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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Because it's actually being manipulated by the evil government/ is a secret government agency that was created to set up these camps, so that all the Christians/Patriots/Gun Owners can be imprisoned when the government declares martial law.
Seriously, google "FEMA concentration camps".
edited 13th Feb '13 9:30:46 PM by DrunkGirlfriend
"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -DrunkscriblerianYeah, the whole FEMA thing means you are getting into Alex Jones levels of crazy. No hope at reasoning with those people.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Wait, we have an article on Alex Jones? That's Flame Bait incarnate. Suggest a scrub/lock, if not a full removal.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It's actually not that bad a page, Fighteer. It's much better than I thought it would be. Go take a look at it. It seems to be actually following wiki rules and seems void of flame wars. I'm surprise impressed. It's even entirely focused on his work.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickRepresentative Broun (R-GA) boasts he was the first member of Congress to call Obama a ‘socialist’.
He must be so proud.
edited 13th Feb '13 10:42:34 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016This might have been mentioned before, but I'm to lazy to check.
Postmaster General asks Congress to stop Saturday mail service
Harry Reid: Postmaster general ‘damaged his reputation’ with five-day mail-delivery plan
Postmaster General: USPS Could Need $45 Billion Taxpayer Bailout By 2017
The good news keeps coming!
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I thought we weren't in a recession anymore.
edited 13th Feb '13 11:12:33 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016To be fair, getting unilaterally shot by the LAPD for delivering newspapers doesn't strike me as a particularly superior option either. Doerner was way, way off the deep end, but people don't end up there for no reason, and pretty much everything about how the LAPD handled everything after the shooting is...really, really suspect.
We're not really in a recession anymore so much as a hole.
edited 14th Feb '13 12:18:11 AM by Pykrete
Yeah I never understood the whole FEMA conspiracy theory thing. Apparently they had a bunch of plastic containers that looked like coffins. Having lots and lots of plastic containers for coffins seems far too nice for someone who's going to kill everyone in concentration camps. It's a huge waste. If you're going to be killing mass amounts of people, you do mass graves or burn the bodies, duh.
@Pykrete: Call it a game of probabilities. You are vastly more likely to be shot by the LAPD if you resist than if you comply. I am a pragmatist and, when it improves my chances of not being shot for no good purpose, a coward as well.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"So, it seems two-thirds of the gun deaths in the US are suicides.
Not paranoid gun-nuts, not NRA lunatics, not gang-bangers, not even corrupt LAPD narcs. But suicides.
If you eliminated those suicide deaths than the, the rate of gun deaths in the US would be better than do-no-wrong UK with it's "guns are of the devil" laws.
The funny thing is the article, and the comments, STILL want to make this about guns. The complete lack of understanding and resources to deal with depressed people, especially depressed teens should be the focus, but why do that when you can blame the NRA?
edited 14th Feb '13 6:49:08 AM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honor
Nope
. Chuck Testa.
The USA still leads the UK by a factor of almost forty.
edited 14th Feb '13 6:54:04 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiAnyone listen to the hourly, 5-min news broadcast from NPR? Sometimes it has... rather important/relevant-to-this-thread summaries.
Just heard that overall foreclosure rates are down in no small part to the laws in California (that increase standards before a house can be foreclosed on) decreasing the number foreclosed on by 62% between last January and this January. Now Florida is the leader with a rate over twice the national average.
Hagel becomes first filibustered defense nominee
. The news story I heard had a recorded quote from a senator who said, approximately, "I will not let him pass until Obama answers all questions about the debacle that happened in Benghazi." My reaction: what questions are left to be answered?
An African or European Swallow?
Seriously though, Hagel's basically qualified through and through. They're just not confirming him because he said he won't prostrate at the feet of the Israel/Jewish lobbies. :\ Bunch of bastards.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/the-kids-are-alright/
On a more pleasant note, this I found interesting: Despite the decline in traditional religion and marriage, which pundits are claiming should lead to a skyrocketing in moral decay and crime, there is a drop in Teen Pregnancies overall, and a drop of violent crime overall.

I was arguing with somebody and then they started shouting about FEMA camps or something. What are they talking about?