Dubya here. I am pleased to announce that families of our brave soldiers need not worry about their loved ones anymore.
Thanks to a recent breakthrough in the field of robotics, there will soon be a large number of sophisticated androids to replace all those enlisted in the armed forces.
Yes, it's my pleasure to announce this miraculous achievement.
Mom, can I have some rice-crispy squares before I go to bed?
Doc, why is it that you're always hanging around with a teenager like myself? I mean you're a gifted scientist. Shouldn't you be doing stuff with other scientists?
Well Marty, It's complicated...
Is it because you identify with my youthful zeal, and translate that into inspiration? Or, perhaps you see in me some untapped scientific potential that I'm not yet aware of?
Well, actually no. I'm just a lonely old fart who hopes to one day score with some of your drunken sloppy seconds...
Jesus, there are people on earth who claim that the Republican party is the Christians' political party. Can this be true? I mean, WWJD?
A fair question my friend. First we must consider my Earthly life and the powers that helped shape it. I was born into a modest family and raised in an area equivilant to modern day "dog patch".
I was known to pay my taxes, and taught others to do so - without chiding the collectors. I encouraged peace instead of violence. I preached the virtue of the common mans rightful inheritance.
My reformist teachings were an afront to the establishment, and the very same went outside the law to have me eliminated. In the end I purposely died a penniless martyr.
So they're wrong, aren't they.
Hey, they're just Republicans, and I'm a forgiving fellow.
Hey man, I've got to fess up. I'm the one that really sabotaged the ship's controls and stranded us here on this forsaken island, but it gets worse...
I'm speachless...
I'm also a raging homosexual canibal with eyes for you, and I intend to devour your corpse once I have grown tired of pleasuring myself with your orifices.
Well shut my mouth.
But there's also some good news. I just saved a bunch of money by switching to Geico...
I bet if I think hard enough I can control men with nothing but thought power. YOU WILL TURN AND LOOK INTO MY EYES! YOU WILL SAY "I LOVE YOU", FOR YOU ARE MY SLAVE!
He's turning around...
Crap!
NOW YOU ARE DISTRESSED HAVING FAILED TO CONTROL ME WITH YOUR MIND! YOU WILL NEXT TAKE OFF ALL YOUR CLOTHES AND OFFER YOURSELF TO ME!
...so are you down with this whole tarpit habbitation thing?
uh, I guess so.
That creature from the future doesn't seem to be very forthcoming with details about this whole business.
Yeah, I know. All it wishes to do is pressure others into making tainted choices. I don't think the welfare of the species even enters into it.
Yep, it looks like we'll have to abandon our work on hydrogen powered vehicles and cheap renewable energy for the moment.
I'm sure it will only be a brief recess before the world can finally be free of it's seemingly endless need for a reliable consequence-free power source.
...and then I passed back through the portal and secured the entrance. I have made this monumental trip through time and space for my fellow americans.
Sam Donaldson here, Mr. President. While we are anxious to hear about your trip, I believe the viewers are more concerned about the visitors that came through the portal just before your return?
Look behind you, you flippin' tard!
I think you have some explaining to do leader...
What kind of wine does one serve with scrawny creature?
Professor, is it possible that intellegent life exsist somewhere outside of our solar system, and could be visiting us?
Well son, there are many, many reasons to be sceptical. I mean, first of all it is likely that there may not be anyone in our Galaxy comparable in terms of advancement. despite popular belief.
There may not have been enough time. Being such you must assume that any such visitors must come from a neighboring Galaxy, and the difference between Galaxies is beyond unfathomable.
When you consider the astronomical factors, it is more a journey of time rather than space. In fact the likely distance is so great, that to traverse the difference one would have to travel...
...at the speed of Santa Claus?
Well, I was going to use some googly scientific measurement, but that works just as well, I think.
Damn liberals! I could never be a liberal. they are the ones trying to take open prayer out of public schools.
Um, open prayer was taken out of public schools during the Reagan administration.
Ah yes, Reagan. He was a damned fine leader. He was a peace lovin' comunicator.
Wasn't it his administration that first empowered Middle east fundamentalist? I mean without him, Osama Bin Laden wouldn't have even had a place to start.
I was not impressed with the prosperity of the Clinton administration. It only appeared to be his hard work, but in reality it was spillover from the Reagan years.
Wow, spillover, huh?! Hey, wasn't George Bush Sr. president after Reagan? Where was the spillover then?
