Doom Shepherd

On the other hand, the Spirit rover lasted 20 times longer than it was designed to, and that, too, was due to the sandstorms on Mars. See, every so often a dust devil would collide with Spirit and blow the accumulated sand and dust OFF the solar panels. As for damaging the ecosystem... a smaller footprint than an oil-drilling operation (though those are getting smaller all the time), and you can't "spill" solar energy. If anything, a big row of solar panels might provide shade for desert life. (Kind of how drilling in Prudhoe Bay in Alaska provided shelter for the caribou, and their population tripled.)

Mock them mercilessly for dumbness. What would you do if you planned a summer kids' astronomy program and way more kids signed up than you had anticipated and you were desperate for volunteers to help you corrall them but no one was volunteering? (Is that suspiciously specific?)

Doctor Octagonapus! BLAHH!

Brand New Day This appeared as a moral dilemma Cause at first it was weird though I swore to eliminate The worst of the plague that devoured humanity It’s true I was vague on the ‘How’ so how can it be that you have shown me the light? It’s a brand new day And the sun is high All the birds are singing That you’re gonna die How I hesitated Now I wonder why It’s a brand new day All the times that you beat me unconscious I’ll forgive All the crimes Incomplete, listen honestly I’ll live Mr. Cool, Mr. Right, Mr. Knowitall is through Now my future’s so bright and I owe it all to you Who showed me the light It’s a brand new me I’ve got no remorse Now the water’s rising but I know the course I’m gonna shock the world Gonna Show Bad Horse It’s a Brand New Day And Penny will see the evil me Not a joke not a dork not a failure And she may cry but her tears will dry When I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia. It’s a brand new day Yeah the sun is high All the angels sing Because you’re gonna die Go ahead and laugh Yeah I’m a funny guy Tell everyone goodbye It’s a brand new day This appeared as a moral dilemma Cause at first it was weird though I swore to eliminate The worst of the plague that devoured humanity It’s true I was vague on the ‘How’ so how can it be that you have shown me the light? It’s a brand new day And the sun is high All the birds are singing That you’re gonna die How I hesitated Now I wonder why It’s a brand new day All the times that you beat me unconscious I’ll forgive All the crimes Incomplete, listen honestly I’ll live Mr. Cool, Mr. Right, Mr. Knowitall is through Now my future’s so bright and I owe it all to you Who showed me the light It’s a brand new me I’ve got no remorse Now the water’s rising but I know the course I’m gonna shock the world Gonna Show Bad Horse It’s a Brand New Day And Penny will see the evil me Not a joke not a dork not a failure And she may cry but her tears will dry When I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia. It’s a brand new day Yeah the sun is high All the angels sing Because you’re gonna die Go ahead and laugh Yeah I’m a funny guy Tell everyone goodbye It’s a brand new day...

Here's a link to a pdf of one of those studies. http://people.virginia.edu/~cjp/articles/ffp10b.pdf also: Sexual orientation of adult sons of gay fathers, Developmental Psychology, 31, 124-129; Bozett, F.W. (1987). Children of gay fathers, F.W. Bozett (Ed.), Gay and Lesbian Parents (pp. 39-57), New York: Praeger; Gottman, J.S. (1991) Children of gay and lesbian parents, F.W. Bozett & M.B. Sussman, (Eds.), Homosexuality and Family Relations (pp. 177-196), New York: Harrington Park Press; Golombok, S., Spencer, A., & Rutter, M. (1983) Children in lesbian and single-parent households: psychosexual and psychiatric appraisal, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 24, 551-572; Green, R. (1978), Sexual identity of 37 children raised by homosexual or transsexual parents, American Journal of Psychiatry, 135, 692-697; Huggins, S.L. *shrug* I'm a research librarian. This is what I do.

Studies seem to show that the gender or orientation of the parents has no effect on the gender orientation of the child. Therefore until scientific studies come along that refute those studies, it clearly doesn't matter. Anybody who can provide a stable and healthy environment for a child, who wants to adopt, should be able to.

Banned for way too many consonants. Also because when I tried to say that, I think I broke my esophagus. Also, banned for editing your ban and making me look silly.

I'd go visit the Westboro Baptist Church (The "god hates fags" people) for a few rounds of well-deserved Murder/Death/Kill. What would you do if China invaded Canada?

The kids next door have challenged me to a water fight! Now I'm just waiting for the kettle to boil.

And I find that disturbing. Nah, it's just a result of the circumstances. There weren't enough Maori to start with to make suppressing them and establishing your own country over their civilization as much of a tactical and personal defense challenge as it was here. And I say that as a guy who's part Iroquois.

Beat him to death for stealing my Evil Plan. What would you do if Ninja Pirate Zombie Robots attacked?

