Wyoming Ponders Aircraft Carrier — With the Wyoming oil boom in full swing, the state is pondering what steps to take should there be a complete breakdown of the rest of these United States.
The state legislature passed Friday, Feb. 24, a first reading of House Bill 85 that would create a government continuity task force to investigate as to how the state should prepare for potential catastrophes.
Among the things to be considered are an alternative currency, a military draft and the raising of a standing army, and the acquisition of strike aircraft and an aircraft carrier.
Don’t ask. I don’t know. I’m just reporting what was reported.
How many readers out there know that Wyoming is named for a part of Pennsylvania?
Gertrude of Wyoming by Scotsman Thomas Campbell, the hit poem of 1809, is set there.
It would actually be kind of scary if Luzerne County got an aircraft carrier.
Wyoming should check with Switzerland to see it those yodeling sailors have any surplus carriers to sell.
Of course Pennsylvania is already blessed with a fine battleship docked in Philadelphia. It has the famed “You may fire when ready Gridley” Olympia now being renovated and prepared for any emergency.
The United States a once beautiful and swift pleasure ship is also docked in Philadelphia. Put a flight deck on that baby and terrify New Jersey. Oops better make that Delaware, New Jersey has a neat battleship docked in Camden.
Anyway as President Obama would say all 58 states should be prepared to take action.