http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6081278Oh my.
callous taoboy (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 12:56 PM
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Had a chilling talk with my plumber:
I live in a county which has the distinction of being in the top five counties in the U.S. in terms of earned-interest income. Plumber was telling me about several elaborate underground bunkers he has been hired to do plumbing work on. All of them in remote parts of the properties, behind several coded gates and each one loaded to the gills with guns and ammo, food, marine toilets. Speaking with one paranoid he asked him, "Yeah, but if the government comes in here to get you won't you be lucky to squeeze off 10 rounds before they hit you with a flame thrower or bunker buster or something?" Said the guy basically had to agree.
efhmc (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 01:00 PM
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4. Could you please tell me what that means?
RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 01:26 PM
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20. Sounds like a state of delusion.
In another 20 years, their grand kids will be having pot parties in those bunkers. They have just about as much utility as the 1950s bomb shelters.
hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 12:59 PM
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3. Let them hide in their bunkers
The best solution is to just plug the air vents.
The grouchy old primitive:
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 01:01 PM
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5. Have to admit the amount of target practice I have been hearing around here has increased a lot
Used to be just on the weekends. Now I hear them all week long. And I don't live near any legal outdoor gun ranges.
canadianbeaver (820 posts) Thu Jul-16-09 01:08 PM
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12. 2012-the end of the world for many
Ramtha-aka-JZ Knight(Washington state-Yelm)...has told her followers that they need to prepare and make underground bunkers that will house them and at least 2-4 years worth of food(many trying for 10 years)...and that is just one group...there are hundreds out there doing/thinking the same thing...Oh and the evil government and their grey men are coming for you and all you own.
Hmmm. One wonders what the above was all about, but never mind.
OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 01:09 PM
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13. what these folks don't understand is that we're all in this together . . . and we're either going to sink or swim collectively, not as individuals hiding in our own personal bunkers . . .
No, we aren't in all this together, given that the primitives have never taken the war against terrorism seriously.
Nebraska's too small a state to be bothered by terrorists, domestic or foreign, but in the case of massive civil disorder because of a terrorist attack, Nebraska's a likely destination for "refugees," millions of them flooding here from blue states.
This is a great place where I live in the Sandhills of Nebraska, and easily capable of supporting hundreds in various ways, if worse came to worse.
However, nobody's going to be let in unless young children or ancient people, and those who can show a voter-registration card identifying them as Republican.
No way is franksolich giving haven to Democrats, liberals, and especially not primitives.
HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 01:12 PM
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16. The morons who build armed bunkers filled with canned food have one major fatal flaw in their plan..
They're all too ****ing stupid to remember to put a can opener in the bunker. That Dinty More Beef Stew's going to be pretty tasty after blasting the can with an Uzi.
Yeah, right.
zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 01:28 PM
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21. Water
They all prepare for global disaster, but presume they'll still be able to pump water out of the ground. They can't begin to hope to store enough water. If one truly believes that all infrastructure will go to hell, they can quickly come to the understanding that you can't "go it alone". In the entire history of the human race, no one has ever successfully lived that way. Even nomads had to band together in small groups of 20 or so. Monks live in small groups. Even hermits and "guru's" usually have some supporters of some sort to engage the larger infrastructure. The old fallout shelters of the '50s were meant for a few days to a couple of weeks. It is pretty hard to create anything that could support you independently for a year or more.
Well, remember, when the primitives have one of their disaster bonfires, right after "pharmaceuticals," the primitives insist they're going to haul along toilet paper.
As if there's still going to be indoor plumbing after a catastrophic disaster.
hfojvt (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 01:14 PM
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17. probably they are less worried about the government
and more worried about the starving and lawless masses if society collapses.
In the
0bamareich, there's people starving?
I thought that all ended on January 20, 2009, which was quite a while ago.
The primitives promised us it would.
