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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:36 PM
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Rabrrrrrr's 1 year improvement plan for the bettering of the human species
If you elect me to be your president, and give me, ummmm, let's it call it 'broad emergency powers', I will do my very best to set America back onto a positive evolutionary cultural and social trajectory.

Give me just one year of these broad emergency powers, and I will kickstart the evolutionary process.

How will I do this?

I shall do it this way.

For one year, it shall be an immediately executable offense, without benefit of a trial, to:

1. Own more than one Thomas Kinkade painting; or if you must own one, because someone in your family was dumb enough to think you would like it, you can't have it hanging on the walls at any time that that particular person isn't at your home. That person, however, will be hunted down and terminated.
2. Be Thomas Kinkade
3. Be Beyonce, Celine, Brittney, Destiny's Child, Marky Mark, Rick Springfield, David Cassidy, or any other pop musician, past or present
4. Chew food with your mouth open
5. Chew gum
6. Litter
7. Talk like street trash
8. Serve Jell-O as a "salad"
9. Serve Jell-O at any function that has more people than you
10. Be behind someone in your car, then hit the accelerator and weave through traffic so you can switch lanes, cut in front of that car, then get in front of it, all in time so that you can slam on your brakes to take the exit
11. To have more than 1/4 of your home's wall space taken up by sports memorabilia, unless you are a sports museum, or a professional sports player, or a stadium
12. To be an Illinois person inside the Wisconsin boundary
13. Wear your pants around your ankle
14. Be a white male, in an all-white suburb, who's closest touch with foreigners was the time you accidentally went into a Chi-Chis instead of the Taco Bell, who has dreadlocks
15. Not return your shopping cart
16. Use straws, unless medically necessary
17. Use paper plates and plastic silverware at any time that it isn't an absolute emergency situation
18. Think that gays, lesbians, etc., and/or minorites and/or women shouldn't all rights and priveleges accorded to them by God and the US Constitution
19. Believe in Creation Science, Intelligent Design, or whatever the hell obfuscatory bullshit term the fundy crispies come up for their brand of fake science
20. Think your religion is superior to all others
21. Not turn your car off when you pump gas
22. Not bus your own table at restaurants that have self-bussing
23. Have children you don't love or want
24. Buy into whatever is "faddish" and "trendy" because you're too stupid to think for yourself
25. Talk excessively loudly, unless medically necessary
26. Talk on a cell phone in a restaurant, theater, or while you are helping customers; or, while an employee is helping you
27. Eat while you are doing customer service - whether on the phone, or running the register, or working the floor
28. Refuse to believe that Civil War is over, and that the issues of the time are no longer relevant, so just get over it already
29. Wear perfume that anyone other than your honey can smell
30. Have big hair, unless genetically necessary
31. Have fingernails more than 0.375 inches long; especially if you feel the need to tap and rap them on everything
32. Play your music loud enough that your neighbor can hear it; whether it's your home stereo, or your walkman while you are walking the street or riding the subway; or its your car
33. Speak derogatorily and demeaningly to a woman
34. Have a library that's more than 1/4 romance novels, or 1/8 car or sports magazines
35. Have more than two necklaces on, and wear them OVER your clothing
36. Be rude to the elderly
37. Not hold a door for someone who obviously needs you to hold it
38. Be a man who wears his hat inside, esp. a restaurant
39. Be a man who doesn't offer his seat to a woman
40. Be any gender who doesn't offer your seat to someone who needs it more than you
41. Take up more than one seat at a time, unless the seat really isn't needed by anyone
42. Watch more than one hour of any shopping channel a day
43. Think Dennis Miller is funny
44. Be Tom Cruise or Ron Howard
45. Tailgate when driving OR when pushing shopping carts around in the store
46. Block traffic in the store with your ignorant, unthinking cart placement
47. Think that everything is either black or white
48. Wear sunglasses inside (no, you don't look "all that", you look "idiot")
49. Use the prase "all that" outside of using it ironically or sarcastically
50. Not "get" irony or sarcasm
51. Not "get" Monty Python
52. Use the word "cute" as your catch-all adjective to describe things other than kitties, puppies, or other things that actually are cute, because you can't come up with any other word
53. Say things like "Well, like, I was just sayin'" and "So I was all like whatever" and etc.
54. Eat at the Olive Garden or Applebees in Times Square on your trip to NYC
55. Be a national news media guy/gal that isn't hammering home for the American people that an election has been stolen, twice; that we are in an illegal war; that our president is a war criminal; and that the republican party is full of "moral values" fucking hypocrites who engage in immoral, unethical, and often criminal activities way worse than anything they ever have dissed democrats for.

Oh, there's gotta be more! But just this list would reduce the population by at least half; and that's a hell of a good place to start to rebuild a nation of intelligent, non-slack-jawed, tasteful, contributors to human evolution.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:37 PM
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1. are we having another lounge election?
Oh and I am not running again, so you cant slander me.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:38 PM
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2. No, I'd like to be the real president!
And do some real policy initiatives!

But I'd elect you for lounge president, that's for sure!