Well sometimes it skips a generation...
Um, I think you are confusing genetics with politics.
Boy o boy, you sure are anti-american.
Sorry, I'll try to be dumber in the future, in an effort to better show patriotism.
Dark Elf of the neither world. I have a problem with popularity again my evil lord.
He who is designated "Bush". Have I not helped you steal an election? Initiate and maintain a bloody quagmire? Escape fiscal accountability despite economic stalemate?
Um yeah. but you see there was this deadly hurricane, and vast numbers of people have suffered. It's a huge flippin' mess and there are many in my own party who are angry with my reaction.
Hmmm. I have never been confonted with horrors of this magnitude. How can you be blamed for something of this nature?
Well I did under- fund Fema, to finance my war efforts. Also there was this surplus that would have been useful. I quandered it in a rebate to win people over through monetary means. Also I ....
I tell you what, he who is designated "Bush". I am going to let you handle this one on your own. I need to call my mother. She lived in New Orleans.
The really big questions of science are closer to being answered than ever before. now that we are begining to understand some of the delicate nuances of the invisible universe...
You're, of course, refering to "string theory".
Well, no. Not neccesarily. I was actually more pointing in the direction of pseudo-sciences. Like self-actualism, or Anthroposophy.
Hmmmm, I find this surprising, coming from a well read scientist such as yourself. I suppose you are just needing to find a more all encompassing solution that can ease doubt?
No I just tend to fall in love with the ability to gas on and on about matters not even remotely provable, yet so abstract as to be beyond sound debate.
Erm...allow me to reiterate. You're , of course, refering to "string theory".
I think some people misunderstand my doubts about religion. It's just that, like Einstien and Sagan, I profess "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
That's circumstantially odd considering that Einstein's Theories are not entirely proven factual. In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that suggest otherwise.
Still the statement rings wise and true. Without evidence, there is no basis to believe any work of conjecture.
Actually, I would counter that evidence is purely subject to perception. If I show evidence contrary to accepted factual findings, I am in contention till I am found correct.
Hmmm, I think I am starting to see that you have a point. But, of course, I will have to suspend judgement till I have had time to test this idea and submit it to brisk scrutinization.
Perhaps the statement should be "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary scientific appeal in order to gain immediate acceptance"?
We're so glad you could attend our little youth rally tonight Mr. .......
The Name is Scab, and I'm only here to pick up on girls.
Well, Scab there are many fine young ladies here to share some lighthearted conversation with.
Oh, I'm not really interested in anything they would have to say. I just want to seduce them with my sick suggestions. Maybe find some freaks in the making?
Well in that case, let me drop the whole pretence and what would you say to us working together?
Heh, that's cool. I can play you off as the sick old man I'll help them escape from, and you can do the whole punk kid viceversa thing.
Man, I tell you, sometimes I think about the future of the delivery business.
Oh really? What kind of things do you think the future has in store for us?
You know. Wormholes, and all that kooky science fiction stuff. It'll be like, "your pizza in thirty microseconds or it's free".
Well, I suppose with all the leg work taken out of the picture, our company will no longer need drivers who stand around all day thinking about the future.
Yep. Most likely. But the best part about the future is that we have a long way to go before we're there.
Hmm, by the way I've got some bad news about that raise you've been asking for.
It is here in the strata layers that scientist find the fossils that shape our view of the prehistoric world. Ebedded in supposed eons old sedimentary deposits.
Despite detractions based on the falicy of estimation over hard carbon dating. Scientist assert their steadfast view of distant and universal extinction. Due in no doubt...
Damn! I was hoping that chap might have a spot of sweet n' low for my morning tea.
They teach us about dinosaurs in school. I was taught that they were terrible creatures. Incredibly savage beasts that can devour enormace amounts of food.
...but to be honest, I don't think they were all that. I mean, c'mon. If there were any dinosaurs alive today I would bitch slap those lumpy lizzards. Really, I would...
Aw nuts! I wish the little ones wouldn't run away. I wonder what they're afraid of?
I saw an article in the paper today about space travel advancements. It said scientist are more optimistic about interstellar prospects than ever before.
Really?
Yeah, it got me thinking that maybe sometime in the future guys like you might deliver to other planets as opposed to just other neighborhoods.
That would be just dandy.
Then I could travel to bold new destinations, only to be stiffed by the same ole' type of cheapskates.