DarthTofu

Good luck with your dreams, Rob. Provided you go back to sleep sometime real soon and dream of the sasquatch not existing. About that fairtax thing: Doesn't that automatically reduce the taxes collected from the rich? There's a federal tax on those things we buy, now, meaning that the cost of basic goods will increase slightly, no? The rich still have the same basic consumption needs as the people, and thus buy the same amount as the people in general. Those who are not as well off economically now have to pay more for those things they need, do they not? Don't get me wrong- I'm not opposing it, just voicing my initial impression of it. I only read the "About fairtax" section on the site, so please tell me if I missed something.

Okay- now can you make him green, send him through a short, thirty-second video as a protecting superhero of the environment, and credit me with all of the work? Please? Just jokin' with you. Very spiffy, Krytos...

He came rather close to center in the end, Tex. I'll grant you that you probably know more than me about the topic, but I honestly think you're being more than a little bit partisan on the matter. I try to say as close to center as I can on most matters, though I lean strongly to the left. *Shrugs* What's done is done- I'll not argue with you over your opinions of the past.

Hehe... Yesssssssssssssssssssssss. I may reinstal that game, now...

I think he's more likely to be captured when A) He's alone and B) (Crazy as this sounds) You're playing on "easy." That's the only time I ever had him caught...

What?? I'm sorry Eagle, I don't know where you get your facts, but you're completely wrong. The US economy has been growing yearly a good consistent 3-4% every year with "W" in office, AND unemployment has dropped to the lowest levels in quite a loooooonnng time (it got down into the 4.?% rate). I'm not sure where it's at now, but the US it quite better off with "W" than "Slick Willy" when it comes to the economy. Bush's "tax cuts" have stimulated the economy (as proven by JFK and Ronald Reagan), while reducing yearly deficits on the US national budget (getting closer to a "balanced" budget, but Congress is the purse string holders and wild spenders. The President recommends a budget, but Congress funds it). The US would be much better off getting rid of the IRS and income taxes all together, and going over to a "consumption tax". The price of consumer goods would only have a maximum change of maybe +/- 1-2%. For a thorough explanation, see http://www.fairtax.org. You'll be surprised at how well this would really work. As for Rob's original post: Hillary is the Anti-Christ! Doom! Doom! Doom! Umm, dude? You do realize that Clinton was the first President in something like forty years to balance the budget, right?

"# 1996: Also scoring 8.4, 1996s winner is entitled Macho Men. Some men went to extraordinary lengths to prove how macho they are. Frenchman Pierre Pumpille recently shunted a stationary car two feet by headbutting it. "Women thought I was a god," he explained from his hospital bed. Deity or not, however, Pumpille is a veritable girl's blouse compared to Polish farmer Krystof Azninski, who staked a strong claim to being Europe's most macho man by cutting off his own head in 1995. Azninski, 30, had been drinking with friends when it was suggested they strip naked and play some "men's games". Initially they hit each other over the head with frozen turnips, but then one man upped the ante by seizing a chainsaw and cutting off the end of his foot. Not to be outdone, Azninski grabbed the saw and, shouting "Watch this then," he swung at his own head and chopped it off. "It's funny," said one companion, "when he was young he put on his sister's underwear. But he died like a man."" These never fail to make me want to cry... I'm not sure if it's from laughing or if it's from the pain the stupid people cause my brain...

Darwin Day.

I'd say about 50-70% of the way through your R&Ding for ship design research... Interdictor-style cruisers take a while to show up.

"Hold your wee for a Wii," I believe... Eh, I'm anti-conformist. I refuse to purchase Wii until they're coming out with something even cooler than it. Only way I'm going to try one out is if someone brings a Wii to my Darwin Day party on the twelfth!

lol! Would you all get mad at me if I made that my new avatar?

Erm, exiting? Nice gif...

Umm, Ikelae? We shouldn't blame all three branches of government for everything. Generally speaking, we should blame the Supreme Court for the least amount of stuff. In matters pertaining to laws and money we should be complaining more about Congress, true, but in matters of military we should be complaining about el Presidente.

Go to "Forums," "Private Messages," "New Post," "Find a Username," and enter part of their name. Okay, I checked what I was doing as I typed that, and for some reason Tex isn't on the list. Why is he gone, La Forge? Have you been tampering with the interior workings more than you should have? I'll find Tex's full name (I don't know if it has an underscore or not) and post it. Then you just have to enter his name under who to send it to....

I thought you'd modelled all of those pictures at first! Me: Bloody hell! How on Earth did render that all so realistically?!?

*Cough* Barack Obama! Vote for Barack Obama! He's a way better candidate than Hilary and close to center, even if he is a little inexperianced! Erm... *cough* Yeah. I like Presidents who are close to center. I share my graduation fate with Ikalae, but will not be old enough to vote when the time comes, unfortunately. If Hillary winds up winning the Democratic nomination I will likely support McCain. Give it four or eight years from the end of the race on out, though, and I will gladly support a more-experianced, more-savy Obama. I still like the solution I came up with along with a friend while in Algebra: The biggest complaint about Obama is his lack of experiance. Hillary has a good chance of winning. What we should do is make Obama Hillary's running mate, the Vice President. Then, once Hillary is two years and a day into her term, we asassinate her and let a now-experianced Barack take over! I think it could work quite well! Granted, an easier solution is to just vote for McCain if he makes the primaries...

