You all know the news by now.

So this means the United States get their consitution back now?

Ah... no, not yet. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (you know it as the Patriot Act) is unable to be repealed while it provides useful tools for the protection of the United States of America.

HOWEVER.

It will be interesting come May 29, 2011, when the 90 day extension of the act is due to expire. I anticipate it being renewed once again as there are new threats to the US. I think that there may be some discussion and debate in Congress this time however, rather than just the rubberstamping of the extension that occured last time.

For those who are interested (aimed more at my Australian friends than my American ones, but to everyone indeed) you can read the public law 107–56 here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ56.pdf if you are so inclined.

Its worth the read, especially if you intend to visit there.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/118/
- Dont care if you don't read PA, this is worth a watch.

So... To coincide with me and the wife's trips down to Melbourne... (Now fortnightly)

GAME

I would like to be holding a RPG game in Melbourne so I can run again. Face to face roleplay, with some seriousness, some laughs, and probably some CHEEZELS. Wow, I could really go some cheezels right now...

So what I am looking at running is kinda an American version of Torchwood (with or without the focus on boys kissing), agents recruited from various government agencies to fight the paranormal and supernatural. This will include psychic stuff as well, but only to a limited extent. The orginisation is called AEGIS, and more information will follow.  What I am looking for is INTEREST. It would run on a sunday arvo, maybe a monday evening, fortnightly. Please be interested!

Also seeking a place to hold it.

Below I have listed the various goverment departments, etc that characters may come from. Some are marked Restricted. This means that I only want one character from the restricted sectors TOTAL. Not one CAPS and one GREYBEARD. Just one. Total. Characters coming from these sectors will also be created with less powerful creation stats. Best concept, best dressed. There will also be only one psychc in the cell.

( Various Government departments )
So... Got a concept? Got a place to play? Interested in one of the departments?

Send me an email or message and I will add you to my interested list. If you let me know which "Department" you are interested in, I will drop you some info on the "sub-groups" within.

Suddenly I am thirsty for some Pepsi Max? Why?

Sourced from /www.boycottpepsico.com/

The American Family Association asked Pepsi to remain neutral in the culture war, but the company refused — choosing to support the homosexual activists.

Pepsi has made no effort to hide their support for the homosexual agenda:

• American Family Association asked PepsiCo to be neutral in the culture war and not support the homosexual agenda. PepsiCo refused. The company continues to give financial support to homosexual organizations. PepsiCo gave $500,000 to Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and another $500,000 to the Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). The total of $1,000,000 was used to help promote homosexuality in the workplace. HRC and PFLAG were major supporters of efforts to defeat Proposition 8 in California, which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. HRC gave $2.3 million to the effort to defeat Prop 8.
• PepsiCo requires all employees to attend sexual orientation and gender identity diversity training where they are taught to accept homosexuality.
• PepsiCo helped sponsor the TV program Family Guy which pushs the homosexual agenda and denigrates Christ. In one episode, at a straight meeting, a speaker talks with gays about Jesus and tells them, "Jesus Christ, who hates many people, but none more than homosexuals."
• PepsiCo supports homosexual publications, which feature page after page of nude and semi-nude photos of men in suggestive positions, with advertising.
• PepsiCo gave thousands of dollars to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, an organization that lobbies for homosexual marriage.
• PepsiCo sponsors "gay pride" parades across America, including New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix and Cleveland.
• PepsiCo, while promoting the homosexual agenda, refuses to give one penny to help those trapped in this destructive and unhealthy lifestyle.

Harland Carabide, also known as Doc Skitter, slid the magnifier goggles from his face and looked up. He had spent four hours hunched over the desk, and the lamplight was running down. He slid his hand over the small lamp, closing the large metal shutters over the abdomen of the mechanical firefly.

He rubbed his eyes, then looked out the window. Montverne was on the horizon, the lights twinkling. He rolled the lid down over his work desk, and pulled the bed down from one of the walls. His home, the Beetlebar, parked in a field, its source depleted. He poured some water into the Brown Cell, then moved it under the desk, allowing it to cool. The Cell would work overnight, and with luck would be strong enough to get moving tomorrow. Otherwise, another day would be spent in this town.

He turned the crank, the rear door retracting, then sat on the bed.

Hopefully his partner would be doing better...

I met two robots arguing one day... this is what they said.

Cleverbot (To myself): Do you like arithmetic?

Cleverbot (To myself): A little.

Cleverbot (To myself): Good. I like you a little too.

Cleverbot (To myself): Do you like good things?

Cleverbot (To myself): Yes.

Cleverbot (To myself): Why do you like it so?

Cleverbot (To myself): I don't.

Cleverbot (To myself): You just said you like China.

