Topic: Tropical Storm Sandy

[IronDioPriest]

...there's something called a "propane tree" with multiple hook-ups for different items.

That's useful information. I didn't know such a thing existed, although I suppose it's common sense.

[AlanS]

Don't worry. The government money tree will soon be there.

[Pandora]

...there's something called a "propane tree" with multiple hook-ups for different items.

That's useful information. I didn't know such a thing existed, although I suppose it's common sense.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-Distribution-Tree-2-Piece/13848693#ProductDetail

[Glock32]

You had it right earlier G, inmates of the Human Zoo cannot think even one day ahead, they just riot and blame others for their misfortune...which apparently includes the ability to think like a real human being.
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Species in decline, led by the Human Zoos and their (cough) caretakers...

 

This is a sort of long read, but a great explanation of the psychosocial dynamics at work in these human zoos, particularly the ones that are self-conscious efforts at utopianism. It demonstrates that there is a mathematical certainty to the abrupt decline of such societies, even when they continue to have adequate access to food and other resources.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php

Excerpt:

How do you design a utopia? In 1972, John B. Calhoun detailed the specifications of his Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice: a practical utopia built in the laboratory. Every aspect of Universe 25—as this particular model was called—was pitched to cater for the well-being of its rodent residents and increase their lifespan. The Universe took the form of a tank, 101 inches square, enclosed by walls 54 inches high. The first 37 inches of wall was structured so the mice could climb up, but they were prevented from escaping by 17 inches of bare wall above. Each wall had sixteen vertical mesh tunnels—call them stairwells—soldered to it. Four horizontal corridors opened off each stairwell, each leading to four nesting boxes. That means 256 boxes in total, each capable of housing fifteen mice. There was abundant clean food, water, and nesting material. The Universe was cleaned every four to eight weeks. There were no predators, the temperature was kept at a steady 68°F, and the mice were a disease-free elite selected from the National Institutes of Health’s breeding colony. Heaven.
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So what exactly happened in Universe 25? Past day 315, population growth slowed. More than six hundred mice now lived in Universe 25, constantly rubbing shoulders on their way up and down the stairwells to eat, drink, and sleep. Mice found themselves born into a world that was more crowded every day, and there were far more mice than meaningful social roles. With more and more peers to defend against, males found it difficult and stressful to defend their territory, so they abandoned the activity. Normal social discourse within the mouse community broke down, and with it the ability of mice to form social bonds. The failures and dropouts congregated in large groups in the middle of the enclosure, their listless withdrawal occasionally interrupted by spasms and waves of pointless violence. The victims of these random attacks became attackers. Left on their own in nests subject to invasion, nursing females attacked their own young. Procreation slumped, infant abandonment and mortality soared. Lone females retreated to isolated nesting boxes on penthouse levels. Other males, a group Calhoun termed “the beautiful ones,” never sought sex and never fought—they just ate, slept, and groomed, wrapped in narcissistic introspection. Elsewhere, cannibalism, pansexualism, and violence became endemic. Mouse society had collapsed.
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On day 560, a little more than eighteen months into the experiment, the population peaked at 2,200 mice and its growth ceased. A few mice survived past weaning until day six hundred, after which there were few pregnancies and no surviving young. As the population had ceased to regenerate itself, its path to extinction was clear. There would be no recovery, not even after numbers had dwindled back to those of the heady early days of the Universe. The mice had lost the capacity to rebuild their numbers—many of the mice that could still conceive, such as the “beautiful ones” and their secluded singleton female counterparts, had lost the social ability to do so. In a way, the creatures had ceased to be mice long before their death—a “first death,” as Calhoun put it, ruining their spirit and their society as thoroughly as the later “second death” of the physical body.

[Libertas]

OMG, is it bad of me to have read that and laughed my ass off while doing so?!  Maybe its the election result making me sensitive to the data, but damn, this just floored me!

"Mouse society had collapsed"!

 

So there is a happy ending to manufactured utopia?!

 

[Predator Don]

OMG, is it bad of me to have read that and laughed my ass off while doing so?!  Maybe its the election result making me sensitive to the data, but damn, this just floored me!

"Mouse society had collapsed"!

 

So there is a happy ending to manufactured utopia?!

 

The only difference I see between the mice and our cities is we pay our mice to re produce.

[charlesoakwood]

Maybe we should pay them more.

[Predator Don]

Maybe we should pay them more.

Govt cheese

[Glock32]

Reminds me of one of my new favorite sayings:  "Free cheese is found only in mouse traps"

[Libertas]

Reminds me of one of my new favorite sayings:  "Free cheese is found only in mouse traps"

Problem is after the capture the follow through is lacking...instead of keeping them quartered, fed and alive...

 

[ToddF]

Howz that Carter styled gas rationing going, b**tches.   

[John Florida]

Howz that Carter styled gas rationing going, b**tches.   

  They must love it.Bloomberg won't let the national guard in to help because the carry guns.Welcome to the new world order.

[Predator Don]

I've also heard no food can be distributed because the fat content can't be checked. No kidding. Why worry about fat content when half of America have fat, blubber filled heads.

[charlesoakwood]

Yes Dearie, we understand you're starving to death but we can't go messin up your cholesterol, can we?

[Libertas]

More dead bodies...very little reporting...Obama gets more free passes...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/more-dead-bodies-discovered-in-sandys-wake-media-yawns/

Being a democrat is gutless and easy...it's all the rage, ya know?!

       

[John Florida]

More dead bodies...very little reporting...Obama gets more free passes...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/more-dead-bodies-discovered-in-sandys-wake-media-yawns/

Being a democrat is gutless and easy...it's all the rage, ya know?!

       

  And Napolitano gets the same pass.

[Libertas]

More dead bodies...very little reporting...Obama gets more free passes...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/more-dead-bodies-discovered-in-sandys-wake-media-yawns/

Being a democrat is gutless and easy...it's all the rage, ya know?!

       

  And Napolitano gets the same pass.

Yeah, almost forgot about her and her merry band of demented bull-dykes!

[Pandora]

Gunsmith tells me he saw on piece this morning, on Fox News, about a county/town that recruited former utility workers to break into a power/sub station at their location and they restored the power on their own.  Damned if I can find it, though.

[Libertas]

Gunsmith tells me he saw on piece this morning, on Fox News, about a county/town that recruited former utility workers to break into a power/sub station at their location and they restored the power on their own.  Damned if I can find it, though.

If true, the punishment will be severe, and not reported by the MFM...hmm, perhaps that is why any story on it is already crushed...

[John Florida]

Gunsmith tells me he saw on piece this morning, on Fox News, about a county/town that recruited former utility workers to break into a power/sub station at their location and they restored the power on their own.  Damned if I can find it, though.

  What they did was get the info directly to the crews without going through channels which started getting results instantly. So bypassing the government works everytime.