*Blows off dust* Why can't I let these threads die? Oh, that's right, because I just wrote something and I want pier review. Plus I want to see how Rob reacts to my using his name for a main character who could be him at some point in the future. Kind of. Sort of. Not really. Anyway, tell me what you think. I'm still trying to come up with a title. I came up with the concept a long time ago, but I never expanded on it. (@Rob: This isn't you, so don't take offense that the character acts nothing like you. I just figured I'd use the name since it was an easy one to use. On a secondary note: @Paul: Sorry to use your name in that first piece. Didn't even occur to me that it was your name. I just remember you as Grand Moff Connway. My bad) I can’t say that I know exactly when it started. It just happened one day, and ever since that day it melted every day, week, month, year, decade into one. It pervaded my thoughts, changed everything from my personality right down to my skin color. I’d been of a darker coloration before. Tanned, kissed by the sun enough to lose distinction when standing against a dark background. I was happier before, too. I could see someone and play the fool just to get a simple laugh out of them. I had no problem being laughed at rather than with so long as I was instigating laughter of a non-malicious variety. It went on to change everything. My skin went white- whiter than it ever had any right to go. Whiter than clouds, whiter than the bones it encompassed. My personality did the same. It was bleached, leeched of all its joy and happiness, all of its lofty ideals of right and wrong fading to nothingness. It made me a shell, a shell of a human being that dared not venture out a front door for fear of what laid beyond. I do remember the day I told someone about it. I do remember what it was like. And so does that person. _________________________________________________________ I beeped the horn and leaned back in the leather seat of my car, waiting for Rob to come out. He took longer than usual to emerge from his temporary home- a rather run-down and ransacked place, the best he could afford- and when he finally did he walked slowly rather than running as he typically did. He opened the door and sat in the passenger’s seat. He was shaking, and I wasn’t certain that it had to do with the thirteen degree weather New York was experiencing. “Hey, Rob, you okay, man?â€

I remember those from old Social Studies classes... There are some theories about those people making primative balloon bladders so that they could see the images from the air. When I was little I always wondered where they managed to find an animal with a big enough bladder to use for their balloons... Then I discovered the existance of the oliphant from Lord of the Rings!

And I thought you meant a Yowie Oh my FSM.... Are you still doing research into Bigfoot, Rob?

No you couldn't As for jobs - so far, so not so good I've emailed a total of 6 or so, two have responded - one saying: "No." The other ... "No - but if you can do it in the second semester .. maybe" - which I can't. I phoned one of the places, and they told me to email them ... I already had Not so good. She also said there was next to no chance. If all else fails I'm sure Jahled can write you a glowing reccomendation for work at National Geographic as a photographer/3-D-artist-who-fudges-when-actual-images-of-animals-can't-be-obtained. @J: You're a bad influence on those little guys, you know that?

Sorry if I offended anyone. I just have a sort of view of apologetics of peoples of any faith or lack therof as being, well, rather annoying. Atheist apologetics in particular. Faith is sort of like a sand castle- It's a wonderful thing to have, and it can make lives that much brighter. I'd feel like a total ass if I walked around trying to kick over other people's sand castles, regardless of whether I succeeded or not. As for deep thoughts: That's a side effect of insomnia... It's what has made me quite recently decide to go vegetarian...

*Falls over laughing* Jack Harkness, Turtle! Jack Sparrow would be Pirates of the Carribean *Points at top of quote* They are one and the same. Must say, I truly enjoyed "Rose," "The Empty Child" (Parts I and II), and "Father's Day" when he did them. The rest weren't bad either... Can't say I didn't like "The Last Dalik" as well...

Do I have a differant version than everyone else or something? The only time I ever see anything resembling a significant increase in popular support for me based on planet turning is when I liberate an enemy-held planet that either likes me or wants to be neutral. For some reason if you leave a newly liberated neutral planet they will occassionally jump over to your faction. *Shrugs* not entirely certain why.

Let's see: Ruling party wears red, their controlled by militaristic leaders, and they're headed straight for Communism. This sounds remarkably like Soviet Russia. *Sniffs the air* Is it just me, or did that article leave the lingering smell of sulfur in the air? @Jahled and Tex and Rob and JH and everyone else discussing theology: I sincerely doubt that we're going to convert anyone. Just saying... Granted, I do wrestle with why we would be created on this level of existance if there is another that we get to when we die, which is something that we can do in any number of ways... Meh. I'll live my life the way I see as best, helping the people I feel need help and hope that, in the event that I was wrong, whoever the invisible overseer is judges me not based on what I believed but how I lived and what I did.