What's the next thing "no one could have expected" that will happen?

[tjdee]

I say it's a major gas shortage. Bush is of course golfing or eating cake, or whatever the hell he does usually... and one day there will be a crisis, and he and his ass kissers will say "Why, no one could have expected that so many gas stations would be out of gas..."

[Arkansas Democrat]

1. From Paul Krugman's Discussion Forum

Dubya's Dirty Rag

Nobody expected the levee to break,
No one could tell that a cow becomes steak,
Who could have known that fat people like cake?
Some things just aren't knowable for goodness' sake!

We didn't know that those people were stuck,
Who could have told us we'd run out of luck?
If we would have known we'd have still passed the buck
Sometimes being president really does suck.

Who knew that Saddam didn't have WMD?
Why didn't they bring up that fact on TV?
Why is everybody always picking on me?
Incompetence isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Why don't they love us when we shoot in Iraq?
Why won't Cindy Sheehan get the hell off my back?
I got a helicopter and it flies to Biloxi
But why do they expect me to show any moxie?

This presidency bid'ness is beladen with traps
I didn't bargain on them; I signed up for the naps
The rich will get richer cuz I know they've been hurtin'
Like my old pal Ken Lay and friends at Haliburton.

I never claimed to be another Lincoln
I got bad-haircut neocons to do all my thinkin"
I give them cute nicknames and don't dare criticize them
-–But they're all noveau riche so of course I despise them.

The treasury needs money so it's no time for taxation.
And people need leadership so I'll just go on vacation.
Day in and day out, the plan's always the same
Screw up the country but don't take the blame.

[tjdee]

6. Love it!

:thumbsup:

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. OMIGOD!

Put it to music, play it on the radio and it will bring this presidency down!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. No one could have expected that one company Diebold, would

so dramatically contribute to the irresponsibility of the American government.

[Greybnk48]

3. I think someone here nailed it the other day

something like "no one could have anticipated that it would be this cold this winter and that so many would freeze to death because they could not afford fuel to heat their homes."

Anyone want to place a bet?

[durablend]

7. Yep...and the freeper response?

"Well if they couldn't afford the oil (and if they were WORKING instead of sitting on their asses eating bonbons they could've), they should've moved to a warmer climate."

[Catchawave]

11. They moved to New Orleans !

Sorry, couldn't resist :hi:

[maine_raptor]

10. No bet.

Home heating oil is up over $2.60 per gal here in ME.

Think of this:

Depending upon the weather, an average size home, with average insulation, will need about 125 gals of oil to maintain 65-70 degrees. This assumes that the homeowner turns down the thermostat during the day when the home is not occupied and lowers it at night when the homeowner is asleep. The heating season is approx 6 month long (Oct-Apr).


Do the math: 125 * 2.60 = 325 per month. $325 * 6 = $1950 per year.

And that is assuming that the price remains constaint.

Not too many folks around here can afford $2000 a year to heat a home.

Yup, no bet. Maybe we need a pool on the number of frozen bodies to be pulled from homes come next spring.

[unrepuke]

4. Theft of funds. All the money pouring in from privat(ized) donations,

the 10.5 fed billion, and more . . . but I'm being pessimistic.

Beauracratic red tape stalling?

Naw, can't happen here. I don't see it coming.

[dsc]

5. a massive earth quake in San Francisco

that is the third thing that was predicted in early 2001 by FEMA. The other two were a massive terrorist attack in NYC and a huge hurricane/flood in NO.

[tjdee]

8. No one could expect that!

Like it's on some kind of fault line or something!

Stop reaching, LOL!

[cally]

17. Just what I was thinking

We're replacing our stored water today and making sure our supplies are up to date. I'm also moving a saw and hammer to the attic so we can get out the roof if needed.

[JHB]

18. Will * hit the disaster trifecta?

SFers ... you're in the bullseye now...

[mzteris]

20. wha????

***"a massive earth quake in San Francisco" that is the third thing that was predicted in early 2001 by FEMA. The other two were a massive terrorist attack in NYC and a huge hurricane/flood in NO. ***


You are kidding, right?

Who was that guy who was posting the other day about the CIA controlling the weather and causing the hurricane?

If all 3 of their "predictions" came true, that would be a little TOO coincidental, doncha think?

:tinfoilhat:

[dsc]

23. Here is one link

This isn't too coincidental in all honesty. NY had already had one terrorist attack at the WTC when that report had been written and NO had dodged several hurricans in the 1990's. As to SF, it is on a famous fault line and hasn't had an earthquake in around 15 years.

One of those mentions

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x152031

[ikojo]

9. The last big San Francisco quake was October 1989`

and the memo that said the US was vulnerable to a terrorist attack in NYC and a Cat 5 Hurricane in New Orleans also said the US was not prepared for a really bad earthquake in San Francisco. I would also add to that, the US or Missouri is not prepared should the New Madrid fault decide to awaken.

If the long predicted New Madrid quake does happen St Louis will look much like New Orleans and I suspect the response time of the Feds would be pretty much the same....STL is blue in an ocean of red.

[undeterred]

12. a dirty bomb or food supply contamination from terrorists

Why not, we've never been more vulnerable... the terrorists might not have gotten the memo that we're fighting them "over there".

And to think of all those people who voted for * because they believed he would "protect" us.

If something terrible happens, it will be the Democrats fault. :sarcasm:

[anarch]

14. I'm with you on the oil/gas thing...

Probably some kind of really catastrophic price spike and/or production shortage that will really be felt across the entire economy.

[justabob]

15. Cholera and other assorted disease outbreaks associated with flooding nt

[DoYouEverWonder]

21. We have a winner

No could have imagined that all those people drinking dirty water and walking around in human waste would all get sick and die.

Why do you think they weren't letting one in or out of NO for the last couple of days?

[theHandpuppet]

16. If you were listening to NPR this morning you'd be scared out of your wits

I only caught a small portion of a program talking about the Katrina disaster and how -- because we are so focused on the human disaster in NOLA, and rightly so! -- that the govt hasn't told us the whole truth and nothing but the truth regarding what's in store for us.

The number of rigs/platforms destroyed, including 40 major and hundreds of smaller ones --has already been confirmed even before a complete survey has been done. The only port in this country able to handle supertankers is no more. The price of many products, such as coffee, which come in almost exclusively via the ports of NOLA, will skyrocket. The refineries are down. The damage done to our oil/gas industry in the gulf will take YEARS, not weeks or months, to repair. Prices for everything will go through the roof.

Of course, now that the Repukes have passed the bankruptcy bill, people who can no longer pay their mortgages, heating bills, et al will find themselves the perpetual indentured servants in "the land of the free". People will freeze to death when they can no longer pay for heat. The minimum wage jobs that barely kept millions alive will not be enough for food, shelter, medicines and clothing. As people tighten their belts trying to pay for the basics, jobs will disappear in the service industry -- restaurants, movies, travel, and so much more will be reserved only for the wealthy.

And this is if we don't get hit by another Cat 5 or a terrorist attack on a major U.S. city.

Time to get prepared, folks. It's going to be a long, hard winter -- and beyond. This is not a drill.

[ticapnews]

19. Peak Oil

No one has seen that one coming...

[NNadir]

22. The impoverishment of a prominent North American nation from debt?

No one could tell the currency would collapse.