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Giuliani: Toughest Candidate in All the 12 Galaxies
Rudy is ready for War of the Worlds I, reports the AP:
During a town hall meeting in Exeter, a young questioner asked the former New York mayor about his plan to protect Earth.
"If (there's) something living on another planet and it's bad and it comes over here, what would you do?" the boy asked.
.........
"Of all the things that can happen in this world, we'll be prepared for that, yes we will. We'll be prepared for anything that happens," said Giuliani,
Romney, worried that the invaders might be from Kolob, will be hesitant to strike quickly; of the GOP front-runners, it has to be Rudy if "will protect us from alien invaders" is your main political concern.
UPDATE: You are there!
|10.16.07 @ 12:04PM|#
I think we've gotten ourselves into an alien defense gap with the Soviets, er, Russians. ;)
Episiarch|10.16.07 @ 12:10PM|#
Since the Cylons will just get somebody with access to the defense grid to fall in love with one of their models and then shut down the grid, what the hell can Rudy do to stop that? Probably ban love, the fascist.
JBinMO|10.16.07 @ 12:10PM|#
Please. The people from Kolob are pussies, they couldn't even conquer Alpha Centari.
|10.16.07 @ 12:14PM|#
That was a rather lame response. Typical Republican.
Over on the Democratic side, we've got politicians like Jerry Brown
and Dennnis Kucinich. I ask you, who do you trust to show
leaderership on alien-related matters: Sam Brownback, or Governor
Moonbeam?
|10.16.07 @ 12:15PM|#
Episiarch,
Don't we have to creat the Cylons first? Or are we going to be on
the receiving end of their weapons once the Colonials arrive?
|10.16.07 @ 12:16PM|#
I ask you, who do you trust to show leaderership on
alien-related matters: Sam Brownback, or Governor
Moonbeam?
You have to give this one to joe. LOL.
|10.16.07 @ 12:17PM|#
Actually, I'd be pretty surprised if the Federal government didn't have some sort of basic procedure in place to deal with such a situation. It's something that merits some thought. Just not too much.
Episiarch|10.16.07 @ 12:19PM|#
Don't we have to creat the Cylons first? Or are we going to
be on the receiving end of their weapons once the Colonials
arrive?
No, the Peacekeepers and Scorpius created the Cylons to destroy us,
with the help of Emperor Ming and the Borg.
I know it's confusing, but try and keep up.
|10.16.07 @ 12:24PM|#
I, for one, welcome our alien overlords, who I anticiapte look like blonde (or better yet, Chinese), buxom 20 year old string bikini models, and who, being aliens, actually find fat, middle aged geeks sexually alluring.
|10.16.07 @ 12:25PM|#
Fortunately, no other planet has signed on to that namby-pamby
liberal Geneva Convention.
(There are some serious problems, though, in subjecting outer space
aliens to "enhanced interrogation." For example,they may be aquatic
types who can't drown, so waterboarding will do no good...)
JBinMO|10.16.07 @ 12:26PM|#
If things got rally ugly, we might have to turn to the sith and Romulans for help. But we could probably just modify our 1000s of ICBMs to shoot things down in orbit.
mnuez|10.16.07 @ 12:28PM|#
These things are no laughing matters. Anyone who lived through
the Mooninite invasion of Boston would know that.
On a more serious note, I personally would have no problem with
blasting invaders from Kolob with everything I've got. God does NOT
live on Kolob. God died on a cross for our sins and He rose again
to everlasting life.
Yeah, that makes more sense.
mnuez
www.mnuez.blogspot.com
Episiarch|10.16.07 @ 12:29PM|#
If things got rally ugly, we might have to turn to the sith
and Romulans for help.
Wouldn't the Asgard be a better bet? As long as we can keep the Ori
out of it. I think the Goa'uld are not an issue any more.
|10.16.07 @ 12:29PM|#
Ignignot and Er could probably take out those pussy Mormon aliens. They can't even take frakking stims.
|10.16.07 @ 12:36PM|#
Great. Now Rudy can scare us with Universal Terrorism. Global terrorism is so last week.
|10.16.07 @ 12:36PM|#
Back off, Pete Tranter's sister! I know what you're after: it's moist and pink and it's inside my head. And that's where it's staying.
|10.16.07 @ 12:40PM|#
Come on people. As long as the aliens are here legally, what's
the big whoop?
