King for a DAY!
 

So, the PINK states win and YOU are President!

What would you do?

1) Make remarriage illegal. No more tax benefits for those who can't get it right the first time. If that means keeping the trousers zipped, then that'll have to do. After all, it's sacred, right? And heterosexuals are giving it a bad name with the divorce rate. Give the homos a shot.

(sarcasm intentionally implied);)

2) Pull the voting records for those who voted for Bush and suspend voting rights for one cycle. (as a reminder to think when voting) Pass the bottom line costs of the Iraq quagmire to those who will publicly state that such a conflict was just.

easy question!
 

I'd make June into Gay History Month (hey, they've got Black History Month, so it wouldn't be too far-fetched...) where children in schools would study the struggles of GLBT people and their allies across history. Kids would do projects on their favorite GLBT figure or couple, and watch movies of the Stonewall riots and Equality Riders. Pride parades would help cities all across America celebrate. Old freedom fighters would make public speeches and receive awards for their contributions to society....


Wow, what a dream...

Excellent, Mia!

I would create an economic free for all.
 

I'd devote as much energy (funding) as possible into finding and perfecting renewable energy sources. I would start by legalizing hemp so that it’s hundreds if not infinite uses could be utilized, then solar, wind, running water, etc.

The ripple effect of products and services related to these industries would jump start and sustain a renewable energy economy base, thereby regaining our status as a respected superpower, free of being seen as oil mongers.

Then I'd force :D everyone else to be free and happy like us by offering to exchange kowledge with them. Especially of how to be economically free, and do it grass roots up so that it takes (assuming the roots do want it).

The idea of Free Fall Energy. So much of enough, not even money can contain it.

The implementation of Grace on Earth, yes that's what I'd do.

Pass a federal law that prohibits federally funded adoption agency from discriminating against single and GLBT would-be parents. Because this should never happen to any family.

Hmm, protect children from being “protected against” having parents..

Good idea, ok you can be vice president. :D

We think a hechuva lot alike. Were we separated at birth? Any part of your family from Jersey? I was just gonna come on here and say something similar.

Add to the above: distribution of vaccines, antibiotics, and other readily available in the US meds to the destitute around the world who still have limbs amputated because of little cuts that got infected, and who still get disabled and distorted bodies from polio, and other debilitating effects from easily preventable diseases. We could fund all that plus more with the income taxes that got re-distributed so that the super-super-super-super rich are paying their rightful share while the middle and lower classes no longer have to make up for the shortfall.

And of course - Make all legal and institutional discrimination against LGBTs ILLEGAL by executive order, and see that it's enforced. So that means, marriage equality, adoption rights, NO discrimination in public accomodations or state funded institutions (military anyone?).

That's a start. Wouldn't I get assassinated quickly? :rolleyes:

I was agreeing with you all the way through and then..
 

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I certainly wasn’t expecting that. Apparently I’m still under the delusion that the solutions haven’t been found yet.

I’ll have to make sure to hesitate the next time I decide to do something significantly good, for my own safety of course.. :D

No More Years! No More Years!
 

I swiped this idea from another site and posted these there a couple days ago...
Reading some of you folks' great ideas makes me want to add them, but I'll leave the list as was... (Lydia---Adoption! how could I miss that. And Zerb, Health care- not to mention just a little Lysol and Bactine air drops...It be so easy, cheap and effective....If I were sick I'd've thought of it... )

1. Eliminate the electoral college/establish a one person, one vote system.
2. Open the system to multiple parties (or eliminate the two party system stranglehold)
3.Make it so whoever had the most votes becomes Pres. whoever has second most, Vise-Pres. Thus forcing the two dominant parties to work together
4.Raise teachers pay 20% and eliminate tenure.
5.Acknowledge the Iraq war fiasco, apologize and ask the world for help again.
6. Actually talk with other adversarial countries we disagree with.
7. Set up a few national 24 hour TV stations where every citizen can sign up for a 30 second shot to say whatever they want.
8.Legalize and regulate some drugs, eliminating the black market and ending at least one pointless war. Release all nonviolent drug offenders to make room for congress...
9. Raise research and development for alternative energy 50X.
10.Edumacate myself to effect all sorts of other corporate crap directed at eliminating monopolies, lobbies, billion dollar salaries, tax incentives, loopholes to bribery and fund raising scams.
11. Marry off some queers.
12. Abolish the death penalty (at least until it was fair.)
...and after watching a "never gonna eat again" documentary on genetically altered frankenfoods last night-
13. Regulate and Label the hell out of the food industries! -I'd start a boycott of Monsanto if they didn't already own my chemically, RoundUp Ready altered body. (joke?)

~nightmare scenario~ > > > conspiracy alert > > > :911 pt. 2: just prior enough to pres. election '08, voting validation disrupted, Washington in chaos, Marshal law declared. Bush wins indefinitely. < < <

Wow, those are all great ones... I wish we all got a real chance to put those into effect. Why is it when so may people would agree on these things they still don't happen?

Lets see what hasn't been mentioned???

Try to work out a more realistic system. When something goes wrong, it would be nice if anyone would just step in and help whether they got payed of not... you know just for the idea of being nice.

I always thought that if there was a way to change laws so that instead of restaurants throwing away so much food, find a better way to get that food to the hungary and homeless.

Put an end to all wars... I mean toddlers are taught to walk away and not make a big deal out of things, just make up and be friends.... if only we all listened to the things that we learned in preschool...

Sounds good to me. :)

I like this one. Who wants to see the Florida fiasco of '00 happen again? :eek:

A Couple More..
 

Though I like that ‘work-together’ suggestion better, Ralph Nader suggested something similar last election: First, second, (and third?) picks and also a No-Vote option, to register dissatisfaction with all the candidates.-Along those lines, fortify fast foods and more importantly force the medical community to assess the vitamin/nutritional needs of their patients FIRST (before doping them up). Then it’s agreed. I’m thinking ‘012, ‘016, what’s your schedule look like? What, are you saying it didn’t happen in ‘04 :eek:? Paper trail, paper trail, paper trail!!! (:))

-Mandatory classes/courses on religions and their origin/history. Especially Christianity as it relates to how the Bible was put together and by whom.

-Make congress like jury duty. Citizens would be randomly chosen, and unless you were pregnant or in the hospital etc., you’d have to go and serve on Capitol Hill for six weeks. {I "borrowed" that}

P.S. No wonder this song has been going through my head. It has been driving me out-of-my-mind for days! King For A Day

I would....
 

Hmm if I were king for a day I would...
1. Legalize marriage for gays and lesbians. For one month, I would declare all hetero marriages null and void and so they could see how we have to live because of them.

2. I would arrest Dobson, Falwell, Robertson, Rove, and Frist and lock them up indefinitely. Oh the Southern Baptist Convention as well.

3. All churches would be legally bound to not only accept gays and lesbians but would be required to place them in leadership positions.

4. Gay sensitivity courses in all schools would be a requirement.

5. Pass a federal amendment for capital punishment for all perpetrators of hate crimes. ( or at least lock them up)

6. End the war in Iraq and Afghanistan

7. I would nominate Mel White for Secretary of State and Troy Perry as Speaker of the House. Mike Piazza for Senate majority leader. And the whole cabinet would be gays and lesbians ( Ellen, Rosie, Martina, Melissa, etc)

8. Adoption would not be a problem for gays and lesbians.


Hmm.. I guess I could spend a whole lot more time on this, but I won't. Things would be radically different.;)