OMG I just watched Teabagger porn!

[LynneSin]

Some show on National Geographic called "Doomsdayer Prepper". What a bunch of lunatics.

These people are so obsessed with the world ending or the government taking over that they spend all their time and money preparing for this.

Really?

These people seemed like idiots. I felt so bad for the kids in this one family because they would never have a normal life or a chance to go to college and make normal friends because the dad was NUTZ! I mean he made one kid drink water he squeezed from moss on the ground and they eat roadkill.

And this other girl spent $50k on preparing herself because she believed the government was going to declare martial law in the next year. Yet she stored all this stuff in an apartment she rents down town near the capital of the state where she lives. She could have bought herself a house with all that crap she bought and will probably own the next 30-40 years.

What a bunch of nutjobs.

[dawg]

1. I was so mad at myself that I missed the great ammunition shortage after Obama was elected.

It would have been a great money-making opportunity. Apparently, the gun enthusiasts bought up all the ammunition they could get their hands on, causing massive shortages. They were willing to pay up for it, too. I guess they thought he was going to outlaw ammo or something. (Like the President could do that all on his own )

I should've seen it coming. I could have made some money off these guys.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. I was smart enough to buy up several thousands of rounds before the election

but yeah, it was getting to the point that an hour at the range was more expensive than 18 holes of golf. Stupid teagaggers

[gratuitous]

20. You might have another chance in November

There is a strong segment that believes for some reason that after being re-elected, President Obama will then enact all his tyrannical, dictatorial policies, since he won't have to run for re-election after November. The gaping hole in their "logic" never occurs to them. They should be ripe for the plucking. Quote them an outrageous price in soon-to-be-worthless U.S. dollars, and a second, slightly more reasonable price in gold. You could retire.

[Turbineguy]

2. If they are spending money

they are helping the economy and therefore Obama's re-election. Money is fungible.

[Brigid]

3. I thought you were going to say . . .

You watched "Red Dawn" again.

[jakeXT]

5. Probably better than watching porn directed by Brother Love

If the world really ends on a big scale, like it did during the volcanic eruption of Toba, I doubt we could handle it.

The Toba supereruption (Youngest Toba Tuff or simply YTT[1]) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred some time between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago at Lake Toba (Sumatra, Indonesia). It is recognized as one of the Earth's largest known eruptions. The related catastrophe theory holds that this event plunged the planet into a 6-to-10-year volcanic winter and possibly an additional 1,000-year cooling episode. This change in temperature resulted in the world's human population being reduced to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Could you survive 7 years of winter and 1000 years of ice age?

My parents lived through Martial Law, not that bad ... curfews, food stamps, military on the streets

But Humans are tough and will adapt

The Alternative Solution

It is noon at the D-Town Farm in Detroit, and sunlight muscles through the clouds. Used tires double as flowerpots, multi-chromatic blooms pushing through the giant rubber rings spaced throughout the garden. Volunteers tend the plants as a staffmember leads a group of city students on a guided tour, describing the growing habits of the tomatoes and the workings of the brightly painted compost bins. Everywhere are signs of vibrant renewal.

The two-acre farm in Detroit is a project of the Detroit Black Food Security Network, a national leader among the dozens of urban gardening organizations in the city. Use of reclaimed materials, cooperative purchasing, community gardening -- principles at work in Detroit’s urban gardens are found in similar efforts across the country. But Berkeley or Portland this is not. These gardens have different roots.

Ron Williams, founder of Detroit’s alternative weekly Metrotimes, and Dragonfly Media:

“What people have to understand is that the urban agriculture, neighborhood economic development and justice work happening in Detroit is not a lifestyle choice, it is dead-on self-determination activity for survival by the residents of this devastated city.”

Necessity is a cruel mother, but certainly an efficient one.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/150308/vision%3A_urban_gardening_and_green_economy_flourish_in_detroit/

[lovemydog]

6. and they vote

aaargh

[irisblue]

11. that scares me too n/t

[Raven]

7. There was one good one in the bunch...the folks from

western Massachusette (I'm guessing) who have the farm and grow everything and don't believe in weapons. They were interesting. There is a very large sustainability movement in that part of the state. They put the other nutcases to shame, I thought.

[LynneSin]

8. They were from Maine and yeah I thought they were crazy too

Making your kid drink water from moss on the ground.

Just not cool

[Raven]

9. Not those people...I saw them,

this was a man and a woman who had a farm and were doing pretty sensible things.

[LynneSin]

15. I didn't see them but then again I could only stomach myself thru one episode

[onethatcares]

10. the girl with 50K worth of food

and a "Large Frame Backpack" to bug out with. How the hell is she gonna carry that much anywhere?

When she explained her relationship, boyfriend being a martial arts, black ops, undercover elephant that is teaching

her marksmanship and how to defend herself, I could only think that he found an easy mark and is slowly draining

her bank account in the name of patriotism.

[Wait Wut]

12. That show is hilarious!

I love that they're all planning on staying in little groups...so they'll be easier for the black vans to pick up.

[sarge43]

13. Beauty is skin deep; dumb goes right to the bone.

After Y2K hysteria died down, the owner of Lehman's Hardware (sells non-electrical items to the Amish) told my husband this story:

Woman came to the store asking for a flour grinder because, come the big crash, bread wouldn't be available. Mr Lehman showed her it worked, poured in the whole wheat grain and ground it down to flour.
Woman stared at the results, then asked "Where is the bread?"

[Ikonoklast]

14. And Jay Lehman said,

"In my pocket, you people are nuts!"

Good store, though.

[BiggJawn]

16. They call non-preppers "Zombies"

I guess it'll make it easier to shoot people who aren't members of the "Tribe" or something.

Those crazies can sit on their 20 tons of MRE's and 1,000,000 rounds of 7.62.

I'd be looking for a cooperative community that could use my skills and talents to help many people thrive. As long as they don't try to eat my brains...

[Tom Ripley]

17. I think these are people who never got over the thrill of playing "fort" as kids

I'm serious

[SCantiGOP]

18. are you suggesting

that it is time to come out of my Y2K bunker? I still have 8 more years of ramen noodles and pork and beans left.

[Quantess]

19. How do you know they are all RWers?

You know, there are nutty liberals out there. Some people are heavily invested in the Mayan calendar.

[LynneSin]

22. The show I watched - all of them insisted the government was taking over

although I'm sure there are some liberals who believe that it's rare you see one spend $50k to stock food in their basement.

[Quantess]

23. Yes, I personally know a couple of liberals who bought into the Y2K hype.

Remember Art Bell's radio program? He had listeners from across the political spectrum.
I occasionally tuned into his program if he had an entertaining subject or an interesting guest, but at times he really went overboard on Y2K, food shortages, needing a generator for power, etc.

[LynneSin]

24. Are they still doing it?

That was a decade ago. Even I made sure I had extra bottle water, cash on hand and a full tank of gas.

[Quantess]

25. I know one who is still a habitual food hoarder.

Along with talk of what if there is a food shortage.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. For a minute there, I thought this thread would be about molesting Reagan's corpse on film. nt