What if you were supreme ruler of the world?

[Trevor]

- make Anne Hathaway my chief concubine.

You'd have to stand in line behind me for that one. 

[BlackAngel75]

1. True equality for all races (redneck, tongue kiss that muslim)

2. It is against the law for all kids 8-19 year of age to wear pants half pass the ass or lower. Punishable to just wearing you pants down to the ankles and taking the stairs to the top of the Empire State Building.  (Or whatever is the tallest building in your state)

2a. Adults 20 years and older: punishable to the full removal of pants and underwear.  And going about your daily business for the maximum 5 years (your older, you should know better).

3. Vegitarian is a four letter word

[paula]

"IF" i were supreme ruler of the world....    "IF"

silly minion

[Jack]

Oh, you'd all be in for some pretty major tax cuts if I were supreme ruler.  We'd have a one party political system, composed of me and people who agreed with me.  Many offenses would be punishable by floggings in the public square - anything that particularly annoyed me.  Or if I was in a bad mood that day.

And all commercials would run between TV shows, never during.

[AndyC]

3. Vegitarian is a four letter word

And vegan would be classified as a mental illness.

[Leah]

GIVE TREVOR CLEAN UNDERWEAR!

[Rev. Powell]

Got this idea from the thread in Weird News Stories, about educating junkies on how to shoot up safely. I suggested that if I were supreme dictator, I'd be a little more concerned about their wellbeing, and less about their rights.

I'd go in the exact opposite direction.  I would make all non-victimless crimes legal, but hold people completely accountable for abusing their rights with no excuses.  Want to try heroin?  Fine.  It would be cheap and standardized.  But there would be no public assistance to help you support your habit.  Try stealing to pay for it and wind up in the slammer.  You can smoke marijuana, but if you drive and cause an accident you would risk significant imprisonment.  It would be an experiment to see if, absent legal prescriptions against potentially dangerous behavior, society would go to hell in a handbasket or whether people could actually use freedom responsibly and accept the consequences of abuse. 

I'd expect the jails to be overflowing under my rule!   

[Jack]

I'd expect the jails to be overflowing under my rule!   

I'd use the prisoners for slave labor. 

[AndyC]

I think I might try putting a hard boundary on cities. Grow up, grow down, but don't grow out until there's no alternative.

And manned spaceflight would be a priority again. In less than a decade, people went from 15-minute suborbital hops in a can launched by a converted ICBM to landing on the freaking moon. All it took was the commitment to do what was necessary. Forty years later, and we're thinking about maybe picking up where we left off 40 years ago, but it'll take a decade or two, assuming we don't get off track. Everything's got to be perfect, or we can't do it. Here, enjoy another 3D animation of what real space travel might look like if it ever happens.

Little unmanned probes might be good enough for science, but I want heroes, adventure, and the possibility of actually visiting places instead of looking at pictures. And if it's not completely efficient and 100% safe, so what? That's half the point of pioneering. I want some kind of functioning moon base in five years, and people on the way to Mars within ten years or (draws finger across throat).

[RCMerchant]

I think I might try putting a hard boundary on cities. Grow up, grow down, but don't grow out until there's no alternative.

And manned spaceflight would be a priority again. In less than a decade, people went from 15-minute suborbital hops in a can launched by a converted ICBM to landing on the freaking moon. All it took was the commitment to do what was necessary. Forty years later, and we're thinking about maybe picking up where we left off 40 years ago, but it'll take a decade or two, assuming we don't get off track. Everything's got to be perfect, or we can't do it. Here, enjoy another 3D animation of what real space travel might look like if it ever happens.

Little unmanned probes might be good enough for science, but I want heroes, adventure, and the possibility of actually visiting places instead of looking at pictures. And if it's not completely efficient and 100% safe, so what? That's half the point of pioneering. I want some kind of functioning moon base in five years, and people on the way to Mars within ten years or (draws finger across throat).

Amen to that,brother! I would definitly be shooting for the stars! I  think I'm going to quit my job and become an astronaut.The kind like in those Robert Heinlen books-who live to be 280 years old.Yup-it's on my to-do list. 

[Leah]

Send Everyone KING CAKE!!!!!!!

[Jim H]

I'd sterilize everyone on Earth, then give everyone a Tootsie pop and have them answer the age old question. 

[Trevor]

GIVE TREVOR CLEAN UNDERWEAR!

And a clean soccer shirt, please. Mine's dirty.