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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWyoming House advances doomsday bill
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101616504The task force would look at the feasibility of Wyoming issuing its own alternative currency, if needed. And House members approved an amendment Friday 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.
http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/wyoming-house-advances-doomsday-bill/article_af6e1b2b-0ca4-553f-85e9-92c0f58c00bd.html
(I thought this insanity deserved posting here also lol )
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Are they talking about a really big truck? It is land locked.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)sweep right in there from the east and the south. They will think twice about that if the Wyoming Navy is deployed on the N. Platte.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)CanonRay
(14,103 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Fuzz
(8,827 posts)The Rutgers ROTC club could roll over the state.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Because it used to have one. Of course it doesn't anymore and the Texas Navy is unofficial and ceremonial. I don't know what a Rocky Mountain state would do with a navy. Just wingnuts at work.
Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)Overnight it would become the first majority-LGBT state (by almost 2-1), switch from solid red to solid blue, have legalized marriage and other benefits, become a mecca of the arts, and it would still be underpopulated.
Of course, we can't get six gay men to agree where to have lunch, so the odds of getting one million LGBT to move there are not good.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)If the big one hits........you know, an earthquake that puts California, Washington and Oregon into the Pacific, then Montana will need that aircraft carrier. And just think, what if Idaho falls into the ocean as well? What if all the states except Montana fall into the ocean? You just need to think like a Montanan, after all we are all Montanans.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Those that laugh at the aircraft carrier probably don't know that Wyoming can access the Pacific through the Snake/Columbia River. Steamboats have been doing it since the 19th cent. People assume all aircraft carriers are massive bases with catapults and thousands of crewmen. The right container ship can be converted into a floating base for helicopters. Container ships were converted to Merchant Aircraft Carriers in WWI for prop planes. As long it has a draft of less than 14 feet can get through the locks of the Snake and Columbia rivers to reach the Pacific. Getting them is easy enough
http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/wyoming-house-advances-doomsday-bill/article_af6e1b2b-0ca4-553f-85e9-92c0f58c00bd.html?mode=comments
newfie11
(8,159 posts)They have the wind. Nothing can compete with that. And I wish they would quit spilling it over here in NE.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Then maybe they could scrape together enough people who aren't ass clowns to form a government.
wandy
(3,539 posts)right NOW! Those Wyomlic radicals may close the straights of the Plat! Wyoming illegals will flood from Cheyenne and take our jobs. They will destroy our culture. The Republic of Boulder must immeadly begin building anti aircraft installations on haystack mountain.
If Wyoming militarizes it will be a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mas destruction.
Dogs and cats living togther...........
Sorry wrong sight Free Republic open in other window.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Sounds like a plot for a really bad comedy film