Librarian Ally: Increases INT by 200% for six turns once per day. Internet Pr0n: -10CHA +5 DEX. Removes Kleenex from Inventory. +5 to Perception Check During Effect. 5 Hour Energy Drink: Item. Removes Effect: Sleepy for 100 Turns. Increases Move Rate by 5. After 100 Turns, gives Effect: Coma.

Location: Western Pennsylvania, USA. On the whole, where I live is not too bad, disaster-wise. Oh, occasionally we have an Epic storm roll through, in the last decade or so we've occasionally had what for us is fairly severe weather, a "once in a century" flood, a "once in a century" snowfall, and the occasional tornado. But I've never had to live without power for more than a week (I might have when I was very little, my mother tells stories of a couple of storms that knocked out power to whole counties and flooded 4-lane roads) or been in significant fear for my life due to nature.

(The North Korean system is also "bad" by any reasonable definition.) Actually, no. There are a lot of competing and conflicting definitions of Fascism, but none of them include ignoring the opinions of other states OR worshipping the leader. (And how can you say NK doesn't like ol' Kim? They have parades and crap for him all the time!) They do, however, generally include government directly controlling corporations (or vice-versa, but that's more along the lines of Corporatism.) According to the Anarcho-Capitalists, "Fascism is a system in which the government leaves nominal ownership of the means of production in the hands of private individuals but exercises control by means of regulatory legislation and reaps most of the profit by means of heavy taxation. In effect, fascism is simply a more subtle form of government ownership than is socialism." (Underlined portion is relevant here.) Left OR Right, it's strictly Authoritarian, (as is what you propose,) which puts it on the "bad side" of the political compass.

Run away like my ass was on fire. What would you do if your ass was on fire?

My ol' grampaw used to say: "What're you complainin' about? Yinz got three choices: If it can be fixed, and you can fix it, shut up and fix it. If it can be fixed, but you cain't fix it, shut up and find someone who can. If it cain't be fixed, shut up, coz there's no sense cryin' an' moanin' 'bout something what cain't be fixed!" Yeah, he was a mean ol' bastard, but he got stuff done.

Hitler could only build up Germany's economy the way he did by re-arming for war. Yes, wars are usually great economic stimulators. But that kind of stimulation is temporary and unsustainable... especially if you don't fight. Hitler's economic plan committed him to war long before the shooting actually started, and his military incompetence guaranteed he would lose that war. Then germany was rebuilt by a little thing called the Marshall Plan, and its new prosperity is ultimately founded on that (Incidentally, the former East Germany is still far more economically depressed than the Western section of the country, due in large part to economic policies similar to the oned you advocate here. Source: http://www.planetthoughts.org/?pg=pt/Whole&qid=2782 To be brutally honest, some random envirohippie site is NOT a legitimate history. What you have there is a "widely believed fact" that happens not to be true. GM essentially ceased civilian production, and produced a massive amount of material for the military in WWII. But they did so because the military was PAYING them to. Also because several GM execs were in the Roosevelt administration. However, GM's VP Graeme K. Howard was a committed Nazi. Even wrote a book about it. Also, GM is not Ford. The Nazis, however, took over Opel, GM's European branch, and did exactly what you propose. You're making the incredibly silly assumption that a government is any better at planning for the future than companies are. This is also not true. Also, it's Fascism, which we've extablished is bad.

Ladies' Gym' Locker Room Tour 2011. What would you do if your mouth was on your forehead?

Banned for having the only avatar that is creepier than mine.

Hm. So many cool options to choose from. Ah, I know. Alpha Class Reality Warp ability. Basically, I'm Mr. Mxyzptlk. or Q. or Anthony Fremont (That kid from that Twilight Zone episode who could wish people into the cornfield.) How? Omnipotent Alien Space Bat Scientists wanted to see what happened when they gave virtually unlimited power to a random human being. Luck of the draw. That was a year ago. The good news is: Now, there are human colonies on Mars and Titan, global warming is a thing of the past (with all the excess CO2 now contributing to warming Mars instead,) and there is world peace. The bad news is: 11 months and 28 days ago, every human being between the Jordan and Indus river valleys... disappeared. OOPS. In the article "Messiah of Menace", Fareed Zakariah, writing for TIME magazine wrote: "Yes, he watches over us now, and there's no doubt that our lives have improved dramatically: witness the devastation prevented when the tsunami from the recent Japanese earthquake was flattened out with a thought. But the world will never forget what the creature who now calls himself Shepherd did in the first few days after he appeared. And that is why we will forever refer to him as the Shepherd... of Doom." Or something like that. Getting used to new superpowers can be a bitch.

Banned for only being a memory fragment of the Alpha. And for getting trapped in the storage unit at the end of "Revelation."

In the Declaration of Rights of the Pennsylvania Constitution (which predates and was a model for the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution,) the right to keep and bear arms is very bluntly dealt with in Section 21, as: "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned." Pennsylvanians don't mince around.

Fixed it.

Banned for not letting me be the ban-er for more than 5 minutes.

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