Wyoming House advances doomsday bill

[MrScorpio]

By JEREMY PELZER Star-Tribune capital bureau | Posted: Friday, February 24, 2012 6:00 pm

CHEYENNE — State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States.

House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It would create a state-run government continuity task force, which would study and prepare Wyoming for potential catastrophes, from disruptions in food and energy supplies to a complete meltdown of the federal government.

The task force would look at the feasibility of Wyoming issuing its own alternative currency, if needed. And House members approved an amendment Friday by state Rep. Kermit Brown, R-Laramie, to have the task force also examine conditions under which Wyoming would need to implement its own military draft, raise a standing army, and acquire strike aircraft and an aircraft carrier.



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These people have officially lost their fucking minds.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Aw, Jeez, an aircraft carrier.

Like maybe on the Powder River?

Dayum, they're ready for that invasion from South Dakota.

[existentialist]

15. and another on the North Platte

so they can invade Nebraska

[southernyankeebelle]

2. When the hell are these crazy people going to come back to their senses? What

happened to the republican party? It has become a party of fear. They lost any credibility they ever had.

[safeinOhio]

3. aircraft carrier?

In Wyoming?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. "Wyoming is too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum"

Who said the same thing about South Carolina in 1860.

[neverforget]

5. When I lived in Montana, I called it the shitty square state.

They sure love the end times.

[libinnyandia]

6. They are crazier than Republicans in Congress, though not by much:o)

[davidthegnome]

7. Woah

Hey, don't knock it. When the zombie apocalypse comes they'll be better prepared than most of us.

[mainer]

8. Is this all because a black man is president?

Funny they didn't do it during the Bush era.

[hedgehog]

9. And to think the 600,000 people of Wyoming share 3 electoral college votes among them!

Whilst the 8 million people of New York City have roughly 15.

Or, 200,000 people in Wyoming share 1 vote, while 530,000 people in NYC have the same privilege.

[progress2k12nbynd]

10. These upper Midwest states are thriving...

Even if we don't like their politics. And as backwards as these states are sometimes accused of being, their electoral history shows that they actually tend to be more open minded to electing candidates from both parties than people assume.

The upper midwest, whatever it is about them, seem to have their shit together. From Nebraska through the Dakotas and Montana/Wyoming, they must have great people, great political leaders, or both. Low unemployment, job growth, budget surpluses, low crime rate, home prices didn't take nearly the hit the rest of the U.S. did. And with their oil production now, they could practically break off from the rest of the sinking U.S. and probably survive. Is there something they have that the rest of the states don't have? Or something the rest of the states have that they don't have?

[MrScorpio]

14. Low population and a lot of space

It's easy to have the illusion that everything is hunky dory when no one wants to live there.

[malakai2]

22. Also, homogeneity and a one-time harvest of oil

If you are looking for the company of white dominionists, you'll love the upper plains. If you're looking to live in the oil patch, you're welcome to it.

[TransitJohn]

23. Nitpicky, but the Midwest is Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, etc.

Wyoming is part of the Mountain West.

[malthaussen]

29. Yeah, an aircraft carrier

n/t

[surrealAmerican]

11. This is hilarious.

It is a parody, right?


The aircraft carrier is a dead giveaway.

[Odin2005]

12. An aircraft carrier???

[teddy51]

13. lol WTF are they going to do with an aircraft carrier, they have no access to the ocean. duh n/t

[Frustratedlady]

16. They are preparing for the west coast to go under water...

when the ice melts from global warming, which they deny will happen. Just in case...they want to have their boats ready to launch.

[oldhippydude]

17. this is the same state

that gave us Dick Cheney... does that explain anything?

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Ok first question...

What deep water port are they going to sail that carrier task force from?

[saras]

19. America sends its aircraft carriers to the Middle East. Why can't Wyoming attack California?

It's no more a joke than straight media using headlines like "Santorum surges from behind" - apparently unironically and ignorantly - is a joke.

[bowens43]

20. what a bunch freaking morons. An aircraft carrier.

[Ilsa]

21. Sounds like they are expecting

Ca, Nv, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, etc to fall into the ocean leaving Wy with beach front property.

[jwirr]

24. Having read a lot of Kunstler's books, especially The Long Emergency, I have wanted someone in

this country to take an inventory and look at our preparedness for those emergency on the local basis. When I read to OP title I thought that might be what they were doing. I should have known better - they are rethugs. Not one mention of being prepared to meet a medical emergency or other such incident - oh no they want an aircraft carrier!

[TransitJohn]

25. Wyoming is the energy center of the country, and the State GOP wants to protect that

#1 in coal (close to 50% of the nation's output), #3 in natural gas, #8 in oil, top 10 in wind, #1 in uranium. Now, the whackjob fundie GOP of today being what it is, the decision to study protecting that sort of makes sense. If the nation ceases to exist, these resources are going to be gone after by population centers all over.

[lastlib]

26. The IRS has contingency plans...

...in event of a full nuclear exchange, to be back in business collecting taxes within 21 days....

Same guy wrote both plans, I bet.

[hobbit709]

27. That will do them a lot of good when Yellowstone erupts.

[Tx4obama]

28. It is really hard to believe that ...

this is not from The Onion.

The GOPers are just F'ing nuts !!!

Wyoming Doomsday Bill Advances In State House
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/25/wyoming-doomsday-bill_n_1301710.html

[fascisthunter]

30. Holy Batshit!