Barstow Company Plans to Make Bank Off Apocalypse
Barstow Company Plans to Make Bank Off Apocalypse – It’s the Cold War all over again! That’s what it feels like. Except this time the giver of death isn’t a distant Communist nation. No, it’s God Himself, along with a host of similarly vague and supernatural bogeymen; like the year 2012, the alignment of the stars, the demise of the nation, the damn liberals, the Muslims, illegal immigrants, and earthquakes.
Meet Vivos, a company who has created a safe-haven under the Mojave Desert complete with an atrium, a gym, a jail, “with Sloppy Joes and pearl potatoes on the menu”, as The Los Angeles Times reports.
If you want to stay safe, the price is quite hefty of course. $50,000 will get you one bunk in a 4-person room. As the owner of Vivos, Robert Vicino says it best. “There’s a lot of free-floating anxiety out there …”
While he was talking about the problems of terrorists obtaining nukes, I think that statement sums it up quite well. Or, as P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
In the article, the Times interviewed a 55-year-old San Pedro man who paid $12,500 to reserve spots for him and his family. He said he’s not crazy; it’s just that we live in “fearful times”.
That’s probably what listening to Fox News, Glenn Beck, and believing every conspiracy theory ever forwarded to your inbox will do.
Vicino is set to have his pockets lined by the conspiracy theorist crowd. But just think, when 2012 breezes by and you’re sitting on a $50,000 bunk bed next to a man wearing a tinfoil hat, don’t say you’ve never been warned. The Desert Dogs told you first, and we say you’ve been had.