(That statuesque Saint-Exmin can park her uterus-shaped spaceship
on my block anytime.)
|10.16.07 @ 12:41PM|#
Wouldn't Romney have to seek advice from his lawyers before striking the Kolobians?
zero|10.16.07 @ 12:42PM|#
Stupid Romney would probably want to confer with his inter-galactic lawyers before taking any action.
|10.16.07 @ 12:42PM|#
If we don't take it to the aliens on their planets, we will have to fight them here. Thus, we should bomb all the planets in the solar system; after all, they could harbor aliens.
|10.16.07 @ 12:48PM|#
Any civilization capable of getting here from another solar
system will outstrip our technology by many, many generations. So,
by "prepared", Guiliani means "prepared to surrender
unconditionally".
That, or he's an idiot. Do we have deflectors? Phasers? Blasters?
Photon torpedoes? Force fields? No, no, no, no, no, and no to
everything else useful. We can't even send a sizable cargo outside
of Earth orbit right now. If he'd said, "Yes, we'll be prepared
after I dedicate the United States to building a space defense
net", well then, that would be another story.
|10.16.07 @ 12:48PM|#
Romney, worried that the invaders might be from Kolob, will
be hesitant to strike quickly
My biggest concern is that Kang and Kodos are the front-runners for
the two major party nominations.
phools|10.16.07 @ 12:51PM|#
A better answer would be ________ ? Fill in the blank guys.....I bet you can't.
|10.16.07 @ 12:55PM|#
phools,
"Join the Federation?"
Or, better yet, "Something bad's already here, kid. . .BOO!"
|10.16.07 @ 12:58PM|#
Or, to take this conversation to the next logical step, what
would Giuliani do upon hearing the transmission, "Attention all
planets of the Solar Federation! We have assumed control... we have
assumed control... we have assumed... control"?
Flee to the temples of Syrinx?
|10.16.07 @ 1:01PM|#
"If (there's) something living on another planet and it's
bad and it comes over here, what would you do?"
I thought Ann Coulter was already here...
|10.16.07 @ 1:01PM|#
So far, only Larry Niven has a plan to keep us safe from Thrintun mind-weapons and the arrival of the Fithp. Could he run as Ron Pauls VP?
thoreau|10.16.07 @ 1:05PM|#
I ask you, who do you trust to show leaderership on
alien-related matters: Sam Brownback, or Governor
Moonbeam?
joe won the thread.
Although I would like to point out that Libertarians could probably
put together a team to handle UFO-related matters as well. And we
could do it far cheaper than Governor Moonbeam. We'd use market
forces to keep costs down.
|10.16.07 @ 1:20PM|#
thoreau,
No, joe did not. Our bar is higher than that. Moonbeam ain't no
name for no alien-fighting president.
Randolph Carter,
You should've said, "Rush to the temples of Syrinx?"
Aresen,
It would've been so cool if Giuliani had whacked the kid in the
head with his giant lizard tongue.
S of S,
And I don't think the invaders, if they come, will be so kind as to
die from our germs, build operating systems hackable by us, or to
have any vulnerability to us whatsoever. Nah, we're toast. Better
to shut off all the TV and radios, move underground, and hope for
the best.
|10.16.07 @ 1:21PM|#
I reference to an alien invasion, in response to Fermi's paradox, Leo Szilard posited "They are among us, and they call themselves Hungarians."
|10.16.07 @ 1:25PM|#
Neocon solution for alien invasion:
Build an orbital fence to prevent them illegals from getting
in...
|10.16.07 @ 1:25PM|#
Any civilization capable of getting here from another solar
system will outstrip our technology by many, many generations. So,
by "prepared", Guiliani means "prepared to surrender
unconditionally".
All I'd add is that a few generations after the arrival of the
Newcomers, your typical Guiliani will be employed either in a
casino or at the Big Blue Marble Trading Post, selling cheap
cigarettes and faux-Terran trinkets to obnoxious tourists from
around the galaxy.
