com/wyomings-doomsday-bill-falls-flat-183100021.html

Hopefully this article is legit.

[Ed W]

I was the ghost writer for a piece on preparing for Doomsday, and I gotta tell you, some of those people are salivating at the prospect of western civilization going to pieces.  The client rejected it because it wasn't doomy enough.  He wanted an article on preparations for the end of the world, but when I suggested preparing for more common disasters like tornadoes, floods, long power outages and the like, he said that was OK as added material, but the focus had to be on SHTF or TEOTWAWKI.  Yes, the actually use these acronyms!

But what happens if the world doesn't end?

[shadows]

But what happens if the world doesn't end?
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This body of which we have been placed has a brain like the computer hard drive with a limitation on its ability to store electronic pulses. The sequence to the question is “When will it end?"  The burning fragments that enter our atmosphere are assumed to be particles from an explosion of another world. 

Our solar system is subject to the eons of time.  It will burn out or explode.  Man studding the skies has predicted numerous dates of which this could happen and none have been right up to the present.   But some where in time a person with a fourth sense may one of these days predict the ending of our solar system and be right.

[Hoss]

But what happens if the world doesn't end?

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This body of which we have been placed has a brain like the computer hard drive with a limitation on its ability to store electronic pulses. The sequence to the question is "When will it end?"  The burning fragments that enter our atmosphere are assumed to be particles from an explosion of another world. 

Our solar system is subject to the eons of time.  It will burn out or explode.  Man studding the skies has predicted numerous dates of which this could happen and none have been right up to the present.   But some where in time a person with a fourth sense may one of these days predict the ending of our solar system and be right.

Holy cow (in my best Harry Caray voice)

[we vs us]

"It's a simple question, Doctor.  If the moon were made of spareribs, would you eat it?"

[Hoss]

"It's a simple question, Doctor.  If the moon were made of spareribs, would you eat it?"

"If you were a hot dog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?"...

[custosnox]

But what happens if the world doesn't end?

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This body of which we have been placed has a brain like the computer hard drive with a limitation on its ability to store electronic pulses. The sequence to the question is "When will it end?"  The burning fragments that enter our atmosphere are assumed to be particles from an explosion of another world. 

Our solar system is subject to the eons of time.  It will burn out or explode.  Man studding the skies has predicted numerous dates of which this could happen and none have been right up to the present.   But some where in time a person with a fourth sense may one of these days predict the ending of our solar system and be right.

you do realize that the Mayans did not predict the end of time, the world, or anything, right?  They only recognized a pattern within the stars, based a calendar on that pattern, and didn't bother creating a repeat calender since it would be a couple of thousand years in the future when the end of that pattern cycle came.

Oh, and the civil war was not between two countries, since the confederacy was not a country, it was a confederacy (individuals gathered together as allies for a common goal) of states.