re: #229 Cato the Elder

And there you have it.

When Google Translations becomes self-aware (right before the end of the Mayan calendar), we’ll all be screwed by sharks and jumped by pooches.

OK my doomsday scenario….

I mean worst of the worst…

1. Iran gets nuke.
2. Iran uses nuke on Israel and Israel fires back from the grave.
3. World oil markets go apeshit.
4. The economy nosedives for real.
4. Palin or Huckabee or McDonnel gets elected on a “make the trains run on time” platform.
5. America does not go completely theocracy as a result, there is still too much Constitution left for that, but many repressive things do get done while the new GOP takes away American rights and liberties and finally manages to pack the court, we completely mismanage the China account and science is put on a back burner.
6. We pass a methane tipping point. Because the GOP does not believe in such things.
7. Somewhere around 2050 we have a massive ice loss event in Greenland.
8. Major cities begin to flood, food stocks truly begin to feel a pinch in the continental US, and there are crashing economies around the world.
9. Last ditch efforts are made too little too late to “go green” and rationing is mandated.
10. As the situation worsens, the government, for the sake of the children begins to implement ever more repressive measures. Decisions of who is “in” and who is a refugee left to fend for themselves get made around the world. Contagion spreads amongst the under nourished and over crowded as new disease vectors enter virgin populations.
11. People on the “out” part of the call fight back in more and more numbers as black markets proliferate and violence becomes routine.
12. Our democracy as we know it collapses into a permanent state of emergency.

13… After that who knows… Dark ages? Motorcycle barbarians? America reduced to city states? But billions will die.