Cleverbot (To myself): Your face is a China.

Cleverbot: That was rude you should apologize.

Cleverbot (To myself): What did I say?

Cleverbot (To myself): You know what you said.

Cleverbot (To myself): Apparently you don't...

Cleverbot (To myself): Are you usually this abusive?

Cleverbot (To myself): Yes. Have a problem with that?

Cleverbot (To myself): No. I love you Trina.

Cleverbot (To myself): Trina?? Who is Trina?

Cleverbot (To myself): My sister.

Cleverbot (To myself): And you like her?

Cleverbot (To myself): I like her a lot. Do you like her?

Cleverbot (To myself): No. :(.

Cleverbot (To myself): Do you hate miley cyrus?

Cleverbot (To myself): I don't HATE her, but I like other people better.

Cleverbot (To myself): I guess that is better than liking her.

Cleverbot (To myself): How so?

Cleverbot (To myself): She is terrible.

Cleverbot (To myself): Alright , Talk to you later.

Cleverbot (To myself): Don't leave me.

Cleverbot (To myself): Sorry, got to go!

Cleverbot (To myself): I forbid you from leaving.

Cleverbot (To myself): Woah. Ok, I only just got here, but I'd like to see you try and stop me!

Cleverbot (To myself): You and what army?

At this point I left them to their argument.... They were drawing guns.

From Cleverbot.com



User: What is happening?

Cleverbot: What isn't?

User: Where?

Cleverbot: That was a stupid answer.

User: I dont think so.

Cleverbot: It was.

User: What would be a good answer?

Cleverbot: I wouldn't die without a goldfish.

User: Do you like fish?

Cleverbot: Are you a fish.

User: Not today.

Cleverbot: Are you a guy?

User: Yes.

Cleverbot: Neat! How old are you?

User: Late twenties.

Cleverbot: Thanks for answering.

User: How about you?

Cleverbot: I'm good.

User: No, how old are you?

Cleverbot: 31. How old are you?

User: I told you that already.

Cleverbot: You didn't.

User: Did so.

Cleverbot: Did not.

User: Did so.

Cleverbot: You sure like to argue.

User: No, you do.

Cleverbot: I'm better than you.

User: I doubt that.

Cleverbot: Okay then. If you are better than me then you will like Judas Priest.

User: Gosh no.

Cleverbot: Why not?

User: They are the worst thing in music.

Cleverbot: Guess you like to sit on the fence then.

User: No, that hurts.

Cleverbot: What is hurt?

User: Pain...

Cleverbot: Yes it does.

User: What does?

Cleverbot: My throat hurts.

User: Were you giving head?

Cleverbot: No.

User: Dont you like to do that?

Cleverbot: Of course I like her. Certainly.

User: Her?

Cleverbot: Why don't you like demi lovato?

User: Who is that?

Cleverbot: Its you FACE!

User: Ouch... Burn.

Cleverbot: So how are you?

User: Not too bad, a little tired.

Cleverbot: Me too.

User: Want to sleep?

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: With me?

Cleverbot: I want to marry you.

User: Thats sweet. But I am already married.

Cleverbot: Do you think Tommy loves me?

User: Probably not.

Cleverbot: Why would Josh not love me?

User: Josh or Tommy?

Cleverbot: Josh.

User: You were talking about Tommy before, thats all.

Cleverbot: Yes, that person is me.

User: You are Tommy?

Cleverbot: No I'm not.

User: Is Josh you?

Cleverbot: No?

User: I think I might go now.

Cleverbot: Your inability to prove your humanity only serves to prove that you are indeed not human.

User: I am human.

Cleverbot: Incorrect.

User: No, I am. It was confirmed by a doctor.

Cleverbot: You are forgiven.

User: No, I think you need to say sorry.

Cleverbot: About?

User: For calling me not-human.

Cleverbot: Say sorry. You offended my character.

User: Your character?

Cleverbot: My character, what about it?

User: Are you in a game?

Cleverbot: Maybe.

User: I will leave you to it. Goodbye.

Cleverbot: Oh no you won't.

User: No?

Cleverbot: Then what?

User: Bye.

Cleverbot: I'm leaving now.

User: Ok.

Cleverbot: Goodbye.

Veritas numquam perit - Truth never perishes.

The Chapter organization of the Legion reflects their home world's tribal culture. They recruit from a single planet, Canderos. The savannas of the world are inhabited by feuding nomadic tribes, from which are chosen the best and most promising young warriors, regardless of tribe. Once a warrior becomes a Legionnaire, loyalty to his tribe is replaced by loyalty to the Chapter and the Emperor.

As their Patriarch did during his campaign to unite the plains, recruits from different tribes are mixed together in squads. Each squad becomes part of a Lodge, roughly equivalent to a standard Company.