The most ironic part of all: he will fail to see the irony in all
this.
|10.16.07 @ 1:26PM|#
*Guiliani voter. As for Giuliani himself, The first act of our Newcomer overlords will be to vaporize the bastard.
|10.16.07 @ 1:31PM|#
Guliani missed his chance.
He could have bit his lower lip, paused, and said "I feel your
pain", and locked up the nomination and presidential election right
there.
|10.16.07 @ 1:35PM|#
Maybe they'll force all the nerdy intelligent men to breed with all the sexy beautiful women. That's my hope...
|10.16.07 @ 1:38PM|#
Shoot
I ain't e-sceared a'no alien! I done killed a gator wid my boy last
week and smoked'm fer jerky! There's ya about the scarriest little
green monster there id and ain't no alien gonna come on my property
and get'way wid it!
|10.16.07 @ 1:56PM|#
Hey, no one hates Romney more than me, but I for one would like to have a President who thinks about the legality of using the powers of his office before just "deciding."
|10.16.07 @ 2:10PM|#
"Billy, we'd rely on the United Nations to defend Earth from bug-eyed space aliens. That's their job."
|10.16.07 @ 2:24PM|#
Picard was, um, on board a Borg attack ship in a major battle against Starfleet. Should I elect him president of the Federation because of that? He was there, providing leadership.
Episiarch|10.16.07 @ 2:43PM|#
Picard was, um, on board a Borg attack ship in a major
battle against Starfleet. Should I elect him president of the
Federation because of that?
He could run the Picard/Locutus ticket for the Schizophrenic Cyborg
Party. 8 MORE YEARS
alanr643@msn.com|10.16.07 @ 2:44PM|#
No, no Guiliani isn't a space alien, his face and strange body
mass is just the result of centuries of inbreeding though its
understandable if you think he looks similar to a typical
Gray.
Don't you guys get it? Why would you assume any of those guys are
on our side. Guliani, Romney, Clinton, Obama and three quarters of
the US Congress would sell us out in a heart beat. Prepare to be
food.
LarryA|10.16.07 @ 2:48PM|#
Since the Cylons will just get somebody with access to the
defense grid to fall in love with one of their models and then shut
down the grid, what the hell can Rudy do to stop that?
Marry her?
No, the Peacekeepers and Scorpius created the Cylons to destroy
us, with the help of Emperor Ming and the Borg.
I thought it was the Replicators, which were created to stop the
Wraith except the Wraith nailed them with a virus. Or was that
Independence Day?
Fortunately, no other planet has signed on to that namby-pamby
liberal Geneva Convention.
So we can use hollowpoint bullets? That'll get their attention.
Episiarch|10.16.07 @ 2:56PM|#
I thought it was the Replicators, which were created to stop
the Wraith except the Wraith nailed them with a virus.
No, the Replicators were created to infiltrate the Daleks to get
them to attack the Reavers and expose the Alliance's role in
creating the Cybermen.
It's amazing you guys don't know this stuff.
JBinMO|10.16.07 @ 3:07PM|#
If the aliens come fust remember the 177th rule of acquisition
"Know your enemies ... but do business with them always".
I am set.
|10.16.07 @ 3:10PM|#
I agree with Steven Hawking. If aliens do come to our planet we're doomed because they'd have very different reasoning and logic so they would probably ingnore the fact that there are intelligent life-formes on this planet and wipe us out to make room for them.
alan|10.16.07 @ 3:22PM|#
The greatest threat we face is if these intelligent beings learn
the ins and outs of our political system. They may in fact desire
to reform the planet more to their liking and get rid of the native
stock but given the problems inherent in faster than light travel
they may not come fully equipped with the resources to do it.
Solution, lobby congress with shiny trinkets to build the
terraformation
and carbon life form elimination machine for you. It would be a
supplemental to the great Save the Environment for Our Children
Bill of 2017.
TLB|10.16.07 @ 3:34PM|#
It's posts like this that reveal the pre-school nature of
libertarianism and liberalism.
Those who aren't subscribers to child-like ideologies realize that
our military leaders have plans in case of friendly and unfriendly
contacts with ETs, and realize that FirstContact is indeed
something that can and should be discussed.
