[sinkspur]

Oh, you poor, poor man.

Stuff your condescension, pal. You're the one who looks like an idiot on this thread.

Paranoids never think they're paranoid.

[WALLACE212]

A lot of blind men don't realize that they are blind either.

"Just cause you're paranoid doesn't mean no one is following you."

[rbmillerjr]

Appears we have a Black Chopper alert here...protect you dried food at once

[Lumberjack]

Stuff your condescension, pal. You're the one who looks like an idiot on this thread.

My my, touchy today, aren't we? Bob Dole says that Viagra helps, you may want to check it out.

So sorry to hear that you cannot refute the ideas put forth that this new plan is so radically different from past contingency plans as to establish a whole new system of government. A government not terribly out of line with FEMA contingency plans and recent Executive Orders. Not that I expected you to be able to of course.

You still having that spinning head problem you were talking about a few nights ago? Hope that clears up sometime.

All the best, love and kisses, get well soon.

Your Friend,

Lumberjack

[Hoosier Patriot]

You're the one who looks like an idiot on this thread.

Turn the contrast and brightness way down on your monitor, then put your face about a foot from the screen. Who dat?!

[lentulusgracchus]

Lumberjack has a legitimate issue, and instead of throwing spitwads at him to show you're the coolest kid in class, you might engage the issue. Nobody is edified by a micturition contest, and that goes for both of you.

It wasn't Lumberjack who was mumbling about underground conspiracies and posting pictures of people dressed up as Morlocks. He raised the question, okay, if "the government" is going to be 150 people from the executive agencies, how does this preserve the republican form of government guaranteed by the Constitution?

If the numbers cited here don't allow a Congressional quorum to be convened in order, then what is the purpose of summoning a rump Congress, and who has the right to say who gets invited, and who gets left to burn up in the firestorms? Do RiNO's get invited, and congressmen from large, urban districts? Will the Black Caucus be invited, or do they get to take their chances? Who's on the list -- is it Pamela Harriman's old "A" list? Names drawn by lot?

And where is the President? Presumably, flying around in "Kneecap", he would remain in communication with this group. But would it really be a constitutional government, or an emergency junta? And if there is a constitutional arrangement to be made for contingencies, what harm is there in our knowing it, at least to the extent of a sanitized public Plan? Why all the hugger-mugger, unless it is to conceal the settled opinion of knowledgable and responsible people, that constitutional government simply couldn't continue under general thermonuclear attack?

As far as I can remember from documentaries, magazine articles, and newsreel items propagated in the Fifties and Sixties, government planners always told the public that constitutional government would continue, and that the Congress and the Supreme Court would be preserved to continue governing. I think Lumberjack is confronting the possibility that we may only have been told that, while something more.....modest......that didn't meet constitutional scratch, may have been planned for instead. It wouldn't be the first time an Administration planned a switcheroo: Abraham Lincoln did it, and his pretext was another emergency.

It's a fair question. Care to have a go?