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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 08:29 AM Feb 2012

Wyoming House advances doomsday bill

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101616504

The 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 )
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yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
6. You are forgetting the North Platte River - a dagger aimed at Casper. Nebraska and Colorado could
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:57 AM
Feb 2012

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.

 

Fuzz

(8,827 posts)
3. There are more people in my neighborhood in NJ that Wyoming.
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 08:37 AM
Feb 2012

The Rutgers ROTC club could roll over the state.

Gman

(24,780 posts)
4. At least Texas can legitimately claim a navy
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:13 AM
Feb 2012

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)
5. I would love to get one million gay people to move to Wyoming.
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:20 AM
Feb 2012

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.

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
9. Oh sure, it's landlocked now but wait..................
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:12 AM
Feb 2012

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)
10. interesting comment.... lol
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:12 AM
Feb 2012

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)
11. They don't need weapons
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:17 AM
Feb 2012

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)
13. They should really think about disbanding and joining Montana or Colorado.
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:26 AM
Feb 2012

Then maybe they could scrape together enough people who aren't ass clowns to form a government.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
15. As a Co. resident I find this distressing! We need to build a fence along the Wyoming border..
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:47 AM
Feb 2012

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...........

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