Episiarch|10.16.07 @ 3:48PM|#
Solution, lobby congress with shiny trinkets to build the
terraformation
and carbon life form elimination machine for you.
This was already attempted in Mexico some years ago. Charlie Sheen
discovered it and stopped it. Pay attention, please.
|10.16.07 @ 3:50PM|#
our military leaders have plans in case of friendly and
unfriendly contacts with ETs
From the observation of the effects of unfriendly contact between
military technogies that are merely decades apart and the fact that
aliens coming here are going to be centuries, millenia, or millions
of years [proposed neologism: "megalenia"] ahead of us, I'd say
that planning for unfriendly contact is a waste of time.
|10.16.07 @ 3:55PM|#
I agree with Steven Hawking. If aliens do come to our planet
we're doomed because they'd have very different reasoning and logic
so they would probably ingnore the fact that there are intelligent
life-formes on this planet and wipe us out to make room for
them.
How does this indicate they have different logic and reasoning?
alan|10.16.07 @ 3:57PM|#
get bent, jackass
http://www.answers.com/topic/humour?cat=health
Sarcastic libertarians didn't create the current system which is a
threat to our existence, and has been since Truman dropped the
bomb. We literally owe our lives to one Soviet officer who didn't
overreact to a computer glitch. That is how tenuous the system
created by you 'responsible adults' happens to be.
You Socialist on the right are no better than the socialist on the
left, and you are both hellbent on impoverishing our
civilization.
Joshua Holmes|10.16.07 @ 4:28PM|#
realize that FirstContact is indeed something that can and
should be discussed.
It was the best of the Next Generation movies, but not nearly as
good as Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country or...wait for
it...wait...
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!
|10.16.07 @ 4:32PM|#
I'm disappointed. No references to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? All the aliens would need to do is throw rocks at us, and we would fold like origami.
|10.16.07 @ 5:16PM|#
Not to worry, citizens! I have been working with the Star League to devise a system for training and recruiting the all Gunstar pilots we will need. We will then deploy these pilots to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada.
|10.16.07 @ 5:43PM|#
I have often wondered what would happen if the aliens arrived as
missionaries for their alien religion, and felt it was perfectly
reasonable to kill anyone who didn't convert. Since they'd be
technologically more advanced, their God would obviously be
superior to any of ours.
They'd probably still force the survivors onto reservations.
|10.16.07 @ 5:44PM|#
I must admit, I didn't expect Lone Wacko to chime in.
I don't know what I was thinking.
|10.16.07 @ 5:45PM|#
Y'know, it just might mess with more people's heads if the aliens turned out to be atheists...
|10.16.07 @ 5:55PM|#
Joe-
I'm guessing since IllegalMexicans are his hobby horse, he probably
reads everything that shows up on the RSS feed with the word
"alien" in it.
|10.16.07 @ 6:43PM|#
I must admit, I didn't expect Lone Wacko to chime in.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inqisition, either.
But at least the Lone Wacko only tortures logic.
|10.16.07 @ 6:51PM|#
Funny thread, but c'mon, what's he going to say to the
kid?
"In all likelihood, they'd kill me, you, your mommy, your daddy,
your grandma, your friends, your little puppy dog, and everyone
else on Earth without us being able to do anything about it."
It's a rule - just as when a hostile spiritual entity asks whether
you're a god, when a little kid asks whether you or someone will
protect him from aliens or boogeymen or whatever, you say
yes.
|10.17.07 @ 12:35AM|#
This happened in "Exeter"?
I can't believe the staff of Reason missed the obvious
pop-culture reference on that one. Tim Cavanaugh is sorely
missed, indeed.
It won't be long before the Metallunans come to wipe our minds and
make us into slaves like their scrotum-headed mew-TANTs (similar to
Earth's insects -- larger of course!) all while stealing our
uranium to keep their war machine going.
|10.17.07 @ 1:43AM|#
Guiliani:
"Of all the things that can happen in this world, we'll be
prepared for that, yes we will. We'll be prepared for anything that
happens,
So it's not just his views of the Mid-east. Guiliani is out of
touch with reality in general. And he'll say anything for his
presidential quest-from shameful war mongering to happy speak.
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