[Umber]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oneaboveall', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'O')nce 'collective bargining' is deemed illegal, pensions will be gutted as what's happened in the private sector, next SS will be axed, life expectancy for the average American will be in the early 50's. There will be nothing for the older crippled up discarded worker. All those middle class republican voters will get what they asked for. We are screwed.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Umber', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'E')ver notice how GOPers have this very rigid fantasy about how they will be living in their bunker with a freezer full of Omaha steaks while mowing down the starving masses of you-know-who?

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'E')ver notice how GOPers have this very rigid fantasy about how they will be living in their bunker with a freezer full of Omaha steaks while mowing down the starving masses of you-know-who? This image of white folks in a bunker goes all the way back to the climax of "Birth Of A Nation" which is the fantasy version of the birth of Klan.
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Maybe the GOPers picture the nice white Republican folk in the future holed up in their gated communities like Minas Tirith as everything collapses, nobly fighting all the Negro Uruk-hai and Orcs.

(Somehow though I doubt you'll see the invincible ghosts of the KKK swarming in to save the day)

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'O')ily wants his $50 you owe him.

Well?

[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Umber', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'E')ver notice how GOPers have this very rigid fantasy about how they will be living in their bunker with a freezer full of Omaha steaks while mowing down the starving masses of you-know-who?

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', '
')The estate is very large, very wooded and double fenced. You can't see anything from outside except the outer fence and signs warning about the packs of very large dogs in between the double fencing waiting for a meal. If you cross that first fence, I doubt we could get to you in time.

[Cid_Yama]

I have no children. It has been willed in it's entirety to a Foundation that will be established upon my death.

That sounds very strange to me. It's like I'm living in two worlds. The one that ends within 10 years and the one "as if" everything was going to continue on.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'I') have no children. It has been willed in it's entirety to a Foundation that will be established upon my death.

[Cid_Yama]

I am married, I just have no children. If I die first, the Foundation will maintain the estate and provide for her until she dies.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'I') am married, I just have no children. If I die first, the Foundation will maintain the estate and provide for her until she dies.

[Cid_Yama]

There will be no civilization left when we are gone. People still don't grasp the immensity of what a 3.5 GT annual release of methane means. 300 yrs equivalent of GHG emmisions over 10 yrs. maybe 6 degrees C warming within that time frame, maybe more.

Worldwide famine, billions of deaths.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'T')hat sounds very strange to me. .

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'T')here will be no civilization left when we are gone. People still don't grasp the immensity of what a 3.5 GT annual release of methane means. 300 yrs equivalent of GHG emmisions over 10 yrs. maybe 6 degrees C warming within that time frame, maybe more.

Worldwide famine, billions of deaths.

[anador]

Hell why not use the money to build something for the powerdown?

That wealth will all be destroyed by a breakdown in society if placed in a foundation.

Since you can afford the walled palace...

You could probably afford to rebuild an entire small town to post peak specifications. That would be really charitable, a foundation and its embanked assets will vanish with the powerdown and do very little charitable good.

A defensible self sufficient town... that would really help some people.

Wealthy philanthropy really isn't what it used to be. Now people put money in one charitable fund or another and forget about it.

In the nineteenth centuries the wealthy would build works of art and architecture to beautify and improve their cities.

They built infrastructure and institutions, and doing it with a flair government bureaucracy fails to achieve.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anador', '
')In the nineteenth centuries the wealthy would build works of art and architecture to beautify and improve their cities.

[anador]

I just imagined how much bio-char you could bury and sequester for 5 million dollars

alot

[RikkiTikkiTavi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'Y')ou can't see anything from outside except the outer fence and signs warning about the packs of very large dogs in between the double fencing waiting for a meal.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Umber', '
')That particular firearm is not "automatic", it's semi-auto. Fires once each time the trigger is squeezed. It also does not hold "12 shotgun shells in a rotating barrel". It holds shotgun shells in a drum magazine. But, for a guy who actually believes he's going to have a barrier of impenetrable vegetation around his doomstead so he can hide from / fend off the zombies, you got it fairly close.

[Sixstrings]

I know you can't compare Wisconsin with Egypt of all places, but another similarity has arisen. The police have taken the protesters' side, refusing to clear the capitol building per the governor's order and even joining the protests:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ADISON, Wis. - In a victory for the labor movement and its allies, demonstrators slept overnight in the Capitol building here and continued to rally inside the building today, almost 24 hours after Republican Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislators ordered police to clear them out.

Police, who politely requested demonstrators to leave for the night, made no arrests. As they had promised at several rallies, off-duty police were among those defying the governor's order and sitting in for the night.

By 8 a.m. Monday, newly-arrived demonstrators were joining those inside the Capitol as others marched outside.

"We are here and we will remain here until the governor stops his attacks on the middle class," said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin state AFL-CIO. She was one of hundreds of ralliers who remained inside the Capitol Sunday night after the 4 p.m. Republican deadline.
http://peoplesworld.org/protesters-remain-in-capitol-despite-gov-s-order-to-clear-out/

[rangerone314]

Wonder what it is like to be able to find the spare time to go to a protest?