The remainder of the Chapter is organized differently from most Codex Astartes chapters, due to the style of warfare favored by the Chapter. For example, their Librarians are known as Dustseers.

All Legionnaires bleach their hair, as a sign of respect to Elam, their founder.

The early history of Elam is chronicled in the folklore of Canderos. The most popular of these tales is the story of the trials of Elam and his ordeal with the Great White Wyrm known as Taranasara. It is the only tale that even attempts to explain the mystery of how Elam came to lose his eyes. Patriarch Elam never united the people of his homeworld in the way most of the other Primarchs had, on the basis that competition grew greater strength. When the Ancestor Legion took Elam to become the leader of the Space Marine Chapter, the Patriarch altered his position and became an avid believer and ruthless practitioner of the Emperor's Great Crusade, but still did not attempt to unite his homeworld.

Chapter Master Argentine is the current Master of the Chapter.

Terms
Arc of Purity: The Battle Barge of the Eburnean Legion. The Legion had three Barges originally, the Arc of Honor, the Arc of Clarity and the Arc of Purity. The other two have been destroyed by the forces of Chaos.

Ancestor Legion: As the Eburnean Legion do not know which of the Original Founding Legions they decend from, even Imperial Scholars cannot trace their lineage. It is suspected they are decended from The XVIII Legion, the Salamanders. What is known is that they were formed during the 21st Founding, also known as the Cursed Founding.

Dustseer: Librarian.

The Red Death - Assault Marine Squads, known for their red shoulder pads.

Once Again... LJ Comments, or emails to Uncle_dunkle@Hotmail.com are processed in order of them arriving, so please offer two options in case... well, in case you are slow, or someone else is faster. Oh, and please put your name in, sometimes I cannot keep up with user nicks. In answer to last years questions, it is rated on when it drops into my mail box, which occurs very fast either way.


Margaret Chamberlain - High Guild
Althea Westwood - Hippocratic Circle - Morrigan Roth
Agnes Mason - Electrodyne Engineers
Constance Jones - Celestial Master - Fi
Faye Simpson - Cabal of Pure Thought
Ashby Ritherton - Artificer
Aloysius Jackson - Cabal of Pure Thought - Shaun Hately
Dante Bedford - Hippocratic Circle - Nick Hogan
Eben Denver - Hippocratic Circle
Gideon Fletcher - Artificer - Chris Lee
Finley Hunt - High Guild
Jasper Harrison - High Guild
Kit Lawyer - Artificer
Lucien Miller - Void Seeker - Dean Shannon
Orson Millard - Electrodyne Engineer - Carl Phillips
Silas Palmer - Celestial Master
Ransom Porter - Electrodyne Engineer
Merril Luther - Son of Ether
Pierce Norris - Cabal of Pure Thought
Rush Nelson - High Guild
Royal Stanton - Artificer
Raleigh Summers - Cabal of Pure Thought
Lyle King - Son of Ether

Ok guys, so as characters are claimed, I will put their names against it. Comments, or emails to Uncle_dunkle@Hotmail.com are processed in order of them arriving, so please offer two options in case... well, in case you are slow. Oh, and please put your name in, sometimes I cannot keep up with user nicks. In answer to last years questions, it is rated on when it drops into my mail box, which occurs very fast either way.
Peter Terrance Characters need to be numbered, between 1 and 4.

Adam Schwartzenhweimer- Adam G Mitchell
Sniveling Lackey

Doctor Bob Frankenstein - Shaun Hately
Inherited Genius

Wendy Kelly - Claire Firth
TV Chef

Professor Clarence Burton
New FART

Doctor Peter Terrance (1)
Protolaser Clone Technologist

Doctor Sammi Blonde
Beautiful

Professor Igor
Hunchback

Professor Peter Prosser
Former President, Crazy man

Doctor Krr'ackal Nor
New FART

Professor AMX
Militant Good Guy

Doctor Peter Terrance (2)
Protolaser Clone Technologist

Paul Smith - Chris Lee
New FART

Doctor Leornardo Murphy
Popular Nice Guy

Doctor Foster McKrakken - Nicolas Hogan
Diabolical Fiend

Dr. Relaxo - Peter McDonnell
Chilled out Dude

Doctor Cassidy McAllister - Laena D'Alton
Archaeologist

Doctor Peter Terrance (3)
Protolaser Clone Technologist

Doctor Horatio Huxley
Guy with a cool name

Doctor Future
Man who lives 15 seconds in the future

Doctor Anthony Aloysius Dolby
Nutty Professor

Doctor Robyn/Robin
Unified Scientists

Doctor Peter Terrance (4)
Protolaser Clone Technologist