And I never slandered you. :P
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:43 PM
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4. ok rumors rumors
I wont be running :).
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:38 PM
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3. I like Kincaide(sp?) paintings!
But hey, I'm weird. :crazy:
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:44 PM
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5. You forgot the renovation of the Martini n/t
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:02 PM
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9. 56. Anyone touching, ordering, or making a chocotini,
raspbotini, watermelo-tini, or anything ending in -tini that doesn't start with "Mar" and have gin.

Thanks for the reminder!!
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ogradda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:47 PM
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6. may i ask what exactly
is big hair?:D
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:50 PM
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7. Concerning No. 3 - the Pop Musician Thing...
does that include Alizée?





Couldn't we give her a one-time chance to reform?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:06 PM
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11. Gonna have to give her a Cabinet position
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:23 PM
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14. I've Got a Position in Mind
but I don't want to get the thread locked :evilgrin:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:24 PM
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16. Next time I'm bored, Pitt's gonna find his face on all three of these
I'll spare you the image from last time, for now.
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:26 PM
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17. Good God Give Us a Heads-Up Before You Do That!
I can do without THAT image :scared:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:28 PM
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19. and to save you guys the trouble, there's no
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:31 PM
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20. Good to See Such an Interest in Pure Research! n/t
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 11:39 AM
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29. Kicking this post
To hell with the thread :7
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carpetbagger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 10:57 PM
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8. What about pilgrimages to the Precious Moments Chapel?
If I must travel through or to Springfield, Mo., where John Ashcroft grew up? Is it ok if I pair it with a trip to either Truman's birthplace, or the place where the locals capped off their race riot by lynching people from a model of the Statue of Liberty (the irony being, well, Ashcroftian)?

Or is Missouri, outside St. Louis, off limits?

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:05 PM
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10. No, execution for anyone making that pilgrimage.
For the people who put the chapel together; for everyone married in that chapel and all their children; for the entire precious moments company and employees.

(and that is indeed ironic AND ashcroftian to hang colored people from a statue of liberty)

(sadly, your images don't show up)
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:17 PM
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12. You had me at 4 and 5, Rabrrrrrr
I pretty much agree with the rest but after 4 and 5 my mind was made up.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:20 PM
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13. I figured those were the deal sealers, so wanted to put them in early
Then the rest is just gravy.

:-)

I really think we should just make gum illegal. it's serves no purpose, it's nothing but environmental waste, people spit it and stick all the hell over, all the wrappings are environmental waste and tend to turn into litter, and people look like cows when they're chewing.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:23 PM
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15. Where do I sign?
Rabrrrrrr '08 !
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toddzilla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 11:26 PM
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18. everything but the elderly thing.
old people can be shitheads too, being old doesn't exempt you from being called on being a complete asshole.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 12:11 AM
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21. Calling someone for being an asshole isn't being disrespectful, you know
You can respect old people while still not putting up with bullshit behavior.

Correcting someone isn't being disrespectful.
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 12:19 AM
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22. Sounds like a bloodbath. I'm so in.


*grabs pitchfork*
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 12:20 AM
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23. "Hitler's millions were nothing compared
to Rabrrrrrr's hundreds of millions"
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 12:26 AM
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24. oooh, now you're going all BibleGod!
lets talk about dashing dey chillins' against the rocks!


Achtung- Powerless in the hands of a good mob instigator
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 12:42 AM
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25. Achtung, Baby!
No pissing around for me.

If we're gonna change things, let's fuckin' change things and be done with it.
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catzies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 01:08 AM
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26. Kill me now for #11. I worship a false god and that makes me a heretic
or something I guess. But he's gorgeous and I can't help it. Looking at him always makes me feel better. And yes, I actually own this and paid good money for it.




Too bad that if they made a movie about him, Jim Caviezel would play him.

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 08:49 AM
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27. And we're including all the idjits from rbnyc's pet peeve list
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 09:16 AM
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28. I hear you on the vast array of shopping cart issues.
Folks should...no, need to be more courteous.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 11:57 AM
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30. One would think it would be difficult to carry all that baggage around...
worrying so much about miscellaneous details of everyone else's lives. It seems far easier to live and let live, one would think.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 06:47 PM
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34. Nah, it's not difficult at all.
Edited on Wed Jan-26-05 06:48 PM by Rabrrrrrr
But it'll be an even lighter load once we eliminate the devolvers, and let the evolvers have more space to grow and live

We prune gardens, we prune trees, we prune flowers, and other things, so why not do that all over?

Let all those who have the capacity for great growth have the space to do it. Let the withered, or the weeds, or the ones who show no promise for growth, be the ones to give up their space.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 12:00 PM
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31. But I like straws!
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 12:05 PM
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32. I agree 100%
1000% even. No objections. None.

Bookmarking Rabrrr's guide to a better world, now.

Beats Dr Phil with a stick. Speaking of which.....can we add that?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 06:46 PM
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33. Yes, Dr. Phil, sadly, has to go
That's the way of things. I'm sure, in his Ayn Randian form of bootstrap punitive Christianity, he'll fully understand that we just don't need him any more.

I had the displeasure on Monday of finally seeing his show.

What an asshole.
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